Her return was politically of no importance.

She had learned by experience the folly of attempting to save her lover from the destruction to which he was running headlong.

She therefore suffered the Jesuits to guide his political conduct and they, in return, suffered her to wheedle him out of money; She was, however, only one of several abandoned women who at this time shared, with his beloved Church, the dominion over his mind.

[194] He seems to have determined to make some amends for neglecting the welfare of his own soul by taking care of the souls of others.

He set himself, therefore, to labour, with real good will, but with the good will of a coarse, stern, and arbitrary mind, for the conversion of his kinsman.