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Illustrissime et Reverendissime Rog. Jh. Martin," and much more in Latin and French. It was the imposing grave of the Bishop of Uranopolis, vicar-apostolic to the Marquesas, predecessor to Bishop le Cadre, who had no pride and whom all called plain Father David.
Propino tibi salutem, Doctor doctissime, reverendissime, et sanctissime; nec non omnibus amicis hic congregatis!" The priest's eye, during this speech, twinkled with humor; he saw clearly that Denis thoroughly understood the raillery of his toast, and that the compliment was well repaid.
The Englishman helped him through with a moral phrase; and then pulling off his hat, exclaimed very solemnly; "Vale, domine doctissime et reverendissime!" And the Dominie, as if pursued by a demon, made a sudden and precipitate retreat down a flight of steps into the street. "There!" said Berkley laughing, "I beat him at his own weapons. What do you say of my Latin?"
And now, benedicite, brethren! The cellarer will bestow on each a grace-cup and a morsel as ye pass the buttery, for ye have been turmoiled and anxious, and dangerous it is to fall asleep in such case with empty stomach." "Gratias agimus quam maximas, Domine reverendissime," replied the brethren, departing in their due order.
"Pax vobiscum, domine," said the chamberlain, who happened to be at the quay; "thou art come, doubtless, to bewail thy sins before the cross of St. Mary's Abbey?" "When my leisure permits, reverendissime pater; at present I seek an immediate audience of the abbot, for whom I bear sad news." "He is riding to meet the king.
After many greetings on both sides, she proceeded, in her Latin, to give me an account of all that had occurred in the village since I had last been there, and of the atrocities of the factious in the neighbourhood. I asked her to breakfast, and introduced her to the friar, whom she addressed in this manner: "Anne Domine Reverendissime facis adhuc sacrificium?"
"'Pax vobiscum!" said the pseudo friar, and was endeavouring to hurry past, when a soft voice replied, "'Et vobis quaso, domine reverendissime, pro misericordia vestra'." "I am somewhat deaf," replied Cedric, in good Saxon, and at the same time muttered to himself, "A curse on the fool and his 'Pax vobiscum! I have lost my javelin at the first cast."
Each took a pinch, and the gentlemen sneezed like mortars. “Reverendissime,” said Skoluba with a sneeze, “that is fine tobacco, it goes way up to your topknot. Never since I have worn a nose”—here he stroked his long nose—“have I met its like”—here he sneezed a second time. “It is real Bernardine, doubtless made in Kowno, a city famous throughout the world for tobacco and mead. I was there in——”
De fen be very unwholesome, and I drink-a-de ponch vid Raven de butler, to keep out de bad air. Fatout! I insist on your being sober. Oui, monsieur; I vil be as sober as de reverendissime pere Jean. I should be ver glad of de merry maid; but de butler be de odd fish, and he swim in de bowl de ponch. Ah! ah! I am overwhelmed: I never saw the rascal in such a condition before.
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