Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Flaubert“Ah! I’ll show him! I’ll show him!” Then he approached “It is too late.”her, and in a soft voice said—“But if I brought you several thousand francs—a quarter of“It isn’t pleasant, I know; but, after all, no bones are broken,and, since that is the only way that is left for you paying “No; it’s no use!”the sum—a third—perhaps the whole?”back my money—”And he pushed her gently towards the staircase.“But where am I to get any?” said Emma, wringing her “I implore you, Monsieur Lheureux, just a few days more!”hands.She was sobbing.“Bah! when one has friends like you!”“There! tears now!”And he looked at her in so keen, so terrible a fashion, that “You are driving me to despair!”she shuddered to her very heart.“What do I care?” said he, shutting the door.“I promise you,” she said, “to sign—”“I’ve enough of your signatures.”“I will sell something.”“Get along!” he said, shrugging his shoulders; “you’ve notgot anything.”And he called through the peep-hole that looked down intothe shop—“Annette, don’t forget the three coupons of No. 14.”The servant appeared. Emma understood, and asked howmuch money would be wanted to put a stop to the proceedings.251