society talked in various ways over this extraordinary event, and each
person looked for the cause of it. According to the proclivities of

each reasoner, play, love, ambition, hidden disorders, and vices,
explained the catastrophe, the last scene of a drama begun in 1812.

Two men alone, a marquis and former deputy, and an aged physician,
knew that Philippe de Sucy was one of those strong men to whom God has

given the unhappy power of issuing daily in triumph from awful combats
which they fight with an unseenmonster. If, for a moment, God

withdraws from such men His all-powerful hand, they succumb.
ADDENDUM

The following personage appears in other stories of the Human Comedy.
Note: Adieu is also entitled Farewell.

Granville, Vicomte de
The Gondreville Mystery

A Second Home
Farewell (Adieu)

Cesar Birotteau
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

A Daughter of Eve
Cousin Pons

End

• extraordinary [ik´strɔ:dinəri] a.非常的；额外的 (初中英语单词)
• ambition [æm´biʃən] n.雄心，野心；企图 (初中英语单词)
• hidden [´hid(ə)n] hide 的过去分词 (初中英语单词)
• unhappy [ʌn´hæpi] a.不幸的；不快乐的 (初中英语单词)
• triumph [´traiəmf] n.胜利 vi.得胜，战胜 (初中英语单词)
• monster [´mɔnstə] n.怪物 a.大得异常的 (初中英语单词)
• marquis [´mɑ:kwis] n.侯爵 (高中英语单词)
• deputy [´depjuti] n.代理人；代表 (高中英语单词)
• unseen [,ʌn´si:n] a.未看见的 (高中英语单词)
• catastrophe [kə´tæstrəfi] n.大灾难；(悲剧)结局 (英语四级单词)
• personage [´pə:sənidʒ] n.名流；人物，角色 (英语四级单词)