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"Now we're getting back to Simec's hostia honoraria and hostia piacularis," laughed Bates. "It is a new viewpoint," sighed Evelyn. "Curiously, I hadn't thought of that." She smiled across the table at her husband, but he was slouched in his chair, his eyes staring vacantly over her head. "Of course you'd all do it, every one," he said presently.
"Doctor Allison," he was saying, "has missed the distinction between hostia honoraria and hostia piacularis. In the former case the deity accepts the gift of a life; in the latter he demands it." "What in the world are you all talking about now?" asked Evelyn plaintively. "Not war ?" "Sacrifice, Mrs. Colcord." Simec inclined his head slightly in her direction.
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