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"If I understand Mary Lowther," said Mr. Fenwick, "she is not the woman to have her match broken off for her by any person. Of course I know nothing about the man; but if he is firm, she'll be as firm." "And then she has written to Mr. Gilmore," said Mrs. Fenwick. "It's all up with Harry as far as this goes," said Mr. Fenwick. The Vicar had another matter of moment to discuss with his wife.
"Sort of makes the game he played seem rotten poor sport," commented Gilmore, replying to the nephew but looking at the uncle. The colonel was silent. "Rotten poor sport!" repeated Gilmore. "Who'll come in for his property?" asked Watt Harbison. "Oh, some one will claim that," said Gilmore.
The Commissioners left Butler's headquarters with some misgivings. Gilmore took the doughty General by the hand and said: "Good-bye, if you don't see us in ten days you may know we have 'gone up." "If I don't see you in less time," he replied, "I'll demand you, and if they don't produce you, I'll take two for one. My hand on that."
The little book of Hartright's drawings the fatal book that she will dream over whenever she is alone was in one of her hands. I began by gently and firmly taking it from her, and putting it out of sight on a side-table. "Tell me quietly, my darling, what you wish to do," I said. "Has Mr. Gilmore been advising you?" She shook her head. "No, not in what I am thinking of now.
Such a marriage for Mary would be quite safe; and in those days one did hear so often of girls making, she would not say improper marriages, but marriages which in her eyes were not fitting! Mr. Gilmore, she thought, exactly filled that position which entitled a gentleman to propose marriage to such a lady as Mary Lowther. "Yes, my dear, I am glad to have you back again.
Gilmore,” the admiral said. “How much longer have you to serve?” “I have another year yet, sir.” “Well, a commission is to sit here next week to pass midshipmen. I will direct them to examine you, and will see that you get your step the day you finish your term of service. If I had the power I would pass you at once, but that is one of the things an admiral cannot do.
Gilmore was an exceedingly capable accomplice, at once resourceful, energetic, unsentimental and conscienceless, he yet combined with these solid merits, certain characteristics which rendered uninterrupted intercourse with him a horror and a shame to Marshall Langham who was daily and almost hourly paying the price the gambler had set on his silence. And what a price it was!
Young met with a hearty, welcome wherever he halted on the way, and as he passed through the town of Moorefield learned with satisfaction that Gilmore still made his headquarters at the house where the report of the two scouts had located him a few days before.
Of Simms he writes, under date of Oct. 15, 1868: "To-day I had the pleasure of a call from William Gilmore Simms, the novelist. He is quite affable in conversation, and apparently well stocked with general information, which he can impart with fluency.
How much I seem to have written about Count Fosco! And what does it all amount to? as poor, dear Mr. Gilmore would ask, in his impenetrable business-like way I can only repeat that I do assuredly feel, even on this short acquaintance, a strange, half-willing, half-unwilling liking for the Count.
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