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Count Hannibal had watched the attack and the check, as ainterest In the panic, the torches had been dropped

or extinguished, and noeen the house and the sullen crohich

hung back, yet grew ht fell

cold on the littered street and the cripple's huddled forutter A priest raised on the shoulders of the lean ue the mob, and the dull roar of assent, the brandished arreeted his appeal, had their effect on Tavannes' men They looked

to the , andtheht with the Church, and were anxious for the order to

withdraw

But Count Hannibal gave no order, and, much as his people feared the

cowls, they feared hiher; he pointed with frenzied gestures to the house Thethe pikemen, whose corselets

rattled under the shower The priest seized that ht up his robe and waved his hand,

and the rabble, as if ie

one-fronted thundering wave, before which the two handfuls of

pikemen--afraid to strike, yet afraid to fly--were swept away like straws

upon the tide