He saw a throng that seemed crazy or stupefied with grief.

They did not know exactly where they were; they had come thither, they didn't know how.

The terrible spectacle of the invasion was still so persistent in their minds that it left room for no other impression.

They were still seeing the helmeted men in their peaceful hamlets, their homes in flames, the soldiery firing upon those who were fleeing, the mutilated women done to death by incessant adulterous assault, the old men burned alive, the children stabbed in their cradles by human beasts inflamed by alcohol and license.

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