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"Lama," said she, at last, in a low, sad voice, "let us go to the piano." "Will you sing the Ave Maria" he asked, mournfully. "I dare not," said she, hastily. "No, anything but that. I will sing Rossini's Cujus Animam." Then followed those words which tell in lofty strains of a broken heart: Cujus animam gementem Contristatam et flebentem Pertransivit gladius! When Mrs.

The Ursulines are not to be suppressed." "True," said some among the crowd; "why should they not work as well as we, or why do they not go among the Ursulines and make themselves useful?" And thus were the sympathies of the people withdrawn from the unhappy nuns. They, meanwhile, went their way, chanting as they walked: "Cujus animam gementem, contristanten et dolentem pertransivit gladius."

"Ay, ay," said the lawyer, "that is how it is with youth and age. Nor was that all, but he had a spirit of his own that seemed to promise great things in the future. In 1715, what must he do but run away to join the rebels? It was your father that pursued him, found him in a ditch, and brought him back multum gementem; to the mirth of the whole country.

And he sang alone to the sky and the dusty rocks and the solemn grave. He sang the 'Cujus animam gementem pertransivit gladius' of the Stabat Mater, as none had sung it before him, nor perhaps has ever sung it since that day he alone, without other music. They came also to the words 'Fac ut animæ donetur Paradisi gloria, and the word was a name to him who listened silently in their midst.

"Ay, ay," said the lawyer, "that is how it is with youth and age. Nor was that all, but he had a spirit of his own that seemed to promise great things in the future. In 1715, what must he do but run away to join the rebels? It was your father that pursued him, found him in a ditch, and brought him back multum gementem; to the mirth of the whole country.