All was over! * * * * * * The crowd was almost motionless.

They stood and stared, and their faces were white.

The town walls were dun-coloured, the shrubs were grey, the young buds were pale and closed.
A lustreless sun stood in the sky like a moon, and its shadows were ghostly.

Terrified rooks and bats flew around, and hovered about the cross in this horrible twilight.

Rocks on the hills broke away, and skulls rolled down the slope.