Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Madame BovaryChapter ElevenCharles, urged by the druggist and by her, allowed himselfto be persuaded. He sent to Rouen for Dr. Duval’s volume,HE HAD RECENTLY READ a eulogy on a new method for curing and every evening, holding his head between both hands,club-foot, and as he was a partisan of progress, he conceived plunged into the reading of it.the patriotic idea that Yonville, in order to keep to the fore, While he was studying equinus, varus, and valgus, that is toought to have some operations for strephopody or club-foot. say, katastrephopody, endostrephopody, and exostrephopody“For,” said he to Emma, “what risk is there? See—” (and he (or better, the various turnings of the foot downwards, inwards,and outwards, with the hypostrephopody andenumerated on his fingers the advantages of the attempt), “success,almost certain relief and beautifying of the patient, celebrity anastrephopody), otherwise torsion downwards and upwards,acquired by the operator. Why, for example, should not your Monsier Homais, with all sorts of arguments, was exhortinghusband relieve poor Hippolyte of the ‘Lion d’Or’? Note that the lad at the inn to submit to the operation.he would not fail to tell about his cure to all the travellers, and “You will scarcely feel, probably, a slight pain; it is a simplethen” (Homais lowered his voice and looked round him) “who prick, like a little blood-letting, less than the extraction ofis to prevent me from sending a short paragraph on the subject certain corns.”to the paper? Eh! goodness me! an article gets about; it is talked Hippolyte, reflecting, rolled his stupid eyes.of; it ends by making a snowball! And who knows? who knows?” “However,” continued the chemist, “it doesn’t concern me.In fact, Bovary might succeed. Nothing proved to Emma It’s for your sake, for pure humanity! I should like to see you,that he was not clever; and what a satisfaction for her to have my friend, rid of your hideous caudication, together withurged him to a step by which his reputation and fortune would that waddling of the lumbar regions which, whatever yoube increased! She only wished to lean on something more say, must considerably interfere with you in the exercise of yoursolid than love.calling.”150