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Madame Bovary

CHAPTER Five
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In the middle was a slate sundial on a brick pedestal; four flower beds with eglantines surrounded symmetrically the more useful kitchen garden bed.
Right at the bottom, under the spruce bushes, was a cure in plaster reading his breviary.
Emma went upstairs.

The first room was not furnished, but in the second, which was their bedroom, was a mahogany bedstead in an alcove with red drapery.

A shell box adorned the chest of drawers, and on the secretary near the window a bouquet of orange blossoms tied with white satin ribbons stood in a bottle.

It was a bride's bouquet; it was the other one's.

She looked at it.


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