The Reconciliation Of Enemies

Our observation of the reconciliation of persons who have once been enemies leads ïis to regard sneh a thing as usually nominal and superficial, rather than real and heartf elt. People who have quarreled before they were ever acquainted may learn that they had been mutnally mistaken and may corno to like each other very mach. So also slight misundcrstandings between friends may be healed and forgotten. But when old acquaintanccs seriously fall otit, while they each forego all opportmmty and desire for revenge, we doubt whether the warmth of the first aft'ection is ofteu, if ever, eatirely renewed. The scars of the doop woxmds remain. It is easier to keep the confidence of a hundred men than to regain that of one man who has