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4004 II, 3 | passed, she set out for the Rollets’ house, situated at the
4005 III, 1 | life. Besides, speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the
4006 II, 1 | the shops and brought back rolls of leather for the shoemaker,
4007 II, 8 | completely. Now and then a meagre Roman-candle went off; then the gaping
4008 II, 3 | senior, who was godmother, a romance of the time of the Empire;
4009 II, 4 | commerce of books and of romances. Monsieur Bovary, little
4010 II, 3 | perhaps a concession to romanticism, but Athalie was a homage
4011 I, 8 | beaten “Miss Arabella” and “Romolus,” and won two thousand louis
4012 II, 5 | through the joists of the roofing. Attached to the stop-plank
4013 I, 2 | the leafless trees birds roosted motionless, their little
4014 I, 4 | stopped to take breath, slowly rosined his bow, so that the strings
4015 II, 11 | poultices; the muscles each day rotted more and more; and at last
4016 I, 7 | shutters, always closed, were rotting away on their rusty iron
4017 III, 11 | Temple of Vesta, a sort of rotunda, or else a “mass of ruins.”
4018 III, 6 | from her bag (they were old Roualt’s wedding present), begging
4019 II, 14 | bewitching apartment, decorated rouge, those lights, those effeminate
4020 II, 5 | irritated Leon. It seemed to roughen the ends of her fingers.
4021 II, 8 | wools had so encrusted, roughened, hardened these that they
4022 III, 1 | Lescure, at Mont Gargan, at La Rougue-Marc and Place du Gaillardbois;
4023 I, 1 | sulkiness, whence he only roused himself to say disagreeable
4024 II, 5 | pedlar said some, a banker at Routot according to others. What
4025 III, 3 | Florentine bronze.~They rowed down in the midst of moored
4026 II, 3 | she said at last, “and I’d rub your little one’s feet with
4027 II, 15 | He had seen Tambourini, Rubini, Persiani, Grisi, and, compared
4028 I, 9 | the times, he took in “La Ruche Medicale,” a new journal
4029 III, 3 | while at the stern the rudder that trailed behind never
4030 II, 9 | warm atmosphere. The earth, ruddy like the powder of tobacco,
4031 II, 10 | thieves! Besides, he was also rude. I heard from a pedlar,
4032 I, 8 | temper. Nastasie answered rudely.~“Leave the room!” said
4033 III, 7 | apologising profusely for his rudeness.~“I have come,” she said, “
4034 II, 2 | necktie, that kept up like a ruff a gauffered cambric collar,
4035 II, 15 | naked sword; his guipure ruffle rose with jerks to the movements
4036 II, 8 | that blew in at the window ruffled the cloth on the table,
4037 I, 4 | walking half-bending over her, ruffling the chemisette of her bodice
4038 II, 11 | like a horse’s hoof, with rugose skin, dry tendons, and large
4039 III, 4 | wouldn’t after all be very ruinous.”~“But lessons,” she replied, “
4040 III, 1 | in order to proceed “by rule,” the beadle conducted them
4041 I, 1 | belongings, and carefully ruled his paper. We saw him working
4042 II, 14 | the shutters with their rulers one after the other.~It
4043 II, 15 | who was slowly sipping his rum-sherbet, “they say that he is quite
4044 II, 11 | what still remained of it rumbled away beneath the furious
4045 III, 5 | ransacked all the drawers, rummaged the papers, and at last
4046 II, 6 | at Yonville-l’Abbaye. The rumour, at all events, is going
4047 II, 8 | line with their unequal rumps. Drowsy pigs were burrowing
4048 I, 4 | country roads there were runaway carts at full gallop plunging
4049 I, 7 | fields a salt freshness. The rushes, close to the ground, whistled;
4050 II, 8 | wrinkled than a withered russet apple. And from the sleeves
4051 II, 2 | at once like breezes from Russia.”~“At any rate, you have
4052 II, 7 | have left on the snow of a Russian steppe. She sprang towards
4053 II, 10 | copperwater with which to remove rust from his hunting things.~
4054 II, 7 | man.”~At these words the rustic let go the lancet-case he
4055 II, 7 | aplomb had fascinated the rustics. They considered him a greater
4056 III, 1 | committing sacrilege.~But a rustle of silk on the flags, the
4057 III, 10 | breeze was blowing; the rye and colza were sprouting,
4058 I, 9 | her—wanted to make a lady’s-maid of her. The new servant
4059 III, 7 | driven by a gentleman in sable furs. Who was it? She knew
4060 I, 6 | Bayaderes; Djiaours, Turkish sabres, Greek caps; and you especially,
4061 III, 8 | and mixed it himself.~“Saccharum, doctor?” said he, offering
4062 II, 3 | sacristan, who, besides his sacerdotal and funeral functions, looked
4063 II, 5 | but the Yonville people of Sachette in “Notre Dame de Paris.”~
4064 III, 10 | his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle
4065 II, 3 | mockery of the first of the sacraments made the Abbe Bournisien
