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5005 III, 11 | various works of public utility, such as” (and he recalled
5006 II, 8 | where they sat down in red utrecht velvet arm-chairs that had
5007 II, 6 | his examination before the vacation.~When the moment for the
5008 III, 4 | nursing their own children and vaccination.”~So Charles returned once
5009 III, 11 | spite of the laws against vagabondage, the approaches to our great
5010 III, 11 | of the Middle Ages, when vagabonds were permitted to display
5011 III, 1 | Countess de Breze, Duchess de Valentinois, born in 1499, died in 1566,
5012 I, 9 | heart.~Charles prescribed valerian and camphor baths. Everything
5013 III, 5 | him into her service as valet-de-chambre19, and if the privation
5014 III, 6 | strong and beautiful, a valiant nature, full at once of
5015 III, 6 | had, while he carried a valise in one hand and the foot-warmer
5016 II, 6 | month Hivert carried boxes, valises, parcels for him from Yonville
5017 I, 2 | besides a share in a boat valued at six thousand francs,
5018 III, 1 | church like the stones, would vanish like a vapour through that
5019 I, 1 | shattered, broken little vanities. She dreamed of high station;
5020 II, 8 | hold forth a hand to the vanquished, and will fraternise with
5021 III, 1 | Pierre de Breze, lord of Varenne and of Brissac, grand marshal
5022 I, 7 | undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable
5023 II, 13 | style of the letters, as varied as their orthography. They
5024 I, 8 | there were cracks in the varnish, and from all these great
5025 II, 11 | It was all very well to vary the potions and change the
5026 III, 5 | in the presence of this vastness, and expanded with tumult
5027 I, 8 | Artois, in the days of the Vaudreuil hunting-parties at the Marquis
5028 III, 11 | accompanied by an artist, one Vaufrylard, a friend of Bridoux’s,
5029 I, 7 | the country. Amidst the vegetation of the ditch there are long
5030 III, 8 | been subjected to a too vehement fumigation. At least, this
5031 III, 5 | the rumbling of the empty vehicle, it had a far-off sound
5032 II, 7 | pressing his finger on the vein.~The basin was beginning
5033 II, 5 | half-open door; bewailed the velvets she had not, the happiness
5034 II, 12 | Because lips libertine and venal had murmured such words
5035 I, 8 | the shimmer of satin, the veneer of old furniture, and that
5036 II, 8 | of servitude.~“Approach, venerable Catherine Nicaise Elizabeth
5037 II, 8 | ought to have put up two Venetian masts with something rather
5038 I, 1 | Rouen a wretched little Venice, flowed beneath him, between
5039 II, 7 | and then. I’ll send them venison, poultry; I’ll have myself
5040 II, 3 | infringed the law of the 19th Ventose, year xi., article I, which
5041 III, 8 | the chemist, who was still venturing the hypothesis, “It is perhaps
5042 II, 14 | You are as lovely as a Venus. You’ll cut a figure at
5043 I, 1 | to make him conjugate his verb at the foot of a tree. The
5044 I, 9 | the lining—a mixture of verbena and tobacco. Whose was it?
5045 III, 8 | Canivet, so arrogant and so verbose at the time of the clubfoot,
5046 II, 9 | fresh perfume of sap, of verdure, of the open air. At this
5047 II, 1 | silver.~Before us, on the verge of the horizon, lie the
5048 I, 9 | eyes in an atmosphere of vermilion. The many lives that stirred
5049 II, 14 | extravagance. But not being much versed in these matters, as soon
5050 II, 7 | just as he is who climbs to vertiginous heights to shake down nuts.
5051 III, 8 | tinglings; of Lheureux, who had vertigo; of Lestiboudois, who had
5052 III, 1 | and tossing about like a vessel.~Once in the middle of the
5053 III, 11 | pyramid, then a Temple of Vesta, a sort of rotunda, or else
