If you are with us, then all will be well." "But, father, think how many there are!" "The more reason that they should be dealt with." "And think, too, of their sufferings should they be driven forth." "Their cure lies in their own hands." "That is true.

And yet my heart softens for them." Pere la Chaise and the bishop shook their heads.

Nature had made them both kind and charitable men, but the heart turns to flint when the blessing of religion is changed to the curse of sect.
"You would befriend God's enemies then ?" "No, no; not if they are indeed so." "Can you doubt it?
Is it possible that your heart still turns towards the heresy of your youth ?" "No, father; but it is not in nature to forget that my father and my grandfather--" "Nay, they have answered for their own sins.

Is it possible that the Church has been mistaken in you?
Do you then refuse the first favour which she asks of you?
You would accept her aid, and yet you would give none in return." Madame de Maintenon rose with the air of one who has made her resolution.

"You are wiser than I," said she, "and to you have been committed the interests of the Church.