... daring in days of battle; shrewd and clever in seizing the loosethreads of ordinary life, but silly and stupid in distinguishing her own interests when it is a question of herhappiness; caring ... immediately or in the near future, in an insurrection.Every one was feverishly anxious to destroy everything, in order to create all things anew. In everything, in art, ideas and even in costume, ... breathing, and whilst Casimir and Hippolyte were getting abominably intoxicated, she sat there thinkingthings over, and gradually becoming so irritated that she felt the rebellion within her...