His wife was already up and dressed in such finery as the princesses of the rude Highland glens were accustomed to wear.

The assassins pulled off her clothes and trinkets.

The rings were not easily taken from her fingers but a soldier tore them away with his teeth.

She died on the following day.
The statesman, to whom chiefly this great crime is to be ascribed, had planned it with consummate ability: but the execution was complete in nothing but in guilt and infamy.

A succession of blunders saved three fourths of the Glencoe men from the fate of their chief.