Every one knew of him by hearsay as the noblest of men, and every one rejoiced that the best of patriots and the most excellent of citizens should have attained the highest dignity in the county.

Madame Karpathy looked at him tremblingly, better for her if she had never seen him like this.
The procession passed across the square to the gate of the town-hall, and half an hour later Rudolf was standing in the large assembly-room filling it with his sublime impassioned words, till all who heard felt their hearts leap towards him.

Madame Karpathy also heard him, she was in the gallery.

Ah, it would have been better had she neither seen nor heard him there.

Now she not merely loved, she adored him.
All at once she began to notice that somebody in the assembly-hall below was making frantic signs to her with hands and head, and using every available limb to attract her attention; nay, he even got upon a chair in order to be able to see her better.