This
woman will rend heaven and earth rather than relinquish her
projects, or rather those of her mistress. I should like to see
this duchess, who shows a fine discernment in the selection of
her assistants. Beware of the woman who is frankly your enemy.
If she is frank, it is because she is confident of the end; if
not, she is frank in order to disarm us of the suspicion of
cunning. I would give much to know the true meaning of this
house party."
"Hang me if I can see what difference it makes. She can not do
anything either by frankness or by cunning."
"She gathered us in neatly, this red-haired Amazon."
"Red-haired!" in a kind of protest.
"Why, yes; that's the color, isn't it?" innocently.
"I thought it a red-brown. It's too bad that such a woman should
be mixed up in an affair like this."
"Woman will sacrifice to ambition what she never will sacrifice
to love. Hush; I hear the Colonel returning."
They were conducted to the opposite wing of the chateau, to a
room on the second floor. Its windows afforded an excellent view
of the land which lay south. Hills rolled away like waves of
gold, dotted here and there with vineyards.
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