"At the first, they had nearly finished their work before we arrived.

That was where we saw the smoke rising.

But we paid them for it handsomely, for we must have cut down more than a hundred of the scoundrels.

At one of the others, the Huguenots were defending themselves well; and there, too, we gave the townspeople a lesson.
At the third, all was quiet.

We have taken six or eight burghers, as many gentlemen, and ten priests." Philip told him the orders he had given, for the Catholics to place their horses and carts at the disposal of their Huguenot fellow villagers.
"I wish I had thought of it," Francois said.