The result was a very genuine outbreak of sorrow and sympathy from all

the hearers. The elder lady cried, thinking how proud that great-hearted

young hero's mother would be, if she were living, and how unappeasable

her grief; and the two old servants cried with her, and spoke out their

applauses and their pitying lamentations with the eloquent sincerity and

simplicity native to their race. Gwendolen was touched, and the romantic

side of her nature was strongly wrought upon. She said that such a

nature as that young man's was rarely and truly noble, and nearly

perfect; and that with nobility of birth added it was entirely perfect.

For such a man she could endure all things, suffer all things, even to

the sacrificing of her life. She wished she could have seen him; the

slightest, the most momentary, contact with such a spirit would have

ennobled her own character and made ignoble thoughts and ignoble acts

thereafter impossible to her forever.

Have they found the body, Rossmore?" asked the wife.

Yes, that is, they've found several. It must be one of them, but none

of them are recognizable."

What are you going to do?"

"I am going down there and identify one of them and send it home to the

stricken father."

But papa, did you ever see the young man?"

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