4066 II, 11 | renouncing his principles, he sacrificed his dignity to the more
4067 II, 8 | life, of giving everything, sacrificing everything to this being.
4068 III, 1 | sort, and almost committing sacrilege.~But a rustle of silk on
4069 I, 1 | at spare moments in the sacristy, standing up, hurriedly,
4070 II, 6 | after no love-making. He was sadder than ever, as Madame Lefrancois
4071 II, 9 | Charles’s door with two saddle-horses. One had pink rosettes at
4072 II, 9 | panting; the leather of the saddles creaked.~Just as they were
4073 III, 8 | she said, looking at him sadly. “I have suffered much.”~
4074 I, 8 | She wore a gown of pale saffron trimmed with three bouquets
4075 I, 9 | seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon.
4076 III, 3 | either,” softly added the sailor, thinking he was paying
4077 II, 6 | even ladies of the Faubourg Saint-Germain who fall in love with them,
4078 II, 15 | And they parted before the Saint-Herbland Passage just as the clock
4079 III, 1 | Saint-Romain, Saint-Vivien, Saint-Maclou, Saint-Nicaise—in front
4080 III, 1 | Saint-Vivien, Saint-Maclou, Saint-Nicaise—in front of the Customs,
4081 III, 1 | hazard. The cab was seen at Saint-Pol, at Lescure, at Mont Gargan,
4082 III, 1 | Rue Dinanderie, before Saint-Romain, Saint-Vivien, Saint-Maclou,
4083 III, 1 | its course, it passed by Saint-Sever, by the Quai’des Curandiers,
4084 III, 1 | Dinanderie, before Saint-Romain, Saint-Vivien, Saint-Maclou, Saint-Nicaise—
4085 II, 14 | go to England at a high salary. From what I hear, he’s
4086 I, 5 | worse for the successive sales through which they had gone,
4087 II, 1 | chemist; “no imagination, no sallies, nothing that makes the
4088 II, 8 | the back of his head, of a sallow complexion and the most
4089 I, 9 | journal, and the “Sylphe des Salons.” She devoured, without
4090 I, 2 | from the effects of the saltpetre, was a crayon head of Minerva
4091 III, 8 | hypothesis, “It is perhaps a salutary paroxysm,” Canivet was about
4092 III, 10 | affected a brave air, and saluted with a nod those who, coming
4093 II, 12 | of sentiment beneath the sameness of expression. Because lips
4094 I, 1 | him as so many doors to sanctuaries filled with magnificent
4095 III, 2 | store, but as a veritable sanctuary, whence there afterwards
4096 I, 9 | It was like a golden dust sanding all along the narrow path
4097 III, 2 | on its shores down to the sands of its abysses.~And he went
4098 II, 1 | cheeks, like an idol of the Sandwich Islands; and, finally, a
4099 III, 5 | chocolate calico curtains, threw sanguineous shadows over all these motionless
4100 II, 12 | way. He treated her quite sans facon.15 He made of her
4101 II, 9 | person a fresh perfume of sap, of verdure, of the open
4102 III, 6 | where, in a large bureau in sapon-wood, lay some ledgers, protected
4103 II, 8 | subversive doctrines audaciously sapped foundations.”~“Well, someone
4104 I, 9 | reached even to Emma. Endless sarabands ran through her head, and,
4105 III, 7 | boars’ heads, the heads of Saracens to be devoured. The druggist’
4106 II, 14 | after Easter, to escape the sarcasms of old Bovary, who never
4107 III, 1 | binding of her long white sash, he added, “And who prevents
4108 III, 1 | the bottom. Through the sash-window a patch of dark sky was
4109 II, 1 | windows rattled in their sashes when the coach was closed,
4110 II, 8 | Nicaise Elizabeth Leroux, of Sassetot-la-Guerriere, for fifty-four years of
4111 III, 6 | joy a curse, all pleasure satiety, and the sweetest kisses
4112 II, 14 | must,” he said, throwing a satisfied glance all round him, even
4113 II, 12 | yielded to this lazy mode of satisfying all her caprices. Thus she
4114 II, 13 | all the plates was upset; sauce, meat, knives, the salt,
4115 II, 3 | half-finished coffee in his saucer.~Monsieur Bovary, senior,
4116 II, 5 | d’Or,” or at the “Grand Sauvage”; all these gentlemen knew
4117 III, 8 | something, you who have saved so many!”~Charles caught
4118 II, 12 | he would put it in the savings-bank. Then he would buy shares
4119 I, 4 | second stage was a dungeon of Savoy cake, surrounded by many
4120 II, 1 | profession of faith of the ‘Savoyard Vicar,’ and the immortal
4121 I, 2 | clothes as if they were a scabbard; they were too short, and
4122 I, 9 | the frost, had left white scabs on his face.~Then she went
4123 III, 2 | To see me dragged to the scaffold? Don’t you know what care
4124 I, 2 | wall, whose green paint scaled off from the effects of
4125 I, 9 | foot, and the very plaster, scaling off with the frost, had
4126 III, 2 | were to carve a fowl with a scalpel; as if a magistrate—”~“Now
4127 II, 6 | the church.~“These young scamps!” murmured the priest, “
