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The Red Inn-Part1_Honore de Balzac(1799-1850)_Translated Works(翻译文学)-第2页

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science, pacific yet useful, these young men did an actual good in the

midst of so much misery, and formed a bond of sympathy with other men



of science in the various countries through which the cruel

civilization of the Republic passed.



The two young men were each provided with a pass and a commission as

assistant-surgeon signed Coste and Bernadotte; and they were on their



way to join the demi-brigade to which they were attached. Both

belonged to moderately rich families in Beauvais, a town in which the



gentle manners and loyalty of the provinces are transmitted as a

species of birthright. Attracted to the theatre of war before the date



at which they were required to begin their functions, they had

travelled by diligence to Strasburg. Though maternalprudence had only



allowed them a slender sum of money they thought themselves rich in

possessing a few louis, an actual treasure in those days when



assignats were reaching their lowest depreciation and gold was worth

far more than silver. The two young surgeons, about twenty years of



age at the most, yielded themselves up to the poesy of their situation

with all the enthusiasm of youth. Between Strasburg and Bonn they had



visited the Electorate and the banks of the Rhine as artists,

philosophers, and observers. When a man's destiny is scientific he is,



at their age, a being who is truly many-sided. Even in making love or

in travelling, an assistant-surgeon should be gathering up the



rudiments of his fortune or his coming fame.

The two young had therefore given themselves wholly to that deep



admiration which must affect all educated men on seeing the banks of

the Rhine and the scenery of Suabia between Mayenne and Cologne,--a



strong, rich, vigorouslyvaried nature, filled with feudal memories,

ever fresh and verdant, yet retaining at all points the imprints of



fire and sword. Louis XIV. and Turenne have cauterized that beautiful

land. Here and there certain ruins bear witness to the pride or rather



the foresight of the King of Versailles, who caused to be pulled down

the ancient castles that once adorned this part of Germany. Looking at



this marvellous country, covered with forests, where the picturesque

charm of the middle ages abounds, though in ruins, we are able to



conceive the German genius, its reverie, its mysticism.

The stay of the two friends at Bonn had the double purpose of science



and pleasure. The grand hospital of the Gallo-Batavian army and of

Augereau's division was established in the very palace of the Elector.



These assistant-surgeons of recent date went there to see old

comrades, to present their letters of recommendation to their medical



chiefs, and to familiarize themselves with the first aspects of their

profession. There, as elsewhere, they got rid of a few prejudices to



which we cling so fondly in favor of the beauties of our native land.

Surprised by the aspect of the columns of marble which adorn the



Electoral Palace, they went about admiring the grandiose effects of

German architecture, and finding everywhere new treasures both modern



and antique.

From time to time the highways along which the two friends rode at



leisure on their way to Andernach, led them over the crest of some

granite hill that was higher than the rest. Thence, through a clearing



of the forest or cleft in the rocky barrier, they caught sudden

glimpses of the Rhine framed in stone or festooned with vigorous



vegetation. The valleys, the forest paths, the trees exhaled that

autumnal odor which induced to reverie; the wooded summits were



beginning to gild and to take on the warm brown tones significant of

age; the leaves were falling, but the skies were still azure and the



dry roads lay like yellow lines along the landscape, just then

illuminated by the oblique rays of the setting sun. At a mile and a



half from Andernach the two friends walked their horses in silence, as

if no war were devastating this beautiful land, while they followed a






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