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"Lama," said she, at last, in a low, sad voice, "let us go to the piano." "Will you sing the Ave Maria" he asked, mournfully. "I dare not," said she, hastily. "No, anything but that. I will sing Rossini's Cujus Animam." Then followed those words which tell in lofty strains of a broken heart: Cujus animam gementem Contristatam et flebentem Pertransivit gladius! When Mrs.
And he sang alone to the sky and the dusty rocks and the solemn grave. He sang the 'Cujus animam gementem pertransivit gladius' of the Stabat Mater, as none had sung it before him, nor perhaps has ever sung it since that day he alone, without other music. They came also to the words 'Fac ut animæ donetur Paradisi gloria, and the word was a name to him who listened silently in their midst.
Quum exsurgerent homines in nos, forte vivos deglutissent nos; when we were eaten in the salad, with salt, oil, and vinegar. Quum irasceretur furor eorum in nos, forsitan aqua absorbuisset nos; when he drank the great draught. Torrentem pertransivit anima nostra; when the stream of his water carried us to the thicket.
The Ursulines are not to be suppressed." "True," said some among the crowd; "why should they not work as well as we, or why do they not go among the Ursulines and make themselves useful?" And thus were the sympathies of the people withdrawn from the unhappy nuns. They, meanwhile, went their way, chanting as they walked: "Cujus animam gementem, contristanten et dolentem pertransivit gladius."
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