text: A woman in this novel encounters a deformed panhandler every Thursday when she secretly meets with her lover under the pretext of music lessons.
full_question: A woman in this novel encounters a deformed panhandler every Thursday when she secretly meets with her lover under the pretext of music lessons. In this novel, a woman plans to reject a man by giving him a letter at a cathedral, but she ends up having sex with him in a carriage instead. This novel’s title character grows bored with her affair with Leon Dupuis shortly before her mounting debts cause her to kill herself by swallowing arsenic. For 10 points, name this novel about a doctor’s wife by Gustave Flaubert.
first_sentence: A woman in this novel encounters a deformed panhandler every Thursday when she secretly meets with her lover under the pretext of music lessons.