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The Queen-Mother took her by the wrist 'My girl, said she, 'you know very well that you are no Countess at all in my son's right, but are what one of your nurture should not be. And you shall understand that I am a plain-dealer in such affairs when they concern this realm, and have bled little heifers like you whiter than veal and as cold as most of the dead; and will do it again if need be.
"Why, Madam, I thought there was no other way; and if so, needs must. But seeing this, my mind misgives me and I falter. I'm a plain-dealer, Madam, with all my faults, and 't is easy to be seen your daughters are a world's wonder. I never saw the like, and that being so, 't is certain the dangers are tenfold for them.
As to what's to come, you can't hurt a straight plain-dealer, same as me, though you'm free an' welcome to try if you please to." "The future may take care of itself; and for your straight speaking I'll give you mine. Go your way and I'll go my way; but until you beg my forgiveness for this night's talk I'll never cross your threshold again, or speak to you, or think of you."
"You yourself have had a hurried journey from Pampeluna," said Sarrion to his sister. "I hear the railway line is broken by the Carlists." "The damage is being repaired," replied Sor Teresa. "My journey was not a pleasant one, but that is of no importance since I have arrived." "Why did you come?" asked Marcos, bluntly. He was a plain-dealer in thought and word.
Of some you are the proud creator, the rest you have dug up from dark lurking-places, till 'tis Curse on you, piling woe on mortal woe! How have you gathered all the minor sewers into one cloaca maxima, and discharged the whole upon my innocent head! Have you never a friend or relation or well-wisher? Did you never meet a plain-dealer to give you a dose of candour? That would have cured you.
I made her a private sign to go, and when my lord and I were alone, went up to him where he was racing to and fro in one end of the room like a half-lunatic, and set my hand firmly on his shoulder. "My lord," says I, "I am going to be the plain-dealer once more; if for the last time, so much the better, for I am grown weary of the part." "Nothing will change me," he answered.
Accept me therefore as a plain-dealer, Madam, and have the goodness to read what I cannot speak. But first," she put her hand to her throat as if she might swoon, and so closing her eyes for a moment, opened them clearly on me, "Madam, between a certain gentleman and myself have been love-passages tending, as I believed hoped to marriage.
The Lay Monastery, The Censor, The Freethinker, The Plain-Dealer, The Champion, and other works of the same kind, had had their short day. None of them had obtained a permanent place in our literature, and they are now to be found only in the libraries of the curious. At length Johnson undertook the adventure in which so many aspirants had failed.
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