Question 12 of 20
Which detail from the passage best supports the idea of disappointment?
Select to read a passage from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
A. To taste the full sweetness of it, it would have been necessary
doubtless to fly to those lands with thundering names where the
days after marriage are full of laziness most pleasant.
B. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds,
unstable as the winds?
C. Why could not she lean over balconies in Swiss chalets, or
enshrine her melancholy in a Scotch cottage, with a husband
dressed in a black velvet coat with long tails, and thin shoes, a
pointed hat and frills?
OD. It seemed to her that certain places on earth must bring happiness,
as a plant peculiar to the soil, and that cannot thrive elsewhere.