the masses.

"I do hope you agree with me," said Miss Milton. "The more one
reads and thinks, the more one sees how fatally false a theory it
is that the ignorant masses--people such as I have described--can
ever rule a great Empire."

"The Empire wants gentlemen; that's what it wants," said I,
nodding my head and glancing triumphantly at Mrs. Hilary.

"Men and women," said she, "who are acquainted with the best that
has been said and thought on all important subjects."

At the time I believed this observation to be original, but I
have since been told that it was borrowed. I was delighted with
it.

"Yes," said I, "and have got a stake in the country, you know,
and know how to behave emselves in the House, don't you know?"

"What we have to do," pursued Miss Milton, "is to guide the
voters. These poor rustics need to be informed--"

"Just so," I broke in. "They have to be told--"

"Of the real nature of the questions--"

"And which candidate to support."

"Or they must infallibly"--she exclaimed.