5054 III, 7 | with salt butter; a last vestige of Gothic food that goes
5055 III, 10 | Monsieur Bournisien, in full vestments, was singing in a shrill
5056 II, 6 | short, balancing the heavy vestry key between his two fingers.~
5057 II, 6 | fine powder, despite the vestry-broom.~The children in list shoes
5058 II, 8 | old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers
5059 I, 8 | of St. Peter’s, Tivoly, Vesuvius, Castellamare, and Cassines,
5060 II, 14 | back; besides, it would vex madame in her convalescence;
5061 II, 14 | Berthe cried, she was not vexed. She had made up her mind
5062 I, 8 | linen, of the fumes of the viands, and the odour of the truffles.
5063 I, 1 | after administering the viaticum to some sick person in the
5064 II, 15 | and felt all her being vibrate as if the violin bows were
5065 II, 10 | darkness, and sometimes, vibrating with one movement, they
5066 I, 6 | always answered Monsieur le Vicaire’s difficult questions. Living
5067 II, 1 | of faith of the ‘Savoyard Vicar,’ and the immortal principles
5068 III, 2 | crossed arms—~“Have you every vice, then, little wretch? Take
5069 II, 1 | round hand, printed hand: “Vichy, Seltzer, Barege waters,
5070 II, 2 | Neufchatel, Yonville, and vicinity.”~For two hours and a half
5071 II, 8 | pacific arenas, where the victor in leaving it will hold
5072 II, 8 | struck the animals, indolent victors, going back to the stalls,
5073 III, 6 | begrudged Emma this constant victory. He even strove not to love
5074 III, 1 | of the Customs, at the “Vieille Tour,” the “Trois Pipes,”
5075 II, 3 | he talked about Berlin, Vienna, and Strasbourg, of his
5076 III, 11 | denounced abuses, aired new views. That was his phrase. Homais
5077 II, 11 | spirits who consecrate their vigils to the amelioration or to
5078 I, 6 | she looked at the pious vignettes with their azure borders
5079 II, 15 | races of the South. His vigorous form was tightly clad in
5080 III, 10 | water, with the right he vigorously threw in a large spadeful;
5081 I, 7 | then in the evening on the villa-terraces above, hand in hand to look
5082 II, 4 | all kinds of preserves, vinegars, and sweet liqueurs; he
5083 II, 11 | Emma closed the door so violently that the barometer fell
5084 II, 15 | of the basses grumbling, violins squeaking, cornets trumpeting,
5085 III, 8 | cantharides, upas, the manchineel, vipers.~“I have even read that
5086 I, 6 | Six~She had read “Paul and Virginia,” and she had dreamed of
5087 II, 7 | prettier, especially fresher. Virginie is decidedly beginning to
5088 I, 6 | of the leaves, the pure virgins ascending to heaven, and
5089 I, 1 | ideas, he had a certain virile idea of childhood on which
5090 II, 8 | the reward of your silent virtues, and be assured that the
5091 I, 6 | the most part as counts or viscounts.~She trembled as she blew
5092 III, 9 | beginning to disappear in that viscous pallor that looks like a
5093 III, 8 | mystical transports, with the visions of eternal beatitude that
5094 I, 3 | she borrowed. When Charles visited the farmer, the preparations
5095 II, 8 | nothing, because of the visor of his helmet, that fell
5096 II, 8 | infinity before him in the vistas of the future.~He saw her
5097 II, 8 | motionless that the whole vital portion of his person seemed
5098 II, 10 | give me half an ounce of vitriol.”~“Justin,” cried the druggist, “
5099 III, 2 | taken up the thread of his vituperations. However, he was growing
5100 II, 5 | white hair made even more vivid the keen brilliance of his
5101 I, 6 | had been so sure of her vocation, perceived with great astonishment
5102 III, 1 | law irritated him, other vocations attracted him, and his mother
5103 II, 5 | grafted upon his southern volubility the cunning of the Cauchois.
5104 III, 8 | movement might make her vomit. But she felt an icy cold
