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I'll get it for you at once but, on two conditions: that you don't tell anybody I got it, and that you tell me why you want it, and what you ever did to deserve it." Instead, Peter explained fully and so sympathetically that the diplomat demanded that he, too, should be enrolled as one of the Gilman Defense Committee. "Doctor Gilman's history," he said, "must be presented to the Sultan.
Gilman returned to the dining-room to add. "I'm full all the time and crowded on Saturday. More and more of the boys come down the line on purpose to stay over Sunday. If I can stick it out a little while " The reason why "the boys came down the line to stay over Sunday," was put into words one day by Winchell, the barber, who took his meals at the Eagle.
Gilman and Audrey were coupled together by fate and that a delicious crisis was about to supervene in their earthly progress. And they had become objects of exquisite solicitude. They had also become perfect. A circle of friends and acquaintances waited in excited silence for a palpitating event, as a populace waits for the booming gunfire which is to inaugurate a national rejoicing.
A full and well-illustrated account of it and its arrangements and surroundings is given in "Poets' Homes," by Arthur Gilman and others, published by D. Lothrop & Company in 1879. On the 12th of September, 1835, Emerson delivered an "Historical Discourse, at Concord, on the Second Centennial Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town."
Peter regarded his young friend with incredulous admiration. "But did they believe you," he demanded, "when you told them you were an author and educator?" Stetson closed one eye and grinned. "They believed whatever I paid them to believe." "If you can get one of those," cried Peter, "Old man Gilman ought to get a dozen.
Too long has the whole process of love-making and marriage been wrapped in mystery. "Part of it has been considered too holy to be spoken of and part of it too unholy," says Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Innocence has been esteemed a young girl's greatest charm, but what good has her innocence done her? No good at all! It is not calculated to do her good her good is not the prime consideration.
"There's the hog in the fence, Merry; what's yer dad goin' t' say" "About what?" "About our gitt'n' married this spring." "I guess you'd better find out what I'm a-goin' t' say, Lime Gilman, 'fore you pitch into Dad." "I know what you're a-goin' t' say." "No, y' don't." "Yes, but I do, though." "Well, ask me, and see, if you think you're so smart. Jest as like 's not, you'll slip up."
I pay your salary, but your work is to advertise him and the Order of the Crescent. I'll give you a letter to Charley Hines at Stillwater. He sends out college news to a syndicate and he's the local Associated Press man. He's sore at their discharging Gilman and he's my best friend, and he'll work the papers as far as you like.
She handed her books to Katy, and went into the living room She concentrated on John Gilman first, and a wee qualm of disgust crept through her soul when she saw that after weeks of suffering he was once more ready to devote himself to Eileen. Linda marveled at the power a woman could hold over a man that would force him to compromise with his intellect, his education and environment.
If so, I shall be glad to place your name upon the list. A line by telegraph will be welcomed. Yours very truly, D.C. Gilman I think I was even more surprised to receive this invitation than I had been to receive the invitation to speak at the opening of the Exposition.
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