text:  The kind youth finding all hope of assistance vain from the miserable prejudices of the people had at last contrived to raise the still senseless Magdalena in his arms with the intention of conveying her into his own dwelling; and already murmurs began to arise among the crowd as if they intended to oppose his purpose; when a door communicating from the palace-gardens with the narrow lane opened and the stately form of an aged man of benevolent aspect stood between Gottlob who remained alone under the water-gate with the lifeless form of Magdalena on his arm and the murmuring crowd which had drawn back into the lane