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...Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Trans... ...he French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French by by by by by Eleanor Marx-Avel... ...unity university. 3 Flaubert Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French by Eleanor Marx-Aveling TO MARIE-ANTOINE-JULES SENARD Membe... ...er nerves, her chest, her liver. The noise of footsteps made her ill; when people left her, solitude became odious to her; if they came back, it was d... ...eath of his wife had not served him ill in his business, since for a month people had been saying, “The poor young man! what a loss!” His name had bee... ...called, and the internal management of the farm, suited him less than most people. He did not will- ingly take his hands out of his pockets, and did n... ... his handkerchiefs he used up his daughter-in-law’s whole supply of eau-de-cologne. The latter did not at all dislike his company . He had knocked abo...

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...emeanour as I meet on the Continent. It goes no deeper than the demeanour, people say. I can only answer that I have not found that shallowness in my ... ...ssed by me, as she did by my father, and seemed to receive as much emotion from one embrace as from the other. “He’ll go out by the packet of the 1st ... ... sail, and felt still very like a bale of goods. I had received one letter from her, in which she merely stated that her papa would have a room ready ... ...all the ordinary hospitalities. On the next day we returned to Puerto, and from thence getting across to St. Lucar and Bonanza, found ourselves on the... ...to make an Englishman understand them. One learns to know all this sort of people by being with them in the country, but one can’t explain.” “No; exac... ...d, with the sweet- est, prettiest smile, “we don’t do that here; only when people are married.” And she made this allusion to mar- ried life out, open... ...d beauty of form and colour does it possess anything equal to the choir of Cologne; but, for combined magnificence and awe-compelling grandeur, I rega...

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... all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, w... ...n riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from indi- vidual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our ... ...hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded b... ...ormation in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it; a v... ...nd decorum of their dance. Thus of the genius of 12 Essays one remarkable people we have a fourfold representa- tion: and to the senses what more unl... ...nt anew the orders and the ornaments of archi- tecture, as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive abodes. The Doric temple preserves th... ...grees, spending a year and a day in St. Michael’s Square, being steeped in Cologne water, and perfumed, and dined, and introduced, and properly ground...

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... son, although that son was an only child. Paul de Manerville, coming home from the college of Vendome in 1810, lived under close paternal discipline ... ...nly which required a persistent will. Capable of doing great things to fly from persecution, he would never have prevented it by systematic opposition... ...ve killed the poor youth if the death of the old man had not delivered him from this tyranny at the moment when it was becoming intolerable. Paul foun... ...ntly before his mind. “Marriage,” he said to himself, “is disagreeable for people without means, but half its troubles disappear before wealth.” Every... ...tact of continual intimacy, which, of course, does not exist between young people before they marry, and will never exist so long as our present socia... ...s alternating with those when the sun shines and the fields are gay. Young people, however, exhibit fine weather and no clouds. Later they attribute t... ...r of a merchant, will certainly not open the doors of the chapter-house of Cologne to him!” “She is grand-niece to the Duke of Casa-Reale.” “Through t...

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...ad leaves, in which she was accustomed to perform these avocations -hidden from human sight at other times in a table drawer—and went methodically to ... ... a growing scent, Miss T ox said. There was a tiny blink of sun peeping in from the great street round the cor- ner, and the smoky sparrows hopped ove... ...or had re- turned home to his lodgings opposite, and had just bowed to her from his window. What other reason could Miss T ox have for connecting Mr D... ...laim to be considered a person of superior intellect—though I believe some people have been extraordinary enough to con- sider me so; one so little hu... ...and I really don’ t know, as Paul is going to be very grand, and these are people of condition, that she would have been quite presentable, and might ... ...oo seri- ous! Take me downstairs, like an angel, and let us see what these people intend to give us for dinner. Bless you, dear Dombey!’ Cleopatra ski... ...m, in these days of down, and he wore kid gloves and smelt of the water of Cologne. They were assembled in Cleopatra’s room The Serpent of old Nile (n...