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The wife had retired a few moments, and a veteran piano commenced playing, while a spirited boy's voice struck up a hymn from the services of the Church, "O Salutaris Hostia." It was her youngest son, whom she had not been able to resist showing off a little.
In consideration whereof he was highlie commended by the pope. At length archbishop William was conuicted and deposed, Albert bishop of Hostia pronouncing sentence in this wise: "We doo decrée by the apostolike authoritie, that William archbishop of Yorke is to be deposed from his sée, bicause Stephan king of England, before any canonicall election, named him."
And then, not in his thought, but in deed, she was singing alone, and the words of 'O Salutaris Hostia, sounded in the dim church as they had never sounded before, nor could ever sound again, the appeal of a lost soul's agony to God, the glory of golden voice, the accent of transcendent genius, the passion, the strength, the despair, of an ancient race.
After much wondering I did manage to make out "O Salutaris Hostia!" and "Tantum Ergo," but not until their queer pronunciation of consonants had become familiar. Some of the hymns were in their own tongue, only one of which I call now remember. Phonetically, it ran thus "Mah-lee-ah, Kollyeea leekee; Obselloh mo mallamah. Alofah, keea ma toh; Fah na oh, Mah lah ee ah"
Curious subterranean influences seem to have been at work to save the Senate from the infamy of restoring Ptolemy. Perhaps Cicero was concerned in this. Ad Quintum Fratrem, ii. 3. "Tito Annio devota et constituta hostia esse videtur." De Haruspicum responsis. Ibid. "Otium cum dignitate." Abridged from the Oratio pro Sextio. "Me germanum asinum fuisse."
And as he stood before the altar, holding aloft with blood-stained hands the torn and mangled body of his murdered love, the voices of the guests bidden to the Eucharistic feast rang out in another peal of song: "Oh salutaris Hostia, Quae coeli pandis ostium; Bella praemunt hostilia, Da robur, fer, auxilium!"
"Doctor Allison," he was saying, "has missed the distinction between hostia honoraria and hostia piacularis. In the former case the deity accepts the gift of a life; in the latter he demands it." "What in the world are you all talking about now?" asked Evelyn plaintively. "Not war ?" "Sacrifice, Mrs. Colcord." Simec inclined his head slightly in her direction.
"Now we're getting back to Simec's hostia honoraria and hostia piacularis," laughed Bates. "It is a new viewpoint," sighed Evelyn. "Curiously, I hadn't thought of that." She smiled across the table at her husband, but he was slouched in his chair, his eyes staring vacantly over her head. "Of course you'd all do it, every one," he said presently.
On this principle they may as well accuse Caius Catullus for calling Clodia Lesbia, Ticidas for substituting the name Perilla for that of Metella, Propertius for concealing the name Hostia beneath the pseudonym of Cynthia, and Tibullus for singing of Delia in his verse, when it was Plania who ruled his heart.
Benediction was the only service of our church which I knew, being the one my mother loved best and could do most of for herself in the solitude of her invalid room, but the form used in the Convent differed from that to which I had been accustomed, and even the Tantum ergo and the O Salutaris Hostia I could not sing.
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