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Costello came back to her seat, he was still feebly repeating "pro nobis peccatoribus, pro nobis peccatoribus," with a faint trembling voice, as if even to the dulled faculties, through the deepening shadow of death, some faint distorted gleam of the truth had pierced, and the soul was, in truth, less torpid than the brain. His wife sat by his side, and listened, deeply touched.
He brought his hand splashing on to his wet head, then fell to his knees and began to confess his sins. "My fault, my fault, my exceeding great fault! O Mary! O Jesus! O nobis peccatoribus!" Thus the shepherd, voicing the suspicions of the rest. So he became their prophet as well as their priest. He towered in the room. "I tell you, comrades, that the hour of our visitation is come.
the women cried together, falling on their knees, while the men toiled and struggled to hold the invincible galley of the Ten outside the whirling path of the storm advancing and retreating at the will of the elements, against which their own splendid, human strength was like the feeble, untaught effort of a helpless infant. "Mater Dei, Ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae."
"Libera nos a malo ora pro nobis, peccatoribus ab hoste maligno defende me ab homine iniquo et doloso erue me peccator videbit et irascetur desiderium peccatorum peribit " came from the priest with torrent speed. "Jee-les-pee! Jee-les-pee!" roared a dozen throats above the half-way landing. Then came the stamp of many feet to the door. "Wait, men!" Hamilton's voice commanded.
Sir James glanced up, his eyes full of tears, at the distant crimson figure beneath the steady row of lights, motionless with outspread hands, poised over the bosom of God's Love. The first murmured words broke the silence; as if next to the Infinite Pity rose up the infinite need of man Nobis quoque peccatoribus and sank to silence again.
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