But now the charioteer had the reins and goad in his hand.

Onwards now, onwards! He flew down stairs, three steps at a time, as he had been wont when a boy.

In the anteroom he met Eudoxia, Mary's Greek governess, who had just brought her refractory pupil into the house, and he tossed her the nosegay he still held in his hands; then, without heeding the languishing glances the middle-aged damsel sent after him with her thanks, he hastened back to the gate-keeper's lodge where he hurriedly disburdened himself of the locksmith's tools.
A few minutes later he entered the judgment-hall.

Nilus the treasurer showed him to the governor's raised seat, but an overpowering bashfulness kept him from taking this position of honor.

It was with a burning brow, and looks so ominously dark that the assembly gazed at him with timid astonishment, that he opened the proceedings with a few broken sentences.