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There's time enough for you to make your calls before lunch, and then you can come home with me." Annie suggested that this would not do after refusing Mrs. Brandreth. "Why, it would never have done to accept!" Mrs. Munger cried. "They didn't dream of it!" At the next place she said: "This is the Clevingers'. They're some of our all-the-year-round people too."
Brandreth sent me samples of his pills, which he said were unequaled for purging politicians of all those ill humors they were heirs to. Barnum, too, considering me a remarkable curiosity, sent two tickets to his great show house, which the vulgar called a museum.
I, however, offered my services in any way in which they might think that I could be useful; but I soon learnt from them that it was a hopeless case, that the men had been led into a disgraceful riot, urged on by the villain Oliver, and his accomplices; that they were worthy, poor men; Brandreth, their captain, a mere helpless pauper, and that there was no chance of saving them.
The next day, I complied with his request, and I will do the doctor justice to say that, on comparison, it proved as he had suspected; the pills were genuine, and although he had advertised that no druggist should sell them, they were so popular that druggists found it necessary to get them "by hook or by crook;" and the consequence was, I had the pleasure of a glorious laugh, and Doctor Brandreth experienced "a great scare."
"No, I hadn't," said Mr. Peck. He was one of those people who sit very high, and he now seemed taller and more impressive than when he stood. "It is certainly a-very good object," Annie resumed; and she went on to explain it at second-hand from Mr. Brandreth as well as she could. The little girl was standing in her lap, and got between her and Mr.
"I don't know if I understand exactly," said the minister. Annie repeated her statement more definitely, and explained, from Mr. Brandreth, as before, that the invitations were to be given so as to eliminate the shop-hand element from the supper and dance. Mr. Peck listened quietly. "That would prevent my taking part in the affair," he said, as quietly as he had listened.
"I read accounts of them in the English papers. They must have been very original. But do you think that in a community like Hatboro' Are there enough who could enter into the spirit?" "Oh yes, indeed!" cried Mr. Brandreth ardently. "You've no idea what a place Hatboro' has got to be. You've not been about much yet, Miss Kilburn?"
"I know just how you feel about it, my dear," said Mrs. Munger. "'Been there myself, as Jim says. But it grows upon you. I'm glad you didn't refuse outright;" and Mrs. Munger looked at her with eyes of large expectance. "No, I didn't," said Annie, obliged by this expectance to say something. "But to tell you the truth, Mrs. Munger, I don't see how I'm to be of any use to you or to Mr. Brandreth."
"I'm not sure," she began. "If I knew just what a Social Union is " "Well, at first," Mr. Brandreth interposed, "it will only be a reading-room, supplied with the magazines and papers, and well lighted and heated, where the work-people those who have no families especially could spend their evenings.
Benjamin Brandreth, of well and wide-spread reputation, and who has made more happy and comfortable, for a longer or shorter time, as the case may be, by his prescriptions than any other son of Aesculapius, hailed me one day as I jumped from a railroad car passing up and along the shores of the Hudson River, and immediately commenced the following narrative.
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