" He
smiled. "Not yet--not just yet." And he cheerfully urged his horse into a
canter.
Mrs. Carnarvon's opinion of the _News-Record_ and its recent
performances fairly represented that of the fashionable and the very rich.
They read it, as they never did before, because it interested them. They
could not deny that what it said was true; that is, they could not deny it
to their own minds, although they did vigorously deny it publicly. Those
who were attacked directly or indirectly, or expected to be attacked,
denounced the paper as an "outrage," a "disgrace to the city," a "specimen
of the journalism of the gutter." Many who were not in sympathy with the
men or the methods assailed thought that its course was "inexpedient,"
"tended to increase discontent among the lower classes," "weakened the
influence of the better classes." Only a few of the "triumphant classes"
saw the real value and benefit of the _News-Record's_ frank attacks
upon greed and hypocrisy, saw that these attacks were not dangerous or
demagogical because they were just and were combined with a careful
avoidance of encouragement to the lazy, the envious, the incompetent and
the ignorant.
Fortunately for Howard's peace, that eminent New York "multi," Samuel
Jocelyn, for whom Coulter had the highest respect, was of this last class.
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