"But my brother is not able to walk," said John.

"I shall try," Cornelius said, with an expression of most
sublime fortitude.

"But have you not got your carriage?" asked the girl.

"The carriage is down near the great entrance."

"Not so," she replied. "I considered your coachman to be a
faithful man, and I told him to wait for you at the
postern."

The two brothers looked first at each other, and then at
Rosa, with a glance full of the most tender gratitude.

"The question is now," said the Grand Pensionary, "whether
Gryphus will open this door for us."

"Indeed, he will do no such thing," said Rosa.

"Well, and how then?"

"I have foreseen his refusal, and just now whilst he was
talking from the window of the porter's lodge with a
dragoon, I took away the key from his bunch."

"And you have got it?"