'Taken for all in all,' he
does not expect 'to look upon its like again.'
"None see it but to love it,
None name it but to praise.
"It was 'linked sweetness long drawn out,' and must have cost the
gallant Colonel a pile of stamps. Declining an invitation to visit the
stables,--for our new millionaire is a lover of horse-flesh, as well as
the narcotic weed--and leaving that gentleman to 'witch the world with
wondrous horsemanship,' the 'Tattler' reporter withdrew, 'pierced
through with Envy's venomed darts,' and satisfied that his courtly
entertainer had been 'more sinned against than sinning.'"
Col. Belcher read the report with genuine pleasure, and then, turning
over the leaf, read upon the editorial page the following:
"COL. BELCHER ALL RIGHT.--We are satisfied that the letter from
Sevenoaks, published in yesterday's 'Tattler,' in regard to our highly
respected fellow-citizen, Colonel Robert Belcher, was a gross libel upon
that gentleman, and intended, by the malicious writer, to injure an
honorable and innocent man. It is only another instance of the
ingratitude of rural communities toward their benefactors. We
congratulate the redoubtable Colonel on his removal from so pestilent a
neighborhood to a city where his sterling qualities will find 'ample
scope and verge enough,' and where those who suffer 'the slings and
arrows of outrageous fortune' will not lay them to the charge of one who
can, with truthfulness, declare 'Thou canst not say I did it.
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