Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Madame BovaryMonsieur Canivet, who did not care either to have Emma die “But how did she poison herself?”under his hands.“I don’t know, doctor, and I don’t even know where she canThe chemist rejoined them on the Place. He could not by have procured the arsenious acid.”temperament keep away from celebrities, so he begged MonsieurLariviere to do him the signal honour of accepting some tremble.Justin, who was just bringing in a pile of plates, began tobreakfast.“What’s the matter?” said the chemist.He sent quickly to the “Lion d’Or” for some pigeons; to At this question the young man dropped the whole lot onthe butcher’s for all the cutlets that were to be had; to Tuvache the ground with a crash.for cream; and to Lestiboudois for eggs; and the druggist himselfaided in the preparations, while Madame Homais was founded ass!”“Imbecile!” cried Homais. “awkward lout! block-head! con-saying as she pulled together the strings of her jacket— But suddenly controlling himself—“You must excuse us, sir, for in this poor place, when one “I wished, doctor, to make an analysis, and primo I delicatelyintroduced a tube—”hasn’t been told the night before—”“Wine glasses!” whispered Homais.“You would have done better,” said the physician, “to introduceyour fingers into her throat.”“If only we were in town, we could fall back upon stuffedtrotters.”His colleague was silent, having just before privately receiveda severe lecture about his emetic, so that this good“Be quiet! Sit down, doctor!”He thought fit, after the first few mouthfuls, to give some Canivet, so arrogant and so verbose at the time of the clubfoot,was to-day very modest. He smiled without ceasing indetails as to the catastrophe.“We first had a feeling of siccity in the pharynx, then intolerablepains at the epigastrium, super purgation, coma.” Homais dilated in Amphytrionic pride, and thean approving manner.affecting274