This palace could not be quitted, the felucca entered, or any one of the many necessary steps hazarded, without drawing upon us their eyes.

Hark!--I hear the wash of oars--a gondola is even now at the water-gate!" Donna Florinda went hastily to the balcony, and as quickly returned to report that she had seen an officer of the Republic enter the palace.
There was no time to lose, and Don Camillo was again urged to conceal himself in the little oratory.

This necessary caution had hardly been observed before the door of the room opened, and the privileged messenger of the senate announced his own appearance.

It was the very individual who had presided at the fearful execution of the fisherman, and who had already announced the cessation of the Signor Gradenigo's powers.

His eye glanced suspiciously around the room as he entered, and the Carmelite trembled in every limb at the look which encountered his own.