"Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities."
"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me."
"Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not Thy holy spirit away from me."
"Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation, and uphold me with Thy free spirit."
"Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways; and sinners will be converted unto Thee."
"Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and my tongue shall sing aloud of Thy righteousness."
"O Lord, open Thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth Thy praise."
"For Thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it; Thou delightest not in burnt offering."
"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise."
He paused—but only after he had intoned, and in a most sonorous and really beautiful voice the entire 51st Psalm. And then looking up, because Clyde, much astonished, had first sat up and then risen—and curiously enticed by the clean and youthful and vigorous if pale figure had approached nearer the cell door, he now added: