She lives alone in Paris and meets young men in the Sorbonne and the laboratory every day. She has made up her mind. Her dreams haunt her, poverty afflicts her, and a lot of work makes her overworked; She doesn't know leisure, and she doesn't know the harm of leisure. And her self-esteem and shyness protect her, in addition to her suspicion: since Mr. Z's family doesn't want her to be a daughter-in-law, she thinks that a woman without dowry can't get the loyalty and warmth of a man. These beautiful theories and sad memories made her strong-willed and insisted on maintaining independence. It is not surprising that a talented Polish woman leads a boring life, is isolated from the world and lets herself go to work. Surprisingly, however, a Frenchman, a brilliant scholar, left himself for this Polish woman and waited for her unconsciously. Surprisingly, Mary is still in her house on Novolipke Road, dreaming that when Saul was studying, Boolean? Curie made several important discoveries in physics in Thoburn, but after Thoburn returned to China, he wrote such sad words in his diary: "Women love life, and women are far ahead of us, so there are few talented women. Therefore, when we are driven by some mysterious love and want to embark on some anti-natural road, when we want to devote all our thoughts to some work and stay away from the human beings we are in contact with, we must fight against women. The mother wants to keep her love for her son most, even if he grows up to be a fool, she doesn't care; A mistress wants to have her lover completely. It is natural for her to sacrifice the best genius in the world for an hour of love. In this kind of battle, we are almost never their opponents, because women have every reason to support them: they say it is for life, for nature, trying to lead us back. "
How many years have passed, Bull? Madame Curie has been devoted to scientific research. He didn't marry any insignificant or beautiful woman. He is 35 years old and loves no one.
He flipped through his diary for a long time and reread what he had written in the past. The handwriting has faded, and a few small words are full of regret and inexplicable sadness, which caught his attention: "There are very few talented women." "When I walked in, Boolean? Curie is standing in front of the French window facing the balcony. Although he was 35 years old at that time, I thought he was very young; I was deeply impressed by his expressive eyes and free and easy behavior of tall figure. And his slightly slow and cautious speech, his simplicity and his solemn and lively smile are all trustworthy. We started talking and soon hit it off; The topic of the conversation is some scientific issues, and I am happy to ask him what he thinks of these issues. " This is Mary's later description of their first meeting at the beginning of 1894 in simple and slightly shy sentences.
It started with a Polish man. His name is Mr kowalski, a professor of physics at the University of Fribourg. He lives in France with his wife, whom Mary met in Strasbourg before. This is their secret trip to the moon, and it is also a scientific trip. Mr kowalski gave several speeches in Paris and attended the gathering of the Physics Society. As soon as he arrived in Paris, he called Mary and asked her how she was doing. The female student told him her current worries, and the National Association for the Promotion of Industry invited her to study the magnetism of various steels. She has started research in Professor Lippmann's laboratory; But she must analyze all kinds of minerals and collect samples of all kinds of metals. This requires complicated equipment, and that laboratory is too full for her equipment. Mary doesn't know what to do or where to do the experiment.
Joseph? Kowalski thought for a moment and said to her, "I have an idea. I know a very talented scholar who works in Loumeng Road Physical and Chemical School. Maybe he can have a room for his own use. Anyway, he can at least give you an idea. We will have tea at home after dinner tomorrow night. I invited this young man. You may know his name. His name is Bull? Curie. "
It was a quiet night. In the quiet apartment of the young couple, there was an immediate affection, which made the French physicist and the Polish female physicist close to each other.
Buel？ Madame Curie has a very special charm, which comes from his majesty and Wen Ya's free and easy. He is tall, his clothes are heavily cut, and he is not fashionable. He wears them a little wider, but they look suitable. There is no doubt that he has a natural elegance. His hands are very long and sensitive. His thick beard makes his straight and rarely changed face look longer; His face is beautiful, because his eyes are gentle, deep and calm, which is unparalleled. Although this man is always taciturn and never speaks loudly, his intelligence and personality cannot but attract attention. In a civilization where superior intelligence is not always combined with moral values, Buel? Curie is almost the only model of human nature. He is both a capable man and a noble man.
Their conversation was vague at first, but it soon became clear? Curie and Marie? A scientific conversation between two people, Skoro Dovski.
Mary respectfully asked Boolean some questions and listened to his advice. He also described his plan and described the crystallographic phenomenon that surprised him, and he is exploring its laws at the moment. The physicist thinks it is strange to talk about her favorite job with a woman in terms and complicated formulas. How happy it is to see this lovely young lady excited and able to understand and even discuss some details correctly and keenly!
He looked at Mary's hair, her full forehead, and her hands damaged by various acids and housework in the laboratory; Her elegance puzzled her, but her unpretentious style made her more attractive. He remembers that when his master invited him to meet the young woman, he said something about her: "She worked for several years before she got on the train and came to Paris. She has no money and lives alone on the top floor. "
He asked Miss Scollo Dovski, "Will you live in France forever?" I don't quite understand why you ask.
Mary put a shadow on her face and replied in her sweet voice, "Of course not." If I can get my degree this summer, I will go back to Warsaw. I want to come back in autumn, but I don't know if I can. I will be a teacher in Poland in the future and try to make myself useful. Poles have no right.
Abandon the motherland. "
When Mr. and Mrs. kowalski joined the conversation, the topic turned to the painful situation caused by Russian oppression. These three people who have left their homes yearn for their homeland and exchange news with their relatives and friends. Buel？ Madame Curie was surprised to hear Mary talk about her patriotic duty, and somehow she was dissatisfied.
He is a physicist who only wants physics. He can't imagine how this young woman with special talent can think of something other than science. And how can her future plan be to use her own strength to resist the czar government?
He is willing to see her again.
