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Tyrannicide was the term applied to her deed by Adam Lux, her lover in the sublimest and most spiritual sense of the word--for he never so much as spoke to her, and she never so much as knew of his existence.
The sudden spiritual passion which inflamed him when he beheld her in the tumbril on her way to the scaffold is a fitting corollary to her action. She in her way and he in his were alike sublime; her tranquil martyrdom upon the altar of Republicanism and his exultant martyrdom upon the altar of Love were alike splendidly futile.