be simply adding fuel to the flame."

"Do you really think so, Billy ?" asked the lawyer, with cool derision.
"Well, we all abuse our privileges at every opportunity, of course; I was
just saying that I abused mine; and I suppose those fellows would abuse
theirs if you happened to hurt their wives' and daughters' feelings. And
how are you going to manage? Aren't you afraid that they will hang around,
after the show, indefinitely, unless you ask all those who have not
received invitations to the dance and supper to clear the grounds, as they
do in the circus when the minstrels are going to give a performance not
included in the price of admission? Mind, I don't care anything about your
Social Union."

"Oh, but _surely_!" cried Mrs. Munger, "you _must_ allow that
it's a good object."

"Well, perhaps it is, if it will keep the men away from the rum-holes. Yes,
I guess it is. You won't sell liquor?"

"We expect to furnish coffee at cost price," said Mrs. Munger, smiling at
Putney's joke.

"And good navy-plug too, I hope. But you see it would be rather awkward,
don't you? You see, Annie?"

"Yes, I see," said Annie. "I hadn't thought of that part before."

"And you didn't agree with Brother Peck on general principles? There we
see the effect of residence abroad," said Putney. "The uncorrupted--or
I will say the uninterrupted--Hatborian has none of those aristocratic