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253 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma returns to the inn, and finds that she's missed the Hirondelle, which was there to pick her up earlier. She hires a cab and catches up to the stagecoach. She returns home. Once there, Felicite sends her next door to the Homais house, saying that it's urgent. It's jam making day in Yonville, a particularly hectic t... | [
"On reaching the inn, Madame Bovary was surprised not to see the\ndiligence. Hivert, who had waited for her fifty-three minutes, had at\nlast started.",
"Yet nothing forced her to go; but she had given her word that she would\nreturn that same evening. Moreover, Charles expected her, and in her\nheart she felt al... |
254 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Those three days are like heaven. Emma and Leon stay in a waterfront hotel, doing nothing but enjoying each other's company. Emma is happier than she's been since Rodolphe. One day, on a boat ride, Emma is actually reminded of Rodolphe - the boatman mentions giving a ride to a gentleman of his appearance. She shudders,... | [
"They were three full, exquisite days--a true honeymoon. They were at\nthe Hotel-de-Boulogne, on the harbour; and they lived there, with drawn\nblinds and closed doors, with flowers on the floor, and iced syrups were\nbrought them early in the morning.",
"Towards evening they took a covered boat and went to dine ... |
255 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Leon is just as into the affair as Emma is. He reads her letters voraciously, and gets sick of his job; instead, he thinks about his mistress. One weekend, he misses Emma so much he actually visits Yonville. The townspeople are glad to see him. He stays in the Lion d'Or, Madame Lefrancois's inn, waiting for an opportun... | [
"Leon soon put on an air of superiority before his comrades, avoided\ntheir company, and completely neglected his work.",
"He waited for her letters; he re-read them; he wrote to her. He called\nher to mind with all the strength of his desires and of his memories.\nInstead of lessening with absence, this longing ... |
256 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Thursdays are Emma's Rouen days. She leaves on the Hirondelle at an ungodly hour of the morning, excited and anxious to see her lover. When she arrives, Leon comes to meet her. The two go to the same hotel room every week, and spend all day in bed, drinking champagne, eating, talking, and generally enjoying each other.... | [
"She went on Thursdays. She got up and dressed silently, in order not to\nawaken Charles, who would have made remarks about her getting ready too\nearly. Next she walked up and down, went to the windows, and looked out\nat the Place. The early dawn was broadening between the pillars of the\nmarket, and the chemist'... |
257 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On his many trips back to Yonville, Leon often has dinner with Homais, and thus feels obliged to invite him to come visit in Rouen. One Thursday, Homais unexpectedly takes him up on the offer. Emma is shocked to see the pharmacist waiting for the Hirondelle - he's excited about his trip to the city, and tells her all a... | [
"During the journeys he made to see her, Leon had often dined at the\nchemist's, and he felt obliged from politeness to invite him in turn.",
"\"With pleasure!\" Monsieur Homais replied; \"besides, I must invigorate\nmy mind, for I am getting rusty here. We'll go to the theatre, to the\nrestaurant; we'll make a n... |
258 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, the town bailiff, Maitre Hareng, comes to the house to make an inventory of its goods. After they leave, Emma and Felicite try not to give anything away to Charles, who is somehow still blissfully ignorant of all of this. The government even sent a guard to make sure Emma doesn't do a runner; he stays obe... | [
"She was stoical the next day when Maitre Hareng, the bailiff, with two\nassistants, presented himself at her house to draw up the inventory for\nthe distraint.",
"They began with Bovary's consulting-room, and did not write down\nthe phrenological head, which was considered an \"instrument of his\nprofession\"; b... |
259 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As she approaches La Huchette, Emma wonders what she can possibly say to her former lover. She finds Rodolphe in his room, smoking a pipe and sitting by the fire. Emma feebly attempts to win Rodolphe back, telling him that they can be together again. She looks beautiful in her despair, and he's actually moved - he kiss... | [
"She asked herself as she walked along, \"What am I going to say? How\nshall I begin?\" And as she went on she recognised the thickets,\nthe trees, the sea-rushes on the hill, the chateau yonder. All the\nsensations of her first tenderness came back to her, and her poor aching\nheart opened out amorously. A warm wi... |
260 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Charles throws himself on Emma's corpse, overcome by grief. Homais goes home, invents a story about accidental poisoning to cover up the suicide, and writes it up for the newspaper. When he returns to the Bovarys' house, he finds Charles alone and frightened, Canivet having left him. Homais, with the best of intentions... | [
"There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction;\nso difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign\nourselves to believe in it. But still, when he saw that she did not\nmove, Charles threw himself upon her, crying--",
"\"Farewell! farewell!\"",
"Homais and Canivet dragged h... |
261 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Monsieur Rouault received a letter from the pharmacist after the fact - so Homais attempted to soften the blow by not exactly telling him that his daughter was dead. As a result, Rouault rode desperately to try and see Emma before she died - and arrived far too late. He and Charles cry together, and attempt to be stron... | [
"He had only received the chemist's letter thirty-six hours after the\nevent; and, from consideration for his feelings, Homais had so worded it\nthat it was impossible to make out what it was all about.",
"First, the old fellow had fallen as if struck by apoplexy. Next, he\nunderstood that she was not dead, but s... |
262 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Emma's death, Charles and Berthe sink into greater and greater poverty. Everyone seems to want to get money out of poor Charles; Lheureux comes back for more, as does Emma's fake piano teacher, Mademoiselle Lempereur . Charles refuses to sell any of Emma's belongings; as a result, he fights with his mother and sh... | [
"The next day Charles had the child brought back. She asked for her\nmamma. They told her she was away; that she would bring her back some\nplaythings. Berthe spoke of her again several times, then at last\nthought no more of her. The child's gaiety broke Bovary's heart, and he\nhad to bear besides the intolerable ... |
228 | 2413_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the age of fifteen, Charles Bovary struck his schoolmates as a shy and clumsy country lad. He did not have great intelligence or wit but was a diligent and industrious student. He was quiet; however, he mixed well with the other boys. His father was a former army surgeon who had been forced to leave the service as a... | [
"We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a \"new\nfellow,\" not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a\nlarge desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if\njust surprised at his work.",
"The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to th... |
229 | 2413_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Late one night Charles was awakened with a request to come 18 miles out in the country and set a broken leg. He sent the messenger on ahead and promised to follow in a couple of hours. At four in the morning, Charles set out on the journey, trying to search his memory for everything he knew about fractures. When he arr... | [
"One night towards eleven o'clock they were awakened by the noise of\na horse pulling up outside their door. The servant opened the\ngarret-window and parleyed for some time with a man in the street below.\nHe came for the doctor, had a letter for him. Natasie came downstairs\nshivering and undid the bars and bolts... |
230 | 2413_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sometime after, Roualt paid Charles a call to settle his bill and to offer his condolences. He invited Bovary to visit at the farm. Charles accepted the offer and became a frequent guest at the Roualt house. In these circumstances, Bovary's interest in Emma matured, and soon he found himself in love with her. Emma's fa... | [
