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speech. If Madame Roland possessed more originality and genius than Buzot, she gloried in the fearlessness of the man who invariably fought her battles by leading the attack in the Convention.
Doomed passion-flower of love to have bloomed in so stormy a time! Brief gleams of tenderness illumining the lurid back-ground of Revolution and civil war! Flashes of love to be quenched at the stern voice of duty and self-sacrifice!
