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Flauberthis as to the probability of their payment. Next they talked Felicite was there, for he half noticed that his apprentice wasof “what was in the paper.”fond of the doctor’s house.Homais by this hour knew it almost by heart, and he repeatedit from end to end, with the reflections of the penny-the devil take me if I don’t believe he’s in love with your ser-“The young dog,” he said, “is beginning to have ideas, anda-liners, and all the stories of individual catastrophes that had vant!”occurred in France or abroad. But the subject becoming exhausted,he was not slow in throwing out some remarks on was his constantly listening to conversation. On Sunday, forBut a more serious fault with which he reproached Justinthe dishes before him.example, one could not get him out of the drawing-room,Sometimes even, half-rising, he delicately pointed out to whither Madame Homais had called him to fetch the children,who were falling asleep in the arm-chairs, and draggingmadame the tenderest morsel, or turning to the servant, gaveher some advice on the manipulation of stews and the hygieneof seasoning.Not many people came to these soirees at the chemist’s, hisdown with their backs calico chair-covers that were too large.He talked aroma, osmazome, juices, and gelatine in a bewilderingmanner. Moreover, Homais, with his head fuller of alienated various respectable persons from him. The clerk neverscandal-mongering and political opinions having successfullyrecipes than his shop of jars, excelled in making all kinds of failed to be there. As soon as he heard the bell he ran to meetpreserves, vinegars, and sweet liqueurs; he knew also all the Madame Bovary, took her shawl, and put away under thelatest inventions in economic stoves, together with the art of shop-counter the thick list shoes that she wore over her bootspreserving cheese and of curing sick wines.when there was snow.At eight o’clock Justin came to fetch him to shut up the First they played some hands at trente-et-un; next MonsieurHomais played ecarte with Emma; Leon behind her gaveshop.Then Monsieur Homais gave him a sly look, especially if her advice.85