"One morning old Rouault brought Charles the money for setting his\nleg--seventy-five francs in forty-sou pieces, and a turkey. He had heard\nof his loss, and consoled him as well as he could.",
"\"I know what it is,\" said he, clapping him on the shoulder; \"I've been\nthrough it. When I lost my dear departed, I... |
263 | 2413_chapters_4-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The wedding was a gala affair with many friends and relatives present. There was much good fun; the only unpleasant note was the sullen attitude of Bovary's mother who resented not having had a hand in the plans or preparations. Charles' great happiness was apparent to all who saw him, and Emma too seemed pleased by he... | [
"The guests arrived early in carriages, in one-horse chaises, two-wheeled\ncars, old open gigs, waggonettes with leather hoods, and the young\npeople from the nearer villages in carts, in which they stood up in\nrows, holding on to the sides so as not to fall, going at a trot\nand well shaken up. Some came from a d... |
233 | 2413_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma recalls her thirteenth year, when her father took her to the convent to live. She enjoyed the convent at first; she liked talking with the nuns and she enjoyed answering the difficult questions correctly. But she soon relinquished herself to the languid atmosphere of the convent and found herself admiring the beau... | [
"She had read \"Paul and Virginia,\" and she had dreamed of the little\nbamboo-house, the nigger Domingo, the dog Fidele, but above all of the\nsweet friendship of some dear little brother, who seeks red fruit for\nyou on trees taller than steeples, or who runs barefoot over the sand,\nbringing you a bird's nest.",... |
234 | 2413_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma wondered if the honeymoon was actually to be the finest part of her life. She wondered why she couldn't be standing in a Swiss chalet with a husband in a dashing outfit of velvet, soft boots, peaked hat, and so forth. As Charles' outward attraction for her increased, she began inwardly to detach herself from him. ... | [
"She thought, sometimes, that, after all, this was the happiest time of her life--the honeymoon, as people called it. To taste the full sweetness of it, it would have been necessary doubtless to fly to those lands with sonorous names where the days after marriage are full of laziness most suave. In post chaises beh... |
235 | 2413_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chateau was a building of stately proportions, situated on a large and prosperous estate. The many rooms were filled with expensive and artistic furnishings and decorations. The ball was attended by all the aristocracy and gentry of the surrounding area. Emma was overjoyed at the opportunity of being able to move f... | [
"The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting\nwings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense\ngreen-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees\nset out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron,\nsyringas, and guelder roses bulg... |
236 | 2413_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma buried herself in her fantasies and dreamed of living in Paris, among the nobility. She visualized life in the capital as a constant round of balls, parties, amours, and other exciting things. She read novels and travel books voraciously and studied maps of the city. Much of her time was spent planning imaginary t... | [
"Often when Charles was out she took from the cupboard, between the\nfolds of the linen where she had left it, the green silk cigar case. She looked at it, opened it, and even smelt the odour of the lining--a\nmixture of verbena and tobacco. Whose was it? The Viscount's? Perhaps\nit was a present from his mistress.... |
264 | 2413_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Yonville was a market town located in the center of a farming district, not far from Rouen. The main features of the surrounding region and of the town itself are described in some detail. Various inhabitants of Yonville, including Madame Lefrancois, the innkeeper, Hivert and Artemise, her servants, Binet, the tax coll... | [
"Yonville-l'Abbaye (so called from an old Capuchin abbey of which not\neven the ruins remain) is a market-town twenty-four miles from Rouen,\nbetween the Abbeville and Beauvais roads, at the foot of a valley\nwatered by the Rieule, a little river that runs into the Andelle after\nturning three water-mills near its ... |
239 | 2413_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All the next day Leon thought about Emma, for their meeting had been a very special event to him. This was the first time that the bashful youth had ever spoken to a lady at such length, and he was surprised at his own eloquence. In the days that followed, Homais was of great assistance to Bovary in establishing himsel... | [
"The next day, as she was getting up, she saw the clerk on the Place. She\nhad on a dressing-gown. He looked up and bowed. She nodded quickly and\nreclosed the window.",
"Leon waited all day for six o'clock in the evening to come, but on going\nto the inn, he found no one but Monsieur Binet, already at table. The... |
265 | 2413_chapters_4-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During the winter Emma's favorite pursuit was to sit at the window and watch the street. She often saw Leon as he passed, and she had a new and unknown feeling at those moments. Homais lived across the street and was a frequent caller, especially at mealtimes. He enjoyed gossiping about Bovary's patients and discussing... | [
"When the first cold days set in Emma left her bedroom for the\nsitting-room, a long apartment with a low ceiling, in which there was\non the mantelpiece a large bunch of coral spread out against the\nlooking-glass. Seated in her arm chair near the window, she could see\nthe villagers pass along the pavement.",
"... |
242 | 2413_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One evening the tolling of church bells made Emma recall her childhood and school days. She mused about the solace she had often found then through religious devotions and set out for the church, hoping that there she might resolve her present problems and gain some inner peace. She met the cure, Abbe Bournisien, near ... | [
"One evening when the window was open, and she, sitting by it, had been\nwatching Lestiboudois, the beadle, trimming the box, she suddenly heard\nthe Angelus ringing.",
"It was the beginning of April, when the primroses are in bloom, and a\nwarm wind blows over the flower-beds newly turned, and the gardens, like\... |
243 | 2413_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Leon had gone, Emma began a period of secret mourning. She drifted about aimlessly and was often melancholy. She saw Leon in her imagination as the hero of all her dreams and remembered their walks and conversations. She reproached herself for not having responded to his love, and he became the center of all her ... | [
"The next day was a dreary one for Emma. Everything seemed to her\nenveloped in a black atmosphere floating confusedly over the exterior of\nthings, and sorrow was engulfed within her soul with soft shrieks such\nas the winter wind makes in ruined castles. It was that reverie which we\ngive to things that will not ... |
244 | 2413_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the time of this story, the annual Agricultural Show for the Prefecture of the Seine-Inferieure was held at Yonville. Everyone looked forward to the fair with great enthusiasm; when the long-awaited day finally arrived, Yonville was crowded with visitors from all the surrounding farms and towns. There were exhibits ... | [
"At last it came, the famous agricultural show. On the morning of the\nsolemnity all the inhabitants at their doors were chatting over the\npreparations. The pediment of the town hall had been hung with garlands\nof ivy; a tent had been erected in a meadow for the banquet; and in the\nmiddle of the Place, in front ... |
266 | 2413_chapters_9-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During the next six weeks Rodolphe did not see Emma. This interval was also planned by him, acting on the theory that "absence makes the heart grow fonder." He had carefully analyzed her personality and decided to take advantage of all her frustrations and weaknesses. When Rodolphe finally called at the Bovary house, E... | [
"Six weeks passed. Rodolphe did not come again. At last one evening he\nappeared.",
"The day after the show he had said to himself--\"We mustn't go back too\nsoon; that would be a mistake.\"",
"And at the end of a week he had gone off hunting. After the hunting he\nhad thought it was too late, and then he reaso... |
