Besides, there are moments in which a courageous man has no courage, or disdains to shew it.
I enter the gondola, the curtain is drawn aside, and I see my evil genius, Razetta, with an officer.

The two soldiers sit down at the prow; I recognize M.Grimani's own gondola, it leaves the landing and takes the direction of the Lido.

No one spoke to me, and I remained silent.

After half-an-hour's sailing, the gondola stopped before the small entrance of the Fortress St.Andre, at the mouth of the Adriatic, on the very spot where the Bucentaur stands, when, on Ascension Day, the doge comes to espouse the sea.
The sentinel calls the corporal; we alight, the officer who accompanied me introduces me to the major, and presents a letter to him.

The major, after reading its contents, gives orders to M.Zen, his adjutant, to consign me to the guard-house.