A sign, saying or image that foreshadows, sometimes only for those who reread, something that will happen later in the work.
In Madame Bovary
It's not that I entirely disapprove of the book! The author was a doctor. It contains certain scientific aspects that it is not amiss for a man to know, and I am even of the opinion that he should know them. But later, later!
The blue bottle of arsenic kept in the storeroom, which here is only the reason for the scolding of Justin, is the poison that Emma goes to fetch from the same laboratory, with the key of the same apprentice, at the end of the novel.
with a power of attorney, it would be simple, and then we could do a few little deals
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