ded me to have these letters published forthwith, saying, 'You may
sell them for a great sum.' At first (for she had spoken to me
before concerning this business), I thought of availing myself of the
opportunity; but upon second thoughts, I turned from this idea with
detestation: for, if I do wrong by obeying her wishes and endeavoring
to serve her, I will do so at least from good and disinterested motives,
not from any sordid views. 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. She aboars secrecy, and never
will have recors to disguise or crookid polacy. This ought to be an
ansure to them RADICLE SNEERERS, who pretend that they are the equals
of fashnabble pepple; wheras it's a well-known fact, that the vulgar
roagues have no notion of honor.
And after this positif declaration, which reflex honor on her ladyship
(long life to her! I've often waited behind her chair!)--after this
positif declaration, that, even for the porpus of DEFENDING her
missis, she was so hi-minded as to refuse anythink like a peculiarly
consideration, it is actially asserted in the public prints by a
booxeller, that he has given her A THOUSAND POUND for the Dairy. A
thousand pound! nonsince!--it's a phigment! a base lible! This woman
take a thousand pound, in a matter where her dear mistriss, friend, and
benyfactr
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