Madame Bovary - Penn State University

FlaubertYet she had loathing of this hypocrisy. She was seized with to the sea-shore, so that the customs officer, going his rounds,the temptation to flee somewhere with Leon to try a new often found her lying flat on her face, crying on the shingle.life; but at once a vague chasm full of darkness opened within Then, after her marriage, it went off, they say.”her soul.“But with me,” replied Emma, “it was after marriage that it“Besides, he no longer loves me,” she thought. “What is to began.”become of me? What help is to be hoped for, what consolation,what solace?”She was left broken, breathless, inert, sobbing in a low voice,with flowing tears.“Why don’t you tell master?” the servant asked her whenshe came in during these crises.“It is the nerves,” said Emma. “Do not speak to him of it; itwould worry him.”“Ah! yes,” Felicite went on, “you are just like La Guerine,Pere Guerin’s daughter, the fisherman at Pollet, that I used toknow at Dieppe before I came to you. She was so sad, so sad,to see her standing upright on the threshold of her house, sheseemed to you like a winding-sheet spread out before the door.Her illness, it appears, was a kind of fog that she had in herhead, and the doctors could not do anything, nor the priesteither. When she was taken too bad she went off quite alone95