This disposition, so fatal to Vernon, his daughter inherited.

With a dark, bold, and passionate genius, which in a man would have led to the highest enterprises, she linked the feminine love of secrecy and scheming.

To borrow again from Plutarch and Lysander, "When the skin of the lion fell short, she was quite of opinion that it should be eked out with the fox's." (1) Plutarch's Life of Lysander..