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Madame Bovary - Penn State University

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<strong>Madame</strong> <strong>Bovary</strong>soft pillow for our bed, with succulent flesh for our tables, Tuvache, had a bigger one, for his was enormous, and shookand eggs? But I should never end if I were to enumerate one on his head, and from it an end of his cotton scarf peepedafter the other all the different products which the earth, well out. He smiled beneath it with a perfectly infantine sweetness,and his pale little face, whence drops were running, worecultivated, like a generous mother, lavishes upon her children.Here it is the vine, elsewhere the apple tree for cider, there an expression of enjoyment and sleepiness.colza, farther on cheeses and flax. Gentlemen, let us not forgetflax, which has made such great strides of late years, and One saw folk leaning on their elbows at all the windows,The square as far as the houses was crowded with people.to which I will more particularly call your attention.” others standing at doors, and Justin, in front of the chemist’sHe had no need to call it, for all the mouths of the multitudewere wide open, as if to drink in his words. Tuvache by looking at. In spite of the silence Monsieur Lieuvain’s voiceshop, seemed quite transfixed by the sight of what he washis side listened to him with staring eyes. Monsieur Derozerays was lost in the air. It reached you in fragments of phrases, andfrom time to time softly closed his eyelids, and farther on the interrupted here and there by the creaking of chairs in thechemist, with his son Napoleon between his knees, put his crowd; then you suddenly heard the long bellowing of an ox,hand behind his ear in order not to lose a syllable. The chins or else the bleating of the lambs, who answered one anotherof the other members of the jury went slowly up and down at street corners. In fact, the cowherds and shepherds had drivenin their waistcoats in sign of approval. The firemen at the their beasts thus far, and these lowed from time to time, whilefoot of the platform rested on their bayonets; and Binet, with their tongues they tore down some scrap of foliage thatmotionless, stood with out-turned elbows, the point of his hung above their mouths.sabre in the air. Perhaps he could hear, but certainly he could Rodolphe had drawn nearer to Emma, and said to her in asee nothing, because of the visor of his helmet, that fell down low voice, speaking rapidly—on his nose. His lieutenant, the youngest son of Monsieur “Does not this conspiracy of the world revolt you? Is there126

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