I think that the feeling generally in "the army," if such it could be called, was on the whole kindly to the Grand Duke, but not to the extent of being willing to fight anybody, least of all the Florentines, in his defence! How matters _did_ go it is not necessary to tell here.

If ever there was a revolution "made with rose-water," it was the revolution which deposed the poor _gran ciuco_.

I don't think it cost any human being in all Florence a scratch or a bloody nose.

It cost an enormous amount of talking and screaming, but nothing else.

At the same time it is fair to remember that the popular leaders could not be sure that matters might not have taken another turn, and that it _might_ have gone hard with some of them.