Louis Lambert 刘易丝·兰勃特

Louis Lambert 1 Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org Louis Lambert 2 DEDICATION "Et nunc et semper dilectoe dicatum." 更多好书请点击 www.uus8.org Louis Lambert 3 LOUIS LAMBERT Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study modified the paternal decision. For, indeed, the tanner and his wife adored Louis, their only child, and never contradicted him in anything. At the age of five Louis had begun by reading the Old and New Testaments; and these two Books, including so many books, had sealed his fate. Could that childish imagination understand the mystical depths of the Scriptures? Could it so early follow the flight of the Holy Spirit across the worlds? Or was it merely attracted by the romantic touches which abound in those Oriental poems! Our narrative will answer these questions to some readers. One thing resulted from this first reading of the Bible: Louis went all over Montoire begging for books, and he ob......