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Again she seized the pen and wrote her name as with her life-blood great veins starting out on her white forehead, her eyes dim and blurred, her heart beating so that she scarce could trace the words that seemed an irony: "Caterina, Regina!" "At last!" she gasped, as the pen fell from her hand "Madre Sanctissima they will bring my boy!"
So many wooers and no spark of love in herself; a woman who sings love-songs with lips no man has touched, a lone-of-soul who can live neither with the respectable nor with the Bohemians, who loves you, sanctissima Maria, without being sure you exist. Oh, Holy Mother of God, advocate of sinners, pray for me.
"Now, oh holy Mater Dolorosa, Mater Sanctissima," he prayed within himself. "I know what thou hast suffered; have mercy!" There was no longer any sound in the room. She had dropped her arms at her side and had come nearer to him.
'The Santa Maria Sanctissima' carried an enormous cargo of gold, intended for a great castle in Spain, and it took four days to unload the treasure at the pirates' lair, and six more days to bury it in the ground. Think how they felt when the last shovelful of earth was put in, how the sense of work well done filled their breasts with satisfaction!
"Well may you cry aloud for mercy, sir!" exclaimed the professor, for he it was who had suddenly come to the rescue, forgetting even the pain of his ankle in the crisis. "Even in Homer you may find it written, 'Never kick a man when he's down." "Phew!" whistled Hickey, his smile puckering up his whole face in an evil grimace. "This is growing interesting." "Sanctissima Santos! Take him off!
When she had so far mastered herself that she could feel her own senses, she was praying aloud praying in the rite which held her emotions while it failed with her reason. "Ave Maria Sanctissima!" she was saying over and over again. "Match you to see whether it's good, old fifteen cent feed at the Marseillaise or a four bit bust at the Nevada," said Bertram Chester.
"Yes now it may be known; thanks be to our Mater Sanctissima!" Elois
Sanctissima Madonna! Have you seen anything moving on the heights? But when they got to the tenth milestone, which stands before the very jaws of the defile, then indeed they said with terrible emphasis, 'Ad Decimam! And there was no restraining them: they would camp and entrench, or die in the venture: for they were Romans and stern fellows, and loved a good square camp and a ditch, and sentries and a clear moon, and plenty of sharp stakes, and all the panoply of war.
It was told that he howled with rage at such childish thwarting, for Donna Maria had men at hand who came running at the outcry and took Sir Tristan into safe keeping." "Madre Sanctissima!" Caterina exclaimed in her excitement, and urging the recital with a quick motion of her hand.
Then she turned to Maestro Gentile, compassionate and protecting. "It cannot be that any should seek thy life," she said. "Thou art my friend: I will shield thee here Madonna Sanctissima! I cannot think let us pray that this horror pass!" She put her hands over her eyes and sank upon her knees, and Maestro Gentile knelt beside her.
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