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He came for the doctor, had a
letter
for him.
He pulled out from his wool cap with grey top-knots a
letter
wrapped up in a rag and presented it gingerly to Charles, who rested on his elbow on the pillow to read it.
This letter, sealed with a small seal in blue wax, begged Monsieur Bovary to come immediately to the farm of the Bertaux to set a broken leg.
Others, dreaming on sofas with an open letter, gazed at the moon through a slightly open window half draped by a black curtain.
She had a funeral picture made with the hair of the deceased, and, in a
letter
sent to the Bertaux full of sad reflections on life, she asked to be buried later on in the same grave.
Taking a middle course, then, Leon looked for some place as second clerk at Rouen; found none, and at last wrote his mother a long
letter
full of details, in which he set forth the reasons for going to live at Paris immediately.
Every day for a month Hivert carried boxes, valises, parcels for him from Yonville to Rouen and from Rouen to Yonville; and when Leon had packed up his wardrobe, had his three arm-chairs restuffed, bought a stock of neckties, in a word, had made more preparations than for a voyage around the world, he put it off from week to week, until he received a second
letter
from his mother urging him to leave, since he wanted to pass his examination before the vacation.
Emma placed her
letter
at the end of the garden, by the river, in a fissure of the wall.
The present always arrived with a
letter.
The writing had been dried with ashes from the hearth, for a little grey powder slipped from the
letter
on to her dress, and she almost thought she saw her father bending over the hearth to take up the tongs.
He re-read his
letter.
He put his
letter
at the bottom under some vine leaves, and at once ordered Girard, his ploughman, to take it with care to Madame Bovary.
She could bear it no longer; she ran into the sitting room as if to take the apricots there, overturned the basket, tore away the leaves, found the letter, opened it, and, as if some fearful fire were behind her, Emma flew to her room terrified.
Then she tried to calm herself; she recalled the letter; she must finish it; she did not dare to.
She leant against the embrasure of the window, and reread the
letter
with angry sneers.
Suddenly the remembrance of the
letter
returned to her.
But Emma, awaking, cried out—"The letter! the letter!"
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.
But when the
letter
was finished, as she did not know Leon's address, she was puzzled.
He showed her the
letter
in which his mother told the event without any sentimental hypocrisy.
Emma gave him back the letter; then at dinner, for appearance's sake, she affected a certain repugnance.
But it was difficult to explain matters by
letter.
In order to arrange for this he wrote his mother a pathetic
letter.
In fact someone had sent his mother a long anonymous
letter
to warn her that he was "ruining himself with a married woman," and the good lady at once conjuring up the eternal bugbear of families, the vague pernicious creature, the siren, the monster, who dwells fantastically in depths of love, wrote to Lawyer Dubocage, his employer, who behaved perfectly in the affair.
Oh, your
letter!
your letter! it tore my heart!
She sat down at her writing-table and wrote a letter, which she sealed slowly, adding the date and the hour.
Charles showed him the
letter.
Chapter TenHe had only received the chemist's
letter
thirty-six hours after the event; and, from consideration for his feelings, Homais had so worded it that it was impossible to make out what it was all about.
He looked for the
letter
in his pocket, felt it there, but did not dare to open it.
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