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Selected Writings-Part32_Guy De Maupassant(1850-1893)_Translated Works(翻译文学)-第2页

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general motion" target="_blank" title="n.感情；情绪；激动">emotion, that it must be he this time, he whose soul she



had tortured with such cold cruelty, and knowing that she could

make amends for the past and bring back their former love, she



replied to him, and granted him the meeting that he asked for.

She fell into his arms, and they both sobbed with joy and



ecstasy. Their kisses were those which lips give only when they

have lost each other and found each other again at last, when



they meet and exhaust themselves in each other's looks, thirsting

for tenderness, love, and enjoyment.



* * * * * * *

Last week Count de Baudemont carried off Marie Anne quietly and



coolly, just like one resumes possession of one's house on

returning from a journey, and drives out the intruders. And when



Maitre Garrulier was told of this unheard of scandal, he rubbed

his hands--the long, delicate hands of a sensual prelate--and



exclaimed:

"That is absolutelylogical, and I should like to be in their



place."

THE MAD WOMAN



"I can tell you a terrible story about the Franco-Prussian war,"

Monsieur d'Endolin said to some friends assembled in the



smoking-room of Baron de Ravot's chateau. "You know my house in

the Faubourg de Cormeil, I was living there when the Prussians



came, and I had for a neighbor a kind of mad woman, who had lost

her senses in consequence of a series of misfortunes. At the age



of seven and twenty she had lost her father, her husband, and her

newly born child, all in the space of a month.



"When death has once entered into a house, it almost invariably

returns immediately, as if it knew the way, and the young woman,



overwhelmed with grief, took to her bed and was delirious for six

weeks. Then a species of calm lassitude succeeded that violent



crisis, and she remained motionless" target="_blank" title="a.静止的；固定的">motionless, eating next to nothing, and

only moving her eyes. Every time they tried to make her get up,



she screamed as if they were about to kill her, and so they ended

by leaving her continually in bed, and only taking her out to



wash her, to change her linen, and to turn her mattress.

"An old servant remained with her, to give her something to



drink, or a little cold meat, from time to time. What passed in

that despairing mind? No one ever knew, for she did not speak at



all now. Was she thinking of the dead? Was she dreaming sadly,

without any preciserecollection of anything that had happened?



Or was her memory as stagnant as water without any current? But

however this may have been, for fifteen years she remained thus



inert and secluded.

"The war broke out, and in the beginning of December the Germans



came to Cormeil. I can remember it as if it were but yesterday.

It was freezing hard enough to split the stones, and I myself was



lying back in an armchair, being unable to move on account of the

gout, when I heard their heavy and regular tread, and could see



them pass from my window.

"They defiled past interminably, with that peculiarmotion of a



puppet on wires, which belongs to them. Then the officers

billeted their men on the inhabitants, and I had seventeen of



them. My neighbor, the crazy woman, had a dozen, one of whom was

the Commandant, a regular violent, surly swashbuckler.



"During the first few days, everything went on as usual. The

officers next door had been told that the lady was ill, and they



did not trouble themselves about that in the least, but soon that

woman whom they never saw irritated them. They asked what



her illness was, and were told that she had been in bed for

fifteen years, in consequence of terrible grief. No doubt they



did not believe it, and thought that the poor mad creature would

not leave her bed out of pride, so that she might not come near



the Prussians, or speak to them or even see them.

"The Commandant insisted upon her receiving him. He was shown



into the room and said to her roughly: 'I must beg you to get up,

Madame, and to come downstairs so that we may all see you.' But



she merely turned her vague eyes on him, without replying, and so




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