Happiness
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Before marriage she thought herself in love; but the
happiness
that should have followed this love not having come, she must, she thought, have been mistaken.
But the uneasiness of her new position, or perhaps the disturbance caused by the presence of this man, had sufficed to make her believe that she at last felt that wondrous passion which, till then, like a great bird with rose-coloured wings, hung in the splendour of the skies of poesy; and now she could not think that the calm in which she lived was the
happiness
she had dreamed.
It seemed to her that certain places on earth must bring happiness, as a plant peculiar to the soil, and that cannot thrive elsewhere.
He thought her happy; and she resented this easy calm, this serene heaviness, the very
happiness
she gave him.
In Madame Dubuc's time the old woman felt that she was still the favorite; but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she watched her son's
happiness
in sad silence, as a ruined man looks through the windows at people dining in his old house.
It is so sweet, amid all the disenchantments of life, to be able to dwell in thought upon noble characters, pure affections, and pictures of
happiness.
When from afar he saw her languid walk, and her figure without stays turning softly on her hips; when opposite one another he looked at her at his ease, while she took tired poses in her armchair, then his
happiness
knew no bounds; he got up, embraced her, passed his hands over her face, called her little mamma, wanted to make her dance, and half-laughing, half-crying, uttered all kinds of caressing pleasantries that came into his head.
Then Madame Bovary, senior, became alarmed for her son's happiness, and fearing that her husband might in the long-run have an immoral influence upon the ideas of the young woman, took care to hurry their departure.
She no longer grumbled as formerly at taking a turn in the garden; what he proposed was always done, although she did not understand the wishes to which she submitted without a murmur; and when Leon saw him by his fireside after dinner, his two hands on his stomach, his two feet on the fender, his two cheeks red with feeding, his eyes moist with happiness, the child crawling along the carpet, and this woman with the slender waist who came behind his arm-chair to kiss his forehead: "What madness!" he said to himself.
She was irritated by an ill-served dish or by a half-open door; bewailed the velvets she had not, the
happiness
she had missed, her too exalted dreams, her narrow home.
Why had she not seized this
happiness
when it came to her?
She sprang towards him, she pressed against him, she stirred carefully the dying embers, sought all around her anything that could revive it; and the most distant reminiscences, like the most immediate occasions, what she experienced as well as what she imagined, her voluptuous desires that were unsatisfied, her projects of
happiness
that crackled in the wind like dead boughs, her sterile virtue, her lost hopes, the domestic tete-a-tete—she gathered it all up, took everything, and made it all serve as fuel for her melancholy.
And as to-day I have the
happiness
of being with you—"Emma blushed.
Then she looked at him as one looks at a traveller who has voyaged over strange lands, and went on—"We have not even this distraction, we poor women!""A sad distraction, for
happiness
isn't found in it."
So at last she was to know those joys of love, that fever of
happiness
of which she had despaired!
So much the better, my dear children, and may God send you every imaginable
happiness!
What
happiness
there had been at that time, what freedom, what hope!
But she paid no heed to them; on the contrary, she lived as lost in the anticipated delight of her coming
happiness.
No; it is the excess of
happiness.
You were coming confident and fearless, believing in
happiness
in the future.
Nor had I reflected upon this at first, and I rested in the shade of that ideal
happiness
as beneath that of the manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences."
There existed, then, in the place of happiness, still greater joys—another love beyond all loves, without pause and without end, one that would grow eternally!
Ah! if in the freshness of her beauty, before the soiling of marriage and the disillusions of adultery, she could have anchored her life upon some great, strong heart, then virtue, tenderness, voluptuousness, and duty blending, she would never have fallen from so high a
happiness.
But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire.
He from the first moment had loved her, and he despaired when he thought of the
happiness
that would have been theirs, if thanks to fortune, meeting her earlier, they had been indissolubly bound to one another.
In the evening Emma wrote the clerk an interminable letter, in which she cancelled the rendezvous; all was over; they must not, for the sake of their happiness, meet again.
The following day was frightful, and those that came after still more unbearable, because of her impatience to once again seize her happiness; an ardent lust, inflamed by the images of past experience, and that burst forth freely on the seventh day beneath Leon's caresses.
One cannot lose the habit of
happiness.
But she was so sweet, so pretty, and her little head bent forward so gracefully, letting the dear fair hair fall over her rosy cheeks, that an infinite joy came upon him, a
happiness
mingled with bitterness, like those ill-made wines that taste of resin.
Presently she burst out laughing, with all the wild hilarity of a girl; she was laughing at herself, and trying in vain to realise the full extent of her
happiness.
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