She had made the sacrifice of parting from Julien, and after such an effort, the unpleasantness of making a public spectacle of herself, which at any other time would have seemed to her worse than death, was no longer anything in her eyes.
Elle avait fait le sacrifice de se séparer de Julien et après un tel effort, le désagrément de se donner en spectacle, qui en d’autres temps lui eût semblé pire que la mort, n’était plus rien à ses yeux.