[The Companions of Jehu by Alexandre Dumas, pere]@TWC D-Link bookThe Companions of Jehu PROLOGUE 31/33
All were killed, all slaughtered, men and women.
It was long in doing; the killers, we have said, were drunk and poorly armed.
But they succeeded. Among these butchers was a child remarked for his bestial cruelty, his immoderate thirst for blood.
It was Lescuyer's son.
He killed and then killed again; he boasted of having with his childish hand alone killed ten men and four women. "It's all right! I can kill as I like," said he.
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