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The old proverb, Quis custodiat custodes, had begun to verify itself, and the symptom was a fatal one. These evils, for the first half of the century, remained within compass; but as we pass on we find them increasing steadily.
"Nay! rise up, my son, it is thine: Deus benedicat et custodiat te, in omnibus viis tuis. Thinkest thou, my son, thy name has been forgotten in my poor prayers? God made thee His instrument, but thou wast a very very willing one; and now, my son, wherein can I serve thee? Thou hast but to speak." Thus encouraged, Alfred told all his tale, and Dunstan listened with much emotion.
The abbot gave him a short benediction, a brief "Dens te custodiat fili," and quickly added, "I am told thou hast news for me of our little patrimony at Aescendune." "The wolves have ravaged it, father; our own pious brethren are ejected; English swine root in its precincts." The abbot coloured. "Who has dared to do this impiety?" he thundered.
Oh, thou silly boy! quis custodiat ipsos custodes who shall exclude the treason of those very warders?" "Their Scottish honour," answered Durward, boldly. "True: most right: thou pleasest me," said the King, cheerfully; "the Scottish honour was ever true, and I trust it accordingly.
Then three times "Domine, non sum dignus." I heard and saw with exquisite keenness, yet I was thinking, "If I do not get out of here he will have to say those words over me." He put the host in the parted mouth of the dying, and spoke "Corpus Domini nostri Jesu Christi custodiat animam tuam in vetam aeternam." I thought how easy it would be to strip the loose surplice over the sacristan's head.
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