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He had granted your prayer even before it was uttered. We need not tell her now for she has learned it all from One who could tell it far more gently, far more mercifully than we could." The sound of shuffling steps, as of men who carried a heavy burden, came up to them from the gravel walk below. "Requiescant in pace," whispered the priest. Cecile knelt as if turned to stone.
"Et lux perpetua luceat ei." "Requiescat in pace." "Amen." "Anima ejus et animæ omnium fidelium defunctorum, per misericordiam Dei, requiescant in pace." "Amen." "De profundis...." Each one of those present came forward to sprinkle holy water on the coffin.
It would perhaps hurt the other man when he thought of it later. "Signore," said Stefanone, who evidently had something in his mind, "I was thinking in the night, and this thought came to me. The dead are dead. Requiescant! It is better for the living to live in holy peace. You never see the father of the Signora. There is bad blood between you.
Requiescant in pace! It may be objected by some persons, as it has been by one of my friends, that he who has the power of thus exhibiting an exact transcript of conversations is not a desirable member of society. I repeat the answer which I made to that friend: 'Few, very few, need be afraid that their sayings will be recorded.
Requiescant in pace! resurgant in pacem! For I wish them better than they wished themselves. After Milmeridien came a thick scrub, through which Kalingalunga tracked his way; and then a loud hurrah burst from all, for they were free the net was broken. There were the mountains before them and the gaunt wood behind them at last.
And surely had very strange adventures; an original German character withal: about the stature of Belleisle, for example; and not quite unlike Belleisle in some of his ways? REQUIESCANT in oblivious silence, Belleisle and he; it is better than being lied of, and maundered of, and blotched and blundered of.
We want to know the thoughts and the resolves of the soul which made him a marked man above his fellows and which begot strong influences for good and great works, and if none such can be unfolded then drop the man out of sight, with a "Requiescant in pace" engraven upon his tombstone. Few deserve a biography, and to the undeserving none should be given.
The offertory and post-communion were over; the "requiescant in pace" awful words addressed to living ears were pronounced; and the mass was ended. All prepared to depart. The prior descended from the altar to embrace and take leave of the abbot; and at the same time the Earl of Derby came from the stall. "Has all been done to your satisfaction, John Paslew?" demanded the earl, as he drew near.
Sometimes Malcourt whistled to himself, sometimes he sang in a variably agreeable voice, and now and then he quoted the poets, taking pleasure in the precision of his own diction. "C'est le jour des morts, Mirliton, Mirlitaine! Requiescant in pace!" he chanted; and quoted more of the same bard with a grimace, adding, as he spurred his horse: "Poeta nascitur, non fit! the poet's nasty and not fit.
At the end of the short lesson the words "Tu autem Domine, miserere nobis; Deo gratias" are added, and after these words are said "Adjutorium nostrum ... Qui fecit ... Benedicite Deus" and the Blessing, "Dominus nos benedicat ... requiescant in pace, Amen." Then Pater Noster is said silently, unless another Hour is to follow immediately. "Not this man, but Barrabas. Crucify Him."
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