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246 For the honour of the name of Govaertz, she would refrain from all revelation of what she knew of the situation of her brother with the Dykgrave. She would content herself with placing Guidon in a disagreeable and humiliating position. She would expose him to the contact of some strapping wenches, who should be heated up beforehand for the attack, by liberal potations of beer and spirits; but, as the sequel will show, she had counted too much on her cool-bloodedness and reckoned without the ardour, the dizzy madness of her vengeance.