5105 II, 13 | head, the limbs; she had vomitings, in which Charles thought
5106 III, 6 | garus at Bridoux’.”~Leon vowed that he must get back to
5107 II, 6 | preparations than for a voyage around the world, he put
5108 II, 8 | looks at a traveller who has voyaged over strange lands, and
5109 II, 13 | produced by the Nepeta cataria, vulgarly called catmint, on the feline
5110 II, 11 | caudication, together with that waddling of the lumbar regions which,
5111 II, 14 | from the holy pyx the white wafer; and it was fainting with
5112 I, 1 | mother with red ink and three wafers; then he went over his history
5113 I, 4 | two-wheeled cars, old open gigs, waggonettes with leather hoods, and
5114 II, 1 | occasionally used by the Rouen wagoners on their way to Flanders.
5115 II, 6 | her shoulder against the wainscot.~“The doctor is not here?”
5116 II, 8 | with broad bows. All the waist-coats were of velvet, double-breasted;
5117 III, 5 | bearing some shaking scenery. Waiters in aprons were sprinkling
5118 I, 5 | enlarged, especially when, on waking up, she opened and shut
5119 II, 12 | storks’ nests. They went at a walking-pace because of the great flag-stones,
5120 III, 1 | old arm-chair; the yellow wall-paper formed, as it were, a golden
5121 II, 1 | that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in
5122 II, 3 | recognized the house by an old walnut-tree which shaded it.~Low and
5123 III, 5 | pistachio-creams, and played him waltzes after dinner. So he thought
5124 I, 8 | how to waltz. Everyone was waltzing, Mademoiselle d’Andervilliers
5125 III, 6 | stars, naive resources of a waning passion striving to keep
5126 II, 8 | peace respected as well as war, industry, commerce, agriculture,
5127 II, 15 | murmur of a fountain or the warbling of birds. Lucie attacked
5128 II, 15 | Charrettes, full of large black warehouses where they made casks.~For
5129 III, 7 | for others. A spirit of warfare transformed her. She would
5130 III, 5 | man who must have been of warlike nature and accustomed to
5131 I, 8 | she replied.~Then they warmed themselves in the kitchen
5132 II, 1 | with a gold tassel, was warming his back at the chimney.
5133 III, 6 | threepence-halfpenny a yard, and warranted fast colours! And yet they
5134 I, 3 | some rabbit-shooting in the warrens to amuse you a bit.”~Charles
5135 II, 3 | row under the slab of the washstand, near a bottle of oil with
5136 II, 10 | down some figures in his waste-book.~“Why didn’t you bring her?”
5137 I, 9 | hairdresser, lamented his wasted calling, his hopeless future,
5138 I, 9 | a bunch of charms on the watch-chains; she bought some charms.
5139 I, 2 | under the branches. The watchdogs in their kennels barked,
5140 II, 8 | double-breasted; all the watches had, at the end of a long
5141 II, 3 | accomplishments; he painted in water-colours, could read the key of G,
5142 II, 3 | reeds or on the leaf of a water-lily an insect with fine legs
5143 II, 1 | Andelle after turning three water-mills near its mouth, where there
5144 III, 6 | where; in the midst of watercress and asparagus, three torpid
5145 II, 1 | at the foot of a valley watered by the Rieule, a little
5146 I, 7 | and the muffled sound of a waterfall; at sunset on the shores
5147 II, 2 | lakes, the charm of the waterfalls, the gigantic effect of
5148 III, 9 | their yellow flame.~The watering on the satin gown shimmered
5149 II, 15 | that of the breaths, the waving of the fans, made the air
5150 I, 2 | a thick chignon, with a wavy movement at the temples
5151 III, 1 | roofs.~She rose to light two wax-candles on the drawers, then she
5152 II, 13 | motionless, and white as a waxen image. Two streams of tears
5153 III, 2 | she cried with affected waywardness—~“No, I will go!”~“How good
