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This was the fourth time that she had slept in a strange
place.
The first was the day of her going to the convent; the sec-
ond, of her arrival at Tostes; the third, at Vaubyessard; and
this was the fourth. And each one had marked, as it were,
the inauguration of a new phase in her life. She did not be-
lieve that things could present themselves in the same way
in different places, and since the portion of her life lived had
been bad, no doubt that which remained to be lived would
be better.

11 Madame Bovary