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Their guide led them straight into the church, and as Butzbach's eye glanced along the plain Romanesque columns, past the gorgeous tomb of the founder, to the dim splendours of the choir, the words of the familiar Psalm rose to his lips: 'Haec requies mea in saeculum saeculi; hic habitabo, quoniam elegi eam. Peace had come to him at once, and he received it.
'She is saved! It said and again and again, as though in joy, 'She is saved saved! "That night I crept to the foot of the crucifix in my little cell. 'Elegi, elegi: renuntio! I have chosen: I renounce. All night long those alternate words seemed to be wrung from me." There was deep silence. Helbeck knelt on the grass beside Laura and took her hands afresh.
"Haec requies mea in saeculum saeculi: Hic habitabo quoniam elegi eam." The monk laid aside his mitre and crosier and said, "Confirma hoc Deus, quod operatus es in nobis." And the postulant murmured, "A templo sacro tuo quod est in Jerusalem."
And as the old man tied up the bruised narcissus, in a cracked voice he sang to himself one of the vesper psalms, and I caught the verse: "Haec requies mea in saeculum saeculi: hic habitabo quoniam elegi eam." Arles was at one time a city of churches, but the hurricane of the Revolution swept over her, and now she has left but four.
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