text: " The sudden flush on her face and her clasped hands while she spoke not showed that the event touched her too as deeply as him; and then he went on freely-- "Oh Ellen! if you had seen it! It stands there all in ruins--the whole city in ruins! It has been the work of some great storm which fired it when all were gone or dead; for there has been no pulling down no pillage no aid no attempt to stop the fire! All the palaces all the museums all the stores of learning and art the streets the crowded houses; they are gone Ellen--they are all gone!" His wife had never before in all their misery seen him so deeply moved--so nearly overpowered by any thing that had occurred