Every woman who attended the fete is now linked with us as an ally, and every one of them will resent this foolish circular." "I'm sorry," said Kenneth, "that you girls should be forced to endure this.

I feared something like it when you insisted on taking a hand in the game." But they laughed at him and at Mr.Hopkins, and declared they were not at all offended.
"One cannot touch pitch without being defiled," said Mr.Watson, gravely, "and politics, as Mr.Hopkins knows it, is little more than pitch." "I cannot see that there is anything my girls have done to forfeit respect and admiration," asserted Uncle John, stoutly.

"To accuse them of boldness or immodesty is absurd.

They have merely gone to work in a business-like manner and used their wits and common-sense in educating the voters.

Really, my dears, I'm more proud of you today than I've ever been before," he concluded.
And Uncle John was right.