Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Flaubertmules, together with the murmur of guitars and the noise of “You are going on a journey?” he asked.fountains, whose rising spray refreshed heaps of fruit arranged “No; but—never mind. I may count on you, may I not,like a pyramid at the foot of pale statues that smiled beneath and quickly?”playing waters. And then, one night they came to a fishing He bowed.village, where brown nets were drying in the wind along the “Besides, I shall want,” she went on, “a trunk—not toocliffs and in front of the huts. It was there that they would heavy—handy.”stay; they would live in a low, flat-roofed house, shaded by a “Yes, yes, I understand. About three feet by a foot and apalm-tree, in the heart of a gulf, by the sea. They would row half, as they are being made just now.”in gondolas, swing in hammocks, and their existence would “And a travelling bag.”be easy and large as their silk gowns, warm and star-spangled “Decidedly,” thought Lheureux. “there’s a row on here.”as the nights they would contemplate. However, in the immensityof this future that she conjured up, nothing special belt, “take this; you can pay yourself out of it.”“And,” said Madame Bovary, taking her watch from herstood forth; the days, all magnificent, resembled each other But the tradesman cried out that she was wrong; they knewlike waves; and it swayed in the horizon, infinite, harmonised, one another; did he doubt her? What childishness!azure, and bathed in sunshine. But the child began to cough She insisted, however, on his taking at least the chain, andin her cot or Bovary snored more loudly, and Emma did not Lheureux had already put it in his pocket and was going, whenfall asleep till morning, when the dawn whitened the windows,and when little Justin was already in the square taking “You will leave everything at your place. As to the cloak”—she called him back.down the shutters of the chemist’s shop.she seemed to be reflecting—”do not bring it either; youShe had sent for Monsieur Lheureux, and had said to him— can give me the maker’s address, and tell him to have it“I want a cloak—a large lined cloak with a deep collar.” ready for me.”169