Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Madame Bovarying a great luminous vapour about the dim houses. Emma him. He would advise him to get a booth at the Saint Romainknelt on the cushions and her eyes wandered over the dazzlinglight. She sobbed; called on Leon, sent him tender words Often they had started when, with a sudden movement,fair, or else ask him, laughing, how his young woman was.and kisses lost in the wind.his hat entered the diligence through the small window, whileOn the hillside a poor devil wandered about with his stick he clung with his other arm to the footboard, between thein the midst of the diligences. A mass of rags covered his shoulders,and an old staved-in beaver, turned out like a basin, hid ing, grew sharp; it resounded in the night like the indistinctwheels splashing mud. His voice, feeble at first and quaver-his face; but when he took it off he discovered in the place of moan of a vague distress; and through the ringing of the bells,eyelids empty and bloody orbits. The flesh hung in red shreds, the murmur of the trees, and the rumbling of the empty vehicle,it had a far-off sound that disturbed Emma. It went toand there flowed from it liquids that congealed into greenscale down to the nose, whose black nostrils sniffed convulsively.To speak to you he threw back his head with an idiotic carried her away into the distances of a boundless melancholy.the bottom of her soul, like a whirlwind in an abyss, andlaugh; then his bluish eyeballs, rolling constantly, at the temples But Hivert, noticing a weight behind, gave the blind manbeat against the edge of the open wound. He sang a little song sharp cuts with his whip. The thong lashed his wounds, andas he followed the carriages—he fell back into the mud with a yell. Then the, passengers in“Maids an the warmth of a summer day Dream of love, the “Hirondelle” ended by falling asleep, some with openand of love always”mouths, others with lowered chins, leaning against theirAnd all the rest was about birds and sunshine and green neighbour’s shoulder, or with their arm passed through theleaves.strap, oscillating regularly with the jolting of the carriage; andSometimes he appeared suddenly behind Emma, bareheaded,and she drew back with a cry. Hivert made fun of per of the wheeler; penetrating into the interior throughthe reflection of the lantern swinging without, on the crup-the228