The Necklace
Describe Mathilde’s evening at the ball?
Pages 6-11
Pages 6-11
At the ball, Madame Loisel is a hit - elegant, joyful, and desired for waltzes. She and M. Loisel return home at nearly 4 o’clock in the morning.
The day of the party arrived. Madame Loisel was a success. She was the prettiest woman present, elegant, graceful, smiling, and quite above herself with happiness. All the men stared at her, inquired her name, and asked to be introduced to her.
All the Under-Secretaries of State were eager to waltz with her. The Minister noticed her.
he danced madly, ecstatically, drunk with pleasure, with no thought for anything, in the triumph of her beauty, in
the pride of her success, in a cloud of happiness made up of this universal homage and admiration, of the desires she
had aroused, of the completeness of a victory so dear to her feminine heart.
She left about four o'clock in the morning.
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