Women and children, and even infants, had been slain without mercy.
The soldiers, provided with lists of the houses inhabited by Huguenots, were going round to see that none had escaped attack.
Many in the crowd were attired in articles of dress that they had gained in the plunder.

Ragged beggars wore cloaks of velvet, or plumed hats.

Many had already been drinking heavily.

Women mingled in the crowd, as ferocious and merciless as the men.
"Break me in this door, friend," an officer, with a list in his hand and several soldiers standing beside him, said to Philip.
The latter did not hesitate.

To do so would have brought destruction on himself and those with him; without averting, for more than a minute or two, the fate of those within.