Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Madame BovaryCharles, as when they were first married, thought her deliciousand quite irresistible.hats in the summer-time; from a distance they would be takenresembling her mother, she would, like her, wear large strawWhen he came home in the middle of the night, he did not for two sisters. He pictured her to himself working in thedare to wake her. The porcelain night-light threw a round evening by their side beneath the light of the lamp; she wouldtrembling gleam upon the ceiling, and the drawn curtains of embroider him slippers; she would look after the house; shethe little cot formed as it were a white hut standing out in the would fill all the home with her charm and her gaiety. At last,shade, and by the bedside Charles looked at them. He seemed they would think of her marriage; they would find her someto hear the light breathing of his child. She would grow big good young fellow with a steady business; he would makenow; every season would bring rapid progress. He already saw her happy; this would last for ever.her coming from school as the day drew in, laughing, with Emma was not asleep; she pretended to be; and while heink-stains on her jacket, and carrying her basket on her arm. dozed off by her side she awakened to other dreams.Then she would have to be sent to the boarding-school; that To the gallop of four horses she was carried away for a weekwould cost much; how was it to be done? Then he reflected. towards a new land, whence they would return no more. TheyHe thought of hiring a small farm in the neighbourhood, went on and on, their arms entwined, without a word. Oftenthat he would superintend every morning on his way to his from the top of a mountain there suddenly glimpsed somepatients. He would save up what he brought in; he would splendid city with domes, and bridges, and ships, forests ofput it in the savings-bank. Then he would buy shares somewhere,no matter where; besides, his practice would increase; steeples were storks’ nests. They went at a walking-pace be-citron trees, and cathedrals of white marble, on whose pointedhe counted upon that, for he wanted Berthe to be well-educated,to be accomplished, to learn to play the piano. Ah! bouquets of flowers, offered you by women dressed in redcause of the great flag-stones, and on the ground there werehow pretty she would be later on when she was fifteen, when, bodices. They heard the chiming of bells, the neighing of168