CHAPTER 6.I.
Therefore the Genii were painted with a platter full of garlands and flowers in one hand, and a whip in the other .-- Alexander Ross, "Mystag.

Poet." According to the order of the events related in this narrative, the departure of Zanoni and Viola from the Greek isle, in which two happy years appear to have been passed, must have been somewhat later in date than the arrival of Glyndon at Marseilles.

It must have been in the course of the year 1791 when Viola fled from Naples with her mysterious lover, and when Glyndon sought Mejnour in the fatal castle.

It is now towards the close of 1793, when our story again returns to Zanoni.

The stars of winter shone down on the lagunes of Venice.