The crowd came into the main street from both ends of the village. People poured in from the lanes, the alleys10, the houses; and from time to time one heard knockers banging against doors closing behind women with their gloves, who were going out to see the fete. What was most admired were two long lamp-stands covered with lanterns, that flanked a platform on which the authorities were to sit. Besides this there were against the four columns of the town hall four kinds of poles, each bearing a small standard of greenish cloth, embellished11 with inscriptions12 in gold letters.
On one was written, “To Commerce”; on the other, “To Agriculture”; on the third, “To Industry”; and on the fourth, “To the Fine Arts.”
But the jubilation13 that brightened all faces seemed to darken that of Madame Lefrancois, the innkeeper. Standing14 on her kitchen-steps she muttered to herself, “What rubbish! what rubbish! With their canvas booth! Do they think the prefect will be glad to dine down there under a tent like a gipsy? They call all this fussing doing good to the place! Then it wasn’t worth while sending to Neufchatel for the keeper of a cookshop! And for whom? For cowherds! tatterdemalions!”
The druggist was passing. He had on a frock-coat, nankeen trousers, beaver16 shoes, and, for a wonder, a hat with a low crown.
“Your servant! Excuse me, I am in a hurry.” And as the fat widow asked where he was going —
“It seems odd to you, doesn’t it, I who am always more cooped up in my laboratory than the man’s rat in his cheese.”
“What cheese?” asked the landlady18.
“Oh, nothing! nothing!” Homais continued. “I merely wished to convey to you, Madame Lefrancois, that I usually live at home like a recluse20. To-day, however, considering the circumstances, it is necessary —”
“Oh, you’re going down there!” she said contemptuously.
“Yes, I am going,” replied the druggist, astonished. “Am I not a member of the consulting commission?”
Mere19 Lefrancois looked at him for a few moments, and ended by saying with a smile —
“That’s another pair of shoes! But what does agriculture matter to you? Do you understand anything about it?”
“Certainly I understand it, since I am a druggist — that is to say, a chemist. And the object of chemistry, Madame Lefrancois, being the knowledge of the reciprocal and molecular21 action of all natural bodies, it follows that agriculture is comprised within its domain22. And, in fact, the composition of the manure23, the fermentation of liquids, the analyses of gases, and the influence of miasmata, what, I ask you, is all this, if it isn’t chemistry, pure and simple?”
The landlady did not answer. Homais went on —
“Do you think that to be an agriculturist it is necessary to have tilled the earth or fattened24 fowls25 oneself? It is necessary rather to know the composition of the substances in question — the geological strata26, the atmospheric27 actions, the quality of the soil, the minerals, the waters, the density28 of the different bodies, their capillarity, and what not. And one must be master of all the principles of hygiene29 in order to direct, criticize the construction of buildings, the feeding of animals, the diet of domestics. And, moreover, Madame Lefrancois, one must know botany, be able to distinguish between plants, you understand, which are the wholesome30 and those that are deleterious, which are unproductive and which nutritive, if it is well to pull them up here and re-sow them there, to propagate some, destroy others; in brief, one must keep pace with science by means of pamphlets and public papers, be always on the alert to find out improvements.”
The landlady never took her eyes off the “Cafe Francois” and the chemist went on —
“Would to God our agriculturists were chemists, or that at least they would pay more attention to the counsels of science. Thus lately I myself wrote a considerable tract31, a memoir32 of over seventy-two pages, entitled, ‘Cider, its Manufacture and its Effects, together with some New Reflections on the Subject,’ that I sent to the Agricultural Society of Rouen, and which even procured33 me the honour of being received among its members — Section, Agriculture; Class, Pomological. Well, if my work had been given to the public —” But the druggist stopped, Madame Lefrancois seemed so preoccupied34.
“Just look at them!” she said. “It’s past comprehension! Such a cookshop as that!” And with a shrug35 of the shoulders that stretched out over her breast the stitches of her knitted bodice, she pointed36 with both hands at her rival’s inn, whence songs were heard issuing. “Well, it won’t last long,” she added. “It’ll be over before a week.”
Homais drew back with stupefaction. She came down three steps and whispered in his ear —
“What! you didn’t know it? There is to be an execution in next week. It’s Lheureux who is selling him out; he has killed him with bills.”
“What a terrible catastrophe37!” cried the druggist, who always found expressions in harmony with all imaginable circumstances.
Then the landlady began telling him the story that she had heard from Theodore, Monsieur Guillaumin’s servant, and although she detested38 Tellier, she blamed Lheureux. He was “a wheedler39, a sneak40.”