He is a brilliant French scholar. Although he is almost unknown in China, he has been highly praised by his foreign counterparts. He was born in Ju Weiye Road. Dr Curie's second son and grandfather are also doctors. This family, whose ancestral home is Al Sasia, is a Protestant, originally a petty-bourgeois family. After several generations, they became intellectuals and scholars. Buel's father had to practice medicine to make a living, but he was extremely enthusiastic about scientific research. He worked as an assistant in the laboratory of the Paris Museum and wrote some books about tuberculosis vaccination.
Buel？ Madame Curie/Kloc-was a Bachelor of Science at the age of 0/6, and/Kloc-was a Bachelor of Science at the age of 0/8. At the age of 65,438+09, he was appointed as an assistant to Professor Deshan of the Faculty of Science of Paris University, and has worked for five years. He does research work with his brother Jacques, who is also a bachelor and assistant of Thorburn. Soon, the two young physicists announced that they had discovered an important phenomenon, the piezoelectric effect. Their experimental work enabled them to invent a new instrument with multiple uses, called the piezoelectric chronoelectrometer, which can accurately measure trace current.
A few months have passed, and with the growth of mutual respect, admiration and trust, friendship has increased and intimacy has deepened. Buel？ Curie became the captive of this extremely intelligent and enlightened Polish woman. He obeyed her and listened to her advice. He was soon spurred and inspired by her, got rid of his laziness, wrote a book on magnetism and handed in an excellent doctoral thesis.
Mary thinks she is free, and she seems to have no intention of listening to the decisive words that the scholar dare not say.
One night, they met again in the house on Foyentena Road, which may be the tenth time. It was mid-June, near dusk, and the weather was fine. On the table, next to Mary's math book, there is a bottle of white daisy, which Boolean and Mary picked when they went out for a walk together.
Buel talked about the future several times. He asked Mary to be his wife, but this step was unfavorable. To marry a Frenchman, leave home forever, give up patriotic activities, and abandon Poland, in the eyes of Miss Skoro Dovski, is simply a terrible act of treason. She can't, and she shouldn't! She passed the exam with excellent results and should go back to Warsaw now, at least this summer, and maybe she will never leave again. She promised to keep friendship with the young scholar-it was no longer enough for him, and she didn't promise him anything, which disappointed him. She got on the train.
His heart is with her, and he is willing to go to Switzerland to meet her, because her father will meet her in Switzerland and spend a few weeks there with her; Or meet her in Poland, where he is jealous, but it can't be done.
So he continued to write to her from afar. In the summer months, no matter where Mary is-in Creta, in Lunburg, in Warsaw Krakow, there are always some letters that are very clumsy and naive, written on cheap stationery and addressed to physics and chemistry schools. Give them to her, try to convince her, take her back to France and tell her Buel? Curie is waiting for her.
10 month, Boolean? Curie was full of happiness; Mary has returned to Paris as promised. People saw her again in Thoburn's class and Lippmann's laboratory. But she believes that this year is her last year in France-she no longer lives in the Latin quarter. Bronia opened a clinic at 39 Sutton Road and gave Mary a house connected with the clinic. Because the de Lousqui family lives in Ravilette Road, Bronia only comes here during the day, and Mary can work quietly.
In this dark and somewhat depressing room, Bull repeatedly made his tender and affectionate demands. He is as stubborn as Mary, but in a different way! He and his future wife share the same beliefs, but they are more complete, purer and have no mixed ingredients. Science is his only goal. He combined his emotional activities with his main ideological wishes, so his love experience was strange and almost incredible. The scholar's love for Mary is driven by love and out of a more noble need.
Mary and Bronia talked about her hesitation and Buel's advice on immigration. She felt that she had no right to accept such a sacrifice, but Buel had such an idea, which made her very uneasy.
Buel knew that the young woman had told de Lousqui about him, so he tried to launch a new offensive from this aspect. He met with Bronia several times and went to see her in person, which won her full support. He invited her and Mary to his parents' home in the town. Dr Curie's wife pulled Bronia aside and asked her to help her in front of her sister in a sincere and touching tone.
It will be ten months before this stubborn Polish woman agrees to marry him.
Mary wrote to her friend Katia and told her about her big decision: "When you received this letter, your Manya had changed her surname. I will marry the man I told you in Warsaw last year and live in Paris forever. I feel sad, but what can I do? Fate doomed us to be deeply attached to each other and doomed us to be inseparable. "
Bill went to Mary's house to meet her. They must take a bus to Suozhen at Luxembourg Station, where their parents are waiting for them. In the bright sunshine, they sat on the top floor of the carriage and walked through St. Michel Avenue.
When walking past Solburn, at the gate of the University School of Science, Mary hugged her partner's arm tighter and saw his eyes so bright and calm.
Buel and Mary's * * * lived together, and the first days were very chic. They are riding famous bicycles and strolling on the streets of ile-de-france. I tied some clothes tightly to the strap, because it was rainy that summer, and I had to buy two long cloaks with tape. They sat on the moss in the glade and had some bread, cheese, pears and cherries for lunch. Go to a strange inn every night, where you can drink hot soup. They are alone in the false silence of the field at night, which is often broken by the barking of dogs, birds, cats and the obvious creaking of the floor in the distance.
When they want to explore the jungle or rocks, they will temporarily stop cycling and go for a walk. Bill likes the country very much. There is no doubt that his genius needs this kind of quiet long walking, and the average walking speed is conducive to his thinking.
In the summer of 1895, several tours-"Wedding Journey" were sweeter than his previous tours. Love increases the beauty of these trips and enhances their fun. The couple can spend only a few francs in their room in Fucun, step on the pedals of thousands of bicycles, and live a fairy life for several days and nights, enjoying the peace and happiness of only two people together.