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The few moments that followed were indeed full of grim horror.
An old peasant woman, standing by Aimee, in her frenzy, spat at one of the German soldiers, whereupon he struck her in the breast with his bayonet, and, with a piercing shriek, the poor thing fell, her thin, bony hands clutching at the stones in her death agony.