The public memory was short; within a year his fatal Georgian Bay-Ontario Canal would be forgot.

Meanwhile, what was there he might save from the situation as it stood?
Senator Hanway exerted his diplomacy, and as fruit thereof was visited by an eye-glassed gentleman--a foremost national figure, and the chief of Governor Obstinate's management.

Senator Hanway showed the eye-glassed Mazarin of party how, upon his own withdrawal, he, Senator Hanway, might put Speaker Frost in his place and endow him with the major share of what had been his own elements of strength.

Was there any reason why he, Senator Hanway, should refrain from such a step?
The eye-glassed Mazarin thereupon represented that it would be much better if Speaker Frost were to remain undisturbed in his House autocracy.

It was over-late for Speaker Frost and the convention only days away.