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He walked to the Avenue, and
stopped at a house not far off.
"Is Mrs. Pell at home?" he asked, and procured entrance for both his
pasteboard and himself.
"Welcome, little stranger," was his greeting. "And it is so nice that
you came this evening. Here is Van, on from Washington for two days."
"I was going to look you up, and see what 'we, the people' were talking
about, so that I could enlighten our legislators when I go back," said a
man of forty.
"I wrote Pope a long letter to-day, which I asked him to show you," said
Peter. "Things are in a bad shape, and getting worse."
"But, Peter," queried the woman, "if you are the leader, why do you let
them get so?"
"So as to remain the leader," said Peter, smiling quietly.
"Now that's what comes of ward politics," cried Mrs. Pell, "You are
beginning to make Irish bulls."
"No," replied Peter, "I am serious, and because people don't understand
what I mean, they don't understand American politics."
"But you say in effect that the way you retain your leadership, is by
not leading.


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