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Madame Bovary: A Study of Provincial Life
We were in class when the headmaster came in, followed by a “new fellow,” not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk.
Those who had been asleep woke up, and everyone rose as if just surprised at his work.
The headmaster made a sign for us to sit down. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to him in a low voice—
“Monsieur Roger, here is a pupil whom I recommend to your care; he’ll be in the second. If his work and conduct are satisfactory, he will go into one of the upper classes, as becomes his age.”
The “new fellow,” standing in the corner behind the door so that he could hardly be seen, was a country lad of about fifteen, and taller than any of us.
His hair was cut square on his forehead like a village chorister’s; he looked reliable but very ill at ease.
Although he was not broad-shouldered, his short school jacket of green cloth with black buttons must have been tight about the arm-holes and showed at the opening of the cuffs red wrists accustomed to being bare.
His legs, in blue stockings, looked out from beneath yellow trousers, drawn tight by braces, He wore stout, ill-cleaned, hob-nailed boots.
We began repeating the lesson. He listened with all his ears, as attentive as if at a sermon, not daring even to cross his legs or lean on his elbow; and when at two o’clock the bell rang, the master was obliged to tell him to fall into line with the rest of us.
When we came back to work, we were in the habit of throwing our caps on the ground so as to have our hand’s free.
We used the door to toss them under the form so that they hit against the wall and made a lot of dust: it was “the thing.”
But, whether he had not noticed the trick, or did not dare to attempt it, the “new fellow,” was still holding his cap on his knees even after prayers were over.
It was one of those head-gears of composite order, in which we can find traces of the bearskin, shako, billycock hat, sealskin cap, and cotton night cap; one of those poor things, in fine, whose dumb ugliness has depths of expression, like an imbecile’s face.
Oval, stiffened with whalebone, it began with three round knobs; then came in succession lozenges of velvet and rabbit-skin separated by a red band.
After that a sort of bag that ended in a cardboard polygon covered with complicated braiding, from which hung.
At the end of a long thin cord, small twisted gold threads in the manner of a tassel. The cap was new; its peak shone.
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
| Language | English |
| No. of Pages | 404 |
| PDF Size | 15.4 MB |
| Category | Novel |
| Source/ Credits | archive.org |
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