See that not one remains to reproach me." This was more than she had hoped.

All was easy now.

So eager was she to give the order before a change of mood, that she flew herself to give the signal, fully two hours earlier than was expected.

At midnight the tocsin rang out upon the night, and the horror began.
Lulled to a feeling of security by artfully contrived circumstances, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, peacefully sleeping, were awakened to see each other hideously slaughtered.
The stars have looked down upon some terrible scenes in Paris; her stones are not unacquainted with the taste of human blood; but never had there been anything like this.

The carnage of battle is merciful compared with it.