This they were not ready to do.

Mr.Gobat retired, in a spirit of catholicity.

Neither did Mr.Nicholayson prosecute his mission, being disheartened, it may be, by the civil war which shortly arose between the Maronites and Druzes.

His intervention was unfortunate, and I find it referred to, thirty years afterwards, by a venerable member of the mission, as a warning against similar intrusions.
The Patriarch now deemed himself strong enough to enter upon his project of crushing the Druzes.

His power in the mountains being in the ascendant, he ordered the Druze sheiks to assemble at Deir el-Kamr.