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Even the glittering halpas, and the gleams of light above it where the five chapels branched behind even these things became shrouded; there was just a sheet of white beneath him, the glow of a chalice, and the pale disc of the sacrificial bread. Then, as he paused, with hands together "famulorum famularumque tuarum" there opened out the world where his spirit was bending its intention.
"Set me near unto thee," saith the prophet, "and fight against me whose hand that will." And to show the great safeguard and surety that we shall have while we sit under his heavenly feathers, the prophet saith yet a great deal further, "In velamento alarum tuarum exaltabo."
He gave one fond glance towards it, and then painfully averting his gaze, recited, in a low voice, this supplication: "Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam. Et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum, dele iniquitatem meam. Amplius lava me ab iniquitate meâ, et
"Neque te sermonibus vulgi dederis, nec in præmis humanis spem posueris rerum tuarum; suis te oportet illecebris ipsa virtus trahat ad verum decus." "You shall put your hope neither in man's opinion nor in human rewards; but Virtue itself by her own charms shall lead you the way to true glory."
"Pray for me then, Sir John," said Master Richard. Then we kissed one another, and he was gone without another word along the white road. How Master Richard fared: how he heard Mass in Saint Pancras' Church: how he came to Westminster: and of his colloquy with the Ankret Abyssus abyssum invocat: in voce cataractarum tuarum. Deep calleth on deep: at the noise of Thy flood-gates. Ps. xli. 8.
The door opened behind them, and Chris came out pale and smiling with a little anxious-eyed monk beside him. His eyes lightened as he saw them standing there; but he turned again for a moment. "Yes father," he said. "What was it?" "You stayed too long," said the other, "at the famularumque tuarum; the rubric says nullus nimis immoretur, you know; nimis immoretur." "Yes," said Chris.
"Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam, et secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum, dele iniquitatem meam."
Not for the living only, but for the whole Church men offer that sacrifice pro redemptione animarum suarum, pro spe salutis et incolumitatis suae. Memento etiam Domine famulorum famularumque tuarum qui nos praecesserunt cum signo fidei et dormiunt in somno pacis.... Here in S. Apollinare at any rate for ever they await the renewal of that moment.
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