text:  Yet to surrender was perhaps only to suffer a more protracted death degraded by shame; and when I looked round me on the helplessness of the noble and beautiful women around me and thought of the agony which must be felt by us on seeing them thrown into the power of the assassins who were now roaring with triumph and vengeance I dismissed all thoughts of submission at once and determined to take the chances of resistance while any man among us had the power to draw a trigger