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Chapter ThreeOne morning old Rouault brought Charles the money for setting his leg—seventy-five francs in forty-sou pieces, and a turkey.
Then the peasant woman, taking her aside behind an elm tree, began talking to her of her husband, who with his trade and six francs a year that the captain—"Oh, be quick!" said Emma."Well," the nurse went on, heaving sighs between each word, "I'm afraid he'll be put out seeing me have coffee alone, you know men—""But you are to have some," Emma repeated; "I will give you some.
She bought a Gothic prie-dieu, and in a month spent fourteen francs on lemons for polishing her nails; she wrote to Rouen for a blue cashmere gown; she chose one of Lheureux's finest scarves, and wore it knotted around her waist over her dressing-gown; and, with closed blinds and a book in her hand, she lay stretched out on a couch in this garb.
He lived as a bachelor, and was supposed to have "at least fifteen thousand francs a year."
Then he put three francs on the corner of the table, bowed negligently, and went out.
"Did I know I should accompany you?""Seventy francs."
I shall be something in your thought, in your life, shall I not?""Porcine race; prizes—equal, to Messrs. Leherisse and Cullembourg, sixty francs!"
"Catherine Nicaise Elizabeth Leroux, of Sassetot-la-Guerriere, for fifty-four years of service at the same farm, a silver medal—value, twenty-five francs!""Where is Catherine Leroux?" repeated the councillor.
Twenty-five francs!
So also he disbursed three hundred francs for a wooden leg that she thought proper to make a present of to Hippolyte.
But the next day he called on her with a bill for two hundred and seventy francs, not counting the centimes.
But hardly had he signed this bill than a bold idea occurred to him: it was to borrow a thousand francs from Lheureux.
Lheureux ran off to his shop, brought back the money, and dictated another bill, by which Bovary undertook to pay to his order on the 1st of September next the sum of one thousand and seventy francs, which, with the hundred and eighty already agreed to, made just twelve hundred and fifty, thus lending at six per cent in addition to one-fourth for commission: and the things bringing him in a good third at the least, this ought in twelve months to give him a profit of a hundred and thirty francs.
He saw nothing to prevent it: his mother had sent them three hundred francs which he had no longer expected; the current debts were not very large, and the falling in of Lheureux's bills was still so far off that there was no need to think about them.
I ought to take some lessons; but—" She bit her lips and added, "Twenty francs a lesson, that's too dear!""Yes, so it is—rather," said Charles, giggling stupidly.
He took it out and read—"Received, for three months' lessons and several pieces of music, the sum of sixty-three francs.—Felicie
Then he drew from his pocket a list of goods not paid for; to wit, the curtains, the carpet, the material for the armchairs, several dresses, and divers articles of dress, the bills for which amounted to about two thousand francs.
On his return he announced that the purchaser proposed four thousand francs.
Then she looked at the bank-notes, and dreaming of the unlimited number of rendezvous represented by those two thousand francs, she stammered—"What!
At last, opening his pocket-book, he spread out on the table four bills to order, each for a thousand francs.
And taking a pen he wrote at the bottom of the account, "Received of Madame Bovary four thousand francs."
But instead of two thousand francs he brought only eighteen hundred, for the friend Vincart (which was only fair) had deducted two hundred francs for commission and discount.
Charles, at his wit's end, soon had recourse to the eternal Lheureux, who swore he would arrange matters if the doctor would sign him two bills, one of which was for seven hundred francs, payable in three months.
The next morning at daybreak Emma ran to Lheureux to beg him to make out another account for not more than a thousand francs, for to show the one for four thousand it would be necessary to say that she had paid two-thirds, and confess, consequently, the sale of the estate—a negotiation admirably carried out by the shopkeeper, and which, in fact, was only actually known later on.
What! silk for lining at two francs, when you can get jaconet for ten sous, or even for eight, that would do well enough!"Emma, lying on a lounge, replied as quietly as possible—"Ah!
It was a bill for seven hundred francs, signed by her, and which Lheureux, in spite of all his professions, had paid away to Vincart.
Then running up the page with his finger, "Let's see! let's see!August 3d, two hundred francs; June 17th, a hundred and fifty; March 23d, forty-six.
"Not to speak of the bills signed by Monsieur Bovary, one for seven hundred francs, and another for three hundred.
On this he closed his eyes to reflect, wrote down a few figures, and declaring it would be very difficult for him, that the affair was shady, and that he was being bled, he wrote out four bills for two hundred and fifty francs each, to fall due month by month.
The mother-in-law replied that she had nothing more, the winding up was over, and there was due to them besides Barneville an income of six hundred francs, that she would pay them punctually.
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