经典！《喀尔巴阡古堡，牛博士》让无数读者意犹未尽！(4)

事后镇长决定对此事进行调查，但没查出结果，居民们又回到了原来的宁静之中。但在不知不觉中个性和脾气也发生了一些变化：他们在家中，还和以前一样宁静；可一到了公共场所——在镇公所、学院、政务会议上，甚至教堂时都会产生激烈的争论。回到家中人们就将这些争论抛到了脑后。
高级警官帕索夫注意到了这种情况，但他没办法使人们和情绪缓和下来。
一次在银行家科拉荷家的聚会中，人们一改往日的单调乏味的气氛，像是被一种神秘的气氛所包围。舞曲的节奏也加快了，舞伴间的距离也拉近了，每个人都像打了兴奋剂一样，完全没那以前那种庄重、严肃的样子。事后人们好像都忘了那晚的情景，但塔塔尼芒斯怎么也忘不了高级警官深情的目光。
In Which The Solemn Old German Waltz Becomes A Whirlwind
But if the spectators, on leaving the theatre, regained their usual calm, if they quietly went home, preserving only a brief sensation of bewilderment, they had none the less undergone a remarkable excitement. Worn out, and as weary as if they had been overeating, they fell heavily upon their beds.
Next day each Quiquendonian had a vague recollection of what had happened the evening before. One missed his hat, lost in the hubbub; another a coat-flap, torn in the brawl; one her delicatelyshaped shoe, another her best cloak. Memory returned to these worthy people, and with it a certain shame for their unjustifiable excitement, It now felt like an orgy in which they had unconsciously taken part. They did not speak of it; they did not wish even to think of it.