经典！《喀尔巴阡古堡，牛博士》让无数读者意犹未尽！(7)

Meanwhile, though the town resumed its habitual phlegm, and became as Flemish as ever, it could be seen that the character and temperament of the people was in fact changing gradually. One might have said, with Dr. Dominique Custos, that "their nerves were affected."
A word of explanation. This Undoubted change only took place under certain conditions. When the Quiquendonians passed through the Streets of the town, walked in the squares or along the Vaar, they were always the cold and methodical people of old. So, too, when they stayed at home, some working with their hands and others with their heads - those not doing anything, those not thinking anything - their private life was silent, inert, vegetative as before. No quarrels, no household squabbles, no acceleration in the beating of the heart, no excitement of the brain. Their aver- age pulse-rate remained as if had always been, from fifty to fifty-two per minute.
But, strange and inexplicable phenomenon though it was, which would have defied the sagacity of the most ingenious physiologists of the time, if the inhabitants of Quiquendone did not change in their home life, they were visibly changed in their civil life and in their public relations.