Her soul had concentrated all its consciousness upon the strand of hair she continually smoothed through her fingers.

Dr.Worth, in his capacity of physician, accompanied the flying families, and he was thus able to pay some attention to his distraught wife; but she answered nothing he said to her.

If she looked at him, her eyes either flamed with anger, or expressed something of the terror to be seen in the eyes of a hunted animal.

It was evident that her childish intelligence had seized upon him as the most obvious cause of all her loss and misery.
The condition of a wife so beloved almost broke his heart.

The tragic death of his dear son was not so hard to endure as this living woe at his side.