Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Madame Bovaryears of corn, Passes bending down, my queen, To the earthChapter Ninewhere they were born.”“The blind man!” she cried. And Emma began to laugh, an THERE IS ALWAYS after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction;so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingnessatrocious, frantic, despairing laugh, thinking she saw the hideousface of the poor wretch that stood out against the eternal and to resign ourselves to believe in it. But still, when henight like a menace.saw that she did not move, Charles threw himself upon her,“The wind is strong this summer day, Her petticoat has crying—flown away.”“Farewell! farewell!”She fell back upon the mattress in a convulsion. They all Homais and Canivet dragged him from the room.drew near. She was dead.“Restrain yourself ““Yes.” said he, struggling, “I’ll be quiet. I’ll not do anything.But leave me alone. I want to see her. She is my wife!”And he wept.“Cry,” said the chemist; “let nature take her course; thatwill solace you.”Weaker than a child, Charles let himself be led downstairsinto the sitting-room, and Monsieur Homais soon wenthome. On the Place he was accosted by the blind man, who,having dragged himself as far as Yonville, in the hope of gettingthe antiphlogistic pomade, was asking every passer-bywhere the druggist lived.278