Die alte Frau Bovary handhabte Schere und Nadel, ohne die Augen zu erheben. Karl stand, beide Hände in den Taschen, in seinen Tuchpantoffeln und seinem alten braunen Überrock, der ihm als Hausanzug diente, bei ihnen und sprach auch kein Wort.
Madame Bovary senior was plying her scissor without looking up, and Charles, in his list slippers and his old brown surtout that he used as a dressing-gown, sat with both hands in his pockets, and did not speak either; near them Berthe, in a little white pinafore, was raking sand in the walks with her spade.