“There!” she said. “Look at him! he is in the market; he is bowing to Madame Bovary, who’s got on a green bonnet41. Why, she’s taking Monsieur Boulanger’s arm.”
“Madame Bovary!” exclaimed Homais. “I must go at once and pay her my respects. Perhaps she’ll be very glad to have a seat in the enclosure under the peristyle.” And, without heeding42 Madame Lefrancois, who was calling him back to tell him more about it, the druggist walked off rapidly with a smile on his lips, with straight knees, bowing copiously43 to right and left, and taking up much room with the large tails of his frock-coat that fluttered behind him in the wind.
Rodolphe, having caught sight of him from afar, hurried on, but Madame Bovary lost her breath; so he walked more slowly, and, smiling at her, said in a rough tone —
“It’s only to get away from that fat fellow, you know, the druggist.” She pressed his elbow.
“What’s the meaning of that?” he asked himself. And he looked at her out of the corner of his eyes.
Her profile was so calm that one could guess nothing from it. It stood out in the light from the oval of her bonnet, with pale ribbons on it like the leaves of weeds. Her eyes with their long curved lashes44 looked straight before her, and though wide open, they seemed slightly puckered45 by the cheek-bones, because of the blood pulsing gently under the delicate skin. A pink line ran along the partition between her nostrils46. Her head was bent47 upon her shoulder, and the pearl tips of her white teeth were seen between her lips.
“Is she making fun of me?” thought Rodolphe.
Emma’s gesture, however, had only been meant for a warning; for Monsieur Lheureux was accompanying them, and spoke48 now and again as if to enter into the conversation.
“What a superb day! Everybody is out! The wind is east!”
And neither Madame Bovary nor Rodolphe answered him, whilst at the slightest movement made by them he drew near, saying, “I beg your pardon!” and raised his hat.
When they reached the farrier’s house, instead of following the road up to the fence, Rodolphe suddenly turned down a path, drawing with him Madame Bovary. He called out —
“Good evening, Monsieur Lheureux! See you again presently.”
“How you got rid of him!” she said, laughing.
“Why,” he went on, “allow oneself to be intruded49 upon by others? And as to-day I have the happiness of being with you —”
Emma blushed. He did not finish his sentence. Then he talked of the fine weather and of the pleasure of walking on the grass. A few daisies had sprung up again.
“Here are some pretty Easter daisies,” he said, “and enough of them to furnish oracles50 to all the amorous51 maids in the place.”
He added, “Shall I pick some? What do you think?”
“Are you in love?” she asked, coughing a little.
“H’m, h’m! who knows?” answered Rodolphe.
The meadow began to fill, and the housewives hustled52 you with their great umbrellas, their baskets, and their babies. One had often to get out of the way of a long file of country folk, servant-maids with blue stockings, flat shoes, silver rings, and who smelt53 of milk, when one passed close to them. They walked along holding one another by the hand, and thus they spread over the whole field from the row of open trees to the banquet tent.
But this was the examination time, and the farmers one after the other entered a kind of enclosure formed by a long cord supported on sticks.
The beasts were there, their noses towards the cord, and making a confused line with their unequal rumps. Drowsy54 pigs were burrowing55 in the earth with their snouts, calves56 were bleating57, lambs baaing; the cows, on knees folded in, were stretching their bellies58 on the grass, slowly chewing the cud, and blinking their heavy eyelids59 at the gnats60 that buzzed round them. Plough-men with bare arms were holding by the halter prancing61 stallions that neighed with dilated62 nostrils looking towards the mares. These stood quietly, stretching out their heads and flowing manes, while their foals rested in their shadow, or now and then came and sucked them. And above the long undulation of these crowded animals one saw some white mane rising in the wind like a wave, or some sharp horns sticking out, and the heads of men running about. Apart, outside the enclosure, a hundred paces off, was a large black bull, muzzled63, with an iron ring in its nostrils, and who moved no more than if he had been in bronze. A child in rags was holding him by a rope.
Between the two lines the committee-men were walking with heavy steps, examining each animal, then consulting one another in a low voice. One who seemed of more importance now and then took notes in a book as he walked along. This was the president of the jury, Monsieur Derozerays de la Panville. As soon as he recognised Rodolphe he came forward quickly, and smiling amiably64, said —
“What! Monsieur Boulanger, you are deserting us?”
Rodolphe protested that he was just coming. But when the president had disappeared —
“Ma foi!12” said he, “I shall not go. Your company is better than his.”
