These are three brothers, and one we know--gallant, imperious, cordial, having the superior ease of the courtier.
The four receive a blessing from a massive, handsome priest, whose face, as it bends over Iberville, suddenly flushes with feeling.

Presently the others rise, but Iberville remains an instant longer, as if loth to leave.

The priest whispers to him: "Be strong, be just, be merciful." The young man lifts his eyes to the priest's: "I will be just, abbe!" Then the priest makes the sacred gesture over him..