247 | 2413_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day it was learned that a doctor in Rouen had published a remarkable new surgical procedure for curing clubfoot. Emma and Homais urged Charles to carry out the new operation on Hippolyte, the crippled servant at the inn. Emma hoped in this way to advance Bovary in his career and thus satisfy her desire to be a good... | [
"He had recently read a eulogy on a new method for curing club-foot, and\nas he was a partisan of progress, he conceived the patriotic idea that\nYonville, in order to keep to the fore, ought to have some operations\nfor strephopody or club-foot.",
"\"For,\" said he to Emma, \"what risk is there? See--\" (and he ... |
267 | 2413_chapters_12-13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The liaison between Emma and Rodolphe began again and now evolved with greater ardor. As her passion for Rodolphe increased, Emma found that she disliked Bovary even more, and she began to speak vaguely of leaving him someday. When she was not with Rodolphe, Emma suffered from boredom and was irritated by all of Charle... | [
"They began to love one another again. Often, even in the middle of the\nday, Emma suddenly wrote to him, then from the window made a sign to\nJustin, who, taking his apron off, quickly ran to La Huchette. Rodolphe\nwould come; she had sent for him to tell him that she was bored, that\nher husband was odious, her l... |
268 | 2413_chapters_14-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In addition to his concern about Emma, Charles was also bothered by financial worries. The illness had been very expensive, and other bills were piling up. Moreover, Lheureux suddenly presented him with a statement of Emma's debts. Not knowing what else to do, Bovary borrowed money from Lheureux and signed several note... | [
"To begin with, he did not know how he could pay Monsieur Homais for all the physic supplied by him, and though, as a medical man, he was not obliged to pay for it, he nevertheless blushed a little at such an obligation. Then the expenses of the household, now that the servant was mistress, became terrible. Bills r... |
252 | 2413_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While attending law school in Paris, Leon was a model student. But he did experience a new way of life even though he remained quiet and respectable. And now that he has returned to Rouen, he has brought with him many of the manners and sophistication that he learned in Paris. He dressed and acted in the Parisian style... | [
"Monsieur Leon, while studying law, had gone pretty often to the\ndancing-rooms, where he was even a great success amongst the grisettes,\nwho thought he had a distinguished air. He was the best-mannered of the\nstudents; he wore his hair neither too long nor too short, didn't spend\nall his quarter's money on the ... |
269 | 2413_chapters_2-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On her return to Yonville, Emma learned that Bovary's father had died. Charles was very upset, particularly because he had not seen the man in a long time. Emma felt no sorrow but made the usual sympathetic gestures, which her husband misunderstood and appreciated very much. After a while, Mrs. Bovary came to stay with... | [
"On reaching the inn, Madame Bovary was surprised not to see the\ndiligence. Hivert, who had waited for her fifty-three minutes, had at\nlast started.",
"Yet nothing forced her to go; but she had given her word that she would\nreturn that same evening. Moreover, Charles expected her, and in her\nheart she felt al... |
270 | 2413_chapters_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the days of her lessons, Emma occupied all her time with Leon. Each week they had a passionate reunion, as if they had been separated for an age instead of for a few days. These visits were joyous events for both of them and were marked by profound emotional and romantic feelings. As their affair progressed, they vi... | [
"She went on Thursdays. She got up and dressed silently, in order not to\nawaken Charles, who would have made remarks about her getting ready too\nearly. Next she walked up and down, went to the windows, and looked out\nat the Place. The early dawn was broadening between the pillars of the\nmarket, and the chemist'... |
258 | 2413_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the morning the sheriff's officers arrived and made a complete inventory of the household furnishings and goods, but Emma managed to maintain a stoic attitude all the time they were there. They left a guard on the premises, but she kept him hidden in the attic where Bovary would not see him. That evening Bovary seem... | [
"She was stoical the next day when Maitre Hareng, the bailiff, with two\nassistants, presented himself at her house to draw up the inventory for\nthe distraint.",
"They began with Bovary's consulting-room, and did not write down\nthe phrenological head, which was considered an \"instrument of his\nprofession\"; b... |
259 | 2413_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rodolphe was surprised to see Emma. They talked about the past for a while, and she was able, as planned, to arouse his old interest in her. She told him about her debts and asked him to lend her several thousand francs. Rodolphe began to understand the reason for her strange visit and calmly told her that he had no mo... | [
"She asked herself as she walked along, \"What am I going to say? How\nshall I begin?\" And as she went on she recognised the thickets,\nthe trees, the sea-rushes on the hill, the chateau yonder. All the\nsensations of her first tenderness came back to her, and her poor aching\nheart opened out amorously. A warm wi... |
271 | 2413_chapters_9-11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It took Charles a long time to recover from the initial shock of Emma's death. His mother arrived and helped to put affairs in order and thought that now Emma was gone she would be reinstated in Charles' affection. Emma's father also showed up for the funeral, but was too emotional to be of help. The priest and Homais ... | [
"There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction;\nso difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign\nourselves to believe in it. But still, when he saw that she did not\nmove, Charles threw himself upon her, crying--",
"\"Farewell! farewell!\"",
"Homais and Canivet dragged h... |
228 | 2413_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel opens with a description of the school days of Charles Bovary. The fifteen year-old boy stands out in class, for he is clumsy and does not fit in with his boisterous classmates. A detailed account is given of the mismatched and unfashionable clothes he wears. His classmates are quick to notice his provincial ... | [
"We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a \"new\nfellow,\" not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a\nlarge desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if\njust surprised at his work.",
"The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to th... |
229 | 2413_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Late one night, a man comes to Charles with a letter. Apparently, someone in Les Bertaux, about eighteen miles from Tostes, has broken a leg and is in need of immediate medical attention. At his wife's urging, Charles postpones his journey to Les Bertaux by three hours. When Charles does set out, the early morning air ... | [
"One night towards eleven o'clock they were awakened by the noise of\na horse pulling up outside their door. The servant opened the\ngarret-window and parleyed for some time with a man in the street below.\nHe came for the doctor, had a letter for him. Natasie came downstairs\nshivering and undid the bars and bolts... |
230 | 2413_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Heloise's death, Rouault pays Charles a condolence visit, during which he settles his account with the doctor. He also tells Charles of the manner in which he had coped when his wife died and assures him that his grief will pass. He then invites Charles to visit Les Bertaux in the spring. Charles is delighted at ... | [
"One morning old Rouault brought Charles the money for setting his\nleg--seventy-five francs in forty-sou pieces, and a turkey. He had heard\nof his loss, and consoled him as well as he could.",
"\"I know what it is,\" said he, clapping him on the shoulder; \"I've been\nthrough it. When I lost my dear departed, I... |
231 | 2413_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this chapter, the wedding takes place, and "all relatives on both sides had been invited" to the celebration. After the ceremony, the bridal couple, along with a band of well-wishers, make their way from the mayor's office to the church on foot. The sumptuous wedding feast is laid in a cart-shed. In the midst of all... | [
