She was told that Castelar was the eloquent orator of the age.
She looked at Castelar, who was a fat little man with a big moustache and a small forehead, and she said: "Let us have a king!" Prim was better.

He was a man at all events, and not a word-spinner.

He was from Cataluna, where they make hard men with clear heads.

And he knew his own mind.

And he also said: "Let us have a king." One cried for Don Carlos, and another for Espartero.