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'But have you never heard Curran's saying, young gentleman? "You cannot bring an indictment against a nation," said Miller. 'I'd trouble myself little with indictments, replied Gorman. 'I'd break down the confederacy by spies; I'd seize the fellows I knew to be guilty, and hang them. 'Without evidence, without trial? 'Very little of a trial, when I had once satisfied myself of the guilt.
The Emperor will not object to his wandering round the Cyrenian Sea in the Ida." Gorman was singularly dull when he joined me in the smoking-room after luncheon. I do not recollect any other occasion on which I found him disinclined to talk. I opened the most seductive subjects. I said I was sure Ulster really meant to take up arms against Home Rule.
"Acting for the Emperor?" "Well, yes. Unofficially. He is in a certain sense the agent of the Emperor." "All right," said Gorman. "I'll see him. And if I pull the thing off I may count on ?" "You may ask for what you like," said Sir Bartholomew. "You've only got to drop me a hint. Anything in reason. A knighthood? Or a baronetcy? I think we could manage a baronetcy. A post in the Government?
Gorman, sheriff's wife before Gorman went out and Peters came in, had a voice that somehow seemed to be backing up the law with every word. But if Mrs. Peters didn't look like a sheriff's wife, Peters made it up in looking like a sheriff.
"Again and always the Emperor. All roads lead to Rome. All Real Politik brings us in the end back to the Emperor." "My idea," said Gorman, "would be, to choose a small island, quite a small one, so small that the Emperor wouldn't notice it was gone. As a matter of fact I expect a small island would suit Donovan better than the whole country.
He works with borrowed money. Somebody packs the tins in huge cases, puts them in trains, piles them into ships, despatches them to London, getting his power to do these things in some mysterious way from Ascher. "While she washes up the cups and saucers," said Gorman, "he brings round that motor cycle." "Paid for," I said, "in monthly instalments."
I gave Gorman my address before I left the ship, but I did not expect him to make any use of it. I thought that I had seen the last of him when I crossed the gangway and got caught in the whirlpool of fuss which eddied round the custom house shed. I was very much surprised when he walked in on me at breakfast time on the second morning after our arrival. I was eating an omelette at the time.
I use the word "set" deliberately, for Gorman, when bent on getting anything done, reminds me of a well-trained sporting dog. He ranges, quarters the ground in front of him and finally well, he set me as if I had been a grouse. He set Ascher, I have no doubt, in the same way. I did not think it likely that he would secure the Aschers.
"They would not want to kill her," said the King. "She would not be their queen." "Sounds all right," said Gorman, "if you can be sure of selling the whole thing without reservation of any kind to him. The royal rights are essential. Remember that. There must be no 'subject-to-the-Crown-of-Megalia' clause in the deed." "The Emperor need not know," said the King.
He once told me about a Spirit which moves very much as Mrs. Ascher's does. Its aim was goodness and the bishop called it God. His definition of faith was, except for the different object, precisely Mrs. Ascher's. Gorman propounds a somewhat similar philosophy of life, and occasionally talks about faith in the same rapt way.
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