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only trust is in your support ; and I am persuaded 

 that, having the honor to be so closely connected 

 with you, you would reproach yourself, if you saw 

 me sink into decrepitude, without resources and 

 without honors." * And still again he appeals to 

 the minister for " some permanent and honorable 

 place attended with the marks of distinction, which 

 are more grateful than all the rest to a heart shaped 

 after the right pattern." 2 In return for these 

 sturdy applications, he got nothing for the present 

 but a continuance of the king's gift of two thou- 

 sand crowns. 



Not every voice in the colony sounded the gov- 

 ernor's praise. Now, as always, he had enemies in 

 state and Church. It is true that the quarrels and 

 the bursts of passion that marked his first term of 

 government now rarely occurred, but this was not 

 so much due to a change in Frontenac himself as 

 to a change in the conditions around him. The 

 war made him indispensable. He had gained what 

 he wanted, the consciousness of mastery ; and under 

 its soothing influence he was less irritable and 

 exacting. He lived with the bishop on terms of 

 mutual courtesy, while his relations with his col- 

 league, the intendant, were commonly smooth 

 enough on the surface ; for Champigny, warned by 

 the court not to offend him, treated him with 

 studied deference, and was usually treated in re- 

 turn with urfcane condescension. During all this 

 time, the intendant was complaining of him to the 



1 Frontenac au Ministre, 15 Sept., 1692. 



2 Ibid., 25 Oct., 1693. 