And while poking65 fun at the show, Rodolphe, to move about more easily, showed the gendarme66 his blue card, and even stopped now and then in front of some fine beast, which Madame Bovary did not at all admire. He noticed this, and began jeering67 at the Yonville ladies and their dresses; then he apologised for the negligence68 of his own. He had that incongruity69 of common and elegant in which the habitually70 vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a certain contempt for social conventions, that seduces71 or exasperates72 them. Thus his cambric shirt with plaited cuffs73 was blown out by the wind in the opening of his waistcoat of grey ticking, and his broad-striped trousers disclosed at the ankle nankeen boots with patent leather gaiters.
These were so polished that they reflected the grass. He trampled74 on horses’s dung with them, one hand in the pocket of his jacket and his straw hat on one side.
“Besides,” added he, “when one lives in the country —”
“It’s waste of time,” said Emma.
“That is true,” replied Rodolphe. “To think that not one of these people is capable of understanding even the cut of a coat!”
Then they talked about provincial76 mediocrity, of the lives it crushed, the illusions lost there.
“And I too,” said Rodolphe, “am drifting into depression.”
“You!” she said in astonishment77; “I thought you very light-hearted.”
“Ah! yes. I seem so, because in the midst of the world I know how to wear the mask of a scoffer78 upon my face; and yet, how many a time at the sight of a cemetery79 by moonlight have I not asked myself whether it were not better to join those sleeping there!”
“Oh! and your friends?” she said. “You do not think of them.”
“My friends! What friends? Have I any? Who cares for me?” And he accompanied the last words with a kind of whistling of the lips.
But they were obliged to separate from each other because of a great pile of chairs that a man was carrying behind them. He was so overladen with them that one could only see the tips of his wooden shoes and the ends of his two outstretched arms. It was Lestiboudois, the gravedigger, who was carrying the church chairs about amongst the people. Alive to all that concerned his interests, he had hit upon this means of turning the show to account; and his idea was succeeding, for he no longer knew which way to turn. In fact, the villagers, who were hot, quarreled for these seats, whose straw smelt of incense80, and they leant against the thick backs, stained with the wax of candles, with a certain veneration81.
Madame Bovary again took Rodolphe’s arm; he went on as if speaking to himself —
“Yes, I have missed so many things. Always alone! Ah! if I had some aim in life, if I had met some love, if I had found someone! Oh, how I would have spent all the energy of which I am capable, surmounted82 everything, overcome everything!”
“Yet it seems to me,” said Emma, “that you are not to be pitied.”
“Ah! you think so?” said Rodolphe.
“For, after all,” she went on, “you are free —” she hesitated, “rich —”
“Do not mock me,” he replied.
And she protested that she was not mocking him, when the report of a cannon83 resounded84. Immediately all began hustling85 one another pell-mell towards the village.
It was a false alarm. The prefect seemed not to be coming, and the members of the jury felt much embarrassed, not knowing if they ought to begin the meeting or still wait.
At last at the end of the Place a large hired landau appeared, drawn86 by two thin horses, which a coachman in a white hat was whipping lustily. Binet had only just time to shout, “Present arms!” and the colonel to imitate him. All ran towards the enclosure; everyone pushed forward. A few even forgot their collars; but the equipage of the prefect seemed to anticipate the crowd, and the two yoked87 jades88, trapesing in their harness, came up at a little trot89 in front of the peristyle of the town hall at the very moment when the National Guard and firemen deployed90, beating drums and marking time.
“Present!” shouted Binet.
“Halt!” shouted the colonel. “Left about, march.”
And after presenting arms, during which the clang of the band, letting loose, rang out like a brass91 kettle rolling downstairs, all the guns were lowered. Then was seen stepping down from the carriage a gentleman in a short coat with silver braiding, with bald brow, and wearing a tuft of hair at the back of his head, of a sallow complexion92 and the most benign93 appearance. His eyes, very large and covered by heavy lids, were half-closed to look at the crowd, while at the same time he raised his sharp nose, and forced a smile upon his sunken mouth. He recognised the mayor by his scarf, and explained to him that the prefect was not able to come. He himself was a councillor at the prefecture; then he added a few apologies. Monsieur Tuvache answered them with compliments; the other confessed himself nervous; and they remained thus, face to face, their foreheads almost touching94, with the members of the jury all round, the municipal council, the notable personages, the National Guard and the crowd. The councillor pressing his little cocked hat to his breast repeated his bows, while Tuvache, bent like a bow, also smiled, stammered95, tried to say something, protested his devotion to the monarchy96 and the honour that was being done to Yonville.