4128 III, 6 | little Berthe, to the great scandal of Madame Homais, wore stockings
4129 II, 4 | soirees at the chemist’s, his scandal-mongering and political opinions having
4130 III, 9 | each other. Bournisien was scandalized at such audacity; Homais
4131 I, 1 | in certain conscription scandals, and forced at this time
4132 I, 2 | then, like two knives, they scarified him with their reflections
4133 II, 1 | of the Saint-Jean hills scarred from top to bottom with
4134 I, 8 | faces, and gold stoppered scent-bottles were turned in partly-closed
4135 II, 6 | memories of her youth and school-days. She remembered the great
4136 I, 1 | played in playtime, worked in school-hours, was attentive in class,
4137 II, 13 | opinion; for pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had
4138 I, 9 | day at the same time the schoolmaster in a black skullcap opened
4139 III, 7 | Steuben’s “Esmeralda” and Schopin’s “Potiphar.” The ready-laid
4140 II, 5 | spangles of their tissue scintillate like little stars.~“How
4141 III, 2 | Bovary senior was plying her scissor without looking up, and
4142 III, 9 | himself stepped forward, scissors in hand. He trembled so
4143 III, 7 | cornea,” “opaque cornea,” “sclerotic,” “facies,” then asked him
4144 II, 7 | disappeared in the pale sclerotics like blue flowers in milk.~“
4145 II, 8 | how to wear the mask of a scoffer upon my face; and yet, how
4146 I, 9 | dresses. After she had well scolded her servant she gave her
4147 I, 9 | new way of arranging paper sconces for the candles, a flounce
4148 I, 1 | village drabs, and until a score of bad houses sent him back
4149 I, 8 | yourself ill,” she said scornfully.~He put down his cigar and
4150 III, 7 | What a wretch! what a scoundrel! what an infamy!” she said
4151 III, 1 | canvas, and threw out some scraps of paper that scattered
4152 II, 15 | to her exaggerated.~“She screams too loud,” said she, turning
4153 III, 7 | ornamented with Chinese screens, over the large curtains,
4154 II, 11 | wood, sheer-iron, leather, screws, and nuts had not been spared.~
4155 III, 11 | public places leprosy and scrofulas they had brought back from
4156 III, 7 | said the chemist, “is a scrofulous affection.”~And though he
4157 II, 1 | Laboratory” appears on a scroll above a glass door, which
4158 III, 7 | furniture, all shone with a scrupulous, English cleanliness; the
4159 III, 1 | virtue to the Virgin, the sculptures, the tombs—anything.~Then,
4160 II, 1 | end of a flight of steps; scutcheons9 blaze upon the door. It
4161 II, 1 | with ladders, poles, or scythes hung on to the branches.
4162 III, 11 | man more bandaged than a Scythian, and splendid as one of
4163 I, 3 | giddiness; she asked if sea-baths would do her any good; she
4164 III, 8 | thickets, the trees, the sea-rushes on the hill, the chateau
4165 II, 10 | in the great flame of the sea-sedges! She remembered the summer
4166 II, 5 | went off quite alone to the sea-shore, so that the customs officer,
4167 I, 1 | bearskin, shako, billycock hat, sealskin cap, and cotton night-cap;
4168 III, 6 | of the diligence to go in search of Leon. In vain the clerk
4169 II, 4 | stews and the hygiene of seasoning.~He talked aroma, osmazome,
4170 III, 2 | storm, opens itself from the seaweeds on its shores down to the
4171 I, 5 | to drive out, picked up a second-hand dogcart, which, with new
4172 III, 6 | she picked up nick-nacks secondhand, that, in default of anyone
4173 III, 9 | who is married to keep the secrets of the confessional, for
4174 II, 8 | received among its members—Section, Agriculture; Class, Pomological.
4175 II, 14 | she did not know; and the secular stories, relieved with religion,
4176 II, 9 | pedestal, in a place lofty, secure, immaculate. But I need
4177 III, 5 | yard gates.~Those who had secured seats the evening before
4178 III, 8 | there was a sort of white sediment sticking to the sides of
4179 III, 6 | Anyone’d think you wanted to seduce me!”~“You are a wretch!”
4180 II, 8 | social conventions, that seduces or exasperates them. Thus
4181 II, 8 | the year by the sowing of seed, the young man was explaining
4182 I, 6 | dear little brother, who seeks red fruit for you on trees
4183 II, 2 | themselves passing over the Seine, reach us sometimes all
4184 II, 7 | return, the lassitude that seizes you after everything was
4185 III, 6 | read—~“In virtue of the seizure in execution of a judgment.”~
4186 I, 2 | the cart-house. Charles selected one, cut it into two pieces
4187 III, 8 | Canivet, always retaining his self-command, nevertheless began to feel
4188 II, 11 | enjoying a good position and self-possessed, Charles’s colleague did
4189 III, 1 | beforehand he would shine. Self-possession depends on its environment.
4190 III, 1 | an incredible longing for self-sacrifice that he could not satisfy.~“
