“An intelligent woman herself, the Duchess had overestimated the Marshal’s intelligence. Not an ambitious woman, she had underestimated his ambition. So are many misread by other’s lights.”

— Sheri S. Tepper

Source: Singer from the Sea (1999), Chapter 11, “Various Visitations” (p. 174)

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