Hippolyte, the groom98 from the inn, took the head of the horses from the coachman, and, limping along with his club-foot, led them to the door of the “Lion d’Or”, where a number of peasants collected to look at the carriage. The drum beat, the howitzer thundered, and the gentlemen one by one mounted the platform, where they sat down in red utrecht velvet99 arm-chairs that had been lent by Madame Tuvache.
All these people looked alike. Their fair flabby faces, somewhat tanned by the sun, were the colour of sweet cider, and their puffy whiskers emerged from stiff collars, kept up by white cravats100 with broad bows. All the waist-coats were of velvet, double-breasted; all the watches had, at the end of a long ribbon, an oval cornelian seal; everyone rested his two hands on his thighs101, carefully stretching the stride of their trousers, whose unsponged glossy102 cloth shone more brilliantly than the leather of their heavy boots.
The ladies of the company stood at the back under the vestibule between the pillars while the common herd15 was opposite, standing up or sitting on chairs. As a matter of fact, Lestiboudois had brought thither103 all those that he had moved from the field, and he even kept running back every minute to fetch others from the church. He caused such confusion with this piece of business that one had great difficulty in getting to the small steps of the platform.
“I think,” said Monsieur Lheureux to the chemist, who was passing to his place, “that they ought to have put up two Venetian masts with something rather severe and rich for ornaments105; it would have been a very pretty effect.”
“To be sure,” replied Homais; “but what can you expect? The mayor took everything on his own shoulders. He hasn’t much taste. Poor Tuvache! and he is even completely destitute106 of what is called the genius of art.”
Rodolphe, meanwhile, with Madame Bovary, had gone up to the first floor of the town hall, to the “council-room,” and, as it was empty, he declared that they could enjoy the sight there more comfortably. He fetched three stools from the round table under the bust107 of the monarch97, and having carried them to one of the windows, they sat down by each other.
There was commotion108 on the platform, long whisperings, much parleying. At last the councillor got up. They knew now that his name was Lieuvain, and in the crowd the name was passed from one to the other. After he had collated109 a few pages, and bent over them to see better, he began —
“Gentlemen! May I be permitted first of all (before addressing you on the object of our meeting to-day, and this sentiment will, I am sure, be shared by you all), may I be permitted, I say, to pay a tribute to the higher administration, to the government to the monarch, gentle men, our sovereign, to that beloved king, to whom no branch of public or private prosperity is a matter of indifference110, and who directs with a hand at once so firm and wise the chariot of the state amid the incessant111 perils112 of a stormy sea, knowing, moreover, how to make peace respected as well as war, industry, commerce, agriculture, and the fine arts?”
“I ought,” said Rodolphe, “to get back a little further.”
“Why?” said Emma.
But at this moment the voice of the councillor rose to an extraordinary pitch. He declaimed —
“This is no longer the time, gentlemen, when civil discord113 ensanguined our public places, when the landlord, the business-man, the working-man himself, falling asleep at night, lying down to peaceful sleep, trembled lest he should be awakened114 suddenly by the noise of incendiary tocsins, when the most subversive115 doctrines116 audaciously sapped foundations.”
“Well, someone down there might see me,” Rodolphe resumed, “then I should have to invent excuses for a fortnight; and with my bad reputation —”
“Oh, you are slandering117 yourself,” said Emma.
“No! It is dreadful, I assure you.”
“But, gentlemen,” continued the councillor, “if, banishing118 from my memory the remembrance of these sad pictures, I carry my eyes back to the actual situation of our dear country, what do I see there? Everywhere commerce and the arts are flourishing; everywhere new means of communication, like so many new arteries119 in the body of the state, establish within it new relations. Our great industrial centres have recovered all their activity; religion, more consolidated120, smiles in all hearts; our ports are full, confidence is born again, and France breathes once more!”
“Besides,” added Rodolphe, “perhaps from the world’s point of view they are right.”
“How so?” she asked.
“What!” said he. “Do you not know that there are souls constantly tormented121? They need by turns to dream and to act, the purest passions and the most turbulent joys, and thus they fling themselves into all sorts of fantasies, of follies122.”
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 distraction124, we poor women!”
“A sad distraction, for happiness isn’t found in it.”
“But is it ever found?” she asked.
“Yes; one day it comes,” he answered.
“And this is what you have understood,” said the councillor.
