Chapter

 1 3 |       tramp of the crowd on the staircase of the Town-hall. The noise
 2 3 | courtyard. At the bottom of the staircase he found little Rosa, trembling
 3 3 |        by her, they descended a staircase of about a dozen steps;
 4 4 |        of the Hague had built a staircase with the bodies of John
 5 7 |    terrified glance towards the staircase. ~"They are coming up! they
 6 7 |      across the banister of the staircase the points of the halberds
 7 9 |       prisoner was mounting the staircase, appeared at the narrow
 8 10|     hasty step was heard on the staircase, and immediately after a
 9 11|     some steps, sat down on the staircase which was thus guarded above
10 11|        sounds, was heard on the staircase, amidst the continued barking
11 11|        heart. ~The noise on the staircase which Cornelius and Rosa
12 12|  scaffold. At the bottom of the staircase, the dog quietly looked
13 14|          Cornelius heard on the staircase of the little turret a voice
14 14|  courtyard at the bottom of the staircase, receiving the instructions
15 14|    appearance at the top of the staircase. ~       ~
16 15|     when Cornelius heard on the staircase the light step and the rustle
17 17|         a step, creaking on the staircase." ~"Surely," said the prisoner, "
18 17|          Rosa rushed toward the staircase, and a door was really heard
19 18|        voice was heard from the staircase asking Gryphus how matters
20 18|     with his finger towards the staircase, he said to Rosa: "Just
21 19|     rustling of her gown on the staircase, were so familiar to his
22 21|         there were heard on the staircase not only the steps of Gryphus,
23 23|  something like a shadow on the staircase. ~Her discovery, however,
24 23|        the landing-place of the staircase above, descended step by
25 23|     foot the lowest step of the staircase, Boxtel touched with a still
26 24|         steps which came up the staircase, and of cries which approached
27 24|   re-echoing through the spiral staircase. ~Rosa, in her fright, made
28 24|         noise, had ascended the staircase without being heard. ~He
29 24|  thought, she rushed toward the staircase, saying, -- ~"All is not
30 26|         out aloud on seeing his staircase invaded, up to the very