"The guests arrived early in carriages, in one-horse chaises, two-wheeled\ncars, old open gigs, waggonettes with leather hoods, and the young\npeople from the nearer villages in carts, in which they stood up in\nrows, holding on to the sides so as not to fall, going at a trot\nand well shaken up. Some came from a d... |
232 | 2413_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The house is described in great detail: the wallpaper, the curtains and the bookshelves all contribute to the "feel" of the place. Emma does not seem to mind that the garden is not very remarkable; it is the bedroom that she examines eagerly. When she notices Heloise's bridal bouquet, she muses morbidly about the possi... | [
"The brick front was just in a line with the street, or rather the road.\nBehind the door hung a cloak with a small collar, a bridle, and a black\nleather cap, and on the floor, in a corner, were a pair of leggings,\nstill covered with dry mud. On the right was the one apartment, that was\nboth dining and sitting r... |
233 | 2413_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this chapter, Emma relives her past. When she was thirteen, her father put her in a convent. At first she "enjoyed the society of the nuns" and even liked answering the curate's harder questions in catechism. Gradually, however, she found herself responding more and more to the physical beauty of the place, rather t... | [
"She had read \"Paul and Virginia,\" and she had dreamed of the little\nbamboo-house, the nigger Domingo, the dog Fidele, but above all of the\nsweet friendship of some dear little brother, who seeks red fruit for\nyou on trees taller than steeples, or who runs barefoot over the sand,\nbringing you a bird's nest.",... |
234 | 2413_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma is disappointed with her honeymoon, which is not romantic, although she had expected it to be. She is unable to express this "intangible unease" to her husband, who does not have the sensitivity to understand her. As their outward familiarity grows, she inwardly withdraws from him. His conversation, she notes, is ... | [
"She thought, sometimes, that, after all, this was the happiest time of her life--the honeymoon, as people called it. To taste the full sweetness of it, it would have been necessary doubtless to fly to those lands with sonorous names where the days after marriage are full of laziness most suave. In post chaises beh... |
235 | 2413_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | La Vaubyessard is a sprawling mansion located on a scenic stretch of land. Emma is taken in by the grandeur of the place and the people who have gathered there. Flaubert describes the dinner scene in vivid detail and through Emma's eyes. As Emma prepares for the ball, she discourages her husband from attempting to danc... | [
"The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting\nwings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense\ngreen-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees\nset out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron,\nsyringas, and guelder roses bulg... |
236 | 2413_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Life after the ball at La Vaubyessard depresses Emma, and she spends even more time in wild imaginings in order to escape the dull and oppressive reality of her life. She holds onto the cigar case as a memento of that memorable night and weaves a fantastic tale about the case, which she pretends belongs to the Viscount... | [
"Often when Charles was out she took from the cupboard, between the\nfolds of the linen where she had left it, the green silk cigar case. She looked at it, opened it, and even smelt the odour of the lining--a\nmixture of verbena and tobacco. Whose was it? The Viscount's? Perhaps\nit was a present from his mistress.... |
237 | 2413_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Yonville is a sleepy little town that Flaubert intimately describes, giving details about the church, the market place, the chemist's shop, and the Golden Lion Inn. He also introduces Madame Lefrancois , Monsieur Homais , Monsieur Binet , and the priest. It is a busy night in Yonville, for the market is open the next d... | [
"Yonville-l'Abbaye (so called from an old Capuchin abbey of which not\neven the ruins remain) is a market-town twenty-four miles from Rouen,\nbetween the Abbeville and Beauvais roads, at the foot of a valley\nwatered by the Rieule, a little river that runs into the Andelle after\nturning three water-mills near its ... |
238 | 2413_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Charles and Emma finally reach Yonville, they are met by Madame Lefrancois and Leon Dupuis, who lodges with Homais. To unwind from the journey, Emma stretches herself before the kitchen fireplace and "the flames up her whole body." Leon, a young man who works as a clerk at Maitre Guillaumin's, watches Emma closel... | [
"Emma got out first, then Felicite, Monsieur Lheureux, and a nurse, and\nthey had to wake up Charles in his corner, where he had slept soundly\nsince night set in.",
"Homais introduced himself; he offered his homages to madame and his\nrespects to monsieur; said he was charmed to have been able to render\nthem so... |
239 | 2413_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Leon is clearly smitten with Emma and is pleased at having conversed with her for so long. The people of Yonville see Leon as a talented individual and consider him "a real gentleman." Homais respects him for his education, and Madame Homais likes him for his good nature. Besides helping in Homais' chemist shop, Leon a... | [
"The next day, as she was getting up, she saw the clerk on the Place. She\nhad on a dressing-gown. He looked up and bowed. She nodded quickly and\nreclosed the window.",
"Leon waited all day for six o'clock in the evening to come, but on going\nto the inn, he found no one but Monsieur Binet, already at table. The... |
240 | 2413_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | With winter setting in, Emma develops the habit of sitting in the parlor by the window, watching the passers-by. This way she sees Leon quite often. She also sees Homais, who makes frequent visits to the Bovarys' house. He engages Charles in political and journalistic discussions and speaks with Emma about recipes. Dur... | [
"When the first cold days set in Emma left her bedroom for the\nsitting-room, a long apartment with a low ceiling, in which there was\non the mantelpiece a large bunch of coral spread out against the\nlooking-glass. Seated in her arm chair near the window, she could see\nthe villagers pass along the pavement.",
"... |
241 | 2413_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Homais and his children, accompanied by Justin, the Bovarys, and Leon, go for an outing one Sunday afternoon. It is the end of winter, and there is nothing interesting to observe. To pass the time, Emma surveys the men and finds Charles stupid in appearance and behavior; in contrast, she finds Leon attractive. That nig... | [
"It was a Sunday in February, an afternoon when the snow was falling.",
"They had all, Monsieur and Madame Bovary, Homais, and Monsieur Leon,\ngone to see a yarn-mill that was being built in the valley a mile and a\nhalf from Yonville. The druggist had taken Napoleon and Athalie to give\nthem some exercise, and J... |
242 | 2413_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sitting by the open window one evening, Emma is in a reflective mood. The chime of the church bells takes her to her childhood days when she would worship in church with the nuns. She feels moved enough to visit the church, and once there, she seeks out the cure, Abbe Bournisien. When she tries to hint that she needs s... | [
"One evening when the window was open, and she, sitting by it, had been\nwatching Lestiboudois, the beadle, trimming the box, she suddenly heard\nthe Angelus ringing.",
"It was the beginning of April, when the primroses are in bloom, and a\nwarm wind blows over the flower-beds newly turned, and the gardens, like\... |
243 | 2413_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma mourns the departure of Leon. Gloom pervades her thoughts over the loss, and romanticism colors her vision, as she makes him into "a taller, handsomer, a more delightful, and a vaguer Leon. " With the passage of time, her passion dims, and "the black days she had known at Tostes again. " She becomes unpredictable... | [
"The next day was a dreary one for Emma. Everything seemed to her\nenveloped in a black atmosphere floating confusedly over the exterior of\nthings, and sorrow was engulfed within her soul with soft shrieks such\nas the winter wind makes in ruined castles. It was that reverie which we\ngive to things that will not ... |
