...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed.... : Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“ ...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she watched her son's happiness in sad silence, as a ruined man looks through the windows at people dining in his old house. ”

Gustave Flaubert
  • From : Madame Bovary
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