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He leaves me with my sins upon my soul, unconfessed, unabsolved; and, thus burdened and rebuked, I must enter upon the course which I dare not refuse. But this voice within me which bids me go whence and what is it? Whence is it but from God? And how can I therefore say that I am alone?
Where is the profit?" "He will not confess, else; and then were his soul lost. For his crime his life is forfeited by the law and of a surety will I see that he payeth it! but it were peril to my own soul to let him die unconfessed and unabsolved. Nay, I were a fool to fling me into hell for his accommodation." "But, your Highness, suppose he has nothing to confess?"
The child could not comprehend death. He had sought to explain it, but she had been accustomed to consider her protector dead when he was absent from her, and she still insisted that he must come again to life. And that man of turbulence and crime, who had passed unrepentant, unabsolved, from sin to judgment: it was an awful question, "If he should hear her pray?"
But now words were whispered in her ear, which went straight to the point on which the awful straggle turned; which spoke of the horrible misery of dying impenitent and unabsolved, and of the boundless mercy which has provided a remedy for the deepest stains of sin, the blood of Jesus applied to the soul by the grace of the Sacrament.
According to the account of Politian, Lorenzo met his end with fortitude, and Savonarola prayed with the dying man and gave him his blessing; according to another account, Lorenzo was called upon by Savonarola to make three undertakings before he died, and, Lorenzo declining, Savonarola left him unabsolved.
It was impossible to wait for the conclusion. He could but kneel down, find himself too much hurried and confused to recollect any prayer, then dash back again to don his riding-gear, before King James should miss him, and be angered again. 'Unabsolved unvowed! he thought. 'Sent off thither against my will. Whatever may fall out, it is no fault of mine!
"Slay him not, Sir Knight," cried the Grand Master, "unshriven and unabsolved kill not body and soul! We allow him vanquished." He descended into the lists, and commanded them to unhelm the conquered champion. His eyes were closed the dark red flush was still on his brow. As they looked on him in astonishment, the eyes opened but they were fixed and glazed.
Santa Rosa was a sincerely religious man, but he resisted all the attempts of the priest to extort a retractation, and died unabsolved rather than leave a dishonoured name to his children.
"Oh, pardon, pardon!" murmured he "forgive me, if not in God's name, at least in your own. If not as a priest, as a son." "Pardon you!" replied the pretended monk; "pardon you! God may perhaps do it, but I never will. Die, wretch, die! unabsolved, despairing, and accursed." And, drawing a dagger from under his gown, he plunged it into the breast of the headsman.
They are words magic! cried the abbess in the utmost horror No; replied Margarita calmly but they are words sinful What are they? quoth the abbess, interrupting her: They are sinful in the first degree, answered Margarita, they are mortal and if we are ravished and die unabsolved of them, we shall both-but you may pronounce them to me, quoth the abbess of Andouillets They cannot, my dear mother, said the novice, be pronounced at all; they will make all the blood in one's body fly up into one's face But you may whisper them in my ear, quoth the abbess.
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