Startled at the sound the timid Nuns started away, prepared to hasten from the Vault at the first appearance of danger.

All remaining quiet and still, they again gathered round Lorenzo, and beheld his proceedings with anxious curiosity.
Finding that nothing followed this discovery, He descended.

As He took his hand from the Saint, She trembled beneath his touch.

This created new terrors in the Spectators, who believed the Statue to be animated.
Lorenzo's ideas upon the subject were widely different.

He easily comprehended that the noise which He had heard, was occasioned by his having loosened a chain which attached the Image to its Pedestal.