4191 II, 1 | face expressed nothing but self-satisfaction, and he appeared to take
4192 II, 13 | other, smiling with benign self-sufficiency, “the innumerable irregularities
4193 III, 9 | another, and formed a large semicircle in front of the fire. With
4194 I, 5 | eddying, floating, described semicircles in the air like a bird,
4195 II, 1 | and on the first floor a semicircular gallery, while the dome
4196 II, 14 | manufactured by troubadour seminarists or penitent blue-stockings.
4197 Ded | To Marie-Antoine-Jules Senard~Member of the Paris Bar,
4198 III, 11 | of her. She is poor, and sends her to a cotton-factory
4199 III, 2 | precaution, on account of Emma’s sensibility, Charles had begged Homais
4200 III, 1 | you are! Come, let us be sensible. I wish it.”~She showed
4201 I, 9 | confused in her desire the sensualities of luxury with the delights
4202 I, 9 | always saw him there, like a sentinel on duty, with his skullcap
4203 II, 8 | talents, drilled their men separately. One saw the red epaulettes
4204 II, 14 | heard in space the music of seraphic harps, and perceived in
4205 I, 7 | resented this easy calm, this serene heaviness, the very happiness
4206 I, 9 | empty, and then the same series of days recommenced. So
4207 III, 10 | chanting choristers.~The serpent-player was blowing with all his
4208 I, 8 | from over-filled nests of serpents, fell long green cords interlacing.
4209 I, 9 | on the halter, while the servant-girl brought a bundle of straw
4210 II, 8 | long file of country folk, servant-maids with blue stockings, flat
4211 I, 1 | bored him with a thousand servilities that had only estranged
4212 I, 2 | desire protested against the servility of his conduct; and he thought,
4213 II, 8 | bourgeois this half-century of servitude.~“Approach, venerable Catherine
4214 III, 6 | head clerk; it was time to settle down. So he gave up his
4215 III, 5 | burst forth freely on the seventh day beneath Leon’s caresses.
4216 II, 8 | tract, a memoir of over seventy-two pages, entitled, ‘Cider,
4217 III, 11 | without any success, so severely did Homais attack them.
4218 II, 5 | after her servant with more severity.~She took Berthe from nurse.
4219 I, 2 | Mademoiselle Emma tried to sew some pads. As she was a
4220 III, 1 | stomach some twenty large sewn volumes. They were works “
4221 II, 14 | those persons of different sexes united in a bewitching apartment,
4222 II, 15 | and the singers began the sextet. Edgar, flashing with fury,
4223 III, 11 | amazement this long-bearded, shabbily clothed, wild man, who wept
4224 II, 13 | drew herself up slowly, shading her eyes with her hand to
4225 I, 3 | harness-maker, and as the shaft of the cider-press wanted
4226 II, 5 | Tellier? He coughs so that he shakes his whole house, and I’m
4227 I, 1 | traces of the bearskin, shako, billycock hat, sealskin
4228 II, 8 | shone on the plates of the shakos, the folds of her gown fell
4229 III, 8 | reappeared, carrying one of those shaky machines that are heated
4230 II, 11 | persuaded him, lectured him, shamed him; but what finally decided
4231 III, 7 | crying—~“You are taking a shameless advantage of my distress,
4232 I, 8 | gaping folds a small oval shaped roll. The red claws of lobsters
4233 II, 8 | sentiment will, I am sure, be shared by you all), may I be permitted,
4234 II, 6 | her. The knives were not sharpened, nor the floors waxed; there
4235 I, 1 | the child’s head all her shattered, broken little vanities.
4236 II, 7 | dirty nails, and hasn’t shaved for three days. While he
4237 II, 9 | looked at herself in his shaving-glass. Often she even put between
4238 I, 2 | shoulder-blades; her bony figure was sheathed in her clothes as if they
4239 II, 12 | of stars; and the silver sheen seemed to writhe through
4240 II, 11 | large box covered in red sheep-leather, whose three brass clasps
4241 I, 2 | foraging on the top of it. The sheepfold was long, the barn high,
4242 II, 2 | over his plate. “That’s sheer modesty. Why, my dear fellow,
4243 II, 11 | and in which iron, wood, sheer-iron, leather, screws, and nuts
4244 II, 13 | fingers like a plate of sheet-iron. On the second floor she
4245 III, 5 | there were two of those pink shells in which one hears the murmur
4246 II, 2 | a matter of fact, we are sheltered from the north winds by
4247 I, 5 | occupied almost along the six shelves of a deal bookcase.~The
4248 II, 8 | In fact, the cowherds and shepherds had driven their beasts
4249 III, 5 | laughed, cried, sang, sent for sherbets, wanted to smoke cigarettes,
4250 III, 8 | covers itself as with a shield.~She went out. The walls
4251 I, 2 | sun shone, lighted up with shifting hues the white skin of her
