straight matter

noun

Printing.

the body text of an article, story, etc., as distinguished from the title, subhead, and other display matter.
editorial text as distinguished from advertising.

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Just the moment he had done it, up sprang George Duff,—you know the keen competition there is, as a straight matter of business, between the banks in Mariposa,—up sprang George Duff, I say, and wrote out a cheque for another hundred conditional on the fund reaching seventy thousand.

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