Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Madame BovaryAnd as they were both standing up, he behind her, and Emma emptied all the scent he had into his handkerchief, then havinghad his hair curled, he uncurled it again, in order to give itwith her head bent, he stooped over her and pressed longkisses on her neck.a more natural elegance.“You are mad! Ah! you are mad!” she said, with sounding “It is still too early,” he thought, looking at the hairdresser’slittle laughs, while the kisses multiplied.cuckoo-clock, that pointed to the hour of nine. He read anThen bending his head over her shoulder, he seemed to beg old fashion journal, went out, smoked a cigar, walked upthe consent of her eyes. They fell upon him full of an icy three streets, thought it was time, and went slowly towardsdignity.the porch of Notre Dame.Leon stepped back to go out. He stopped on the threshold; It was a beautiful summer morning. Silver plate sparkled inthen he whispered with a trembling voice, “Tomorrow!” the jeweller’s windows, and the light falling obliquely on theShe answered with a nod, and disappeared like a bird into cathedral made mirrors of the corners of the grey stones; athe next room.flock of birds fluttered in the grey sky round the trefoil bellturrets;the square, resounding with cries, was fragrant withIn the evening Emma wrote the clerk an interminable letter,in which she cancelled the rendezvous; all was over; they the flowers that bordered its pavement, roses, jasmines, pinks,must not, for the sake of their happiness, meet again. But narcissi, and tube-roses, unevenly spaced out between moistwhen the letter was finished, as she did not know Leon’s address,she was puzzled.gurgled in the centre, and under large umbrellas, amidst mel-grasses, catmint, and chickweed for the birds; the fountains“I’ll give it to him myself,” she said; “he will come.” ons, piled up in heaps, flower-women, bare-headed, wereThe next morning, at the open window, and humming on twisting paper round bunches of violets.his balcony, Leon himself varnished his pumps with several The young man took one. It was the first time that he hadcoatings. He put on white trousers, fine socks, a green coat, bought flowers for a woman, and his breast, as he smelt them,204