For a long time Madame Bovary had been on the look-out for his death, and the old fellow had barely been packed off when Charles was installed, opposite his place, as his successor.
Bovaryné már régen leste, mikor fog meghalni ez az öreg ur, s a derék aggastyán még le se hunyta a szemét, mikor Károly már letelepedett a szemközt lévő házban, mint az öreg ur utódja.