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"Don't you fear for that, Martin," said Foy as he took his departure, "absolvo te for those Spaniards. Through your strength God smote them who were not ashamed to rob and insult a poor new widowed woman after helping to murder her husband. Yes, Martin, you may enter that on the right side of the ledger for a change for they won't haunt you at night.
From time to time he made a passionate gesture. It was not a long confession, but it was compact and telling. "Absolvo te," murmured Brother Jacques mechanically, gazing toward Heaven. Immediately the solemnity of the moment was jarred by a laugh. The vicomte was standing, all piety gone from his face; and a rollicking devil shone from his eyes.
Will that do, Father?" "Thou canst do nought else, my son," answered the priest. "Thou hast right nobly purchased the favour of God, and thine own salvation. Thy soul shall pass, white and pure, through the flames of Purgatory, to be triumphantly acquitted at the bar of God." And lifting his hands in blessing, he pronounced the unholy incantation, "Absolvo te!"
I subjoin the Roman form, as used in England and elsewhere "Dominus noster Jesus Christus te absolvat; et ego auctoritate ipsius te absolvo, ab omni vinculo excommunicationis et interdicti, in quantum possum et tu indiges. Deinde ego te absolvo
Now nothing tends more to repose than a purling brook; and ere long something sonorous let the fair culprit know she had lulled her confessor asleep. She stopped, indignant. "My daughter, you will fast on Monday next, and say two Aves and a Credo. Absolvo te." "And now," said he, "as I am a practical man, let us get back from the imaginary world into the real.
The priest still hesitated, but her eyes would not release him till he whispered, "Absolvo te, my daughter, and God bless you!" And releasing her hands, he bowed formally to Paul and hurried down the broad stone steps and through the gate. Opal watched him, a smile, half-remorseful and half-triumphant, upon her face. "What does it all mean?" asked Paul as he laid his hand upon her arm.
"Ego te absolvo ab omnibus censuris et peccatis, in nomine Patris " He raised himself a little and lifted his hand, moving it sideways across and down as he ended "et Filii et Spiritus Sancti." The priest rose up once more, his duty driving his emotion down; he did not dare to look across at the two figures beyond the bed, or even to question himself again as to what he was doing.
It appealed to some stern, martyr-like quality in the priest. If the man would win eternal peace so, then so be it. His grim piety approved. He spoke now with the authority of divine justice. "For one year longer go on as you are, then give yourself to justice one year from to-day, my son. Is it enough?" "It is enough." "Absolvo te!" said the priest. Meantime Charley was alone with his problem.
I am not giving a thousand livres for an 'Absolvo te. Perhaps, after all," and the marquis smiled maliciously, "I am giving you this money to embarrass Monsieur du Rosset, the most devout Catholic in Rochelle. I have heard that he has refused to aid you." "I shall not look into your purpose," said Chaumonot. "Monsieur," said Brother Jacques musically, "I am about to ask a final favor."
Nothing more was necessary to place the conscience of the Duke of Albemarle at rest than a te absolvo said with a laugh, or the scrawl of "Charles the King," traced at the foot of a parchment; and with these two words pronounced, and these two words written, poor D'Artagnan was forever crushed beneath the ruins of his imagination.
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