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"It will all come right in the end, as it did with Miss Gilmer. I'll not worry about missing so many lessons and so many pearls on my rosary. I'll just be thankful for Christmas and all it brings." Again through her drowsy senses echoed the refrain, and she dropped to sleep, repeating, slowly, "'Let nothing you dismay!"
Gilmer is a member of a committee which is to decide upon the course a certain railroad is to take. I wish to secure his vote for the left road." "How odd! What difference can it make to you?" "It would occupy too much time to explain that, and might not interest you. The important question is, can he be induced to vote for this left road?"
I shall be excluded from this ball, of which all Washington is talking. How am I to survive such a slight?" "It, however, may still be possible," said Madeleine, smilingly, "to obtain you an invitation." "You think so? You really think so?" cried Mrs. Gilmer, in joyful surprise. "Do not raise my hopes to the highest pitch to cast them down again unless you want to make me ill for a month.
Gilmer is one of your customers. I hear that she raves about you; if that is the case, you can do anything with her, and she will manage her husband. Have you no mode of winning her over to our side?" Madeleine pondered a moment, then answered gayly, "Yes, I have at my command one method that is certain, perfectly certain. Mrs.
In his "Sketches of the First Settlers of Upper Georgia," Governor George R. Gilmer tells a little story that will serve to show the state of feeling in Georgia at that time. After the Yazoo Fraud was passed, the people of the counties held indignation meetings.
Gilmer is the only rival whom Madame de Fleury takes the trouble to detest; and it makes me indignant to see a lady of her superlative fascinations annoyed by this little upstart American. One must admit that Mrs. Gilmer is very pretty; her figure scarcely needs help, and she is so vivacious, and has so much aplomb, so much dash, that the notice she attracts renders her alarmingly ambitious.
He was described as "a conscientious, cultured, and conservative man, of great energy, public spirit, and animated by the purest patriotism." He was one of Georgia's most illustrious Chief Magistrates. A county in the state is named after him. George Gilmer. He was also Member of Congress.
"He says, sir, that General Fremont is to be told that our surgeons will continue to attend their wounded. As we are not monsters they will be as carefully attended to as are our own. The only lack in the matter will be medicines and anaesthetics." "Very good, Gilmer, I will so report to the officer in charge of the flag of truce. Well, what is it, man?
"One day, when Miss Gilmer and I were talking about Ederyn in his Dungeon of Disappointment, she said that we could always get out of our troubles the same way that he did; that the cobwebs he twisted into ropes were disagreeable to touch. Nobody likes to put their hands into dusty cobwebs, and that they represent the disagreeable little tasks that lie in wait for everybody.
When Governor George R. Gilmer of Georgia was in Congress, in 1828-29, the members were very anxious to attract the notice of General Jackson, who had been elected President. A proposal was made to fill the vacant niches in the rotunda with paintings descriptive of the battle of New Orleans and the general's other victories.
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