5154 II, 6 | These first warm days weaken one most remarkably, don’
5155 II, 8 | of sadness or of emotion weakened that pale look. In her constant
5156 II, 3 | He even says that cider weakens him.”~“Do make haste, Mere
5157 III, 1 | as on the fourth; and the wealthy woman seems to have, about
5158 II, 8 | their dry lips tremble, and wearily, without an effort, their
5159 II, 12 | night-animal, hedgehog or weasel, setting out on the hunt,
5160 I, 2 | long teeth; wore in all weathers a little black shawl, the
5161 I, 7 | the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness
5162 I, 4 | the initials of the newly wedded pair in nonpareil arabesques.
5163 III, 9 | her to be buried in her wedding-dress, with white shoes, and a
5164 II, 10 | asking for a ring—a real wedding-ring, in sign of an eternal union.
5165 II, 7 | front of the chemist. On Wednesdays his shop was never empty,
5166 I, 6 | reading in the study. On week-nights it was some abstract of
5167 II, 8 | should like to see written up weekly at the door of the town
5168 III, 1 | this kneeling woman who weeps is his spouse, Diane de
5169 I, 9 | hearth, felt her boredom weigh more heavily than ever.
5170 III, 7 | added.~Emma did not seem to welcome this hope with all the joy
5171 II, 8 | greater devotion to the public welfare, more intelligence, in a
5172 II, 1 | and, all the year round, well-blacked boots, that had two parallel
5173 II, 3 | Yonville he was considered “well-bred.” He listened to the arguments
5174 I, 9 | ready, easy-chairs, and a well-dressed woman, charming with an
5175 II, 12 | for he wanted Berthe to be well-educated, to be accomplished, to
5176 I, 9 | curtains and thick carpets, well-filled flower-stands, a bed on
5177 III, 6 | an elegant toilette in a well-furnished apartment, and as to bodily
5178 III, 7 | berries.”~The sight of the well-known objects that defiled before
5179 I, 7 | the patients’ accounts in well-phrased letters that had no suggestion
5180 I, 8 | buckle of a garter above a well-rounded calf.~The Marquis opened
5181 I, 8 | on bare arms.~The hair, well-smoothed over the temples and knotted
5182 I, 2 | Rouault must be one of the well-to-do farmers.~He had broken his
5183 II, 2 | on the one side, from the west winds by the St. Jean range
5184 II, 1 | friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and
5185 I, 9 | write to; she dusted her what-not, looked at herself in the
5186 II, 8 | blamed Lheureux. He was “a wheedler, a sneak.”~“There!” she
5187 III, 1 | and, with that smile of wheedling benignity assumed by ecclesiastics
5188 II, 14 | slow. When it was fine they wheeled her arm-chair to the window
5189 III, 5 | without, on the crupper of the wheeler; penetrating into the interior
5190 II, 10 | and sometimes the bees wheeling round in the light struck
5191 II, 1 | blacksmith’s forge and then a wheelwright’s, with two or three new
5192 | wherein
5193 II, 10 | turn up. But this anxiety whetted his pleasure, and, all alone
5194 I, 9 | rose from her secret soul whiffs of sickliness. Charles was
5195 II, 1 | that the should become whimsical or even peevish, I can understand;
5196 II, 14 | by turns threatening and whining, so managed that Bovary
5197 II, 8 | coachman in a white hat was whipping lustily. Binet had only
5198 II, 11 | that your work, that the whirl of the world may have kept
5199 II, 6 | like the down of a bird whirled by the tempest, and it was
5200 I, 8 | Each animal in its stall whisked its tail when anyone went
5201 II, 3 | over them both. It was the whisper of the soul, deep, continuous,
5202 II, 8 | commotion on the platform, long whisperings, much parleying. At last
5203 I, 8 | tables, watching them play whist, without understanding anything
