Women's tact is very sensitive to these nice shades.

Madame Roland understood them, but, so far from allowing herself to be seduced by this superiority of aristocracy, she was but the more indignant, and felt her hatred redoubled against a party which it was possible to overcome but impossible to humble.
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It was at this period that she and her husband united with some of the most ardent amongst the apostles of popular ideas.

It was not they who, as yet, were foremost in the favour of the people, and the _eclat_ of talent,--it was they who appeared to it, to love the Revolution for the Revolution itself, and to devote themselves, with sublime disinterestedness, not to the success of their fortune, but to the progress of humanity.

Brissot was one of the first.

M.and Madame Roland had been, for a long time, in correspondence with him on matters of public economy, and the more important problems of liberty.