his return had scarcely paused however before the gathering of a crowd of men and boys along the side of the river attracted her attention and far in the distance she discovered two boats evidently with each other in the speed with which they cut through the water it requires very little to call together a crowd in london � very little to awaken anywhere in the minds of the idle and the thoughtless that which aims at pre eminence in folly or vice and thus the throng of spectators increased and the two boats came nearer and nearer until the dash of their oars would have been heard by but for the roll of carriages immediately beside and the general hum of the eat multitude of which she formed an item at last a shout was heard and there was a splash struggle � while the nearest boat rocked on one side and the stooped over and then while the minister s they ceased from their labors they seemed to be looking after something that was left behind another shout succeeded to the first and both the boats put back and rested on their oars while some of the men could be seen making up a of ropes and standing as if in readiness to throw it to any spot that might be indicated by others did not at first feel any apprehension about what had happened she thought it might have been a hat a coat or even a dog which had fallen but suddenly she seemed to be impelled by a kind of irresistible necessity to hasten to the spot and with a countenance of such deadly that those who looked into her face drew hack astonished and made way for her to pass she her way along the side not once looking to the right hand or the left but keeping her eye fixed steadily upon one particular point she succeeded in forcing a passage through the of the crowd and in standing directly opposite to where one of the boats was about to approach the land n or was it difficult for to by the exclamations of the crowd the frightful catastrophe which had occurred we haye him too said many at once but � and knew perfectly well without any of their coarse descriptions what was the reason why the could not by any possibility be she knew for by this time the lifeless form of her brother had been lifted out of the boat and while many crowded round to see the tall and manly youth who had met with this fate was the only one who claimed or who wished to claim kindred or association with the deceased take him said in a tone and attitude of command unusual to her when suddenly that she had neither home nor shelter in that vast city nor means of either she wrung her hands with an exclamation of s and distraction which made the police press near to her i the minister s and question her about her residence and her name thus though prepared in some measure for her great calamity was entirely overcome by the lesser besides which her mighty grief was sacred in itself it was also one in which that gazing crowd had nothing in and therefore she had locked it in her heart scarcely conscious of its real magnitude and waiting only for the time when she might be alone to ascertain its full extent but the sudden sense of poverty and loneliness which came upon her with the conviction that she had not where to bury her dead was what she was wholly un for and was her distress and such er inability to devise any means to relieve her melancholy that suspicions ran among the crowd of her not being quite herself and strange stories were soon set afloat about her with the young man who had been drowned all these however even had they reached the ear of would have affected her but little so deeply was her attention absorbed in the means which public benevolence employed for the restoration of her brother s life but in vain she laid her hand upon the senseless breast � upon the brow the temples and the cheek in vain she bent over that once beautiful countenance and tried to persuade herself that some movement was in the muscles of the face and that a warmth like that of life still lingered about the heart the truth was too evident to admit of a doubt in any mind but hers that the high and spirit which once that manly form had left its earthly for ever there are certain individuals with whom we habitually connect ideas of sickness and decay and death if the wind blows coldly we single them out as objects of especial anxiety and after we have been separated from them for a while we scarcely dare inquire of their relatives about their health lest they should be dead but on the other hand there s are those whom we are e j disposed to from ail suspicion of bodily danger we see that they may and do nm a thousand risks with regard to prudence economy and general esteem but of their health we never think and their death h in the course of nature it must come at last appears to be an event so far beyond the date of our own that it scarcely a place in our calculations of this class of beings had been and even those who loved him best had seldom had to with a single fear relating to his precious life he was so full of health so blooming so beau said to herself one day as she was hastening on one of those long walks in with her occupation which in this instance she had been permitted to take in order that the change of air from 