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I could tell from a tremor in his voice that he was greatly disturbed; and he certainly lost his place altogether in the vesper psalm. "Requiescat in pace," were his next words, uttered in funereal gravity. Singularly enough, they seemed to fit the situation. Father Holland's prompt offer to have the rough box examined satisfied the searchers, and there were no further demands.
"It looks straight enough to me as a death notice, except for the tail. What does 'Ana Alhari' mean? Sort of a requiescat?" "Yes; like a mice!" said young Mr. McIntyre bitterly. "It means 'Hurrah! That's the sort of requiescat it is!" "Ah! Then they got him the second time." "What do you mean by 'second time?"
Augustine, "Fecisti nos ad te, Domine, et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te": Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our heart is unquiet until its rests in Thee, this however, as any one may be tempted to fence and juggle with the fact, is the truth on which all the rest depends.
The sooner we recognize it the sooner to sleep, the sooner we get clear of misleading illusions and are purged of the bad blood that disappointment makes. It's a pity, because the theatre after every allowance is made might have been a fine thing. At all events it was a pleasant it was really almost a noble dream. Requiescat! Florentia. I see nothing to confirm your absurd theory.
The Requiescat in Oscar's first book of poems was written in memory of this sister who died in her teens, whom he likened to "a ray of sunshine dancing about the house." He took his vocation seriously even in youth: he felt that he should sing his sorrow, give record of whatever happened to him in life. But he found no new word for his bereavement.
This practice she kept up until at the close of her last mortal sickness, when she crawled into a dark place under a neighboring barn and said good-by to earthly fears and worries forever. Requiescat in pace, my Pretty Lady. I wish all your sex had your gentle dignity, and grace, and beauty, to say nothing of your faithfulness and affection. Like Mother Michel's "Monmouth," it may be said of you:
For Heaven's sake, give me a match that I may light my cigar, and then I will tell you all about it. Thank you. And I will sit down comfortably so. Now you must know that the baroness requiescat! was not poisoned by Nino, or by anyone else." "Of course not! Go on." "Piano slow and sure. They had a terrific scene yesterday. You know? Yes.
Ventregris, the girl stares as if I had said Sir Bevis of Southampton, or Sir Guy of Warwick! I knew this young gentleman's father before the troubles an honest man, though he took the wrong side He paid for his perversity with his life; so we'll say requiescat. The young man is a fine young man, whom I would fain have something nearer to me than he is.
"Underneath the kindly tribute to the dead General were the solemn prayerful initials of Requiescat in Pace. "At the foot of the trophy were piled two sets of old flint-lock muskets and accoutrements, and in the centre a brass cannon, which was captured from the Americans in 1775, and which bore the 'Lone Star' and the figure of an Indian the Arms of the State of Massachusetts.
The monument, adorned with firemen's helmets and bugles in stone, stands under the shadow of drooping pepper sprays, and is inscribed: "Sacred to the memory of James P. Casey, who Departed this life May 23, 1856, Aged 27 years. May God forgive my Persecutors. Requiescat en pace." Poor, sad Dolores! How utterly lost it now looks!
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