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Etiam si quis a culpa vacuus in amicitiam ejus inciderat, quotidiano usu per similisque ceteris efficiebatur. Sallust. The changes described in the last chapter were not the only ones which seriously affected the prosperity of Saint Winifred's School, for the stall of masters was also partly altered during the last two years, and the alterations had not been improvements.
Perceiving the danger I was in, I wiped my finger across the wet nose of the donkey, crossed myself, and then went down on my knees to the priests, crying out Culpa mea, as all good Catholics do though 'twas no fault of mine, as I said before, for I tried all I could, and tugged at the brute till my strength was gone.
As a man and a father with a due sense of the necessity of mutton chops, and the importance of paying the baker with a pack of rash children round about us who might be running off to Scotland to-morrow, and pleading papa's and mamma's example for their impertinence, I know that I ought to be very cautious in narrating this early part of the married life of George Warrington, Esquire, and Theodosia his wife to call out mea culpa, and put on a demure air, and, sitting in my comfortable easy-chair here, profess to be in a white sheet and on the stool of repentance, offering myself up as a warning to imprudent and hot-headed youth.
"CONFITEOR," answered Richard, with a dejected look, and something of a melancholy smile "I confess, reverend father, that I ought on some accounts to sing CULPA MEA. But is it not hard that my frailties of temper should be visited with such a penance that, for a burst or two of natural passion, I should be doomed to see fade before me ungathered such a rich harvest of glory to God and honour to chivalry?
"Ya sé que las condenas de amor no admiten apelación, y que no es culpa de usted el que yo no haya sabido agradarla;" Punto y coma ... "pero al menos que la vea yo a usted hoy, que la vea a usted siquiera otra vez, antes que nos separe para siempre el océano...." ¡No vaya a parecerla todavía poco el océano!... "el océano o la eternidad...." Ahora sí que hay tierra de por medio ... nada de firma ... ni de sobre.... Bruno, entre usted este papel a doña Matilde.
Proud as she was, she was never proud with them God's poor ones; she was never proud when she knelt in their midst, in that lowly little church, and cried "Mea culpa" as humbly as the lowliest sinner there. New-Year came with its festivities, bringing many callers from Montreal, and passed; and Danton Hall fell into its customary tranquillity once more.
"Anything but that," said he, smiting on his breast, "Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa." "Tell him how I robbed my father." The priest groaned as Martin did so. "And how I mocked at my mother, and left her in a rage, without ever a kind word between us.
Deficient in power of initiative and in physical courage, he was obstinate beyond all belief in his adherence to his theories. That he should suddenly yield to a devotional impulse, fall upon his knees before a crucifix and cry meâ culpâ over his whole past life, was altogether out of the question.
Instead of saying, Mea culpa, we began to recriminate, and find fault with everything and everybody. It was the fault of the Ministers, of the Camarilla, of the army, of the big epaulets, of the King. Dynastic interest, of course, was not forgotten in the indictment. Dynastic interest, forsooth!
We may throw the blame on circumstances, weakness of judgment, and the like, while here, but at God's bar we shall have to say, 'Mea culpa, mea culpa.
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