244 | 2413_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | An Agricultural Show is organized in Yonville, and many visitors come to town. It is a great occasion for the village folk, and there is a fine display of decoration and patriotism. It is in such an atmosphere that Emma and Rodolphe meet for the second time. They have to avoid certain people, like Homais and Lheureux, ... | [
"At last it came, the famous agricultural show. On the morning of the\nsolemnity all the inhabitants at their doors were chatting over the\npreparations. The pediment of the town hall had been hung with garlands\nof ivy; a tent had been erected in a meadow for the banquet; and in the\nmiddle of the Place, in front ... |
245 | 2413_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rodolphe keeps away from Emma for some time. He reasons that Emma will love him more passionately after the interval. He visits her six weeks later and observes her turn pale at his entrance. He looks at her with passion, and she is flustered. He bemoans her married state and reiterates that fate has brought him to her... | [
"Six weeks passed. Rodolphe did not come again. At last one evening he\nappeared.",
"The day after the show he had said to himself--\"We mustn't go back too\nsoon; that would be a mistake.\"",
"And at the end of a week he had gone off hunting. After the hunting he\nhad thought it was too late, and then he reaso... |
246 | 2413_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rodolphe's warning makes Emma nervous, but she does not stop visiting him. One morning while returning from La Huchette, she bumps into Captain Binet, who is out hunting for wild duck. He attempts to involve her in a conversation. Emma tells him that she has been to the nurse's to see her baby and then hurries off. She... | [
"Gradually Rodolphe's fears took possession of her. At first, love had\nintoxicated her; and she had thought of nothing beyond. But now that he\nwas indispensable to her life, she feared to lose anything of this, or\neven that it should be disturbed. When she came back from his house she\nlooked all about her, anxi... |
247 | 2413_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Homais reads an article about a new treatment for clubfeet and, "being an apostle of progress and a local patriot," he wants Charles to try out this treatment on Hippolyte, a servant at Madame Lefrancois' inn. Emma and Homais both encourage Charles to experiment on Hippolyte, and he agrees to allow Charles to operate o... | [
"He had recently read a eulogy on a new method for curing club-foot, and\nas he was a partisan of progress, he conceived the patriotic idea that\nYonville, in order to keep to the fore, ought to have some operations\nfor strephopody or club-foot.",
"\"For,\" said he to Emma, \"what risk is there? See--\" (and he ... |
248 | 2413_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma continues her affair with Rodolphe, but she often complains to him of her boredom and her husband's behavior. In an impatient outburst, Rodolphe states his inability to solve her marital problems. Emma suggests that they run away together, but he dismisses her notion as madness and changes the subject. Instead, he... | [
"They began to love one another again. Often, even in the middle of the\nday, Emma suddenly wrote to him, then from the window made a sign to\nJustin, who, taking his apron off, quickly ran to La Huchette. Rodolphe\nwould come; she had sent for him to tell him that she was bored, that\nher husband was odious, her l... |
249 | 2413_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At home, Rodolphe tries to compose a farewell note to Emma. He finally writes that they have no future together, tells her he plans to leave La Huchette the very next day by himself, and asks her to be brave. He lays the blame for his decision on society. He ends the note with a flourish, giving "a final adieu -- separ... | [
"No sooner was Rodolphe at home than he sat down quickly at his bureau\nunder the stag's head that hung as a trophy on the wall. But when he had\nthe pen between his fingers, he could think of nothing, so that, resting\non his elbows, he began to reflect. Emma seemed to him to have receded\ninto a far-off past, as ... |
250 | 2413_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Charles is troubled about the medical bills incurred during Emma's illness. In addition, Lheureux has delivered the bill for the goods Emma ordered for her planned departure with Rodolphe. Since Charles obviously cannot pay such a large amount, Lheureux maneuvers him into borrowing more money at a high interest rate. C... | [
"To begin with, he did not know how he could pay Monsieur Homais for all the physic supplied by him, and though, as a medical man, he was not obliged to pay for it, he nevertheless blushed a little at such an obligation. Then the expenses of the household, now that the servant was mistress, became terrible. Bills r... |
251 | 2413_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While Charles and Emma are at the theater, he is his usual unsophisticated self. Emma is able to ignore him because she is caught up in the plot of the opera, which she sees as portraying her own life. She constantly compares the male lead to Rodolphe and pictures him as her lover. During intermission, Charles sees Leo... | [
"The crowd was waiting against the wall, symmetrically enclosed between\nthe balustrades. At the corner of the neighbouring streets huge bills\nrepeated in quaint letters \"Lucie de Lammermoor-Lagardy-Opera-etc.\" The\nweather was fine, the people were hot, perspiration trickled amid the\ncurls, and handkerchiefs t... |
252 | 2413_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During his days at law school in Paris, Leon had allowed his memories of Emma to dim; upon seeing her again, his passion is immediately rekindled, even though it has been almost three years. When he addresses Emma, Leon, no longer shy, reveals a new confidence. He is even bold enough to pay a visit to the Bovarys at th... | [
"Monsieur Leon, while studying law, had gone pretty often to the\ndancing-rooms, where he was even a great success amongst the grisettes,\nwho thought he had a distinguished air. He was the best-mannered of the\nstudents; he wore his hair neither too long nor too short, didn't spend\nall his quarter's money on the ... |
269 | 2413_chapter_2_-_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma reaches the inn late after her rendezvous and misses the Hirondelle that had been specially sent for her. She hires a trap and overtakes the Hirondelle in a neighboring town en route to Yonville. Back home, Felicite urges her to see Homais, at whose place Emma witnesses a curious spectacle. Homais scolds Justin fo... | [
"On reaching the inn, Madame Bovary was surprised not to see the\ndiligence. Hivert, who had waited for her fifty-three minutes, had at\nlast started.",
"Yet nothing forced her to go; but she had given her word that she would\nreturn that same evening. Moreover, Charles expected her, and in her\nheart she felt al... |
256 | 2413_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Every time Emma goes to Rouen for her 'music lessons', she has a passionate meeting with Leon. Their usual place of rendezvous is a hotel situated in a district of "theaters, bars and brothels." The lovers feel comfortable in their usual room and often imagine that it is their own home. Leon is happy that his mistress ... | [
"She went on Thursdays. She got up and dressed silently, in order not to\nawaken Charles, who would have made remarks about her getting ready too\nearly. Next she walked up and down, went to the windows, and looked out\nat the Place. The early dawn was broadening between the pillars of the\nmarket, and the chemist'... |
257 | 2413_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One Thursday, Emma arrives in Rouen for her usual rendezvous. Leon, however, does not appear, for he is detained in a meeting with Homais. Leon cannot leave the chemist without arousing his suspicion. When he does manage to get rid of him and reach the hotel, Leon does not find Emma. She has already left. After this in... | [
"During the journeys he made to see her, Leon had often dined at the\nchemist's, and he felt obliged from politeness to invite him in turn.",
"\"With pleasure!\" Monsieur Homais replied; \"besides, I must invigorate\nmy mind, for I am getting rusty here. We'll go to the theatre, to the\nrestaurant; we'll make a n... |
258 | 2413_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day the bailiff arrives to make an inventory of the Bovary possessions. The bailiff's man is "installed" in the attic so that Charles is kept unaware of what is happening in his own home. But Charles seems preoccupied, and Emma wonders if he knows of her misdeeds. The following day, a Sunday, she meets with va... | [
