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In both private and public life, among clergy as well as laity, each of the opposing tendencies was stoutly championed. When Wilfrid Laurier went to Montreal in 1861, the leaders of the Liberal or Rouge party had sobered down from the fiery radicalism of their youth, and were content to leave the authorities of the Church alone.
Laurier was, he found, a different proposition from Mackenzie; and there was nothing for it but to return to his tent and take farewell of his constituents in that tale of lamentations, the West Durham letter. The new regime, the new leadership, did not bring results at once. The party experienced a succession of unexpected and unforeseen misfortunes that almost made Laurier superstitious.
There have been prime ministers of Canada casually thrown up by the tide of events and as casually re-engulfed; but Wilfrid Laurier was not one of them. There may have been something accidental in his rise to leadership, but his capture of the premiership was a solid political achievement. The victory of June 23, 1896, crowned with triumph the daring strategy of the campaign.
You have no knowledge of it, you tell me; yet you come to me with it in your pocket the necklace stolen from Raoul du Laurier, days ago, in Amsterdam or on the way there." "You're certain it's the same?" "Certain as that you are you, and I am I. And I'm not out of my mind yet though I soon shall be, unless you somehow save me from this horror." "I'm going to try," I said. "Don't give up hope.
It isn't agreeable to be gossipped about, however unjustly, even if one is only an actress." "You turn things cleverly, as always. Yes, you are afraid there might have been a letter. Yet the public adores you. It would pardon you any indiscretion, especially a romantic one any indiscretion except treachery. There might, however, be a few persons less indulgent. Du Laurier, for instance."
One evening as Don Marcelo was accompanying his son down the Champs Elysees, he started at recognizing a lady approaching from the opposite direction. It was Madame Laurier. . . . Would she recognize Julio? He noted that the youth turned pale and began looking at the other people with feigned interest. She continued straight ahead, erect, unseeing.
This declaration of intention no doubt at the moment sincerely made was designed to check the falling away from Laurier's leadership in Quebec, which was becoming more noticeable as election day drew near. But the appeal was ineffective.. The effective opposition to Laurier in Quebec came not from Borden or from Monk, the official leader of the French Conservatives, but from Bourassa.
It was not until the Laurier administration had forced the issue six years later that the request was granted. Positive freedom, a share in the making of treaties affecting Canada, came still more gradually. When in 1870 Galt and Huntington pressed for treaty-making powers, Macdonald opposed, urging the great advantages of British aid in negotiation.
Their day was over and their power gone. Laurier reigned supreme. These commitments and considerations furnished the background to the drama of Laurier's premiership. Much that took place on the fore-stage is only intelligible by taking a long vision of the whole setting.
Even Madame Laurier now showed with pride the very visible curves of her approaching maternity, and Desnoyers noted sympathetically the vital volume apparent beneath her long mourning veil. Again he thought of Julio, without taking into account the flight of time.
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