I will signalize my reverence for you by showing up the stairway the woman who knows how to love and be faithful, the feet that would be worthy of golden steps if I had them.

Come." Spite of her grief and anxiety, Julia was impressed and oppressed with the reverence shown her by her uncle.

She had a veneration almost superstitious for the Philosopher's learning.

She was not accustomed to even respectful treatment, and to be worshiped in this awful way by such a man was something almost as painful as it was pleasant.
The entrance to the stairway, if that could be called a stairway which was as difficult of ascent as a ladder, was through a closet by the side of the donjon chimney, and the logs had been so arranged without and within that the space occupied by the narrow and zigzag stairs was not apparent.

Up these stairs he took Julia, leaving her in a closet above.
As this closet was situated alongside the chimney, it opened, of course, into the small corner room which I have before described, and in which August was now lying.