is mixed with horror seldom causes tears while add but to the bitter tide one drop of gratitude or joy and tears immediately become the natural relief of the over heart why grace said as he led his cousin away from the house of mourning lest by again yielding to her own emotion she should be the cause of interruption or alarm to others � how is you are overwhelmed with gratitude because a stern old man is melted into common feeling by the death of his son for my part i should have felt more pity for him had he the t received the first intelligence more like � father and a christian man we cannot all feel alike said grace nor make the same display of sorrow when we do feel it i confess like you i waa shocked at the seeming with which our intelligence was at first received but those fearful groans george they surely tell of more than common grief � the gray dawn of the morning had hy this time given place to the full light of day though it was one of the darkest and the of those which in the storms of winter the of the preceding had occasionally been interrupted by a rushing wind which now swelling into a strong gale blew fiercely over earth and ea sweeping across the bosom of the troubled ocean and the spray of the rising one vast bed of the tide was rolling out but it retreated with an angry roar as if with th work of destruction it had already accomplished all the distance from the village to the beach was now scattered with groups of s people who some of them from mere curiosity and some from feelings of deeper in had left homes to hear if there were any tidings of the body or to learn if anything more remained to be told than the melancholy story which had already from house to house with the usual number of variations and additions among these groups was many a poor mother with her children clinging to her cloak all look ing anxiously toward the sea and yet all afraid to behold the object o which they were in search there were men blessing and comforting themselves that their sons were not as this prodigal who would never more return to his s house there were young women who looked and looked again and all the while kept close together calling back to remembrance the kindness the freedom and the generous of him who was lost and there were old telling of their own escapes and wondering at and settling and again the manner of the young man s death and still the deep rolled on telling its dark s to none thb and his cousin approached the n ne of interest from one point his mother and sister with their household attendants from another way was respectfully made for all and they stood together for some time without uttering a word except to ask and tell in what manner old had borne the intelligence of his loss all look ed toward the sea and grace though she trembled violently dashed away her hair from her eyes and looked more in than any of the there see see said mrs there is old himself � and alone and there indeed he stood the aged father leaning on his staff with his hair floating in the wind he stood alone too except for a faithful dog that never left his side he stood alone for he had held no fellowship with others in the common and interests of life and there fore it was the necessary consequence that in his grief they should hold none with him yet there was something almost more than human nature could endure to see a father alone on such an occasion and grace iso the ton left aunt and and stealing quietly np to the ridge of high ground on which he had stationed himself stooped down and patted his dog that she at least be ready if he wish for any one to be near him encouraged by having escaped a direct grace at last to stand bearer and from a natural impulse upon which she acted almost unconsciously she said in so meek and quiet a voice that it could not have offended any one sir will you not lean upon me the wind is very strong lean upon you child said old why should i lean � you v and he turned half away from her t look again at the sea without interruption perhaps it was well that he had not ac the offered aid of his young ion for the next moment she was shooting an arrow across the sands straight on to a of black rock which was just beginning w stand out above the shallow waves and beside which some of the were now seen to be gathering themselves into a group what be the matter with grace said mrs the strange of her niece she seems in have quite lost her senses with this you were wrong in taking her with you george she would have been much better at home she has no spirits for such as these you are mistaken in i assure you said she was of the greatest possible to me this morning and really behaved like a heroine but see they have found him they have found him at last i am sure that is the body it was as had said the wretched man had not been washed by the waves to any great distance from the i ot where he perished probably owing to his dress having become entangled among the rocks f and there he stretched out the sand one of his cold hands still an iron grasp the of s coat which he had torn when they for the last time nothing 