5204 II, 12 | and with his usual low whistle—~“Good! we shall see! we
5205 III, 8 | timepiece, “nor silver-gilt whistles for one’s whips,” and she
5206 II, 5 | heap of lime in order to whiten his boots. At the reproaches
5207 III, 11 | Oh, stay, stay!”~But at Whitsuntide she ran away from Yonville,
5208 I, 1 | had in loco parentis4 a wholesale ironmonger in the Rue Ganterie,
5209 II, 8 | understand, which are the wholesome and those that are deleterious,
5210 III, 5 | theatres, public-houses, and whores. Often a cart would pass
5211 II, 6 | a lamp was burning, the wick of a night-light in a glass
5212 II, 1 | suspended over his head in its wicker cage: this was the chemist.~“
5213 II, 3 | s child was asleep in a wicker-cradle. She took it up in the wrapping
5214 II, 13 | it in her prayers.”~The wicks of the candles flickered.
5215 I, 9 | spoken when it lay upon the wide-mantelled chimneys between flower-vases
5216 III, 7 | seemed to be listening with wide-open eyes, as if he did not understand.
5217 I, 9 | her husband open his eyes widely.~Would this misery last
5218 III, 1 | reappearing before her seemed to widen out her life; it was like
5219 II, 15 | spurs of his soft boots, widening out at the ankles. He, she
5220 II, 3 | the warm season the bank, wider than at other times, showed
5221 I, 8 | the wearisome time of his widowhood, kept him company many an
5222 III, 6 | breeches, red stockings, a club wig, and three-cornered hat
5223 III, 5 | hissing in the midst of wigs and pomades. The smell of
5224 III, 8 | his arms, and gazed at him wildly, imploringly, half-fainting
5225 I, 9 | pleasures, with all the wildness that she did not know, but
5226 II, 14 | stronger she displayed more wilfulness. First, she found occasion
5227 III, 9 | said to himself that by willing it with all his force he
5228 I, 3 | most people. He did not willingly take his hands out of his
5229 I, 1 | Thanks, no doubt, to the willingness he showed, he had not to
5230 III, 11 | always stuck to the weeping willow, which he looked upon as
5231 II, 5 | she seemed to you like a winding-sheet spread out before the door.
5232 III, 10 | they disappeared in the windings of the path; but the great
5233 II, 6 | Berthe, who was swinging a windmill roof downwards at the end
5234 I, 5 | straw hat hanging from the window-fastener, and many another thing
5235 II, 6 | her face pressed against a window-pane; Leon held his cap in his
5236 III, 9 | bluish vapour blended at the window-sash with the fog that was coming
5237 II, 9 | Felicite drumming on the windowpanes to amuse little Berthe.
5238 II, 1 | of straggling buildings, wine-presses, cart-sheds and distilleries
5239 I, 2 | horse, then got down to wipe his boots in the grass and
5240 III, 8 | exercised it with enthusiasm and wisdom. Everyone in his hospital
5241 II, 8 | hand at once so firm and wise the chariot of the state
5242 II, 5 | she did not understand the wishes to which she submitted without
5243 II, 5 | Justin dried his shoes with a wisp of straw. But a knife was
5244 III, 8 | plunged in her hand, and withdrawing it full of a white powder,
5245 II, 8 | open, as if to bear humble witness for themselves of so much
5246 II, 13 | had the atrocious pain of witnessing your remorse, of sharing
5247 III, 11 | in the immensity of his woe.~Everyone, he thought, must
5248 II, 3 | cousins, weeping for other’s woes, letting everything go in
5249 I, 2 | of the great cold, of the wolves that infested the fields
5250 II, 12 | least scandalised of the women-folk. Many other things displeased
5251 III, 6 | tangible, that she palpitated wondering, without, however, the power
5252 III, 8 | feet peeped out. She looked wonderingly at the disordered room,
5253 I, 4 | that evoked loud cries of wonderment. To begin with, at its base
