about
eight o'clock in the morning
The head of the princess was cut off and stuck upon a pike , and was carried in triumph under the windows of the Temple , where the king and queen were confined , and was held up to the bars of the room they occupied for them to see . Marie Antoinette , fearless for herself , fainted at the terrible sight of the pale head of her friend . Harry remained at a little distance from La Force , tramping restlessly up and down , half-mad with rage and horror , and at his powerlessness to interfere in any way with the proceedings of the wretches who were carrying on the work of murder . At last , about eight o'clock in the morning , a boy ran by . `` They have finished with them at the Abbaye , '' he said with fiendish glee . `` They are going from there to the Bicetre . '' Harry with difficulty repressed his desire to slay the urchin , and hurried away to reach the prison of Bicetre before the band from the Abbaye arrived there .