Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Madame Bovarysaw through all his devices, the object of his kindnesses. What And she began beating about the bush; she had known nothingabout it; it was a surprise.reassured her was the very magnitude of the sum.However, by dint of buying and not paying, of borrowing,signing bills, and renewing these bills that grew at each “While I’m slaving like a nigger, you go gallivanting about.”“Whose fault is that?” said Lheureux, bowing ironically.new falling-in, she had ended by preparing a capital for “Ah! no lecturing.”Monsieur Lheureux which he was impatiently awaiting for “It never does any harm,” he replied.his speculations.She turned coward; she implored him; she even pressed herShe presented herself at his place with an offhand air. pretty white and slender hand against the shopkeeper’s knee.“You know what has happened to me? No doubt it’s a joke!” “There, that’ll do! Anyone’d think you wanted to seduce me!”“How so?”“You are a wretch!” she cried.He turned away slowly, and, folding his arms, said to her— “Oh, oh! go it! go it!”“My good lady, did you think I should go on to all eternity “I will show you up. I shall tell my husband.”being your purveyor and banker, for the love of God? Now “All right! I too. I’ll show your husband something.”be just. I must get back what I’ve laid out. Now be just.” And Lheureux drew from his strong box the receipt forShe cried out against the debt.eighteen hundred francs that she had given him when Vincart“Ah! so much the worse. The court has admitted it. There’s had discounted the bills.a judgment. It’s been notified to you. Besides, it isn’t my fault. “Do you think,” he added, “that he’ll not understand yourIt’s Vincart’s.”little theft, the poor dear man?”“Could you not—?”She collapsed, more overcome than if felled by the blow of“Oh, nothing whatever.”a pole-axe. He was walking up and down from the window“But still, now talk it over.”to the bureau, repeating all the while—250