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Madame Bovaryalmost weeping with thirst, fatigue, and depression.Chapter TwowoAnd on the harbour, in the midst of the drays and casks,and in the streets, at the corners, the good folk opened large ON REACHING THE INN, Madame Bovary was surprised not towonder-stricken eyes at this sight, so extraordinary in the provinces,a cab with blinds drawn, and which appeared thus con-minutes, had at last started.see the diligence. Hivert, who had waited for her fifty-threestantly shut more closely than a tomb, and tossing about like Yet nothing forced her to go; but she had given her worda vessel.that she would return that same evening. Moreover, CharlesOnce in the middle of the day, in the open country, just as expected her, and in her heart she felt already that cowardlythe sun beat most fiercely against the old plated lanterns, a docility that is for some women at once the chastisement andbared hand passed beneath the small blinds of yellow canvas, atonement of adultery.and threw out some scraps of paper that scattered in the wind, She packed her box quickly, paid her bill, took a cab in the yard,and farther off lighted like white butterflies on a field of red hurrying on the driver, urging him on, every moment inquiringclover all in bloom.about the time and the miles traversed. He succeeded in catchingAt about six o’clock the carriage stopped in a back street of up the “Hirondelle” as it neared the first houses of Quincampoix.the Beauvoisine Quarter, and a woman got out, who walked Hardly was she seated in her corner than she closed her eyes,with her veil down, and without turning her head.and opened them at the foot of the hill, when from afar sherecognised Felicite, who was on the lookout in front of thefarrier’s shop. Hivert pulled in his horses and, the servant,climbing up to the window, said mysteriously—“Madame, you must go at once to Monsieur Homais. It’sfor something important.”210