he preacher speak of these things.
             The painting that Flaubert creates begins here. These are not natural actions for a little girl, yet Flaubert's work has only just begun. Emma is attracted to all that is sensual. When invited to a party at the chateau de la Vaubyessard, the person that attracts her most is the Duke de Laverdiere. He doesn't attract her simply because of his wealth, or his good looks, in fact he is old and crippled. Despite this she couldn't contain her amazement of him because he was a man that had "been Marie-Antoinette's lover. . .he had lived at court and slept in the bed of queens!"(67). Emma again was attracted to the lascivious qualities in other humans, because those were the qualities that were apparent in herself.
             While here at the chateau, Emma glimpses a world full of wealth and deceit, and after this she is unable to stand the plain, wholesome life that Charle
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