Audiobook Dictation: “Is there a providence of demons…”

Is there a providence of demons as well as of God? We put the question without answering it.

Haverá uma providência dos demônios assim como há a de Deus? Fazemos a pergunta sem respondê-la.

Gwynplaine was a mountebank.

Gwynplaine era um saltimbanco.

He showed himself on the platform.

Exibia-se no tablado.

No such effect had ever before been produced.

Nunca antes se produzira efeito semelhante.

Hypochondriacs were cured by the sight of him alone.

Os hipocondríacos curavam-se só de vê-lo.

He was avoided by folks in mourning, because they were compelled to laugh when they saw him, without regard to their decent gravity.

As pessoas de luto o evitavam, porque eram obrigadas a rir ao vê-lo, sem consideração por sua decorosa gravidade.

One day the executioner came, and Gwynplaine made him laugh.

Um dia veio o carrasco, e Gwynplaine o fez rir.

Every one who saw Gwynplaine held his sides; he spoke, and they rolled on the ground.

Todos que viam Gwynplaine seguravam a barriga; ele falava, e rolavam pelo chão.

He was removed from sadness as is pole from pole. Spleen at the one; Gwynplaine at the other.

Estava tão afastado da tristeza quanto um polo do outro. O spleen num; Gwynplaine no outro.

Thus he rose rapidly in the fair ground and at the cross roads to the very satisfactory renown of a horrible man.

Assim ele ascendeu rapidamente, nas feiras e nas encruzilhadas, ao muito satisfatório renome de homem horrível.