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He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward, he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he made energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred. Often he set out with the determination to dare it all; but this resolution soon deserted him in Emma's presence, and when Charles, dropping in, invited him to jump in his chaise to go with him to see some patient in the neighborhood, he at once accepted, bowed to madame, and went out. Her husband, was he not something belonging to her? #Reading Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert