Pray for Phoebus and for--How do you translate the word 'virginius', the husband who has known only one wife, the virgin husband of a virgin spouse?
Your youth will pass, Dorsenne.

You will one day feel what I feel, the happiness which is wanting on account of bygone errors, and you will comprehend that it is only to be found in Christian marriage, whose entire sublimity is summed up in thus prayer: 'Pro virginio ejus'....

You will be like me then, and you will find in this book," he held up 'l'Eucologe', which he clasped in his hand, "something through which to offer up to God your remorse and your regrets.

Do you know the hymn of the Holy Sacrament, 'Adoro te, devote'?
No.

Yet you are capable of feeling what is contained in these lines.Listen.It is this idea: That on the cross one sees only the man, not the God; that in the host one does not even see the man, and that yet one believes in the real presence.
In cruce latebat sola Deitas.
At hic latet simul et humanitas.
Ambo tamen credens atque confitens....
"And now this last verse: Peto quod petivit latro poenitens! [I ask that which the penitent thief asked.] "What a cry! Ah, but it is beautiful! It is beautiful! What words to say in dying! And what did the poor thief ask, that Dixmas of whom the church has made a saint for that one appeal: 'Remember me, Lord, in Thy kingdom!' But we have arrived.