"Though 'gainst the Foe a dauntless Front he reared,
Ne'er from his lips was aught assuming heard;
Modest, though brave; though firm, in manners mild,
Strong in resolve, though guileless as a child;
To honor true, in probity correct;
To falsehood [stern] and urgent to detect;
To party strange, to calumny a foe;
The good Samaritan to sons of woe;
At a late hour he heard the fatal call,
Obeyed and died, wept and deplored by all."
[22] See Appendix G., p. [287]. "The Curés of Malbaie".
[23] Bowen's career was remarkable. He continued on the bench until 1866, having held the office of a Judge in Canada for well nigh sixty years.
[24] He had recently died, and it did not diminish the Nairnes' interest in him that he left £5,000 to their relative Ker.
[25] He must have been a Roman Catholic for he was buried in the churchyard at Murray Bay.
[26] We have seen (ante p. [49]) how at Malbaie Colonel Nairne expected that a Protestant missionary would soon make the community Protestant.
[27] Professor Barrett Wendell, France of To-day, New York, 1907.
[28] Roy, Histoire de la Seigneurie de Lauzon, IV: 169, 170.
[29] The Abbé H.R. Casgrain: Une Paroisse Canadienne au XVII. Siècle. Œuvres, Vol. I, pp. 483 sqq.
[30] Roy, La Seigneurie de Lauzon, IV: 247.