Explore "The Gilded Age, Volume 5" by Mark Twain on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Open your ears; for which of you will stop, / The vent of hearing when loud Rumor speaks? / I, from the orient to the drooping west, / Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold / The acts commenced on this ball of earth: / Upon my tongues continual slanders ride; / The which in every, language I pronounce, / Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. / King Henry IV.
As may be readily believed, Col. Beriah Sellers was by this time one of the best known men in Washington. For the first time in his life his talents had a fair field.