Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

PART ONE

Chapter 1

"We were in class when the headmaster came in, followed by a 'new fellow',

not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk.

Those who had been asleep woke up, and everyone rose as if just surprised

at his work.

The headmaster made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to the class

master, he said to him in a low voice: 'Monsieur Roger, here is a pupil

whom I recommend to your care; he'll be in the second. If his work and

conduct are satisfactory, he will go into one of the upper classes, as

becomes his age.' "