Packet 1: Tossup 8

A father in this novel mourns by telling his son-in-law “you shall always have your turkey.” In this novel, a groundskeeper plants potatoes on unused plots of cemetery land. A woman in this novel faints at the sight of a blue tilbury and is revived with aromatic vinegar. An elaborate confection in this novel includes a blue cardboard portico, a dungeon of Savoy cake, and a cupid on a chocolate swing. A dialogue (-5[1])between lovers in this novel is (10[1])interspersed with the banal dialogue of an agricultural (10[1])fair. (10[1])Characters (10[2])in this (10[1])novel travel (10[1])in the Hirondelle (10[1])stagecoach, operated by Hivert (10[1])(“ee-VAIR”). A man adds fake tears to a breakup (10[1])letter and seals it with the (10[1])words “Amor nel cor” in this novel, before it is discovered in a basket of (10[1])apricots. (10[7])For 10 points, Rodolphe and Léon (10[1])have affairs with the title character (10[1])in what novel by Gustave Flaubert? ■END■ (10[1])

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