Both Uses of
duplicity
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- It was true her aunt's complaint had been not so much of Madame Merle's activity as of her duplicity: she had brought about the strange event and then she had denied her guilt.
Chpt 40 *duplicity = deception
- Of this refinement of duplicity she presently acquitted him; she preferred to believe him in perfect good faith.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(duplicity) deception (lying to or misleading others) -- usually over an extended period