“You, farmers, agricultural labourers! you pacific pioneers of a work that belongs wholly to civilization! you, men of progress and morality, you have understood, I say, that political storms are even more redoubtable125 than atmospheric disturbances126!”
“It comes one day,” repeated Rodolphe, “one day suddenly, and when one is despairing of it. Then the horizon expands; it is as if a voice cried, ‘It is here!’ You feel the need of confiding127 the whole of your life, of giving everything, sacrificing everything to this being. There is no need for explanations; they understand one another. They have seen each other in dreams!”
(And he looked at her.) “In fine, here it is, this treasure so sought after, here before you. It glitters, it flashes; yet one still doubts, one does not believe it; one remains128 dazzled, as if one went out iron darkness into light.”
And as he ended Rodolphe suited the action to the word. He passed his hand over his face, like a man seized with giddiness. Then he let it fall on Emma’s. She took hers away.
“And who would be surprised at it, gentlemen? He only who is so blind, so plunged129 (I do not fear to say it), so plunged in the prejudices of another age as still to misunderstand the spirit of agricultural populations. Where, indeed, is to be found more patriotism130 than in the country, greater devotion to the public welfare, more intelligence, in a word? And, gentlemen, I do not mean that superficial intelligence, vain ornament104 of idle minds, but rather that profound and balanced intelligence that applies itself above all else to useful objects, thus contributing to the good of all, to the common amelioration and to the support of the state, born of respect for law and the practice of duty —”
“Ah! again!” said Rodolphe. “Always ‘duty.’ I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel131 vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears ‘Duty, duty!’ Ah! by Jove! one’s duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”
“Yet — yet —” objected Madame Bovary.
“No, no! Why cry out against the passions? Are they not the one beautiful thing on the earth, the source of heroism132, of enthusiasm, of poetry, music, the arts, of everything, in a word?”
“But one must,” said Emma, “to some extent bow to the opinion of the world and accept its moral code.”
“Ah! but there are two,” he replied. “The small, the conventional, that of men, that which constantly changes, that brays133 out so loudly, that makes such a commotion here below, of the earth earthly, like the mass of imbeciles you see down there. But the other, the eternal, that is about us and above, like the landscape that surrounds us, and the blue heavens that give us light.”
Monsieur Lieuvain had just wiped his mouth with a pocket-handkerchief. He continued —
“And what should I do here gentlemen, pointing out to you the uses of agriculture? Who supplies our wants? Who provides our means of subsistence? Is it not the agriculturist? The agriculturist, gentlemen, who, sowing with laborious134 hand the fertile furrows135 of the country, brings forth136 the corn, which, being ground, is made into a powder by means of ingenious machinery137, comes out thence under the name of flour, and from there, transported to our cities, is soon delivered at the baker’s, who makes it into food for poor and rich alike. Again, is it not the agriculturist who fattens138, for our clothes, his abundant flocks in the pastures? For how should we clothe ourselves, how nourish ourselves, without the agriculturist? And, gentlemen, is it even necessary to go so far for examples? Who has not frequently reflected on all the momentous139 things that we get out of that modest animal, the ornament of poultry-yards, that provides us at once with a soft pillow for our bed, with succulent flesh for our tables, and eggs? But I should never end if I were to enumerate140 one after the other all the different products which the earth, well cultivated, like a generous mother, lavishes141 upon her children. Here it is the vine, elsewhere the apple tree for cider, there colza, farther on cheeses and flax. Gentlemen, let us not forget flax, which has made such great strides of late years, and to which I will more particularly call your attention.”
He had no need to call it, for all the mouths of the multitude were wide open, as if to drink in his words. Tuvache by his side listened to him with staring eyes. Monsieur Derozerays from time to time softly closed his eyelids, and farther on the chemist, with his son Napoleon between his knees, put his hand behind his ear in order not to lose a syllable142. The chins of the other members of the jury went slowly up and down in their waistcoats in sign of approval. The firemen at the foot of the platform rested on their bayonets; and Binet, motionless, stood with out-turned elbows, the point of his sabre in the air. Perhaps he could hear, but certainly he could see nothing, because of the visor of his helmet, that fell down on his nose. His lieutenant143, the youngest son of Monsieur Tuvache, had a bigger one, for his was enormous, and shook on his head, and from it an end of his cotton scarf peeped out. He smiled beneath it with a perfectly144 infantine sweetness, and his pale little face, whence drops were running, wore an expression of enjoyment145 and sleepiness.