4252 I, 8 | pallor of porcelain, the shimmer of satin, the veneer of
4253 III, 7 | and sharp, when the sun shines in a perfectly white sky.
4254 II, 5 | her face, crying on the shingle. Then, after her marriage,
4255 III, 5 | out what he was.~“He was a ship’s captain, my dear.”~Was
4256 I, 9 | something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing
4257 III, 8 | a tear that fell on his shirt-frill.~He tried to take Canivet
4258 III, 8 | was burning. Justin in his shirt-sleeves was carrying out a dish.~“
4259 I, 4 | with a worked belt.~And the shirts stood out from the chests
4260 III, 9 | was bare, at last began to shiver; he went in and sat down
4261 II, 11 | meditating.~At the unexpected shock of this phrase falling on
4262 II, 3 | the wall with six wooden shoe-pegs.~Emma’s child was asleep
4263 II, 1 | rolls of leather for the shoemaker, old iron for the farrier,
4264 III, 6 | clogs clattering on the shop-boards, he went up in front of
4265 III, 5 | town was then awakening. Shop-boys in caps were cleaning up
4266 II, 4 | and put away under the shop-counter the thick list shoes that
4267 II, 1 | jars that embellish his shop-front throw far across the street
4268 III, 5 | caps were cleaning up the shop-fronts, and women with baskets
4269 I, 6 | childhood had been spent in the shop-parlour of some business quarter,
4270 II, 3 | was there? Binet, a few shopkeepers, two or three publicans,
4271 III, 6 | medical students, and a shopman—what company for her! As
4272 I, 9 | bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it
4273 II, 6 | back, for, in order not to shorten his day’s labour, he preferred
4274 II, 3 | dancers who were expected shortly at the Rouen theatre.~“Are
4275 I, 9 | Now and again, while he shot out a long squirt of brown
4276 I, 2 | which hung down between her shoulder-blades; her bony figure was sheathed
4277 I, 9 | precious stones and the shoulder-knots of liveries.~The lad from
4278 II, 6 | where the kneeling boys were shouldering one another, and tumbling
4279 II, 5 | quickly and in a low voice, “I shouldn’t have to go far to find
4280 II, 6 | enclosure made for them. The shouts of their voices could be
4281 I, 2 | the chimney-corner. The shovel, tongs, and the nozzle of
4282 III, 11 | the bottom of things; he shrank from the proofs, and his
4283 III, 5 | orbits. The flesh hung in red shreds, and there flowed from it
4284 I, 7 | butterflies, chasing the shrew-mice, or nibbling the poppies
4285 I, 4 | that revealed anything. The shrewdest did not know what to make
4286 III, 8 | moaning grew louder; a hollow shriek burst from her; she pretended
4287 II, 7 | within her soul with soft shrieks such as the winter wind
4288 I, 4 | strings should sound more shrilly, then set off again, by
4289 II, 8 | timid bearing, who seemed to shrink within her poor clothes.
4290 III, 8 | other.~Nevertheless, not shrinking from what he called his
4291 I, 9 | gold lace melted; and the shriveled paper corollas, fluttering
4292 II, 12 | sank into this drunkenness, shrivelled up, drowned in it, like
4293 III, 5 | flagstones between green shrubs. It all smelt of absinthe,
4294 II, 13 | as quickly as possible to shun the temptation of seeing
4295 III, 6 | What do I care?” said he, shutting the door.~
4296 I, 1 | the servants are playing shuttle-cock at the doors, he opened
4297 II, 3 | well before? He was usually shy, and maintained that reserve
4298 III, 4 | came home he looked at her shyly, and at last could no longer
4299 III, 1 | with a vague fear at this shyness, more dangerous to her than
4300 III, 8 | We first had a feeling of siccity in the pharynx, then intolerable
4301 III, 8 | fixed, staring.~“Where the sickle blades have been, Nannette,
4302 I, 9 | her secret soul whiffs of sickliness. Charles was a slow eater;
4303 III, 8 | She was seized with a sickness so sudden that she had hardly
4304 III, 6 | pins that held together the side-pockets of his long green overcoat,
4305 II, 9 | his ears and a deerskin side-saddle.~Rodolphe had put on high
4306 II, 2 | the guests soon raised the siege. Madame Lefrancois was asleep
4307 II, 1 | like a cowherd taking a siesta by the water-side.~At the
4308 III, 5 | after a meadow there was a sign-post, next an elm, a barn, or
4309 III, 6 | sign—”~“I’ve enough of your signatures.”~“I will sell something.”~“
4310 III, 2 | She made a gesture that signified she did not know. Seeing
4311 I, 1(1) | quotation from the Aeneid signifying a threat.~
4312 I, 5 | and stayed leaning on the sill between two pots of geranium,
4313 III, 2 | making preserves; they are simmering; but they were about to
4314 I, 4 | all these folk, had come simply in a frock-coat of military
4315 II, 15 | the instruments and the singers began the sextet. Edgar,
