he priest, the
grand object of which was to advance such measures as might obtain the
whole of North America for the Catholics, as South America had already
been secured. It would seem that, although the Knight had the
accomplishment of that result as much at heart as the priest himself,
his national pride and patriotism relucted at the idea that English
colonies should become possessions of the hereditary enemies of his
nation. It was to combat this notion, and to satisfy him of his duty,
to trample upon it at the foot of the cross, that the arguments of the
father were directed. The plan of Sir Christopher was to supplant and
overpower the Puritans with English Catholics, which, by the aid of
the immense wealth of the Church, and the ability of the enterprising
Jesuits, he doubted not might be done, but not to make the colony
French. Devoted Catholic as he was, he was unable to renounce his love
of country.

Not so with the father. With the sagacity of a priest, he placed no
dependence upon any portion of a people whose councils were ruled by
Protestants, and with the conceit of a Frenchman, he had unlimited
confidence in _la grande_ nation; besides, he had been a witness, and
partaken of the sufferings of his brethren, the French Jesuits, among
the savages, and he relied much on a zeal, the superior of which the
world has never seen, and which he believed sanctioned by heaven, and
in spite of himself, and try as he might to persuade himself of the
contrary, national feeling (as in the case of Sir Christopher) mingled
with the aspirations of the religionist. He would, indeed, rather than
fail, have courted the Turk himself, on whom he looked with eyes about
as favorable as on a Protestant, but he preferred that his own nation,
as well as his own order, should monopolize both the glory and the
advantages of the achievement. These feelings, secret almost to
himself, he carefully kept concealed from Sir Christopher, whom he
regretted was not a countryman, and confined himself to the religious
aspect of the case. No opportunity to remove a doubt, or inflame the
zeal of his coadjutor, did he allow to escape.

"There is but one Church," he said, in one of their conversations,
"and only through her sacred portals is the kingdom of heaven to be
entered--a truth received by every Catholic--else, vain and unmeaning
was the solemn tradition of the keys to St. Peter. They who are not
for her are against her, and must be subdued