Won by a Head A Novel - 3 Author:Alfred Austin Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Original Publisher: Chapman and Hall Subjects: Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Medieval Notes: This is a black and wh... more »ite OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 129 CHAPTER V. UNDERHAND WORK. Whatever might be Regina's disappointment or Miss Williams's opinion of his motives, Delafosse was too well satisfied at having foiled la Marquise to trouble his head much about any other aspect of the question. " Did you ever know such an audacious woman in your life ?" he asked Mr. Pomeroy. " She moves heaven and earth to make me visit her; and failing in the direct attempt, she takes the trouble to lay a trap -- for I would swear she planned the whole thing -- to catch Regina in her toils, knowing that I should follow. You may depend upon it YOL. III. K that she first found out where the girl lived, then watched her to Miss Williams's, then found out who she was, invented the story of the Marchesa Fidelmonte- " " There is certainly no such person in Florence." " Of course not -- or elsewhere. And so she carried out the scheme. But I have beaten her again." " What is her object, do you think ?" " Pique only. I am not fool enough to imagine for a moment that she cares for me in the least. She is vexed with me because I have not paid and will not pay her court." And he told Mr. Pomeroy the Vienna story. " That may be part of her motive, but it is not the whole of it. She has contrived to get herself more hated, more abused, and more talked of than anv other woman in Florence. You are an Englishman, in whose favour there is som...« less