CHAPTER 6.V.
Ce que j'ignore Est plus triste peut-etre et plus affreux encore.
La Harpe, "Le Comte de Warwick," Act 5, sc.

1.
(That which I know not is, perhaps, more sad and fearful still.) The casement stood open, and Viola was seated by it.

Beneath sparkled the broad waters in the cold but cloudless sunlight; and to that fair form, that half-averted face, turned the eyes of many a gallant cavalier, as their gondolas glided by.
But at last, in the centre of the canal, one of these dark vessels halted motionless, as a man fixed his gaze from its lattice upon that stately palace.

He gave the word to the rowers,--the vessel approached the marge.

The stranger quitted the gondola; he passed up the broad stairs; he entered the palace.