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.

Through the avenue of trees they could see the highway, and beyond, the river, which had its source in the mountains ten miles eastward.
The room itself was in red, evidently a state chamber, for it contained two canopied beds.

Several fine paintings hung from the walls, and between the two windows rose one of those pier glasses which owe their existence to the first empire of France.