4316 II, 13 | are not ignorant of the singularly aphrodisiac effect produced
4317 II, 3 | loudly against this name of a sinner. As to Monsieur Homais,
4318 II, 11 | despair. I have known great sinners, who, about to appear before
4319 I, 6 | confession, she invented little sins in order that she might
4320 II, 15 | Charles, who was slowly sipping his rum-sherbet, “they say
4321 III, 6 | pernicious creature, the siren, the monster, who dwells
4322 I, 4 | cart-shed. On it were four sirloins, six chicken fricassees,
4323 II, 2 | piano before some imposing site.”~“You play?” she asked.~“
4324 II, 7 | after his patients, she sits there botching socks. And
4325 III, 6 | of orgies and thrilling situations. Often, seized with fear,
4326 III, 5 | pieces of music, the sum of sixty-three francs.—Felicie Lempereur,
4327 I, 2 | it in small pots of all sizes. Some damp clothes were
4328 I, 1 | projecting from the attics, skeins of cotton were drying in
4329 I, 7 | sitting room two small pencil sketched by her that he had had framed
4330 I, 6 | tears and kisses, little skiffs by moonlight, nightingales
4331 III, 6 | her; but, seeing her so skilled, she must have passed, he
4332 I, 8 | herself again as formerly, skimming with her finger the cream
4333 II, 8 | Then they had left off the skins of beasts, had put on cloth,
4334 I, 8 | note, feet marked time, skirts swelled and rustled, hands
4335 III, 11 | the Bois-Guillaume hill, a skittish horse—” And then followed
4336 III, 7 | following the line of his bald skull.~After he had offered her
4337 III, 7 | he buried his chin in his sky-blue cravat, into which were
4338 II, 3 | stood in a row under the slab of the washstand, near a
4339 II, 7 | walking under the poplars, slackening his pace now and then as
4340 II, 8 | sympathies are persecuted, slandered; and if at length two poor
4341 II, 8 | reputation—”~“Oh, you are slandering yourself,” said Emma.~“No!
4342 III, 6 | capital; he even talked slang to dazzle the bourgeois,
4343 III, 10 | all on fire beneath the slanting rays of the sun sinking
4344 III, 10 | never forget that,” he said, slapping his thigh. “Never fear,
4345 II, 13 | the door and went in.~The slates threw straight down a heavy
4346 II, 11 | howling of some beast being slaughtered. Emma bit her wan lips,
4347 III, 9 | with, it enfranchised the slaves, introduced into the world
4348 III, 6 | bowing ironically. “While I’m slaving like a nigger, you go gallivanting
4349 II, 13 | her breast like blows of a sledge-hammer, grew faster and faster,
4350 II, 8 | expression of enjoyment and sleepiness.~The square as far as the
4351 II, 11 | him some good beef-tea, a slice of mutton, a piece of bacon,
4352 III, 5 | two long papers that he slid between his nails. At last,
4353 II, 6 | the room; but the curtain, sliding along the pole as though
4354 III, 11 | of fine paper under his slipper. He opened it and read: “
4355 I, 7 | Marquis asked Bovary for some slips; made it his business to
4356 I, 2 | granaries. The courtyard sloped upwards, planted with trees
4357 III, 7 | fingers red and pulpy like slugs, touching these pages against
4358 II, 6 | along!” said the chemist, smacking his lips. “The outings at
4359 II, 1 | man slightly marked with small-pox, in green leather slippers,
4360 II, 15 | desire. She now knew the smallness of the passions that art
4361 III, 6 | head was on fire, her eyes smarted, and her skin was ice-cold.
4362 II, 11 | barometer fell from the wall and smashed on the floor.~Charles sank
4363 I, 2 | Monsieur Bovary the elder, smashing a chair on the flags, accused
4364 III, 3 | black nets. They ate fried smelts, cream and cherries. They
4365 III, 5 | was a bronze cupid, who smirked as he bent his arm beneath
4366 II, 8 | the frock-coats and blue smocks. The neighbouring farmers’
4367 I, 7 | her between her knees, and smoothed the long delicate head,
4368 III, 7 | avoid any explanation he smote his forehead, crying—~“Morel
4369 III, 7 | Progress, my word! creeps at a snail’s pace. We are floundering
4370 III, 6 | her hips like a gliding snake. She went on tiptoe, barefooted,
4371 II, 8 | Lheureux. He was “a wheedler, a sneak.”~“There!” she said. “Look
4372 II, 13 | reread the letter with angry sneers. But the more she fixed
4373 III, 5 | nose, whose black nostrils sniffed convulsively. To speak to
4374 III, 9 | black boot, and began to snore.~They sat opposite one another,
4375 I, 1 | on his stomach, was soon snoring with his mouth wide open.
4376 II, 8 | in the earth with their snouts, calves were bleating, lambs
4377 II, 11 | of; it ends by making a snowball! And who knows? who knows?”~
4378 II, 13 | as soon as you hold out a snuff-box to him. He often even makes
