Instantly she had hurried home, making the journey with all imaginable speed though her heart was all but broken within her bosom.

She had found her father stricken to the ground, and it was the more necessary, therefore, that she should exert herself.

It would not do that she also should yield to that longing for death which terrible calamities often produce for a season.
Clara Amedroz, when she first heard the news of her brother's fate, had felt that she was for ever crushed to the ground.

She had known too well what had been the nature of her brother's life, but she had not expected or feared any such termination to his career as this which had now come upon him--to the terrible affliction of all belonging to him.

She felt at first, as did also her father, that she and he were annihilated as regards this world, not only by an enduring grief, but also by a disgrace which would never allow her again to hold up her head.