Madame Bovary - Penn State University

FlaubertLefrangois, in the midst of the crowd, seemed to be perorating. sombre, and a little snow was falling. At the sound of the“Madame! madame!” cried Felicite, running in, “it’s abominable!”came to open the door almost familiarly, as to an acquain-bell, Theodore in a red waistcoat appeared on the steps; heAnd the poor girl, deeply moved, handed her a yellow paperthat she had just torn off the door. Emma read with a A large porcelain stove crackled beneath a cactus that filledtance, and showed her into the dining-room.glance that all her furniture was for sale.up the niche in the wall, and in black wood frames against theThen they looked at one another silently. The servant and oak-stained paper hung Steuben’s “Esmeralda” and Schopin’smistress had no secret one from the other. At last Felicite “Potiphar. “ The ready-laid table, the two silver chafing-dishes,sighed—the crystal door-knobs, the parquet and the furniture, all shone“If I were you, madame, I should go to Monsieur with a scrupulous, English cleanliness; the windows were ornamentedat each corner with stained glass.Guillaumin.”“Do you think—”“Now this,” thought Emma, “is the dining-room I oughtAnd this question meant to say—to have.”“You who know the house through the servant, has the masterspoken sometimes of me?”to his breast with his left arm, while with the other hand heThe notary came in pressing his palm-leaf dressing-gown“Yes, you’d do well to go there.”raised and quickly put on again his brown velvet cap, pretentiouslycocked on the right side, whence looked out the endsShe dressed, put on her black gown, and her hood withjet beads, and that she might not be seen (there was still a of three fair curls drawn from the back of the head, followingcrowd on the Place), she took the path by the river, outside the line of his bald skull.the village.After he had offered her a seat he sat down to breakfast,She reached the notary’s gate quite breathless. The sky was apologising profusely for his rudeness.257