Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Madame BovaryThe wax of the candles fell in great drops upon the sheets of They dragged him down into the sitting-room. Then Felicitethe bed. Charles watched them burn, tiring his eyes against came up to say that he wanted some of her hair.the glare of their yellow flame.“Cut some off,” replied the druggist.The watering on the satin gown shimmered white as moonlight.Emma was lost beneath it; and it seemed to him that, scissors in hand. He trembled so that he pierced the skin ofAnd as she did not dare to, he himself stepped forward,spreading beyond her own self, she blended confusedly with the temple in several places. At last, stiffening himself againsteverything around her—the silence, the night, the passing emotion, Homais gave two or three great cuts at random thatwind, the damp odours rising from the ground.left white patches amongst that beautiful black hair.Then suddenly he saw her in the garden at Tostes, on a bench The chemist and the cure plunged anew into their occupations,not without sleeping from time to time, of which theyagainst the thorn hedge, or else at Rouen in the streets, on thethreshold of their house, in the yard at Bertaux. He again heard accused each other reciprocally at each fresh awakening. Thenthe laughter of the happy boys beneath the apple-trees: the room Monsieur Bournisien sprinkled the room with holy water andwas filled with the perfume of her hair; and her dress rustled in Homais threw a little chlorine water on the floor.his arms with a noise like electricity. The dress was still the same. Felicite had taken care to put on the chest of drawers, forFor a long while he thus recalled all his lost joys, her attitudes,her movements, the sound of her voice. Upon one fit roll. And the druggist, who could not hold out any longer,each of them, a bottle of brandy, some cheese, and a largeof despair followed another, and even others, inexhaustible as about four in the morning sighed—the waves of an overflowing sea.“My word! I should like to take some sustenance.”A terrible curiosity seized him. Slowly, with the tips of bis The priest did not need any persuading; he went out to gofingers, palpitating, he lifted her veil. But he uttered a cry of and say mass, came back, and then they ate and hobnobbed,horror that awoke the other two.giggling a little without knowing why, stimulated by that284