Falls also: Guido's, this last husband's-act.

He lifts her by the long dishevelled hair,

Holds her away at arm's length with one hand,

While the other tries if life come from the mouth—

Looks out his whole heart's hate on the shut eyes,

Draws a deep satisfied breath, "So—dead at last!"

Throws down the burden on dead Pietro's knees,

And ends all with "Let us away, my boys!"

And, as they left by one door, in at the other

Tumbled the neighbors—for the shrieks had pierced