He had imbued them with habits of industry and self-reliance, and had initiated them into many of the accomplishments of civilised life--so that upon their return to society they might be quite equal to its claims.

Upon the whole, those years of the exile's life, spent in his wilderness home, formed no blank in his existence.

He might look back upon them with feelings of satisfaction and pleasure.
Man, however, is formed for society.

The human heart, properly organised, seeks communion with the human heart; and the mind, especially when refined and polished by education, loves the intercourse of social life, and, when deprived of it, will always yearn to obtain it.
So was it with the field-cornet.

He desired to return once more within the pale of civilised society.