John Inglesant: A Romance (Volume 2 of 2)Shorthouse, J. H. (Joseph Henry)
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John Inglesant: A Romance (Volume 2 of 2)
Shorthouse, J. H. (Joseph Henry)
Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Fiction; Religious fiction
Vatican, and not far from the Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo.
The College was a large and fair house, standing in several courts and
gardens. Inglesant was received with courtesy by the rector, who said
that he remembered seeing him in London, and that he had also been at
his father’s house in Wiltshire. He named to him several Priests who had
also been there; but so many Papists had been constantly coming and
going at Westacre, during the time that Father St. Clare had resided
there, that Inglesant could not recall them to mind. The rector,
however, mentioned one whom he remembered, the gentleman who had given
him St. Theresa’s Life. He advised Inglesant to remain some days at the
College, as the usual and natural resort of all Englishmen connected in
any way with the Court and Church of Rome, promising him pleasant rooms.
He showed him his apartment, a small but handsome guest-chamber, looking
upon a garden, with a sort of oratory or closet adjoining, with an altar
and crucifix. The bell rang for supper, but the rector had that meal
laid for himself and his guest in his private room. The students, and
those who took their meals at the common table, had but one good meal in
the day, that being a most excellent one. Their supper consisted of a
glass of wine and a manchet of bread.
The rector and Inglesant had much talk together, and after the latter
had satisfied his host, as best he could, upon all those points—and they
were many—connected with the state of affairs in England upon which he
desired information, the rector began in his turn to give his guest a
description of affairs in Rome, and of those things which he should see,
and how best to see them.
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