An unforeseen circumstance greatly increased the sentiment of respect which the Count d'Erfeuil experienced already, almost without knowing it, for his travelling companion.

The health of Lord Nelville had obliged him to stop some days at Ancona.

The mountains and the sea render the situation of this city very fine, and the crowd of Greeks who work in front of their shops seated in the oriental manner, the diversity of costume of the inhabitants of the Levant, whom one meets in the streets, give it an original and interesting appearance.

The art of civilization has a continual tendency to render all men alike in appearance and almost in reality; but the mind and the imagination take pleasure in the characteristic differences of nations: it is only by affectation and by calculation that men resemble each other; all that is natural is varied.

The eyes then, at least, derive some little pleasure from diversity of costume; it seems to promise a new manner of feeling and of judging.
The Greek, the Catholic, and the Jewish worships exist simultaneously and peaceably in the city of Ancona.