"The doctors cannot cure him."
"No healing herb that ever grew in the field can heal him; it would be all one even if you bathed him in balm."
"He will die?"
"'Twould be good for his soul if he did die."
"What, is there then anything worse than death?"
"Yes, damnation!"
"You are raving. A child who four years ago was an angel in Heaven, a child only four years of age—damned!"
"It has sinned enough to suffice for a long life, enough to merit damnation."
"Then for such a sin there is no name among men."
"There is a name for it, terrible and accursed—the murder of a sister."