Gustave Flaubert Quote

He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him.


Madame Bovary (1857) pt. 1, ch. 7 (translated by F. Steegmuller)


He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him.

He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him.

He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him.

He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought him.