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Bursts of laughter came from the billiard room ... logs were blazing, charcoal was crackling, and on the long table in the kitchen ... stood high piles of plates that shook with the chopping block. From the yard came the squawking of the chickens that the kitchen maid was chasing with murderous intent.
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, trans. Francis Steegmuller, New York, Random House, 1957, p.84.
TIME: 1840
PLACE: Yonville, France.
CIRCUMSTANCE: taking in the aural sensations outside of an inn.
... in front of them hovered a swarm of flies, buzzing in the air.
... as they walked, the young woman heard only the rhythm of their own steps on the earth of the path, the words they themselves were uttering, and the whisper of Emma's dress as it rustled around her.
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, trans. Francis Steegmuller, New York, Random House, 1957, p. 104, 107.
TIME: 1840's
PLACE: French countryside
CIRCUMSTANCE: Emma and M. Leon are walking in the French countryside.
...M.Binet could be seen in a dormer bent over his lathe, its monotonous drone audible as far as the Lion d'Or.
...From the lower floor of a house at the corner came a whirring noise with strident changes of tone: Binet was at his lathe.
...the lathe kept whirring, like an angry voice calling her.
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, trans. Francis Steegmuller, New York, Random House, 1957, p. 113, 231-2.
TIME: 1840's
PLACE: Yonville, France
CIRCUMSTANCE: a carpenter works his lathe.
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