Style the excerpt

Hello.
A tiny issue here.

I would like to use the excerpt as the ingress (short summary in beginning of article).

my loop look like this:

<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
                <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> by <?php the_author_posts_link() ?></small>
		<ingress><?php the_excerpt(); ?></ingress>
		<p><?php the_content(); ?></p>

Problem is, my paragraf style is a Georgia font and the ingress is an Arial. But somehow the Arial is overrided. It shows bold, as it should, but it doesn’t change font-style.

Any ideas?

thx