Note 2 — THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA
C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Scott-Moncrieff translation
What a phrase, indeed. But it is the Duchessa, not Mosca, who gives this advice to Fabrizio, at Piacenza, and it is the party "opposite to the one he has served all his life" that he is to be flung into.
C. K. S. M.