The square as far as the houses was crowded with people. One saw folk leaning on their elbows at all the windows, others standing at doors, and Justin, in front of the chemist’s shop, seemed quite transfixed by the sight of what he was looking at. In spite of the silence Monsieur Lieuvain’s voice was lost in the air. It reached you in fragments of phrases, and interrupted here and there by the creaking of chairs in the crowd; then you suddenly heard the long bellowing146 of an ox, or else the bleating of the lambs, who answered one another at street corners. In fact, the cowherds and shepherds had driven their beasts thus far, and these lowed from time to time, while with their tongues they tore down some scrap147 of foliage148 that hung above their mouths.
Rodolphe had drawn nearer to Emma, and said to her in a low voice, speaking rapidly —
“Does not this conspiracy149 of the world revolt you? Is there a single sentiment it does not condemn150? The noblest instincts, the purest sympathies are persecuted151, slandered152; and if at length two poor souls do meet, all is so organised that they cannot blend together. Yet they will make the attempt; they will flutter their wings; they will call upon each other. Oh! no matter. Sooner or later, in six months, ten years, they will come together, will love; for fate has decreed it, and they are born one for the other.”
His arms were folded across his knees, and thus lifting his face towards Emma, close by her, he looked fixedly153 at her. She noticed in his eyes small golden lines radiating from black pupils; she even smelt the perfume of the pomade that made his hair glossy.
Then a faintness came over her; she recalled the Viscount who had waltzed with her at Vaubyessard, and his beard exhaled154 like this air an odour of vanilla155 and citron, and mechanically she half-closed her eyes the better to breathe it in. But in making this movement, as she leant back in her chair, she saw in the distance, right on the line of the horizon, the old diligence, the “Hirondelle,” that was slowly descending156 the hill of Leux, dragging after it a long trail of dust. It was in this yellow carriage that Leon had so often come back to her, and by this route down there that he had gone for ever. She fancied she saw him opposite at his windows; then all grew confused; clouds gathered; it seemed to her that she was again turning in the waltz under the light of the lustres on the arm of the Viscount, and that Leon was not far away, that he was coming; and yet all the time she was conscious of the scent157 of Rodolphe’s head by her side. This sweetness of sensation pierced through her old desires, and these, like grains of sand under a gust158 of wind, eddied159 to and fro in the subtle breath of the perfume which suffused160 her soul. She opened wide her nostrils several times to drink in the freshness of the ivy round the capitals. She took off her gloves, she wiped her hands, then fanned her face with her handkerchief, while athwart the throbbing161 of her temples she heard the murmur162 of the crowd and the voice of the councillor intoning his phrases. He said —“Continue, persevere163; listen neither to the suggestions of routine, nor to the over-hasty councils of a rash empiricism.
“Apply yourselves, above all, to the amelioration of the soil, to good manures, to the development of the equine, bovine164, ovine, and porcine races. Let these shows be to you pacific arenas165, where the victor in leaving it will hold forth a hand to the vanquished166, and will fraternise with him in the hope of better success. And you, aged123 servants, humble167 domestics, whose hard labour no Government up to this day has taken into consideration, come hither to receive the reward of your silent virtues168, and be assured that the state henceforward has its eye upon you; that it encourages you, protects you; that it will accede169 to your just demands, and alleviate170 as much as in it lies the burden of your painful sacrifices.”
Monsieur Lieuvain then sat down; Monsieur Derozerays got up, beginning another speech. His was not perhaps so florid as that of the councillor, but it recommended itself by a more direct style, that is to say, by more special knowledge and more elevated considerations. Thus the praise of the Government took up less space in it; religion and agriculture more. He showed in it the relations of these two, and how they had always contributed to civilisation171. Rodolphe with Madame Bovary was talking dreams, presentiments172, magnetism173. Going back to the cradle of society, the orator17 painted those fierce times when men lived on acorns174 in the heart of woods. Then they had left off the skins of beasts, had put on cloth, tilled the soil, planted the vine. Was this a good, and in this discovery was there not more of injury than of gain? Monsieur Derozerays set himself this problem. From magnetism little by little Rodolphe had come to affinities175, and while the president was citing Cincinnatus and his plough, Diocletian, planting his cabbages, and the Emperors of China inaugurating the year by the sowing of seed, the young man was explaining to the young woman that these irresistible176 attractions find their cause in some previous state of existence.
“Thus we,” he said, “why did we come to know one another? What chance willed it? It was because across the infinite, like two streams that flow but to unite; our special bents of mind had driven us towards each other.”
And he seized her hand; she did not withdraw it.
“For good farming generally!” cried the president.
“Just now, for example, when I went to your house.”
