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A middle-class country wife tries to satisfy her yearnings for a luxurious life by engaging in various affairs.

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Before marriage she thought herself in love; but the happiness that should have followed this love not having come, she must, she thought, have been mistaken. And Emma tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the words “felicity,” “passion,” “rapture,” that had seemed to her so beautiful in books.

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