"She was stoical the next day when Maitre Hareng, the bailiff, with two\nassistants, presented himself at her house to draw up the inventory for\nthe distraint.",
"They began with Bovary's consulting-room, and did not write down\nthe phrenological head, which was considered an \"instrument of his\nprofession\"; b... |
259 | 2413_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Emma draws closer to La Huchette, she is reminded of the "sensations of her first love." The melting snow is described as she makes her way to Rodolphe's room. He is surprised at her sudden appearance. Emma reproaches Rodolphe for deserting her and urges him to renew their relationship. Rodolphe is taken in with Emm... | [
"She asked herself as she walked along, \"What am I going to say? How\nshall I begin?\" And as she went on she recognised the thickets,\nthe trees, the sea-rushes on the hill, the chateau yonder. All the\nsensations of her first tenderness came back to her, and her poor aching\nheart opened out amorously. A warm wi... |
271 | 2413_chapter_9_-_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Charles is numbed by grief over the loss of his wife and keeps constant watch over her body as arrangements are made. The sight of her lifeless form makes him wonder if "there were infinite masses, of enormous weight, pressing down upon her." As he makes lavish plans for Emma's funeral, Bournisien and Homais unsuccessf... | [
"There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction;\nso difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign\nourselves to believe in it. But still, when he saw that she did not\nmove, Charles threw himself upon her, crying--",
"\"Farewell! farewell!\"",
"Homais and Canivet dragged h... |
228 | 2413_part_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We first meet Charles Bovary at fifteen years of age when his thrifty parents send him to school. On his first day Charles' classmates mock his ill-fitting clothes and awkward hat. Charles, thoroughly confused by the social codes of the classroom, blunders when the teacher asks for his name. The teacher commands him to... | [
"We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a \"new\nfellow,\" not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a\nlarge desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if\njust surprised at his work.",
"The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to th... |
229 | 2413_part_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Late one night Charles is called to treat a man with a broken leg. The man is the owner of a farm called Les Bertaux fifteen miles distant. After a long, cold ride Charles arrives at the farm which he observes to be clean and well equipped. He learns from his young guide that the owner, Monsieur Rouault, has broken his... | [
"One night towards eleven o'clock they were awakened by the noise of\na horse pulling up outside their door. The servant opened the\ngarret-window and parleyed for some time with a man in the street below.\nHe came for the doctor, had a letter for him. Natasie came downstairs\nshivering and undid the bars and bolts... |
230 | 2413_part_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Monsieur Rouault visits Charles to pay his bill he consoles the young man for his recent loss and invites him to the farm. Charles resumes his visits to the farm and realizes that the bachelor life suits him. He finds that he is increasingly attracted to Emma whom he learns is bored of life on the farm and desires... | [
"One morning old Rouault brought Charles the money for setting his\nleg--seventy-five francs in forty-sou pieces, and a turkey. He had heard\nof his loss, and consoled him as well as he could.",
"\"I know what it is,\" said he, clapping him on the shoulder; \"I've been\nthrough it. When I lost my dear departed, I... |
231 | 2413_part_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All the relations from both families are invited to the wedding and Flaubert describes the country fashions that ranged from the First Communion dresses of the adolescent girls to the coats of varying lengths worn by the men. The wedding party and all the guests walk to the Mayor's office for the civil ceremony and the... | [
"The guests arrived early in carriages, in one-horse chaises, two-wheeled\ncars, old open gigs, waggonettes with leather hoods, and the young\npeople from the nearer villages in carts, in which they stood up in\nrows, holding on to the sides so as not to fall, going at a trot\nand well shaken up. Some came from a d... |
232 | 2413_part_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The small house in Tostes is comfortable and modestly furnished. The front of the house is flush with the street and a narrow garden extends to the rear. Upstairs Emma discovers the previous Madame Bovary's wedding bouquet sitting in the master bedroom. Charles carries the bouquet to the attic and Emma wonders what wil... | [
"The brick front was just in a line with the street, or rather the road.\nBehind the door hung a cloak with a small collar, a bridle, and a black\nleather cap, and on the floor, in a corner, were a pair of leggings,\nstill covered with dry mud. On the right was the one apartment, that was\nboth dining and sitting r... |
233 | 2413_part_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter provides the details of Emma's life up to her marriage. At the age of thirteen she became a boarder at a convent in the city of Rouen. She was a quick student and enjoyed life in the convent. The mysticism of the church appealed to her romantic temperament which was "more sentimental than artistic. An old ... | [
"She had read \"Paul and Virginia,\" and she had dreamed of the little\nbamboo-house, the nigger Domingo, the dog Fidele, but above all of the\nsweet friendship of some dear little brother, who seeks red fruit for\nyou on trees taller than steeples, or who runs barefoot over the sand,\nbringing you a bird's nest.",... |
234 | 2413_part_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As their marriage progresses Emma's feeling of detachment from her husband grows greater. She feels that a man should have all the answers to life and be experienced in a wide variety of things but she discerns that Charles is complacent, boring and uninterested in culture. He takes his wife's happiness for granted and... | [
"She thought, sometimes, that, after all, this was the happiest time of her life--the honeymoon, as people called it. To taste the full sweetness of it, it would have been necessary doubtless to fly to those lands with sonorous names where the days after marriage are full of laziness most suave. In post chaises beh... |
235 | 2413_part_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the marquis' new Italian-styled chateau the marquis leads Emma into the room where the marquise and some other ladies are sitting. The marquise talks to Emma easily and with kindness. The dinner is opulent and the service immaculate. The marquis' senile father-in-law sits at the head of the table. He is rumored to h... | [
"The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting\nwings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense\ngreen-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees\nset out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron,\nsyringas, and guelder roses bulg... |
236 | 2413_part_1,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma ponders over the ornate cigar case. She imagines that it was made for the vicomte by one of his lovers and that he is now in Paris. She envies anyone going to Paris including the fishmongers who pass beneath her window every morning. She buys a map of Paris and memorizes every line. She subscribes to women's magaz... | [
"Often when Charles was out she took from the cupboard, between the\nfolds of the linen where she had left it, the green silk cigar case. She looked at it, opened it, and even smelt the odour of the lining--a\nmixture of verbena and tobacco. Whose was it? The Viscount's? Perhaps\nit was a present from his mistress.... |
237 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with a description of the agricultural market town of Yonville-L'Abbaye and the surrounding countryside. The narrator characterizes the area as a "mongrel region" composed of equal parts Normandy, Picardy and the Ile-de-France. It is a relatively impoverished area with poor soil, ignorant natives and ... | [
"Yonville-l'Abbaye (so called from an old Capuchin abbey of which not\neven the ruins remain) is a market-town twenty-four miles from Rouen,\nbetween the Abbeville and Beauvais roads, at the foot of a valley\nwatered by the Rieule, a little river that runs into the Andelle after\nturning three water-mills near its ... |
