2019考研MTI双语：《牛虻》(《The Gadfly》)节选四

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    The autumn and winter passed uneventfully. Arthur was reading hard and had
little spare time. He contrived to get a glimpse of Montanelli once or oftener
in every week, if only for a few minutes. From time to time he would come in to
ask for help with some difficult book; but on these occasions the subject of
study was strictly adhered to. Montanelli, feeling, rather than observing, the
slight, impalpable barrier that had come between them, shrank from everything
which might seem like an attempt to retain the old close relationship. Arthur's
visits now caused him more distress than pleasure, so trying was the constant
effort to appear at ease and to behave as if nothing were altered. Arthur, for
his part, noticed, hardly understanding it, the subtle change in the Padre's
manner; and, vaguely feeling that it had some connection with the vexed question
of the "new ideas," avoided all mention of the subject with which his thoughts
were constantly filled. Yet he had never loved Montanelli so deeply as now. The
dim, persistent sense of dissatisfaction, of spiritual emptiness, which he had
tried so hard to stifle under a load of theology and ritual, had vanished into
nothing at the touch of Young Italy. All the unhealthy fancies born of
loneliness and sick-room watching had passed away, and the doubts against which
he used to pray had gone without the need of exorcism. With the awakening of a
new enthusiasm, a clearer, fresher religious ideal (for it was more in this
light than in that of a political development that the students' movement had
appeared to him), had come a sense of rest and completeness, of peace on earth
and good will towards men; and in this mood of solemn and tender exaltation all
the world seemed to him full of light. He found a new element of something
lovable in the persons whom he had most disliked; and Montanelli, who for five
years had been his ideal hero, was now in his eyes surrounded with an additional
halo, as a potential prophet of the new faith. He listened with passionate
eagerness to the Padre's sermons, trying to find in them some trace of inner
kinship with the republican ideal; and pored over the Gospels, rejoicing in the
democratic tendencies of Christianity at its origin.
    One day in January he called at the seminary to return a book which he had
borrowed. Hearing that the Father Director was out, he went up to Montanelli's
private study, placed the volume on its shelf, and was about to leave the room
when the title of a book lying on the table caught his eyes. It was Dante's "De
Monarchia." He began to read it and soon became so absorbed that when the door
opened and shut he did not hear. He was aroused from his preoccupation by
Montanelli's voice behind him.
    秋冬两季平淡无奇地过去了。亚瑟读书很用功，没有多少空闲的时间。他设法每个星期去看望蒙泰尼里一两次，哪怕只有几分钟的时间。他时不时地会带上一本晦涩难懂的书，让他帮着解疑答惑。但是在这些场合，他们只是切实谈论学习上的事情。与其说蒙泰尼里观察到了，倒不如说他感觉到了一道难以琢磨的小小障碍横在他们中间，所以他一举一动都很谨慎，不让自己显得像是尽量保持过去那种亲密的关系。
    亚瑟的来访现在给他带来的不安要大于愉快，所以老是装出若无其事、显得一切都没有改变的样子是件痛苦的事情。亚瑟也发现到了Padre的举止有了微妙的变化，但是不大明白个中的缘由。他隐约地觉得这与恼人的“新思潮”问题有关，所以他避免提到这个话题，尽管他满脑子都是这些东西。可是他从来都没有像现在这样深爱着蒙泰尼里。从前他在朦胧之间老是有一种难以满足的感觉，而且觉得精神空虚，他一直是在神学理论和宗教仪式的重压下努力抑制这些感觉。但在接触到青年意大利党后，这些感觉全都烟消云散。因为孤独和照料病人而产生的所有那些不健康的幻想已经无影无踪，曾经求助于祈祷的疑惑也已消失，用不着驱邪祓魔。随着一种新的激情觉醒以后，一种更加清晰、更加崭新的宗教理想(因为他是从这个方面而非从政治发展来看待学生运动的，所以他更是如此)已经成了一种恬适充实的感觉，体现了世界和平、四海之内皆兄弟的理念。在这种庄重温和的欢快气氛之下，他认为全世界都充满了光明。他在他最喜欢的那些人身上发现了某种可爱的因素。五年以来，他一直把蒙泰尼里当作理想中的英雄。在他的眼里，蒙泰尼里现在又增添了新的光环，就像是那种新信仰的一个潜在先知。他怀着满腔的热情聆听Padre的布道，试图在他的话中捕捉到与新共和理想的某种内在关系。他还潜心钻研《福音书》，庆幸基督教在起源时就具备了民主的倾向。
    一月里的一天，他来到神学院归还一本索借的书。听说院长神父出去以后，他径直走进蒙泰尼里的书房，把那本书放在书架上，然后准备离开房间。这时搁在桌上的一本书引起了他的注意。这是但丁的《帝制论》。他开始阅读这本书，并且很快地入了迷，连房门打开和关上的声音都没有听见。直到蒙泰尼里在他背后说话，他才醒悟过来。