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  1. Gustave Flaubert _ A Simple Heart

    Un abur albastru urcă în camera lui Félicité. Ea își umflă nările, trăgîndu-l adînc în piept cu o senzualitate mistică; apoi închise ochii. Buzele îi zîmbeau. Bătăile inimii i se încetiniră una cîte una, tot mai slabe, tot mai pierdute, ca un ecou care se îndepărtează, ca un izvor care seacă; și cînd își dădu cea din urmă suflare, i se păru că zărește în cerul întredeschis un papagal uriaș plutind deasupra capului ei.
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  2. Gustave Flaubert _ A Simple Heart

    For two nights Félicité never left the dead girl. She said the same prayers over and over again, sprinkled holy water on the sheets, then sat down again to watch. At the end of her first vigil, she noticed that the child's face had gone yellow, the lips were turning blue, the nose looked sharper, and the eyes were sunken. She kissed them several times, and would not have been particularly surprised if Virginie had opened them again: to minds like hers the supernatural is a simple matter. She laid her out, wrapped her in a shroud, put her in her coffin, placed a wreath on her, and spread out her hair. It was fair and amazingly long for her age. Félicité cut off a big lock, half of which she slipped into her bosom, resolving never to part with it."
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  3. Gustave Flaubert _ A Simple Heart

    In March 1853 she was afflicted with a pain in the chest; her tongue seemed to be covered with a film; leeches failed to make her breathing any easier.
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  4. Gustave Flaubert _ A Simple Heart

    On days when it was too hot, they did not leave their room. The dazzling brilliance from outside plastered bars of light between the slats of the blinds. Not a sound in the village. Down below, on the sidewalk, no one. This spreading silence increased the tranquility of things. In the distance, the caulkers' hammers tamped the hulls, and a heavy breeze brought the smell of tar.
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  5. Gustave Flaubert _ A Simple Heart

    Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.
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