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On the contrary, he grew a little more cheerful. "I can see that du Laurier's being in the French Foreign Office might make it rather awkward for Miss de Renzie if she if she's been rather too helpful to us," he said. "Exactly. And thereby hangs a tale a sensational and even romantic tale almost complicated enough for the plot of a novel.
Laurier's former house, which happened just then to be on sale. It was large and sufficiently commodious to admit of the two families occupying it. The best room in the house was accorded to Mrs. Laurier. The families lived together harmoniously, and vied with each other to brighten the declining years of the mother's peaceful life. I. The Change of Circumstances II. The Revelation
Laurier's loyal support of the war and his candid admonitions to the young men of his own race made him the target for Bourassa's shafts. Something more than a difference of view was reflected in Bourassa's harangues; there was in them a distillation of venom, indicating deep personal feeling. "Laurier," he once declared in a public meeting, "is the most nefarious man in the whole of Canada."
Their bright idea was that Clarke Wallace, the seceding cabinet minister and Orange leader, should move the six months' hoist; this would enable the Liberals to divide, some voting for it and some against it. But the bold idea won. With Laurier's speech of March 3, 1896, the death-blow was given to the Conservative administration and the door to office and power opened to the Liberals.
'I seem to see Laurier as he was at that time, wrote his close friend, L. O. David, 'ill, sad, his air grave, indifferent to all the turmoil raised around him; he passed through the midst of it like a shadow and seemed to say to us, "Brother, we all must die." In fact, Mr Laurier's health was the source of very serious concern.
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