None of them spared--no pity shown to sex or age.

All ruthlessly murdered; husband and father forced to watch the horrid spectacle, himself a helpless prisoner, waiting for his doom.
Humphrey had not hitherto dared to ask the question which had been exercising him all the while--how it was that his brother's life had been spared.

He also wanted to know where the old man their father was; for the corpses they had laid in the grave were those of Charles's wife and children.
Charles noted his questioning glance around when the grave had received its victims, and he pointed to the smoking ruins of the house.
"He lies there.

They bound him in his chair.

They tied the babe down in his cradle.