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Madame Bovary“opaque cornea,” “sclerotic,” “facies,” then asked him in a paternaltone—with disgust, threw him over her shoulder a five-franc piece.tered a kind of hollow yell like a famished dog. Emma, filled“My friend, have you long had this terrible infirmity? Insteadof getting drunk at the public, you’d do better to die it away.It was all her fortune. It seemed to her very fine thus to throwyourself.”The coach had gone on again when suddenly MonsieurHe advised him to take good wine, good beer, and good Homais leant out through the window, crying—joints. The blind man went on with his song; he seemed, “No farinaceous or milk food, wear wool next the skin, andmoreover, almost idiotic. At last Monsieur Homais opened expose the diseased parts to the smoke of juniper berries.”his purse—The sight of the well-known objects that defiled before her“Now there’s a sou; give me back two lairds, and don’t forgetmy advice: you’ll be the better for it.”intolerable fatigue overwhelmed her, and she reached her homeeyes gradually diverted Emma from her present trouble. AnHivert openly cast some doubt on the efficacy of it. But stupefied, discouraged, almost asleep.the druggist said that he would cure himself with an antiphlogisticpomade of his own composition, and he gave his ad-who knows? Why, at any moment could not some extraordi-“Come what may come!” she said to herself. “And then,dress—”Monsieur Homais, near the market, pretty well nary event occur? Lheureux even might die!”known.”At nine o’clock in the morning she was awakened by the“Now,” said Hivert, “for all this trouble you’ll give us your sound of voices in the Place. There was a crowd round theperformance.”market reading a large bill fixed to one of the posts, and sheThe blind man sank down on his haunches, with his head saw Justin, who was climbing on to a stone and tearing downthrown back, whilst he rolled his greenish eyes, lolled out his the bill. But at this moment the rural guard seized him by thetongue, and rubbed his stomach with both hands as he ut-collar. Monsieur Homais came out of his shop, and Mere256