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So saying, he once more pressed affectionately the old man's hand, bowed to Alice and all around, and withdrew; Sir Henry Lee listening with a smile, which showed he comprehended the gracious tendency of what had been said. The old man leaned back on his seat, and muttered the Nunc dimittas.
If God had so willed it, I might have been happy myself, and could have made a woman happy. But the Fates were against me. I should like to see Clive happy, and then say Nunc dimittis. I shan't want anything more to-night, Kean, and you can go to bed."
He repeated several times, "Nunc et in hora mortis", then said, "Oh, my God, come to my aid: hasten to succour me." These were his last words.
Amazing to see the rapt devotion that now lighted up his ugly face until it shone with saintly beauty. The harsh lines were softened, the eyes were gentle, the mouth tender. "Then indeed," he almost whispered, "I might say my 'Nunc Dimittis' and go." It was not he alone who was stirred. Martin spoke eagerly: "Is that the Wistons of the Four Creeds? the man who wrote The New Apocalypse?"
Then it was that David caught a glimpse of Eve's fair face, and loved, as grave and meditative natures can love. The et nunc et semper et in secula seculorum of the Liturgy is the device taken by many a sublime unknown poet, whose works consist in magnificent epics conceived and lost between heart and heart.
In the words of Ovid we say: "Prisca juvent alios: ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor. Hæc ætas moribus apta meis." Our friend, the Roman cit, has therefore thus far, in his progress through life, obtained no breakfast, if he ever contemplated an idea so frantic. But it occurs to you, our faithful reader, that perhaps he will not always be thus unhappy.
He folded his hands together and whispered, 'Say the Nunc dimittis for me, and the last prayer; and as we did so his soul took flight. The smile of holy triumph and joy was sealed by death upon his face." "Faithful unto death," whispered Freda softly to herself, "he has won for himself a crown of life." Anthony came to her presently, looking strangely white and shaken.
There was one man who knew exactly when the thing had occurred, who the characters were, and all about it. "Nunc dimittis!" said Mrs. Malcomson when she heard the story; "for the same thing has been said of the author of any book of consequence that has ever appeared." And naturally she was somewhat puffed up. But it remained for Mrs. Guthrie Brimston to cap the criticisms.
Of Master Richard's speaking with the King's Grace: and how he was taken for it Et nunc reges intelligite: erudimini qui judicatis terram. And now, O ye kings, understand: receive instruction, ye that judge the earth. Ps. ii. 10.
I told you that there is only one way to relieve you permanently from embarrassment, and that way you will find is in a good marriage, that will place 'hic et nunc' a reasonable sum at your disposal." "But it would be folly for me to marry now, when I have no position to offer a wife." "And your future, of which you have just spoken with so much assurance, have you no faith in that?"
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