The pious daughter weeping and conducting her sire onward ; age, creeping carefully on hands and knees ; an elder, without friend or kindred ; a miser; a bachelor, blindly proceeding, no one knows where, ready to drop into the dark abyss ; frantic youth rashly devoted to vice and passion, rushing past the diseased and old, who totters on crutches; the wan declining virgin ; the miserable and distracted widow; the hale country youth; and the mother and her numerous progeny, already arrived in this valley, are among the groups which speak irresistibly to the feelings.