self-shed

Updated: May 4, 2025

And again the cause is the "sorrowful soil beneath them." From that there is no escape. A terrible inheritance is the self-shed blood, which besprinkles the heads of sons and grandsons! And his inheritance was the pistol, with which his father had killed himself. It were vain for the whole Heaven to be here on earth. He must leave it, must go, where the others had gone.

Mór Jókai - Debts of Honor