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Updated: May 15, 2025
I came here to-night, meaning to be a self-murderer oh, God forgive me!" "But you asked for a sign, I think," said Barnabas, "and you live also. And to-night your pilgrimage ends, in Clemency's loving arms." "Clemency? My daughter? Oh, sir, young sir, how may that be? They tell me she is dead." "Lies!" said Barnabas, "lies! I spoke with her tonight."
But" starting up, as if recollecting himself "I put a question to you answer me in the name o' Heaven; for if I gie mysel up to the belief o' an all-powerful necessity, I am a lost man and a self-murderer." He was now clearly approaching a rock whereon many a gallant bark has been shivered to atoms.
The Spanish bigot was rarely a suicide; for the rites of Christian burial and repose in consecrated ground were denied to the remains of the self-murderer. There is positive evidence, too, in a codicil to the will of Menendez, dated at Santander on the fifteenth of September, 1574, that he was on that day seriously ill, though, as the instrument declares, "of sound mind."
After explaining the circumstances, I went on to say that some little bitterness arose over his burial. Owing to his prominence it was thought permission would be given to bury him in the churchyard. But it seems there was some superstition about permitting a self-murderer to be buried in the same field as decent folks.
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