238 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Homais greets the Bovary's and explains that he will be joining them for dinner. Monsieur Lon watches Emma warm herself by the fire and is delighted when the innkeeper suggests he join the new arrivals for dinner. While they eat the pharmacist explains the character of the region and its inhabitants to the Charles whil... | [
"Emma got out first, then Felicite, Monsieur Lheureux, and a nurse, and\nthey had to wake up Charles in his corner, where he had slept soundly\nsince night set in.",
"Homais introduced himself; he offered his homages to madame and his\nrespects to monsieur; said he was charmed to have been able to render\nthem so... |
239 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lon is deeply affected by his conversation with Emma. The pharmacist assists the Bovarys to become accustomed to life in Yonville. The narrator informs us that the apothecary's motives are not entirely based on kindness - Monsieur Homais had violated a law forbidding anyone without a diploma from practicing medicine an... | [
"The next day, as she was getting up, she saw the clerk on the Place. She\nhad on a dressing-gown. He looked up and bowed. She nodded quickly and\nreclosed the window.",
"Leon waited all day for six o'clock in the evening to come, but on going\nto the inn, he found no one but Monsieur Binet, already at table. The... |
240 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Winter arrives and most evenings Homais visits the Bovarys to tell them the news of the day. His wife's young cousin Justin, whom he keeps as an understudy but uses like a servant, usually comes for him at 8 o'clock. On Sunday evenings Charles and Emma attend the poorly attended gatherings at the Homais' house. Lon who... | [
"When the first cold days set in Emma left her bedroom for the\nsitting-room, a long apartment with a low ceiling, in which there was\non the mantelpiece a large bunch of coral spread out against the\nlooking-glass. Seated in her arm chair near the window, she could see\nthe villagers pass along the pavement.",
"... |
241 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a cold Sunday afternoon in February, Monsieur and Madame Bovary, Homais and Lon, the Homais children and Justin go to view a flax mill being built outside of town. The sight is dull and Emma, watching her husband, is disgusted by his stupidity and dullness. She contrasts his appearance with Lon's much more desirable... | [
"It was a Sunday in February, an afternoon when the snow was falling.",
"They had all, Monsieur and Madame Bovary, Homais, and Monsieur Leon,\ngone to see a yarn-mill that was being built in the valley a mile and a\nhalf from Yonville. The druggist had taken Napoleon and Athalie to give\nthem some exercise, and J... |
242 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One evening, while sitting at her window, Emma hears the church bell tolling and she is reminded of her girlhood in the convent. Seeking spiritual guidance she makes her way to the church where the boys from the village are gathering for catechism. She finds the abb, Monsieur Bournisien, in a distracted state of mind a... | [
"One evening when the window was open, and she, sitting by it, had been\nwatching Lestiboudois, the beadle, trimming the box, she suddenly heard\nthe Angelus ringing.",
"It was the beginning of April, when the primroses are in bloom, and a\nwarm wind blows over the flower-beds newly turned, and the gardens, like\... |
243 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Leon's departure, Emma is melancholy like she was during the days following the ball at La Vaubyessard. She regrets not making her love known to Leon. To compensate for what she perceives as her self-sacrifice by remaining faithful to Charles she begins ordering expensive items from Lheureux's shop. She becomes f... | [
"The next day was a dreary one for Emma. Everything seemed to her\nenveloped in a black atmosphere floating confusedly over the exterior of\nthings, and sorrow was engulfed within her soul with soft shrieks such\nas the winter wind makes in ruined castles. It was that reverie which we\ngive to things that will not ... |
244 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the morning of the Agricultural Show the entire town is decorated full of anticipation. An antique fieldpiece will sound at the arrival of the King's prefect. Homais engages Madame Lefraneois in conversation on his way to serve on the show's advisory committee. Madame Lefraneois doesn't think much of the fair and ev... | [
"At last it came, the famous agricultural show. On the morning of the\nsolemnity all the inhabitants at their doors were chatting over the\npreparations. The pediment of the town hall had been hung with garlands\nof ivy; a tent had been erected in a meadow for the banquet; and in the\nmiddle of the Place, in front ... |
245 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rodolphe resolves to wait awhile before seeing Emma again and then a hunting trip further delays him. Six weeks later he finally visits her. He plies her with romantic platitudes and she is overwhelmed by the force of his passion. Charles, who suspects nothing, interrupts them. Rodolphe greets the officier de saint as ... | [
"Six weeks passed. Rodolphe did not come again. At last one evening he\nappeared.",
"The day after the show he had said to himself--\"We mustn't go back too\nsoon; that would be a mistake.\"",
"And at the end of a week he had gone off hunting. After the hunting he\nhad thought it was too late, and then he reaso... |
246 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Though Emma practices greater caution in her trips to La Huchette one morning she inadvertently surprises Monsieur Binet duck hunting. Although Emma does not know it Binet is hunting illegally so he is content to let the encounter be forgotten but Emma is nervous that he will see through her weak lies. That evening she... | [
"Gradually Rodolphe's fears took possession of her. At first, love had\nintoxicated her; and she had thought of nothing beyond. But now that he\nwas indispensable to her life, she feared to lose anything of this, or\neven that it should be disturbed. When she came back from his house she\nlooked all about her, anxi... |
247 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Homais reads an article about an experimental surgical procedure to cure club foot. He convinces Emma and the rest of the village that it would bring them all prestige if Charles were to perform the surgery on Hippolyte, the stable boy. Hippolyte initially resists the idea but he eventually agrees to undergo the proced... | [
"He had recently read a eulogy on a new method for curing club-foot, and\nas he was a partisan of progress, he conceived the patriotic idea that\nYonville, in order to keep to the fore, ought to have some operations\nfor strephopody or club-foot.",
"\"For,\" said he to Emma, \"what risk is there? See--\" (and he ... |
248 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma's hatred of Charles fuels her love for Rodolphe. She asks Rodolphe to take her away from her present life but he discounts her request as ridiculous and impossible. Emma works Flicit hard to keep the house and her clothes immaculate and Justin takes particular pleasure in spending time at the Bovary's while Flicit... | [
"They began to love one another again. Often, even in the middle of the\nday, Emma suddenly wrote to him, then from the window made a sign to\nJustin, who, taking his apron off, quickly ran to La Huchette. Rodolphe\nwould come; she had sent for him to tell him that she was bored, that\nher husband was odious, her l... |
249 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back at his estate Rodolphe wants to write Emma a letter and for inspiration he begins to search through the box in which he keeps remembrances from his lovers. The copious articles serve only to confuse him and he becomes disgusted with the task. He writes her a letter in which he claims to be breaking off their relat... | [
"No sooner was Rodolphe at home than he sat down quickly at his bureau\nunder the stag's head that hung as a trophy on the wall. But when he had\nthe pen between his fingers, he could think of nothing, so that, resting\non his elbows, he began to reflect. Emma seemed to him to have receded\ninto a far-off past, as ... |
250 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Not only has Charles been neglecting his practice but he is deeply in debt to Monsieur Homais for Emma's medicine. Also, Flicit in the role of mistress of the house has been overspending. Monsieur Lheureux is especially insistent upon being paid and at the height of Emma's illness delivers the cloak and bags she ordere... | [
