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Of those not likely to suit the Seville market, Kyrie; books of sterling and intrinsic value; many of them in ancient Greek, which I picked up upon the dissolution of the convents, when the contents of the libraries were hurled into the courtyards, and there sold by the arrobe.

She turned over the music on her writing-table and hummed some bars from the Kyrie of Mozart's Twelfth Mass. "If you were a Jesuit," said she, "you would try to convert me." "St. Ignatius never wasted time over insincere women." "I am not insincere," she said frankly. "I own I may seem so. But you are not kind, and some day you may be sorry for this."

Mass was said by a vicar of the parish, and general absolution given by M. le Curé Marbeau. During the service there was given, under the direction of M. Lêtang, chapel-master, the Funeral March of Beethoven, the Kyrie of Neidermeyer, the Pie Jesu of Stradella, the Ego Sum of Gounod, the Libera Me of S. Rousseau. M. Deep officiated at the organ.

As they advanced with the rapidity and steadiness of veterans, singing the Kyrie eleison, they seemed well able to retrieve the fortunes of the day. "Another triumph awaits us!" cried Otto; "let us trust in God!" Without hesitating a moment, the gallant Saxon, with his wonted impetuosity, fell upon the advancing lines, and, though stubbornly resisted for a time, gained at last a complete victory.

For the city which is the tomb of Rubens still lives to us through him, and him alone. It is so quiet there by that great white sepulchre so quiet, save only when the organ peals and the choir cries aloud the Salve Regina or the Kyrie eleison. Sure no artist ever had a greater gravestone than that pure marble sanctuary gives to him in the heart of his birthplace in the chancel of St. Jacques.

I had to bring out my best honey cakes. Your Lordship knows I take just pride in my honey cakes.” “Beyond doubt,”—Democrates’s hand twitched with impatience,—“but tell of the stranger.” “At once, kyrie; well, we all sat down to sup. Phormio kept pressing wine on the fellow as if we had not only one little jar of yellow Rhodian in the cellar.

Haydn charged him with being an atheist, but his works as well as his life refute this charge. The Kyrie and the Agnus Dei of the Mass in D, could never have been produced had he been other than a devout, religious man. In his journals he continually addresses the Godhead. Outwardly, however, he gave no sign.

Father Salví, pale, and decided at last, came out of his hiding-place and went downstairs. "The tulisanes have killed the alferez!" said Aunt Isabel. "Maria Clara, Sinang, go to your room! Fasten the door! Kyrie eleison!" Ibarra also went toward the stairs, in spite of Aunt Isabel, who was saying: "Don't go out! You haven't confessed yet. Don't go out!"

"Kyrie eleison," repeated the throng in that murmur which runs over all heads, like the waves of a troubled sea. "Amen," said the archdeacon.

The immemorial form of the cry for mercy in the devotions of Christendom is the "Kyrie eleison," Lord, have mercy upon us; the immemorial form of assent the word Amen.