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He fell to the ground. He was dead.
Thirty-six hours after, at the druggist’s request, Mon-
sieur Canivet came thither. He made a post-mortem and
found nothing.
When everything had been sold, twelve francs seventy-
five centimes remained, that served to pay for Mademoiselle
Bovary’s going to her grandmother. The good woman died
the same year; old Rouault was paralysed, and it was an
aunt who took charge of her. She is poor, and sends her to a
cotton-factory to earn a living.
Since Bovary’s death three doctors have followed one
another at Yonville without any success, so severely did
Homais attack them. He has an enormous practice; the au-
thorities treat him with consideration, and public opinion
protects him.
He has just received the cross of the Legion of Honour.

Madame Bovary