Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Flaubert“What answer am I to take Monsieur Vincart?”put Madame Bovary’s gold chain, together with the earrings“Oh,” said Emma, “tell him that I haven’t it. I will send of poor old Tellier, who, at last forced to sell out, had boughtnext week; he must wait; yes, till next week.”a meagre store of grocery at Quincampoix, where he was dyingof catarrh amongst his candles, that were less yellow thanAnd the fellow went without another word.But the next day at twelve o’clock she received a summons, his face.and the sight of the stamped paper, on which appeared several Lheureux sat down in a large cane arm-chair, saying: “Whattimes in large letters, “Maitre Hareng, bailiff at Buchy,” so news?”frightened her that she rushed in hot haste to the linendraper’s. “See!”She found him in his shop, doing up a parcel.And she showed him the paper.“Your obedient!” he said; “I am at your service.”“Well how can I help it?”But Lheureux, all the same, went on with his work, helped Then she grew angry, reminding him of the promise he hadby a young girl of about thirteen, somewhat hunch-backed, given not to pay away her bills. He acknowledged it.who was at once his clerk and his servant.“But I was pressed myself; the knife was at my own throat.”Then, his clogs clattering on the shop-boards, he went up “And what will happen now?” she went on.in front of Madame Bovary to the first door, and introduced “Oh, it’s very simple; a judgment and then a distraint—her into a narrow closet, where, in a large bureau in saponwood,lay some ledgers, protected by a horizontal padlocked Emma kept down a desire to strike him, and asked gently ifthat’s about it!”iron bar. Against the wall, under some remnants of calico, there was no way of quieting Monsieur Vincart.one glimpsed a safe, but of such dimensions that it must containsomething besides bills and money. Monsieur Lheureux, ferocious than an Arab!”“I dare say! Quiet Vincart! You don’t know him; he’s morein fact, went in for pawnbroking, and it was there that he had Still Monsieur Lheureux must interfere.243