Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Madame Bovaryhand in one’s pocket there. Thus, we will suppose you are in And thus he went on, expounding his opinions generallya public garden. An individual presents himself, well dressed, and his personal likings, until Justin came to fetch him for aeven wearing an order, and whom one would take for a mulled egg that was wanted.diplomatist. He approaches you, he insinuates himself; offers “Not a moment’s peace!” he cried; “always at it! I can’t goyou a pinch of snuff, or picks up your hat. Then you become out for a minute! Like a plough-horse, I have always to bemore intimate; he takes you to a cafe, invites you to his country-house,introduces you, between two drinks, to all sorts of the door, “By the way, do you know the news?”moiling and toiling. What drudgery!” Then, when he was atpeople; and three-fourths of the time it’s only to plunder your “What news?”watch or lead you into some pernicious step.“That it is very likely,” Homais went on, raising his eyebrows“That is true,” said Charles; “but I was thinking especially and assuming one of his most serious expression, “that the agriculturalmeeting of the Seine-Inferieure will be held this yearof illnesses—of typhoid fever, for example, that attacks studentsfrom the provinces.”at Yonville-l’Abbaye. The rumour, at all events, is going theEmma shuddered.round. This morning the paper alluded to it. It would be of the“Because of the change of regimen,” continued the chemist, utmost importance for our district. But we’ll talk it over later“and of the perturbation that results therefrom in the whole on. I can see, thank you; Justin has the lantern.”system. And then the water at Paris, don’t you know! The dishesat restaurants, all the spiced food, end by heating the blood,and are not worth, whatever people may say of them, a goodsoup. For my own part, I have always preferred plain living; itis more healthy. So when I was studying pharmacy at Rouen, Iboarded in a boarding house; I dined with the professors.”106