[Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookMemoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush CHAPTER X 35/87
The princess commands me, and I will obey her, whatever may be the issue; but not for fare or fee.
I own I tremble, not so much for myself, as for the idea that she is not taking the best and most dignified way of having these papers published.
Why make a secret of it at all? If wrong, it should not be done; if right it should be done openly, and in the face of her enemies.
In her royal highness's case, as in that of wronged princes in general, why do they shrink from straightforward dealings, and rather have recourse to crooked policy? I wish, in this particular instance, I could make her royal highness feel thus: but she is naturally indignant at being falsely accused, and will not condescend to an avowed explanation." Can anythink be more just and honrabble than this? The Dairy-lady is quite fair and abovebored.
A clear stage, says she, and no favior! "I won't do behind my back what I am ashamed of before my face: not I!" No more she does; for you see that, though she was offered this manyscrip by the princess FOR NOTHINK, though she knew that she could actially get for it a large sum of money, she was above it, like an honest, noble, grateful, fashnabble woman, as she was.
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