"To begin with, he did not know how he could pay Monsieur Homais for all the physic supplied by him, and though, as a medical man, he was not obliged to pay for it, he nevertheless blushed a little at such an obligation. Then the expenses of the household, now that the servant was mistress, became terrible. Bills r... |
251 | 2413_part_2,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When they finally enter the theater Emma is delighted to find they have box seats. She looks down upon the crowd of older men discussing business and younger men dressed in the height of fashion. The opera begins with a musical flourish and the curtain rises on a country scene. Emma is instantly transported back to the... | [
"The crowd was waiting against the wall, symmetrically enclosed between\nthe balustrades. At the corner of the neighbouring streets huge bills\nrepeated in quaint letters \"Lucie de Lammermoor-Lagardy-Opera-etc.\" The\nweather was fine, the people were hot, perspiration trickled amid the\ncurls, and handkerchiefs t... |
252 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While in Paris, Lon had been popular with the working girls and had enjoyed going to the theater but he had also been a responsible student. He never forgot Emma, however, and seeing her in Rouen had convinced him that he must seduce her. Accordingly he follows Emma and Charles to their hotel and returns the next day. ... | [
"Monsieur Leon, while studying law, had gone pretty often to the\ndancing-rooms, where he was even a great success amongst the grisettes,\nwho thought he had a distinguished air. He was the best-mannered of the\nstudents; he wore his hair neither too long nor too short, didn't spend\nall his quarter's money on the ... |
253 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Emma returns to Yonville she is told to go at once to the pharmacy where she finds the entire Homais family engaged in making jelly. She enters as Monsieur Homais is berating Justin for having taken a pan from his laboratory that was sitting next to a jar of arsenic. Although Emma senses that the apothecary has di... | [
"On reaching the inn, Madame Bovary was surprised not to see the\ndiligence. Hivert, who had waited for her fifty-three minutes, had at\nlast started.",
"Yet nothing forced her to go; but she had given her word that she would\nreturn that same evening. Moreover, Charles expected her, and in her\nheart she felt al... |
254 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emma and Lon enjoy an idyllic three days together. They stay at the Hotel Boulogne on the river in Rouen and they go boating and spend the afternoon on an island. Their return journey is suffused by moonlight and they are both carried away by the beauty of the evening and their love for one another. Lon finds a discard... | [
"They were three full, exquisite days--a true honeymoon. They were at\nthe Hotel-de-Boulogne, on the harbour; and they lived there, with drawn\nblinds and closed doors, with flowers on the floor, and iced syrups were\nbrought them early in the morning.",
"Towards evening they took a covered boat and went to dine ... |
255 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Early one Saturday morning Lon travels to Yonville. As in the old days, he dines at the inn and afterward calls on the Bovary's but does not see Emma. Finally, late Sunday evening they meet in the lane and she promises to arrange things so that she can see him regularly. She is confident and hopeful for the future. On ... | [
"Leon soon put on an air of superiority before his comrades, avoided\ntheir company, and completely neglected his work.",
"He waited for her letters; he re-read them; he wrote to her. He called\nher to mind with all the strength of his desires and of his memories.\nInstead of lessening with absence, this longing ... |
256 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Every Thursday morning Emma rises early and takes the Hirondelle to Rouen. The sight of the coastal town never fails to inspire her. Emma and Lon come to think of their hotel room as their own home. Emma enchants Lon and he imagines that she fulfills all the ideals of a mistress. Emma basks in the youthful ardor of his... | [
"She went on Thursdays. She got up and dressed silently, in order not to\nawaken Charles, who would have made remarks about her getting ready too\nearly. Next she walked up and down, went to the windows, and looked out\nat the Place. The early dawn was broadening between the pillars of the\nmarket, and the chemist'... |
257 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Out of politeness Lon extends an invitation to Monsieur Homais to visit him in Rouen and the pharmacist, feeling something of a daredevil, decides to relive some of the glories of his youth. Emma and Lon are both surprised when Monsieur Homais accompanies Emma to Rouen one day and immediately drags the clerk off to din... | [
"During the journeys he made to see her, Leon had often dined at the\nchemist's, and he felt obliged from politeness to invite him in turn.",
"\"With pleasure!\" Monsieur Homais replied; \"besides, I must invigorate\nmy mind, for I am getting rusty here. We'll go to the theatre, to the\nrestaurant; we'll make a n... |
258 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The following day three officials arrive and inventory all the goods in the house. That evening she feels regret as she looks over all the expensive items in the house she used to temper her frustrated passion. The following day, a Sunday, she travels to Rouen to look for money but the bankers either refuse or simply l... | [
"She was stoical the next day when Maitre Hareng, the bailiff, with two\nassistants, presented himself at her house to draw up the inventory for\nthe distraint.",
"They began with Bovary's consulting-room, and did not write down\nthe phrenological head, which was considered an \"instrument of his\nprofession\"; b... |
259 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | She finds Rodolphe alone in the mansion. He apologizes for his past treatment of her and she tells him that she has suffered a great deal. He sees her sorrow and he caresses her. He reaffirms his love and begs to know what is wrong. She explains that a notary has absconded with all of her husband's money and they are t... | [
"She asked herself as she walked along, \"What am I going to say? How\nshall I begin?\" And as she went on she recognised the thickets,\nthe trees, the sea-rushes on the hill, the chateau yonder. All the\nsensations of her first tenderness came back to her, and her poor aching\nheart opened out amorously. A warm wi... |
260 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | She arrives to find Charles worried for her safety and depressed about their financial ruin. Ignoring his questions she writes a letter, seals it and, telling him not to read it until the following day, lies down upon her bed and waits to die. She vomits, feels chills and experiences sharp pains. Charles pleads with he... | [
"There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction;\nso difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign\nourselves to believe in it. But still, when he saw that she did not\nmove, Charles threw himself upon her, crying--",
"\"Farewell! farewell!\"",
"Homais and Canivet dragged h... |
261 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Charles dissolves into tears. Homais returns to the pharmacy, puts off the blind man and tells the gathered crowd that Madame Bovary died of accidental poisoning. Initially resistant, Charles finally agrees to order the funeral arrangements. Against the advice of Homais and his mother, he insists that Emma be buried ex... | [
"He had only received the chemist's letter thirty-six hours after the\nevent; and, from consideration for his feelings, Homais had so worded it\nthat it was impossible to make out what it was all about.",
"First, the old fellow had fallen as if struck by apoplexy. Next, he\nunderstood that she was not dead, but s... |
262 | 2413_part_3,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Homais' letter to Monsieur Rouault had been too vague and the poor man had made the trip not knowing whether his daughter was alive or dead. When he regains consciousness he and Charles fall weeping into each other's arms and Homais tells them to pull themselves together for the funeral. Hippolyte attends wearing his g... | [
"The next day Charles had the child brought back. She asked for her\nmamma. They told her she was away; that she would bring her back some\nplaythings. Berthe spoke of her again several times, then at last\nthought no more of her. The child's gaiety broke Bovary's heart, and he\nhad to bear besides the intolerable ... |
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