n, nurtured adamancy; it is exactly from this wellspring that a woman''s soul derives its unique fortitude.
After seeing Citizeness Danton off, Edith returned to the couch, alone once again. Louise''s words couldn''t help but evoke memories of her former lover.
She held no real hatred towards him. At least she was aware that Andre''s signature was not on the arrest warrant for Charlene. Whether he had played a dishonorable role in contributing to the demise of the Dantonists, she couldn''t know, nor did she have any intention to delve into it further.
Her understanding of the various events that unfolded was blurred. It was ironic and lamentable that despite her wholehearted love and extol on liberty, ready to shed blood for it at any moment, her own liberty remained deprived. It is plain to see, with the simplest of reason, that if a person is excluded from the podium, the parliament, and the army, and yet condemned as shallow, ignorant, and overly fickle when her intellect is needed, it can hardly be called fair. This may often be forgotten, just like how Edith couldn''t see the spacious birdcage that imprisoned her. Occasionally, when she flew higher and bumped against the cage''s ceiling, she would feel indignant; but most of the time, she forgot about this injustice due to her relative freedom.
Overnight, Edith lost all the power she once thought she had in the face of revolution. She felt like a little girl sitting on a rock in the middle of mountain torrents, huddling with her knees tightly drawn to her chest, despairing and helpless as she watched her refuge being gradually submerged by the rising waters from all sides, waiting to be swept away by the final, inevitable angry billow, crashing into the abyss below, shattering like countless splashes against the precipice.
As the perfect halo in her eyes shattered completely around Andre, true love emerged to the surface instead. The blind faith she had placed in him had collapsed, replaced by a sense of compassion, a sympathy for those who shared a similar fate: she saw him equally powerless against the raging flood, and at least in the final moments, she longed to hold his hand.
However, they no longer had the opportunity to discuss these.
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