Madame, par pudeur, restait tournée vers la ruelle et montrait le dos. (Out of modesty, the Madame remained facing the alley, with her back turned.)
Pudeur - modesty. Je n’aime pas le manque de pudeur dans certains filmes.
Le dos - a person’s back. Je n’ai pas le dos bien pour être programmateur.
.. pour remettre une jambe cassée. (to set a broken leg.)
Mettre - to put. The prefix “re-” means repetition, to do something again. The leg was broken, so it needs to be set again, hence remettre.
Casser - to break. But to break in a specifically normal, physical sense. There is also rompre, to break something abstract: relationships, trust, etc. And there is also briser, to smash something violently. Je vais briser ton visage! Ne romps pas avec moi.
Or il y a six bonnes lieues de traverse (But it’s a good six leagues across)
Or - a very confusing false friend from English. Here it means “now”. And the actual “or” is “mais”.
Madame Bovary jeune redoutait les accidents pour son mari. (Madame Bovary junior was afraid of accidents for her husband.)
Redouter - to dread, to fear. I will probably continue to use avoir peur instead, as an A2 I am.
Donc il fut décidé que le valet d’écurie prendrait les devants. (So it was decided the stable-boy should go on first.)
Prendre les devants - to take the lead. Looks like a set expression.
afin de lui montrer le chemin de la ferme et d’ouvrir les clôtures devant lui. (to show him the way to the farm and open the gates for him.)
Le chemin - the path. So la route is " the road", and le chemin is more general.
Les clôtures - fence, hedge. On wiktionary, I see there is another usage: closing, closure; seems a lot more usable.