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An author wrote that “if [this character] had not read all those novels...[this character]’s fate might have been different” in The Perpetual Orgy. (20[6])This character’s eyes are variously (20[1])described as gray, green, and blue, as pointed (20[1])out (20[1])by a Julian Barnes novel. (20[3])An author allegedly (20[1])declared (20[1])“c’est moi”(“say MWAH”) (20[1])towards this character. (20[1])This woman throws her bouquet (20[2])into a fire after a (*) ball. This woman falls (10[1])ill after being dumped via a letter at the bottom of a barrel of apricots, (10[3])before becoming (10[2])indebted (10[3])to the merchant Lheureux (“luh-ROO”). This resident (10[3])of Yonville has affairs with Leon and Rodolphe (10[2])out of boredom with her husband Charles. For 10 points, name this woman who swallows arsenic at the end of a novel by Gustave Flaubert. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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