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                             JOHN INGLESANT

                               A Romance


                                   by

                         John Henry Shorthouse



              [Greek: Agapetoi, nun tekna Theou esmen, kai
                     oupo ephanerothe ti esometha.]



                                VOL. II.



                                 London
                           MACMILLAN AND CO.
                                  1881




                _Printed by_ R & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh_.




                           *JOHN INGLESANT.*



                              *CHAPTER I.*


Inglesant travelled to Marseilles, and by packet boat to Genoa.  The
beauty of the approach by sea to this city, and the lovely gardens and
the country around gave him the greatest delight.  The magnificent
streets of palaces, mostly of marble, and the thronged public places,
the galleries of paintings, and the museums, filled his mind with
astonishment; and the entrance into Italy, wonderful as he had expected
it to be, surpassed his anticipation.  He stayed some time in Genoa, to
one or more of the Jesuit fathers in which city he had letters.  Under
the guidance of these cultivated men he commenced an education in art,
such as in these days can be scarcely understood.  From his coming into
Italy a new life had dawned upon him in the music of that country.
Fascinated as