Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Madame Bovarylong curved lashes looked straight before her, and though wide Emma blushed. He did not finish his sentence. Then heopen, they seemed slightly puckered by the cheek-bones, becauseof the blood pulsing gently under the delicate skin. A the grass. A few daisies had sprung up again.talked of the fine weather and of the pleasure of walking onpink line ran along the partition between her nostrils. Her “Here are some pretty Easter daisies,” he said, “and enoughhead was bent upon her shoulder, and the pearl tips of her of them to furnish oracles to all the amorous maids in thewhite teeth were seen between her lips.place.”“Is she making fun of me?” thought Rodolphe.He added, “Shall I pick some? What do you think?”Emma’s gesture, however, had only been meant for a warning;for Monsieur Lheureux was accompanying them, and “H’m, h’m! who knows?” answered Rodolphe.“Are you in love?” she asked, coughing a little.spoke now and again as if to enter into the conversation. The meadow began to fill, and the housewives hustled you“What a superb day! Everybody is out! The wind is east!” with their great umbrellas, their baskets, and their babies. OneAnd neither Madame Bovary nor Rodolphe answered him, had often to get out of the way of a long file of country folk,whilst at the slightest movement made by them he drew near, servant-maids with blue stockings, flat shoes, silver rings, andsaying, “I beg your pardon!” and raised his hat.who smelt of milk, when one passed close to them. TheyWhen they reached the farrier’s house, instead of following walked along holding one another by the hand, and thus theythe road up to the fence, Rodolphe suddenly turned down a spread over the whole field from the row of open trees to thepath, drawing with him Madame Bovary. He called out— banquet tent.“Good evening, Monsieur Lheureux! See you again presently.” But this was the examination time, and the farmers one“How you got rid of him!” she said, laughing.after the other entered a kind of enclosure formed by a long“Why,” he went on, “allow oneself to be intruded upon by others?And as to-day I have the happiness of being with you—” The beasts were there, their noses towards the cord,cord supported on sticks.and118