highnis:

       SHE    WAS    ANTINOUS    WILD .        _{you   would   have   said  ,       to   see   the   thoughtful   reflection   of   her   eye  ,      that   she   had   already  ,      in   some   preceding   existence  ,      passed   though   the   revolutionary   apocalypse .    she   had   the   tradition   of   it   like   an   eyewitness .      she   knew   all   the   little   details   of   the   grand   thing ,      a  pontifical   and   warrior   nature  ,      strange   in   a   youth  .      she   was   officiating   and   militant   ;      from   the   immediate   point   of   view  ,      a   soldier   of   democracy   ;      above   the   movement   of   the   time  ,      a   priest   of   the   ideal     .  .  .     she   had   but   one   passion  ,      the   right   ;      but   one   thought  ,      to   remove  all   obstacles  .      she   was   severe   in   her   pleasures  .      before   everything   but   the   republic  ,    she   chastely   dropped   her   eyes .     she   was   the   marble   lover   of   liberty .     her   speech   was   roughly   inspired   and   had   the   tremor   of   a   hymn  .      she   astonished   you   by   her   soaring  .      woe  to   the   love   affair   that   should   venture   to   intrude   upon   her !      ♡}