Homais' letter to Monsieur Rouault had not reached him for three days, and he headed to Yonville at a dead heat. Charles' friends gloss over the events surrounding Emma's death in an attempt to spare her father.
At the funeral, Charles watches and cries. When Emma is lowered into the ground, he tries to throw himself in with her. Charles' mother imagines them living the rest of their days together, and she is so relieved to finally have.....
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