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Why this "Alas?" if 't is no spirit's loathing

Slaughter blood-dripping does the household smell of!

How else? This scent is of hearth-sacrifices.

Such kind of steam as from a tomb is proper!

No Surian honour to the House thou speak'st of!

But I will go,—even in the household wailing