Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Madame Bovarylight enter softly. Emma felt about, opening and closing herChapter Teneneyes, while the drops of dew hanging from her hair formed,as it were, a topaz aureole around her face. Rodolphe, laughing,drew her to him, and pressed her to his breast.love had intoxicated her; and she had thought of nothingGRADUALLY RODOLPHE’S FEARS took possession of her. At first,Then she examined the apartment, opened the drawers of beyond. But now that he was indispensable to her life, shethe tables, combed her hair with his comb, and looked at feared to lose anything of this, or even that it should be disturbed.When she came back from his house she looked allherself in his shaving-glass. Often she even put between herteeth the big pipe that lay on the table by the bed, amongst about her, anxiously watching every form that passed in thelemons and pieces of sugar near a bottle of water.horizon, and every village window from which she could beIt took them a good quarter of an hour to say goodbye. seen. She listened for steps, cries, the noise of the ploughs,Then Emma cried. She would have wished never to leave and she stopped short, white, and trembling more than theRodolphe. Something stronger than herself forced her to him; aspen leaves swaying overhead.so much so, that one day, seeing her come unexpectedly, he One morning as she was thus returning, she suddenlyfrowned as one put out.thought she saw the long barrel of a carbine that seemed to be“What is the matter with you?” she said. “Are you ill? Tell aimed at her. It stuck out sideways from the end of a smallme!”tub half-buried in the grass on the edge of a ditch. Emma,At last he declared with a serious air that her visits were half-fainting with terror, nevertheless walked on, and a manbecoming imprudent—that she was compromising herself. stepped out of the tub like a Jack-in-the-box. He had gaitersbuckled up to the knees, his cap pulled down over his eyes,trembling lips, and a red nose. It was Captain Binet lying inambush for wild ducks.142