Evening
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She had formerly, during the wearisome time of his widowhood, kept him company many an
evening.
What was it that thus set so far asunder the morning of the day before yesterday and the
evening
of to-day?
The new servant obeyed without a murmur, so as not to be sent away; and as madame usually left the key in the sideboard, Felicite every
evening
took a small supply of sugar that she ate alone in her bed after she had said her prayers.
He ate omelettes on farmhouse tables, poked his arm into damp beds, received the tepid spurt of blood-lettings in his face, listened to death-rattles, examined basins, turned over a good deal of dirty linen; but every
evening
he found a blazing fire, his dinner ready, easy-chairs, and a well-dressed woman, charming with an odour of freshness, though no one could say whence the perfume came, or if it were not her skin that made odorous her chemise.
When, in the evening, Charles told her this anecdote, Emma inveighed loudly against his colleague.
In the
evening
especially its argand lamp is lit up and the red and green jars that embellish his shop-front throw far across the street their two streams of colour; then across them as if in Bengal lights is seen the shadow of the chemist leaning over his desk.
On the
evening
when the Bovarys were to arrive at Yonville, Widow Lefrancois, the landlady of this inn, was so very busy that she sweated great drops as she moved her saucepans.
"Last week two travelers in the cloth line were here—such clever chaps who told such jokes in the evening, that I fairly cried with laughing; and he stood there like a dab fish and never said a word."
He had come for his umbrella, that he had forgotten the other day at the Ernemont convent, and after asking Madame Lefrancois to have it sent to him at the presbytery in the evening, he left for the church, from which the Angelus was ringing.
As he was a good deal bored at Yonville, where he was a clerk at the notary's, Monsieur Guillaumin, Monsieur Leon Dupuis (it was he who was the second habitue of the "Lion d'Or") frequently put back his dinner-hour in hope that some traveler might come to the inn, with whom he could chat in the
evening.
"And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the
evening
with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning?""What, indeed?" she said, fixing her large black eyes wide open upon him.
Leon waited all day for six o'clock in the
evening
to come, but on going to the inn, he found no one but Monsieur Binet, already at table.
The dinner of the
evening
before had been a considerable event for him; he had never till then talked for two hours consecutively to a "lady."
On the
evening
of the ceremony there was a grand dinner; the cure was present; there was much excitement.
That same
evening
this was known in Yonville, and Madame Tuvache, the mayor's wife, declared in the presence of her servant that "Madame Bovary was compromising herself."
Skull-cap in hand, he came in on tiptoe, in order to disturb no one, always repeating the same phrase, "Good evening, everybody."
One
evening
on coming home Leon found in his room a rug in velvet and wool with leaves on a pale ground.
In the
evening
Madame Bovary did not go to her neighbour's, and when Charles had left and she felt herself alone, the comparison re-began with the clearness of a sensation almost actual, and with that lengthening of perspective which memory gives to things.
When Charles came home at midnight, she seemed to have just awakened, and as he made a noise undressing, she complained of a headache, then asked carelessly what had happened that
evening.
Chapter SixOne
evening
when the window was open, and she, sitting by it, had been watching Lestiboudois, the beadle, trimming the box, she suddenly heard the Angelus ringing.
The
evening
vapours rose between the leafless poplars, touching their outlines with a violet tint, paler and more transparent than a subtle gauze caught athwart their branches.
During the three weeks that they had been together they had not exchanged half-a-dozen words apart from the inquiries and phrases when they met at table and in the
evening
before going to bed.
She would like to live in town and dance polkas every
evening.
Several citizens had scoured their houses the
evening
before; tri-coloured flags hung from half-open windows; all the public-houses were full; and in the lovely weather the starched caps, the golden crosses, and the coloured neckerchiefs seemed whiter than snow, shone in the sun, and relieved with the motley colours the sombre monotony of the frock-coats and blue smocks.
He called out—"Good evening, Monsieur Lheureux!
He saw her again in the
evening
during the fireworks, but she was with her husband, Madame Homais, and the druggist, who was worrying about the danger of stray rockets, and every moment he left the company to go and give some advice to Binet.
In the
evening
some brilliant fireworks on a sudden illumined the air.
At last one
evening
he appeared.
She was charming on horseback—upright, with her slender waist, her knee bent on the mane of her horse, her face somewhat flushed by the fresh air in the red of the
evening.
From that day forth they wrote to one another regularly every
evening.
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