“To Monsieur Bizat of Quincampoix.”
“Did I know I should accompany you?”
“Seventy francs.”
“A hundred times I wished to go; and I followed you — I remained.”
“Manures!”
“And I shall remain to-night, to-morrow, all other days, all my life!”
“To Monsieur Caron of Argueil, a gold medal!”
“For I have never in the society of any other person found so complete a charm.”
“To Monsieur Bain of Givry-Saint-Martin.”
“And I shall carry away with me the remembrance of you.”
“For a merino ram75!”
“But you will forget me; I shall pass away like a shadow.”
“To Monsieur Belot of Notre-Dame.”
“Oh, no! I shall be something in your thought, in your life, shall I not?”
“Porcine race; prizes — equal, to Messrs. Leherisse and Cullembourg, sixty francs!”
Rodolphe was pressing her hand, and he felt it all warm and quivering like a captive dove that wants to fly away; but, whether she was trying to take it away or whether she was answering his pressure; she made a movement with her fingers. He exclaimed —
“Oh, I thank you! You do not repulse177 me! You are good! You understand that I am yours! Let me look at you; let me contemplate178 you!”
A gust of wind that blew in at the window ruffled179 the cloth on the table, and in the square below all the great caps of the peasant women were uplifted by it like the wings of white butterflies fluttering.
“Use of oil-cakes,” continued the president. He was hurrying on: “Flemish manure-flax-growing-drainage-long leases-domestic service.”
Rodolphe was no longer speaking. They looked at one another. A supreme180 desire made their dry lips tremble, and wearily, without an effort, their fingers intertwined.
“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.
She did not present herself, and one could hear voices whispering —
“Go up!”
“Don’t be afraid!”
“Oh, how stupid she is!”
“Well, is she there?” cried Tuvache.
“Yes; here she is.”
“Then let her come up!”
Then there came forward on the platform a little old woman with timid bearing, who seemed to shrink within her poor clothes. On her feet she wore heavy wooden clogs181, and from her hips182 hung a large blue apron183. Her pale face framed in a borderless cap was more wrinkled than a withered184 russet apple. And from the sleeves of her red jacket looked out two large hands with knotty185 joints186, the dust of barns, the potash of washing the grease of wools had so encrusted, roughened, hardened these that they seemed dirty, although they had been rinsed187 in clear water; and by dint188 of long service they remained half open, as if to bear humble witness for themselves of so much suffering endured. Something of monastic rigidity189 dignified190 her face. Nothing of sadness or of emotion weakened that pale look. In her constant living with animals she had caught their dumbness and their calm. It was the first time that she found herself in the midst of so large a company, and inwardly scared by the flags, the drums, the gentlemen in frock-coats, and the order of the councillor, she stood motionless, not knowing whether to advance or run away, nor why the crowd was pushing her and the jury were smiling at her.
Thus stood before these radiant bourgeois191 this half-century of servitude.
“Approach, venerable Catherine Nicaise Elizabeth Leroux!” said the councillor, who had taken the list of prize-winners from the president; and, looking at the piece of paper and the old woman by turns, he repeated in a fatherly tone —“Approach! approach!”
“Are you deaf?” said Tuvache, fidgeting in his armchair; and he began shouting in her ear, “Fifty-four years of service. A silver medal! Twenty-five francs! For you!”
Then, when she had her medal, she looked at it, and a smile of beatitude spread over her face; and as she walked away they could hear her muttering “I’ll give it to our cure up home, to say some masses for me!”
“What fanaticism192!” exclaimed the chemist, leaning across to the notary193.
The meeting was over, the crowd dispersed194, and now that the speeches had been read, each one fell back into his place again, and everything into the old grooves195; the masters bullied196 the servants, and these struck the animals, indolent victors, going back to the stalls, a green-crown on their horns.
The National Guards, however, had gone up to the first floor of the town hall with buns spitted on their bayonets, and the drummer of the battalion197 carried a basket with bottles. Madame Bovary took Rodolphe’s arm; he saw her home; they separated at her door; then he walked about alone in the meadow while he waited for the time of the banquet.
The feast was long, noisy, ill served; the guests were so crowded that they could hardly move their elbows; and the narrow planks198 used for forms almost broke down under their weight. They ate hugely. Each one stuffed himself on his own account. Sweat stood on every brow, and a whitish steam, like the vapour of a stream on an autumn morning, floated above the table between the hanging lamps. Rodolphe, leaning against the calico of the tent was thinking so earnestly of Emma that he heard nothing. Behind him on the grass the servants were piling up the dirty plates, his neighbours were talking; he did not answer them; they filled his glass, and there was silence in his thoughts in spite of the growing noise. He was dreaming of what she had said, of the line of her lips; her face, as in a magic mirror, shone on the plates of the shakos, the folds of her gown fell along the walls, and days of love unrolled to all infinity199 before him in the vistas200 of the future.
