Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (adapted excerpt)
She thought, sometimes, that after all
, this was the happiest time of her life-the honeymoon, as people called it to taste the full sweetness of it,
would have been necessary doubtless to fly to those lands with thundering names where the days after marriage are full of laziness most
pleasant. In post beds behind blue silken curtains to ride slowly up steep road, listening to the song of the postilion re-echoed by the mountains,
along with the bells of goats and the muffled sound of a waterfall; at sunset on the shores of gulfs to breathe in the perfume of lemon trees, then
in the evening on the villa-terraces above, hand in hand to look at the stars, making plans for the future. It seemed to her that certain places on
earth must bring happiness, as a plant peculiar to the soil, and that cannot thrive elsewhere. Why could not she lean over balconies in Swiss
chalets, or enshrine her melancholy in a Scotch cottage with a husband dressed in a black velvet coat with long tails, and thin shoes, a pointed
hat and frills? Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the
clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her--the opportunity, the courage
If Charles had but wished it if he had guessed it if his look had but once met her thought it seemed to her that a sudden olenty would have gone
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Select the correct answer.
Which detail from the passage best reveals that Charles is considered boring by his wife?
ОА
Charles seemed to be unaware of her thoughts and feelings
Charles's conversation was as common as street pavement,
OB
Ос
Charles and her were very familiar with each others lives
O.
Charles could not explain a term of horsemanship to her