Pay no attention to what is going on around you." "I will pray," she said simply.
Just as they entered the street the crowd separated, and the Duke of Guise, followed by several nobles of his party, rode along, shouting: "Death to all Huguenots! It is the king's command." "It is the command you and others have put into his mouth, villain!" Philip muttered to himself.
A roar of ferocious assent rose from the crowd, which was composed of citizen soldiers and the scum of Paris.

They danced and yelled, and uttered ferocious jests at the dead bodies lying in the road.
Here the work of slaughter was nearly complete.

Few of the Huguenots had offered any resistance, although some had fought desperately to the last.

Most of them, however, taken by surprise, and seeing resistance useless, had thrown down their arms; and either cried for quarter, or had submitted themselves calmly to slaughter.

Neither age nor sex had availed to save them.