He saw her again in the evening during the fireworks, but she was with her husband, Madame Homais, and the druggist, who was worrying about the danger of stray rockets, and every moment he left the company to go and give some advice to Binet.
The pyrotechnic pieces sent to Monsieur Tuvache had, through an excess of caution, been shut up in his cellar, and so the damp powder would not light, and the principal set piece, that was to represent a dragon biting his tail, failed completely. Now and then a meagre Roman-candle went off; then the gaping201 crowd sent up a shout that mingled202 with the cry of the women, whose waists were being squeezed in the darkness. Emma silently nestled against Charles’s shoulder; then, raising her chin, she watched the luminous203 rays of the rockets against the dark sky. Rodolphe gazed at her in the light of the burning lanterns.
They went out one by one. The stars shone out. A few crops of rain began to fall. She knotted her fichu round her bare head.
At this moment the councillor’s carriage came out from the inn.
His coachman, who was drunk, suddenly dozed204 off, and one could see from the distance, above the hood205, between the two lanterns, the mass of his body, that swayed from right to left with the giving of the traces.
“Truly,” said the druggist, “one ought to proceed most rigorously against drunkenness! I should like to see written up weekly at the door of the town hall on a board ad hoc13 the names of all those who during the week got intoxicated206 on alcohol. Besides, with regard to statistics, one would thus have, as it were, public records that one could refer to in case of need. But excuse me!”
And he once more ran off to the captain. The latter was going back to see his lathe207 again.
“Perhaps you would not do ill,” Homais said to him, “to send one of your men, or to go yourself —”
“Leave me alone!” answered the tax-collector. “It’s all right!”
“Do not be uneasy,” said the druggist, when he returned to his friends. “Monsieur Binet has assured me that all precautions have been taken. No sparks have fallen; the pumps are full. Let us go to rest.”
“Ma foi! I want it,” said Madame Homais, yawning at large. “But never mind; we’ve had a beautiful day for our fete.”
Rodolphe repeated in a low voice, and with a tender look, “Oh, yes! very beautiful!”
And having bowed to one another, they separated.
Two days later, in the “Final de Rouen,” there was a long article on the show. Homais had composed it with verve the very next morning.
“Why these festoons, these flowers, these garlands? Whither hurries this crowd like the waves of a furious sea under the torrents208 of a tropical sun pouring its heat upon our heads?”
Then he spoke of the condition of the peasants. Certainly the Government was doing much, but not enough. “Courage!” he cried to it; “a thousand reforms are indispensable; let us accomplish them!” Then touching on the entry of the councillor, he did not forget “the martial209 air of our militia;” nor “our most merry village maidens;” nor the “bald-headed old men like patriarchs who were there, and of whom some, the remnants of our phalanxes, still felt their hearts beat at the manly210 sound of the drums.” He cited himself among the first of the members of the jury, and he even called attention in a note to the fact that Monsieur Homais, chemist, had sent a memoir on cider to the agricultural society.
When he came to the distribution of the prizes, he painted the joy of the prize-winners in dithyrambic strophes. “The father embraced the son, the brother the brother, the husband his consort211. More than one showed his humble medal with pride; and no doubt when he got home to his good housewife, he hung it up weeping on the modest walls of his cot.
“About six o’clock a banquet prepared in the meadow of Monsieur Leigeard brought together the principal personages of the fete. The greatest cordiality reigned212 here. Divers213 toasts were proposed: Monsieur Lieuvain, the King; Monsieur Tuvache, the Prefect; Monsieur Derozerays, Agriculture; Monsieur Homais, Industry and the Fine Arts, those twin sisters; Monsieur Leplichey, Progress. In the evening some brilliant fireworks on a sudden illumined the air. One would have called it a veritable kaleidoscope, a real operatic scene; and for a moment our little locality might have thought itself transported into the midst of a dream of the ‘Thousand and One Nights.’ “Let us state that no untoward214 event disturbed this family meeting.” And he added “Only the absence of the clergy215 was remarked. No doubt the priests understand progress in another fashion. Just as you please, messieurs the followers216 of Loyola!”
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catastrophe
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drowsy
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