He's the new boarder--Mr.Tracy--and I'd just got to where it was getting too deep for me." "Much obliged if you will, Hattie.

I was coming to borrow of the boys." He sat down at his ease on an old trunk, and said, "I've been listening and got interested; and as I was saying, I wouldn't go on, if I were you.
You see where you are coming to, don't you?
Calling yourself a lady doesn't elect you; that is what you were going to say; and you saw that if you said it you were going to run right up against another difference that you hadn't thought of: to-wit, Whose right is it to do the electing?
Over there, twenty thousand people in a million elect themselves gentlemen and ladies, and the nine hundred and eighty thousand accept that decree and swallow the affront which it puts upon them.

Why, if they didn't accept it, it wouldn't be an election, it would be a dead letter and have no force at all.

Over here the twenty thousand would-be exclusives come up to the polls and vote themselves to be ladies and gentlemen.

But the thing doesn't stop there.