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Both Mrs Gilmour and the weeping Nellie thought they were dead. "Poor boys!" sobbed the former, her tears falling in sympathy with those of the little girl, who was too stunned to speak. "But, what shall I say to Bob's mother? How can I tell her he is drowned?" "Drowned?
Had anyone else acted in that way, we should have certainly suspected that he had gone "queer"; but it was Gilmour, and we all understood the straight, matter-of-fact way in which he went about everything he did. 'Through a misunderstanding, as we afterwards discovered, the students at Highgate came into collision with the Directors of the Society over the studies to be prosecuted.
Gilmour refers to a number of these individual cases in which he has been interesting himself, and the way in which he has dealt with them. It illustrates his method of close and careful dealing with each native. 'Ch'ang attends Sunday and Friday services. My opinion about Ch'ang is that he wants mission employ. He has no expectation of that from me, and little from Rees.
He has only changed his rig, that's all, the same as you put on a new dress on going out walking, ma'am." "That's a nice thing to say of an economical person like me, sir!" said Mrs Gilmour, shaking her parasol at him in jocular anger. "One would think I was one of those fine ladies who have a new dress every day in the week, and milliners' bills as long as your old malacca cane."
He next day took a great house, and forthwith furnished it in proportion to his wealth. He hired servants in accordance, and made all the necessary arrangements for the marriage. Time, which had been so cruel to him and his sacred Mary, was put under the obligation of retribution. John Gilmour, Mrs. Paterson, Mrs.
Galloway, o' Little Lochend, slipt in to me a peck o' meal ae morning when I had naething for breakfast." "And these shall be at our marriage, Mary," said he. "They shall be dressed to make their eyes doubtful if they are themselves. John Gilmour will wonder how these pounds of his rent he passed you from have grown to hundreds; Mrs.
He allowed him power of mind, and that he understood very well what he tells ; but said, that there was too much declamation, and that the Latin was not correct. He found fault with appropinquabant , in the character of Gilmour.
In 1876 the Mongolian trips were resumed. No colleague had yet been secured for him, and, with a bravery and consecration beyond all praise, Mrs. Gilmour accompanied him. This she did not once simply.
One of these rooks had a white head, which he seemed to cock on one side in a strangely familiar way to Nell. "He's just like the Captain!" she exclaimed, tittering at the fancied resemblance. "Look, auntie, why he actually seems to wink!" "I declare I'll tell him!" said Mrs Gilmour, enjoying the joke none the less at the fancied resemblance. "Sure he'd be hoighly delighted."
Bob exploded at this, his merriment being shared by Nellie and Mrs Gilmour, the latter not sorry for the old sailor's "putting his foot in it" by a very similar blunder to that for which he had laughed at her shortly before; while, as for Dick, the struggles he made to hide the broad grin which would show on his face were quite comical and even painful to witness.
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