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Selected Writings-Part35_Guy De Maupassant(1850-1893)_Translated Works(翻译文学)-第2页

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" 'After all,' she said, with a contemptuous grimace, 'he is only

a kind of Garibaldi.'



"She told me, although she made fun of him as she did so, about

that 'Odyssey' of the barricades and of the hulks which made up



Bakounine's history, and which is, nevertheless, the exact truth;

about his adventures as chief of the insurgents at Prague and



then at Dresden; of his first death sentence; about his

imprisonment at Olmutz, in the casemates of the fortress of St.



Peter and St. Paul, and in a subterranean dungeon at

Schusselburg; about his exile to Siberia and his wonderful escape



down the river Amour, on a Japanese coasting-vessel, and about

his final arrival, by way of Yokohama and San Francisco, in London,



whence he was directing all the operations of Nihilism.

" 'You see,' she said, 'he is a thoroughadventurer, and now all



his adventures are over. He got married at Tobolsk and became a

mere respectable, middle-class man. And then he has no individual



ideas. Herzen, the pamphleteer of "Kolokol," inspired him with

the only fertilephrase that he ever uttered: "Land and Liberty!"



But that is not yet the definiteformula, the general

formula--what I may call the dynamiteformula. At best, Bakounine



would only become an incendiary, and burn down cities. And what

is that, I ask you? Bah! A second-hand Rostoptchin! He wants a



prompter, and I offered to become his, but he did not take me

seriously.'



* * * * * * *

"It would be useless to enter into all the psychological details



which marked the course of my passion for the Countess, and to

explain to you more fully the curious and daily growing



attraction which she had for me. It was getting exasperating, and

the more so as she resisted me as stoutly as the shyest of



innocents could have done. At the end of a month of mad Satanism,

I saw what her game was. Do you know what she intended? She meant



to make me Bakounine's prompter, or, at any rate, that is what

she said. But no doubt she reserved the right to herself--at



least that is how I understood her--to prompt the prompter, and

my passion for her, which she purposely left unsatisfied, assured



her that absolute power over me.

"All this may appear madness to you, but it is, nevertheless, the



exact truth. In short, one morning she bluntly made the offer:

" 'Become Bakounine's soul, and you shall possess me.'



"Of course I accepted, for it was too fantastically strange to

refuse. Don't you think so? What an adventure! What luck! A



number of letters between the Countess and Bakounine prepared the

way; I was introduced to him at his house, and they discussed me



there. I became a sort of Western prophet, a mystic charmer who

was ready to nihilize the Latin races, the Saint Paul of the new



religion of nothingness, and at last a day was fixed for us to

meet in London. He lived in a small, one-storied house in



Pimlico, with a tiny garden in front, and nothing noticeable

about it.



"We were first of all shown into the commonplaceparlor of all

English homes, and then upstairs. The room where the Countess and



I were left was small, and very badly furnished. It had a square

table with writing materials on it, in the center of the room.



This was his sanctuary. The deity soon appeared, and I saw him in

flesh and bone--especially in flesh, for he was enormously stout.



His broad face, with prominent cheek-bones, in spite of fat; a

nose like a double funnel; and small, sharp eyes, which had a



magnetic lock, proclaimed the Tartar, the old Turanian blood

which produced the Attilas, the Genghis-Khans, the Tamerlanes.



The obesity which is characteristic of nomad races, who are

always on horseback or driving, added to his Asiatic look. The



man was certainly not a European, a slave, a descendant of the

deistic Aryans, but a scion of the atheistic hordes who had



several times already almost overrun Europe, and who, instead of

ideas of progress, have Nihilism buried in their hearts.



"I was astonished, for I had not expected that the majesty of a

whole race could be thus revived in a man, and my stupefaction






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