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Select the correct text in the passage.
Which sentence supports the theme that after the initial excitement of new love wears off, dissatisfaction can grow?
adapted from Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
She thought, sometimes, that, after all, this was the happiest time of her life-the honeymoon, as people called it. 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. It seemed to her that certain places on earth must bring happiness, as a plant peculiar to the soil, and that cannot
thrive elsewhere. 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? Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to
someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her-the opportunity, the courage.
If Charles had but wished it, if he had guessed it, if his look had but once met her thought, it seemed to her that a sudden generosity would have
gone out from her heart, as the fruit falls from a tree when shaken by a hand. But as the familiarity of their life became deeper, the greater became
the gulf that separated her from him.
Charles's conversation was commonplace as a street pavement, and everyone's ideas trooped through it in their everyday garb, without exciting
emotion, laughter, or thought. He had never had the curiosity, he said, while he lived at Rouen, to go to the theater to see the actors from Paris.
He could neither swim, nor fence, nor shoot, and one day he could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a
novel.