"May we not deem without impiety that God, in His mercy, has designed them for the extirpation of this miserable feud, and has drawn out of the stern parents themselves the instruments by which their hearts may be softened ?" "It is impossible," said Father Omehr, "for us to discover by any human means what the mercy of God may appoint; all we can do is to ask for light to guide our steps, and to exercise the reason with which He has endowed us.

I have good ground to believe that any approach to tenderness, on the part of the children, would widen the breach between the fathers.

And were such the case, the consummation of your plan would give only a new and horrible feature to the present discord, by severing the bond between child and parent.

For, unless I am much deceived, the lords of Hers and Stramen would turn away in disgust from children whom they would consider, not only to have disobeyed them, but to have proved faithless to their race.

In this view, I can not suppose that heaven indicates the path to final reconciliation through fresh dissension.