"You can speak! I know you will make an orator. You will be a member at Quebec; and then you can effect something. I mourn over the state of affairs, but I do not fear for the true end; and I yearn, as if across the grave to see the vigor of another generation of us pressing into the struggle. Remember our ancient motto," and he laid his finger on the little coat of arms on the iron box, with its scroll: "_Sans Hesiter_." I did not answer him, but sat thinking, while gathering up the documents into the box, he carried it back to the office. END OF THE FIRST PART OF THE BOOK OF ENTHUSIASMS. When Chrysler arrived next morning at the break in Chamilly's manuscript, the sun was rising high and shining upon the river and front hedge, and on the green lawn before the Ontarian's window, and he could see Haviland walking backwards and forwards meditatively across the grass waiting for him to descend to breakfast. He hurried down, and as he came to his host, remarked, "The drift of your story is not quite clear to me." "I wish I had the sequel written," the young man replied, "I am trying to lead on to a great matter." BOOK II. CHAPTER XVI. A POLITICAL SERMON. "In the crowded old Cathedral all the town were on their knees." --D'ARCY MCGEE "That's not preaching _la morale_. And it's _actionable_!" a vigorous man energetically gesticulated among the crowd in the Circuit Court Room. The subject of excitement was a sermon by the Cure. Messire L'Archeveque, of Dormilliere, was in most respects an unimpeachable priest. He ministered to the sick faithfully, after the rites of the Church, he gave to the poor, he rendered unto Caesar. But--but, he hated Liberalism. On this point he was rabid; and as his Reverence was a stout, apoplectic person, of delivery and opinions not accustomed to criticism, it sometimes laid him somewhat open to ridicule. How the sermon was delivered, matters little to us. Suffice it that it was a bold denunciation of the Liberals, named by their party name, and that there were some strong expressions in it: "My brothers--when the priest speaks, it is not he who speaks,--but God." "My brethren, when the Priest commands you, it is the Church which commands you; and the voice of the Church is the voice of the Eternal. ... Look at France. Remind yourselves what she was in the centuries of her faith, devout and glorious, the lily among the kingdoms of the earth, because she was the Eldest Daughter of the Church. Behold her at this time, among the nations, dying in the terrible embraces of FREE-MASONRY!!"