Madame Bovary... only 4c to send to a boy in the armed forces

"She had been warned she would be unhappy; and she ended by asking him for a dose of medicine and a little more love."


"For very weariness, Charles left off going...Heloise had made him swear, his hand on the prayerbook, that he would go there no more, after much sobbing and many kisses, in a great outburst of love. He obeyed then, but the strength of his desire protested against the servility of his conduct; and he thought, with a kind of naive hypocrisy, that this interdict to see her gave him a sort of right to love her."

---Gustave Flaubert (I _am_ sorry, but this particular (ancient) copy in translation was one of the only _random_ books that made it here on the first round, oh and my French is horrific too. n'est pas?)