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I daresay, too, that Gorman found the whole thing highly amusing when he recollected the Emperor's plan of marrying Miss Donovan to King Konrad Karl. Phillips was just the sort of obstacle which would wreck the plan, and the Emperor would never condescend to consider that a subordinate officer in the British Merchant Service could be of any importance.
However, we managed all right." "How?" "Oh," said Gorman, "in the usual way. Diverted it." "Gorman," I said, "I'm afraid I'm getting stupid. Fighting must have muddled my brain. I don't quite follow you. What did you divert?" "Popular opinion," said Gorman. "We turned it away from Ascher, started everybody hunting a fresh hare.
Donovan nodded towards Gorman, who took the document from the admiral and opened it. "Seems to me to be a kind of state paper," he said. "Rather like an Act of Parliament to look at; but it's written in a language I don't know. Suppose we send for the King and get him to translate." "If it's an Act of Parliament," said Donovan, "we'd better have Daisy up too.
A flag drooped from the staff at the stern, just touching the water with its lowest corner. Gorman received him in the large hall of the palace. "Mr. Donovan, I presume," said Captain von Moll. "It gives me pleasure to meet you." Gorman explained who he was and said that Donovan was unable to be present at dinner owing to the condition of his heart.
'You cannot remember this rebel's name, can you? 'It was Daniel something that's all I know. A long, fine whistle was Kearney's rejoinder, and after a second or two he said, 'I can trust you, Gorman; and I may tell you they may be not so great fools as I took them for.
For if we have to wait and wait for months that imbecile girl will buy the pearls. Do not say no. I know it. I have a feeling. There is a presentiment. And if she gets those pearls I shall " Gorman did not want her to go mad again. "Couldn't you see Goldsturmer," he said, "and arrange with him to give you the refusal of the pearls, say, three months from now?"
He had no time to spare if he meant to be at Beaufort's at eight. Punctuality was no doubt one of the middle-class virtues which the King and Madame Ypsilante were at that moment practising. Gorman hesitated. The landlord, who had once been a butler, stood waiting. "Tell him," said Gorman, "to call to-morrow at eleven."
I do not like being called a curse hardly any one does but I found myself listening to the things which Gorman said about the class to which I belong without any strong resentment. His treatment of us reminded me of Robbie Burns' address to the devil.
Even now, though I have fought in their army without incurring the reproach of cowardice, I cannot get out of the habit of looking at Englishmen from a distance. This convinces me that I am not one of them. I am thus Gorman is quite right about this a man of no country. But I understand Ascher as well as Gorman does; though I take a different view of Ascher's ultimate decision.
"You darling!" she said. Donovan disengaged his head from her embrace and turned to Gorman. "My little girl has taken a notion," he said, "that she'd like to be a queen. The thing might be worked by marrying; but we don't either of us care for that notion. She'd be tied up if she married, and she might tire. My idea and hers is that it's better to buy what we want right out.
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