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that she had latterly been somewhat irreverent to the com-
munity.
Emma, at home once more, first took pleasure in look-
ing after the servants, then grew disgusted with the country
and missed her convent. When Charles came to the Bertaux
for the first time, she thought herself quite disillusioned,
with nothing more to learn, and nothing more to feel.
But the uneasiness of her new position, or perhaps the
disturbance caused by the presence of this man, had suf-
ficed to make her believe that she at last felt that wondrous
passion which, till then, like a great bird with rose-coloured
wings, hung in the splendour of the skies of poesy; and now
she could not think that the calm in which she lived was the
happiness she had dreamed.
Madame Bovary
