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Updated: June 21, 2025
In the second year of his residence in Tecumseh he got the contract for lighting the town with gas. The contract was to run for twenty years, and was excessively liberal, for Mr. Gulmore had practically no competitor, no one who understood gas manufacture, and who had the money and pluck to embark in the enterprise. He quickly formed a syndicate, and fulfilled the conditions of the contract.
Gulmore made up his mind. His obstinacy came out; he would win at any price. He began: "It's what I said at first, Hutchin's; we've each got to give what the other wants. I've told you what I want; tell me squarely what you want, an' p'r'aps the thing ken be settled." As Mr. Hutchings did not answer at once, the Boss went on: "You're in politics for somethin'. What is it?
"We are fallen on dangerous times, my friends," he said; "and if the friends of the Bible and free religion do not combine their efforts against the common enemy, our institutions are doomed, and the glory of our country is extinguished forever." The reader is not to imagine that Mr. Gulmore and men of his class are so brutally ignorant as some would imagine.
"There may be some truth in that," replied Paul. "Ever," continued Murty, "since it appeared in our papers here that you had your thousand pounds restored to you, all mouths are full of your praise. You were uncommon children, and it was cruel of the minister Gulmore to conspire against you.
But it would seem as if the Faculty intended to out-herald the 'Herald." "They are simply allowed to act first in order that the 'Herald, a day later, may applaud them. It's all worked by Gulmore, and I tell you again, he's dangerous." "He may be; but I won't change for abuse, nor yet to keep my post. Let him do his worst.
He was a man of strong intellect; his mind was both large and quick, but its activity, owing to want of education and to greedy physical desires, had been limited to the ordinary facts and forces of life. What books are to most persons gifted with an extraordinary intelligence, his fellow-men were to Mr. Gulmore a study at once stimulating and difficult, of an incomparable variety and complexity.
In the beginning Miss Gulmore was not attracted by Professor Roberts; she thought him insignificant physically; he was neat of dress too, and ingenuously eager in manner all of which conflicted with her ideal of manhood.
"What do you mean?" "I mean that Hutchings has withdrawn his candidature as Mayor. I mean that the 'Herald' has the announcin' of it. I mean it's a put-up job between him and Gulmore to ruin the Democratic party in this town. I mean " As the Professor drew back in amazement, young Cartrell stepped in front of him and addressed Simpson: "What proof have you of what you say?" "Proof! Proof enough.
Of all the careless, shiftless creatures, these coloured people are the worst. Come, Ida, it's long after nine, and I'm tired. You can read in your bedroom if you want to." After the usual "good night" and kisses, Ida went upstairs. While Mrs. Gulmore busied herself putting "things straight," Mr. Gulmore sat thinking: "She takes after her mother in everythin', but she has more pride.
In an easy-chair by the open bay-window a man with a cigar in his mouth was reading a newspaper. Jonathan Byrne Gulmore, as he always signed himself, was about fifty years of age; his heavy frame was muscular, and the coarse dark hair and swarthy skin showed vigorous health.
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