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There was one point on which he could not quite make up his mind; whether he would or would not first acquaint old Mrs. Brattle with his intention. He had left home early, and when he returned his wife had received Mary Lowther's reply to her letter. "She will come?" asked Frank. "She just says that and nothing more." "Then she'll be Mrs. Gilmore." "I hope so, with all my heart," said Mrs.
He was standing there once, about a month or five weeks after his interview with Sam Brattle, just at the beginning of March, when he was accosted by the Squire. Mr. Gilmore, through the winter, ever since he had heard that Mary Lowther's engagement with Walter Marrable had been broken off, had lived very much alone.
"Better let her stay," said Devitt, while Mrs Devitt, seeing the girl's flushed face, recalled the passage in Miss Mee's letter which referred to Mavis's sudden anger. Mrs Devitt hated a display of emotion; she put down Mavis's interference with Lowther's design to bad form.
The nobleman who sat in the upper house had his dummies in the lower chamber. A certain Sir James Lowther had nine proteges in the lower house, who were commonly called "Lowther's Ninepins."
He secured a seat in the Commons as one of Sir James Lowther's "ninepins," and speedily won the respect of the House. He was the youngest and most promising of the politicians of the day. At the outset he was a Whig. By a combination of circumstances young Pitt was enabled to form an essentially new political party the "New Tories."
"Why don't you, then?" "I am not sure that the beauty of the thing is so well-defined to me as is Mary Lowther's to poor Harry. In perseverance and success of that kind the man's mind should admit of no doubt. Harry is quite clear of this, that in spite of Mary's preference for her cousin, it would be the grandest thing in the world to him that she should marry him.
"Mary bids me remind you," Gilmore shuddered and shook himself when Mary Lowther's name was mentioned, but he did not attempt to stop the Vicar, "she bids me remind you that when the other day she consented to be your wife, she did so ." He tried to tell it all, but he could not. How could he tell the man the story which Mary had told to him? "I understand," said Gilmore.
And as it had some effect on Mary Lowther's future conduct, it shall be given to the reader: Bullhampton Vicarage, March 12, 186 . I do so wish you were here, if it were only to share our misery with us. I did not think that so small a thing as the building of a wretched chapel could have put me out so much, and made me so uncomfortable as this has done.
Lowther's brothers, and here dined upon nothing but pigeon-pyes, which was such a thing for him to invite all the company to, that I was ashamed of it.
Of that, however, little had been said at Loring, because it soon became known there that she and her husband stood rather well in the country round about Bullhampton; and when she asked Mary Lowther to come and stay with her for six months, Mary Lowther's aunt, Miss Marrable, had nothing to say against the arrangement, although she herself was a most particular old lady, and always remembered that Mary Lowther was third or fourth cousin to some earl in Scotland.
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