4379 III, 2 | you are, dwelling with me snug as a parson, living in clover,
4380 II, 1 | words in large letters, “Mr. So-and-so’s pew.” Farther on, at a
4381 II, 13 | dear friend, any of those so-called remedies that, under the
4382 III, 2 | health, which was always so-so, always having ups and downs.
4383 II, 3 | to let me have a little soap, it would really be more
4384 III, 11 | member of several learned societies” (he was member of a single
4385 II, 1 | nothing that makes the society-man.”~“Yet they say he has parts,”
4386 III, 5 | between the leather and his sock. He took it out and read—~“
4387 II, 1 | God! Mine is the God of Socrates, of Franklin, of Voltaire,
4388 Ded | gratitude, which, how great soever it is, will never attain
4389 I, 8 | that has fallen behind the sofa?”~The gentleman bowed, and
4390 I, 2 | of blue wool were getting soiled by the fine dust that fell
4391 II, 15 | of her beauty, before the soiling of marriage and the disillusions
4392 I, 2 | instinctively. At first she solaced herself by allusions that
4393 III, 9 | been planed down, nailed, soldered, it was placed outside in
4394 II, 3 | and Strasbourg, of his soldier times, of the mistresses
4395 II, 11 | to lean on something more solid than love.~Charles, urged
4396 II, 14 | long gowns, retired into solitudes to shed at the feet of Christ
4397 I, 7 | spoke to her aloud as to somebody in trouble whom one is consoling.~
4398 III, 5 | last ended by copying a sonnet in a “Keepsake.” This was
4399 I, 3 | chimney made velvet of the soot at the back of the fireplace,
4400 I, 6 | surprised to feel herself soothed, and with no more sadness
4401 III, 9 | two letters, to prepare a soothing potion for Bovary, to invent
4402 II, 11 | privations of her soul, the sordidness of marriage, of the household,
4403 I, 6 | Joan of Arc, Heloise, Agnes Sorel, the beautiful Ferroniere,
4404 I, 2 | the evening, buried in a sorrowful reverie. She had loved him
4405 III, 1 | dash across Quatremares, Sotteville, La Grande-Chaussee, the
4406 III, 7 | his purse—~“Now there’s a sou; give me back two lairds,
4407 II, 2 | corner, where he had slept soundly since night set in.~Homais
4408 I, 8 | Spanish and Rhine wines, soups a la bisque and au lait
4409 II, 8 | thing on the earth, the source of heroism, of enthusiasm,
4410 I, 1 | private house; and here, soured, eaten up with regrets,
4411 II, 15 | the ardent races of the South. His vigorous form was tightly
4412 II, 2 | the southern side— by the south-eastern winds, which, having cooled
4413 II, 13 | Thus dallying with his souvenirs, he examined the writing
4414 III, 1 | and tube-roses, unevenly spaced out between moist grasses,
4415 II, 9 | longer stirred. There were spaces full of heather in flower,
4416 III, 10 | vigorously threw in a large spadeful; and the wood of the coffin,
4417 II, 5 | green twilight the gold spangles of their tissue scintillate
4418 II, 6 | reappeared, the hens clucked, sparrows shook their wings in the
4419 I, 1 | brought up hardily, like a Spartan, to give him a strong constitution.
4420 II, 13 | by an effort of will the spasm passed; then—~“It is nothing,”
4421 II, 11 | modulations, broken by sharp spasms like the far-off howling
4422 II, 1 | a nice young man! Never speaks a rough word!”~“Well, you
4423 I, 9 | inspired confidence. He was specially successful with catarrhs
4424 II, 8(13) | Specifically for that.~
4425 III, 1 | Sunday, as the inscription specifies; and below, this figure,
4426 II, 11 | operation.~“When one is a simple spectator,” he said, “the imagination,
4427 I, 1 | do better to give up all speculation.~For two hundred francs
4428 III, 10 | boots, and set out at full speed; and the whole of the way
4429 II, 3 | in bloom, and so were the speedwells, eglantines, thistles, and
4430 II, 6 | they thought it was under a spell. All their cows, I don’t
4431 II, 10 | fingers for some minutes. The spelling mistakes were interwoven
4432 I, 1 | had it dictated to him, spelt out, and re-read, at once
4433 III, 5 | he gathered that from her spendthrift habits.~Emma nevertheless
4434 II, 6 | at restaurants, all the spiced food, end by heating the
4435 III, 9 | looks like a thin web, as if spiders had spun it over. The sheet
4436 II, 15 | in his hands, and he even spilt three-fourths on the shoulders
4437 II, 1 | shaking of the block on which spinach was being chopped.~From
4438 III, 7 | took her wheel and began spinning flax.~“Oh, leave off!” she
4439 III, 9 | were still smoking, and spirals of bluish vapour blended
4440 III, 6 | heroism, weak, banal, more spiritless than a woman, avaricious
4441 III, 7 | liked to strike all men, to spit in their faces, to crush
4442 II, 8 | the town hall with buns spitted on their bayonets, and the
