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bonhomie, that a friend of his once observed that of 

 all his acquaintances, Maseres was the only player on 

 whose face, a defeat or a victory could not be read. 



Contemporary memoirs display The Veteran of 

 Science, in the sweet seclusion of his home ; at times, 

 under a reverential aspect, recalling the tender piety 

 and singleness of heart of the illustrious Sir Isaac 

 Newton, who through respect for the Supreme Being, 

 whom he styled the Gentleman above, never pro- 

 nounced his revered name without uncovering his 

 head. Until his dying hour, the Baron's was the decorous 

 bearing, the exquisite good-breeding, the simple but 

 punctilious costume of the gentlemen of the long robe, 

 — the three-cornered hat, the heavy, powdered wig, the 

 delicate, frilled shiit of olden days : such his daily 

 attire. 



To those who might love to re-people old Quebec 

 with the men who, in the flesh, roamed through its his- 

 toric thoroughfares, at the era following the great seige 

 of 1759, when the 527 dwellings and public edifices 

 destroyed by Wolfe and Saunders' shells, were springing 

 from their ashes — imagination would fain depict the 

 cheery presence of the courteous dignitary strolling 

 through the Ring towards the Chateau St. Louis, or, 

 hurrying down Palace Hill, in the direction of the Inten- 

 dance, in search of documents from the archivist J. A. 

 Panet : parchments of commissions, certificates of land 

 grants, patents of French nobility, for his work " An 

 account of the Noblesse or Gentry of Canada ; " or else, 

 disputing at the corner of a street with the learned 

 Cugnet, anent an article of the Custom of Paris, or else, 

 attending the sittings of the Superior Council, presided 

 over by the Governor ; or perhaps, even like some of 

 the luminaries of our day, leisurely strolling up St. 

 Louis street in the direction of the Grande AlUe, after 

 office hours, for his " daily constitutional. " 



