Madame Bovary - Penn State University

Flaubertsetting; the sky showed red between the branches, and the sonally; saw Emma; thought she had a pretty figure, and thattrunks of the trees, uniform, and planted in a straight line, she did not bow like a peasant; so that he did not think heseemed a brown colonnade standing out against a background was going beyond the bounds of condescension, nor, on theof gold. A fear took hold of her; she called Djali, and hurriedlyreturned to Tostes by the high road, threw herself into On Wednesday at three o’clock, Monsieur and Madameother hand, making a mistake, in inviting the young couple.an armchair, and for the rest of the evening did not speak. Bovary, seated in their dog-cart, set out for Vaubyessard, withBut towards the end of September something extraordinaryfell upon her life; she was invited by the Marquis of the apron. Besides these Charles held a bandbox betweena great trunk strapped on behind and a bonnet-box in frontd’Andervilliers to Vaubyessard.his knees.Secretary of State under the Restoration, the Marquis, anxiousto re-enter political life, set about preparing for his can-being lit to show the way for the carriages.They arrived at nightfall, just as the lamps in the park weredidature to the Chamber of Deputies long beforehand. In thewinter he distributed a great deal of wood, and in the ConseilGeneral always enthusiastically demanded new roads for hisarrondissement. During the dog-days he had suffered froman abscess, which Charles had cured as if by miracle by givinga timely little touch with the lancet. The steward sent to Tostesto pay for the operation reported in the evening that he hadseen some superb cherries in the doctor’s little garden. Nowcherry trees did not thrive at Vaubyessard; the Marquis askedBovary for some slips; made it his business to thank his per-41