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"Good God!" cried the abbot, when the page had chanted the Kyrie eleison of his sweet sins, "thou art the accomplice of a great felony, and thou has betrayed thy lord. Dost thou know page of darkness, that for this thou wilt burn through all eternity? and dost thou know what it is to lose forever the heaven above for a perishable and changeful moment here below? Unhappy wretch!
A cry of rejoicing from the anxious people at last rose strong enough to shake the turrets massive as they were "Kyrie Eleison! Kyrie Eleison!" Christ had made his cause victorious. His Cross was in the ascendant. The Turks drew out of the defeat as best they could, and made haste to beach the galleys remaining to them on the Asiatic shore behind the low-lying islands.
From the moment when the priest standing at the foot of the altar the choir sang the Kyrie eleison, down to the solemn silence of the elevation, I had a sense of being washed from all the taint of the contaminating days since my marriage.
"Good God!" cried the abbot, when the page had chanted the Kyrie eleison of his sweet sins, "thou art the accomplice of a great felony, and thou has betrayed thy lord. Dost thou know page of darkness, that for this thou wilt burn through all eternity? and dost thou know what it is to lose forever the heaven above for a perishable and changeful moment here below? Unhappy wretch!
So it happened that in advance of the display of the picture, without waiting for the Kyrie Eleison of the glad procession, the Turks took to their defences; and through the city, from cellar, and vault, and crypt, and darkened passage, the wonderful story flew; and there being none to gainsay or explain it, the miracle was accepted, and the streets actually showed signs of a quick return to their old life.
The cries and blows continued, the windows were shut with a bang, a whistle was heard, and occasionally a shot. "Christe eleison! Santiago, fasten the windows," groaned Aunt Isabel. "Fifty great bombs and a thanksgiving mass," replied Captain Tiago. "Ora pro nobis!" After a time, things quieted down and there was a terrible silence.
And as we went down the stairs together we chanted the Kyrie eleison for our small sins, easing conscience by the mutual confession that we were arrant hypocrites. "But still," mused White Pigeon, not quite satisfied, "we really did not tell an untruth that is, we did not deceive them they understood I wouldn't tell a real whopper, would you?" "I don't know I think I did once."
Sink us not beneath Bitter pains of endless death! Kyrie, eleison!" "Then he went away," she continued. "But he did not think it was the last time he should speak to Antonine. In the afternoon I thought I saw a change, and I wanted to go for somebody. But she said, 'Stay with me. I want nothing. So I sat by her bed.
Thereupon the speaker has asked: "In what consisted the said diversity of language?" that of Greek she knew nothing but a Kyrie eleison, of which she made great use; of Latin, nothing, save Amen, which she said to God, wishing therewith to obtain her liberty.
IT RECEDED FROM HIS VIEW! Further, . . further! further away, till it seemed nothing but the toppling and smoldering of heavy clouds after the conflagration of the sunset! Hark, hark again! ... "Kyrie, Eleison! ... Kyrie, Eleison!" With a sense of reeling rapture and awe he listened, . . he understood! ... he found the NAME he had so long forgotten!
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