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Meanwhile that field might open where an honourable death, grasping a scythe in its two hands, cuts a way through the ranks of armed warriors: where the children of weeping mothers are trampled to death by the hoofs of horses: where they throw the first-born's mangled remains into the common burying-pit: perhaps there the son will find what the father sought in vain: those who fled from before the resting-chamber of that melancholy house, on the façade of which was to be read the inscription, covered by the creepers since days long gone by.
After which we avoided passing that way; for the place was not less dreadful to her than to me; she acknowledged it made her remember what we had heard of the great burying-pit in Aldgate, and the dishonoured corpses that were flung into it, heaps upon heaps. 'He may have gone to that grave from this splendid chamber it's a hideous mockery, she said.
"So thou hast brought them safely, my servant," she said, "and I am glad, for to those that know it not this road is fearful. My guests, what say you of the burying-pit of the Children of Hes?" "Our faith tells us of a hell, lady," answered Leo, "and I think that yonder cauldron looks like its mouth."
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