5254 I, 6 | that she at last felt that wondrous passion which, till then,
5255 II, 7 | the interruption of every wonted movement, the sudden cessation
5256 I, 5 | with a stove, now used as a wood-house, cellar, and pantry, full
5257 II, 9 | yesterday, in the shed of some woodenshoe maker. The walls were of
5258 I, 9 | one saw the many-footed woodlice crawling. Under the spruce
5259 II, 2 | penetrating with a crude light the woof of her gowns, the fine pores
5260 I, 7 | saw him at his door in his wool-work slippers.~He came home late—
5261 II, 7 | cotton checks, blankets, and woollen stockings were sold, together
5262 II, 8 | of washing the grease of wools had so encrusted, roughened,
5263 III, 10 | feelings, Homais had so worded it that it was impossible
5264 I, 2 | time before she found her work-case, her father grew impatient;
5265 I, 5 | enough to treat some little work-girl who would have become his
5266 III, 11 | if his eyes fell upon the workbox, a ribbon lying about, or
5267 III, 2 | and sat down with their workboxes by the waterside under the
5268 III, 5 | predicting they would end in the workhouse. But it was Bovary’s fault.
5269 II, 8 | landlord, the business-man, the working-man himself, falling asleep
5270 III, 7 | In the twilight of the workshop the white dust was flying
5271 III, 8 | that had so coveted all worldly pomp; then upon the nostrils,
5272 II, 14 | travellers—a good old house, with worm-eaten balconies that creak in
5273 I, 3 | their insides swarming with worms, dead, and an end of it.
5274 II, 11 | were rarely seen at divine worship. How many years is it since
5275 III, 5 | she dozed a little in her wrapper. Often, as he did her hair,
5276 II, 3 | wicker-cradle. She took it up in the wrapping that enveloped it and began
5277 III, 6 | archduchess.~Once, however, a wretched-looking man, rubicund and bald,
5278 II, 1 | was chasing in order to wring their necks.~A man slightly
5279 III, 6 | to get any?” said Emma, wringing her hands.~“Bah! when one
5280 II, 8 | borderless cap was more wrinkled than a withered russet apple.
5281 I, 6 | more sadness at heart than wrinkles on her brow.~The good nuns,
5282 III, 6 | of law, and notably by a writ of distraint on her furniture
5283 II, 12 | the silver sheen seemed to writhe through the very depths
5284 II, 14 | arrogance of the polemic writings displeased her by their
5285 II, 1 | of the reign of Charles X. The wooden roof is beginning
5286 III, 1 | was minister under Louis XII. He did a great deal for
5287 III, 5 | like the portraits of Louis XIII. She wanted to see his lodgings;
5288 I, 6 | painted in honour of Louis XIV.~In the music class, in
5289 II, 2 | with regard to this poor Yanoda who has run away, you will
5290 II, 5 | regretted extremely not having a yard-stick such as Monsieur Binet possessed
5291 II, 5 | Monsieur Leon, gone to see a yarn-mill that was being built in
5292 III, 6 | a lie. Every smile hid a yawn of boredom, every joy a
5293 I, 7 | the graceful animal, who yawned slowly, she softened, and
5294 | ye
5295 I, 1 | bursts of shrill voices (they yelled, barked, stamped, repeated “
5296 I, 8 | satin shoes whose soles were yellowed with the slippery wax of
5297 III, 5 | periwinkle plant, clipped yews, and a swing. Then on a
5298 II, 8 | anticipate the crowd, and the two yoked jades, trapesing in their
5299 III, 9 | news from him; and when the Yonvillers had all heard his story
5300 II, 8 | nose. His lieutenant, the youngest son of Monsieur Tuvache,
5301 | yourselves
5302 II, 14 | coarse holland shirt, in that youthful heart open to the emanations
5303 II, 3 | Galsuinde pretty well, and Yseult or Leocadie still better.~
5304 I, 8 | Jean-Antoine d’Andervilliers d’Yvervonbille, Count de la Vaubyessard