Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Madame Bovarywell abreast of new discoveries. He followed the great movementof chocolates; he was the first to introduce “cocoa” and an extinguished torch.”which on the two principal sides was to have a “spirit bearing“revalenta” into the Seine-Inferieure. He was enthusiastic about As to the inscription, Homais could think of nothing sothe hydro-electric Pulvermacher chains; he wore one himself, fine as Sta viator*, and he got no further; he racked his brain,and when at night he took off his flannel vest, Madame he constantly repeated Sta viator. At last he hit upon AmabilenHomais stood quite dazzled before the golden spiral beneath conjugem calcas**, which was adopted.which he was hidden, and felt her ardour redouble for this A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinkingof Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he feltman more bandaged than a Scythian, and splendid as one ofthe Magi.this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts toHe had fine ideas about Emma’s tomb. First he proposed a retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always thebroken column with some drapery, next a pyramid, then a same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about toTemple of Vesta, a sort of rotunda, or else a “mass of ruins.” clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.And in all his plans Homais always stuck to the weeping willow,which he looked upon as the indispensable symbol of Monsieur Bournisien even paid him two or three visits, thenFor a week he was seen going to church in the evening.sorrow.gave him up. Moreover, the old fellow was growing intolerant,fanatic, said Homais. He thundered against the spirit ofCharles and he made a journey to Rouen together to lookat some tombs at a funeral furnisher’s, accompanied by an the age, and never failed, every other week, in his sermon, toartist, one Vaufrylard, a friend of Bridoux’s, who made puns recount the death agony of Voltaire, who died devouring hisall the time. At last, after having examined some hundred excrements, as everyone knows.designs, having ordered an estimate and made another journeyto Rouen, Charles decided in favour of a mausoleum, * Rest traveler.** Tread upon a loving wife.294