text: " "That seems less and less possible " said Ellen; "and in all this destruction why should we be preserved?" "Perhaps because we have as yet avoided the stroke by using all our human skill; perhaps because a new race is to spring from us who shall reign in another mighty London! Alas London!--alas the great city!" Several times during the night Ellen heard Paulett murmur to himself words of lament over the fallen city; and when he slept his rest was agitated and his frame seemed trembling under the emotions of the day