4443 III, 3 | never ceased its gentle splash against the water.~Once
4444 II, 6 | notary.~Homais bend over the splash-board, and in a voice broken by
4445 I, 5 | which, with new lamps and splashboard in striped leather, looked
4446 III, 1 | filled full her eyes with the splendours of the tabernacle. She breathed
4447 I, 2 | bistouries. In order to make some splints a bundle of laths was brought
4448 I, 9 | gurgling noise with every spoonful; and, as he was getting
4449 III, 6 | drew six small silver-gilt spoons from her bag (they were
4450 III, 5 | there till death, like two spouses eternally young. They said “
4451 II, 1 | riverwards. It is seem from afar sprawling along the banks like a cowherd
4452 I, 8 | bore crowns, or bunches, or sprays of mytosotis, jasmine, pomegranate
4453 II, 10 | of six months, when the spring-time came, they were to one another
4454 II, 10 | call her, Rodolphe threw a sprinkle of sand at the shutters.
4455 III, 10 | ecclesiastic passed the holy water sprinkler to his neighbour. This was
4456 III, 10 | the rye and colza were sprouting, little dewdrops trembled
4457 III, 9 | thin web, as if spiders had spun it over. The sheet sunk
4458 III, 8 | Neufchatel, and Justin so spurred Bovary’s horse that he left
4459 I, 9 | beds, received the tepid spurt of blood-lettings in his
4460 I, 1 | name.~“Again!”~The same sputtering of syllables was heard,
4461 II, 10 | the window, and the lad squatted down on a footstool, while
4462 II, 7 | afraid of anything; a kind of squirrel, just as he is who climbs
4463 I, 4 | As there were not enough stable-boys to unharness all the carriages,
4464 II, 12 | So little by little the stable-man took up his work again.
4465 II, 11 | called Hippolyte Tautain, stableman for the last twenty-five
4466 II, 2 | emanations, unites them into a stack, so to say, and combining
4467 II, 13 | at his bureau under the stag’s head that hung as a trophy
4468 II, 14 | set out. He muddled up the stage-boxes with the gallery, the pit
4469 III, 5 | faded gowns going in at the stage-door.~It was hot in the room,
4470 II, 7 | room; and as Emma stooping, staggered a little as she stretched
4471 I, 8 | chignon trembled on its mobile stalk, with artificial dewdrops
4472 II, 8 | holding by the halter prancing stallions that neighed with dilated
4473 II, 12 | their exasperation. Emma was stamping her feet as she repeated—~“
4474 III, 5 | near the fountain that stands there. It, is the quarter
4475 II, 12 | their silk gowns, warm and star-spangled as the nights they would
4476 II, 8 | in the lovely weather the starched caps, the golden crosses,
4477 II, 11 | chemist, and after three fresh starts, he had a kind of box made
4478 III, 8 | fumigation. At least, this was stated in a very fine report drawn
4479 II, 1 | Yonville-l’Abbaye has remained stationary in spite of its “new outlet.”
4480 III, 7 | linen spread across props, stationed themselves comfortably for
4481 II, 1 | confessional forms a pendant to a statuette of the Virgin, clothed in
4482 III, 5 | his shoulders, and an old staved-in beaver, turned out like
4483 III, 10 | bearers slipped their three staves under the coffin, and everyone
4484 II, 3 | and her figure without stays turning softly on her hips;
4485 III, 6 | blood standing her in good stead. Then on her journey to
4486 II, 12 | good young fellow with a steady business; he would make
4487 I, 2 | size, shone like polished steel, while along the walls hung
4488 I, 6 | white excoriations on a steel-grey ground, swans are swimming
4489 I, 7 | curtains to ride slowly up steep road, listening to the song
4490 II, 1 | pilfering crumbs of bread steeped in cider on the threshold.
4491 II, 1 | forest of Argueil, with the steeps of the Saint-Jean hills
4492 II, 7 | on the snow of a Russian steppe. She sprang towards him,
4493 II, 8 | were lowered. Then was seen stepping down from the carriage a
4494 II, 7 | wind like dead boughs, her sterile virtue, her lost hopes,
4495 III, 3 | metronome, while at the stern the rudder that trailed
4496 II, 13 | anyone believe that a simple sternutation could produce such ravages
4497 III, 7 | the oak-stained paper hung Steuben’s “Esmeralda” and Schopin’
4498 II, 4 | advice on the manipulation of stews and the hygiene of seasoning.~
4499 II, 6 | return the remainder of the sticking-plaster, he found his wife standing
4500 III, 9 | several places. At last, stiffening himself against emotion,
4501 II, 3 | him the thinker did not stifle the man of sentiment; he
4502 II, 3 | those preparations that stimulate the tenderness of mothers,
4503 III, 9 | little without knowing why, stimulated by that vague gaiety that
4504 I, 6 | literature for its passional stimulus, rebelled against the mysteries