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The wily schemer replied by a glance half-angry, half-contemptuous; but, without making any other answer, went on. "The other banker, Mr. Gilmer, I am seeking the means to influence. I have no doubt that I shall find them. The ninth member of the committee is Mr. Rutledge, quite a young man, the only son and heir of a Washington millionnaire.
Our host had been one of the leading Whigs of North Carolina in the ante-bellum days, and with his friends and neighbors Gilmer and Graham had opposed secession at the beginning; but with the instinct of politicians, they had striven to lead the current they could not stop when once it had carried them away.
During my sojourn in Washington I visited the "Louise Home," one of the splendid charities of the late W. W. Corcoran. Two of the ladies I there met were Miss Graham and Miss Gilmer. The turn of Fortune's wheel had brought each of them from once elegant Virginia homes to spend the evening of life in the Home which Mr. Corcoran had so kindly and thoughtfully provided.
"The favor!" repeated the marchioness, abstractedly. In her bewilderment and grief caused by the destruction of the dress, she had forgotten, for the moment, all that had just taken place. Madeleine pointed to the note which the marchioness had commenced, and said, "The invitation for Mrs. Gilmer." "Ah! Mrs. Gilmer!" cried Madame de Fleury, as though she had been stung by the name.
Maurice sat down to await her coming; but his impatience made him too restless for inaction, and he entered the salon. Madeleine's guests were Madame de Fleury and Mrs. Gilmer, an accidental and not very welcome encounter of the fashionable belligerents; though since Mrs.
Gilmer was too much interested in her conversation with M. de Bois to notice her, and continued talking with as much freedom as though she was not present. "I have set my heart upon it!" said she, "and I tell you I must receive an invitation to this ball. Madame de Fleury positively shall not exclude me.
She has been my good angel ever since. It was she who sent me that May-pole spoon, as a souvenir of that meeting." "Oh, would you tell me about it?" asked Lloyd. "It sounds so interesting." Taking up some needlework from a basket on the table, Miss Gilmer leaned back as if to begin a long story. "There isn't so much to tell, after all," she said, pausing to thread her needle.
Gilmer, stopping delighted before a robe which had been commenced, but was thrown over one of the manikins, with a sketch of the completed costume attached to the skirt. "The blending of those pale shades of green and that embroidery of golden wheat, with a scarlet poppy here and there, the effect is superb! Then the style, as this sketch shows, is perfectly novel. I am enchanted!
She is quite immovable, obstinately unreasonable on these points." "But I must have that dress," persisted the marchioness. "I cannot be happy without it! I will implore Mademoiselle Melanie; she will drive me to despair should she refuse." "Mrs. Gilmer saw it a few moments ago, and was so enchanted that she did her utmost to make me promise that the dress should be hers." "Hers, indeed!
Madeleine could scarcely repress a smile, tinged with a slightly scornful expression. "You American ladies are said to be all-powerful with your husbands; you, no doubt, have great influence with Mr. Gilmer?" "I fancy I have," said Mrs. Gilmer, tossing her graceful head. "I arrange matters so as to have him in my power.
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