"Would this misery lascfor ever? Was there no escape? Was she not quite as good s all the lucky women? She had seen ochesses at La Vaubyestard with clumsier waists and com- ‘moner ways than she; the cursed the injustice of Goud. She propped her head against the wall and wept, for envy of those = hectic Hives, the shameless pleasure-seeking, the masked balls, and all the wild delights, unknown to her, that they must afford. : 3 She grew pale, and had palpitations of the heart. Charles prescribed valerian and camphor-baths. Everything they tried seemed only to upset her the more. Some days slic pratled away with a feverish volubil until suddenly her excitement would give place to a condition ‘of torpor, in which she lay without speaking or stirring, She revived herself then by sprinkling a bottle of eau-de-Cologne over her ars. “As she was always complaining about Tostes, Charles ima- gined that there mast be something in the locality to account for herilloess. The ide’ grew on him, and he began seriously to think of going away and setting up elsewhere. She then started taking vinegar to make herself stim, con- tracted a hard litle cough and completely lost her appetite. Te was not easy for Charles to leave Tostes just as he had Deggun to get ‘wel in’ aftera stay of four years. Yer, if it must be .. ! He took her to Rouen to see his old master, Yes, her trouble was a nervous one, change of air was what she needed: ‘Charles cast about him and eventually heard of a substan tial market-town in the Neufehétel district, called Yonville- Abbaye, whose doctor, a Polish refugee, had decamped the previous week. He wrote to the chemist there asking him the ‘ize of the population, the distance from the nearest competi tor, how much hie predecessor had made in a year, and so on. ‘The replies being satisfactory, he decided to move in the spring if Emna's health had not improved. ‘One day as she was tidying a drawer in preparation for her = deplirture, she pricked her finger on something sharp. It was ‘one of the wires of her wedding bouquet. The orange-blossom ‘was yellow with dust, the silver-trimmed satin ribbon frayed at the edges. She tossed i into the fire. It flared up like dey straw. Then it looked like «red bush buming on the embers, slowly disintegrating. She watched it burn. The litle card= board berries popped, the wires twisted, the braid melted away and the dirivelled paper petals hovered like black butter~ flies at the back of the fireplace and finally vanished up the ‘chimney. ‘When they left Tostes in March, Madame Bovary was pregnant.‘ f {saw three ‘ smother saw thera too, and she said it vpeantadeath. Iwas surprised ather saying this, as ahe was nota supers varne woman; but 1 suppose she was melancholy for as Ihave noticed, eae sane dapcenad inspite moc key to consider ba omen. | ut was bly fightened by, although Idd nor show it becase of the young children: if they saw me king 27 ld do so.as well, and there was enough noise and sama already ‘Our father put on a brave appearance and strode ahead up the gang 3 ~ plank, careying the largest bundle of clothing and bedding, and a long. vd him asi he new all about it and was not aftads bus our mother geand cane up vecy sadly, with her shaw! drawn around hes, shedding furtive wagons 4 fears, and she wrang her hands and said to me, Ob what kasd people, this and as we stepped onboard the ship she sad, My foot will never touch itaswe Jand again. And sd, Mother, why do you say that? And she ere just xy bones. 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I said we—Idid sore we stared a she did, though fine as what she sid I looked very |=, which did not so we each wore a ld not go—he was rmott could drive od that ke would church was Pres- hho were not si&t chan nothings monopoly of the ay was bright and jorld, asmuch ast 4 into the church I believed. Some _pargephing D heads were turned, but I thought it was because I was new to them. There were all different sons of people there, the poorer farmers and their wives, and servants, and the tradesmen of the town, as well as those who from their dress and from thei positions in the front pews though them- selves gentry, or next door to it. We sat on the beaches at the back, wh f th pointed beak of a nose and a Jong skinny neck, and 2 tuft of hair sticking up from the top of his head. Meas the proper thing, “The minister looked lke a heron, wi ‘The sermon was on the subject of Div fine Grace, and how we could be saved by it alone, and not through any efforts on our own part, oF any good works we might do. But this did not mean we should stop making efforis, oF doing good works; but we certain that we had been saved, just be could not count on them, oF be cause we were respected for out efforts and good works; because Divine Grace was a mystery, and the recipients of itwere known to God alonesand although Scripeuce said that bythe fruits you would know ther, the fruits meant were spicitual fruits, and not visible Yo any but God alone; and although we must and should pray for Divine Grace; we Should not beso puffed up with vanity as to = believe chat our prayers might have any. [oc . God disposes, and it was not up to our effect, because man proposes but puny sinfal and mortal souls to determine the course of events. The first would be last and the last would be first, and some that had been warming 1g themselves by worldly fires for many years wuld soon find themselves roasting in something.a good deal = hotter, much to theie indignation and surprise; and there were many ‘whited sepalchres walking around in our midst, fair on the outside but filled with rot and corruption within; and we should heware of the woman siting atthe door of her house, which Proverbs warnsof, orof any such ‘who might tempt us by saying that stolen waters are sweet, and bread caten in secre is pleasant; because as Seripture tells, the dead are there, and her guests are in the depths of Hell; and ahove all we should guard against complacency, like the Foolish, Virgins, and should not let our lamps go out; beeause no man knew the day and the hour thereof; and we must await in feaeand trembling. 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