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.

既有上帝的天意，是否也有魔鬼的天意？我們只提出問題，不作解答。

Gwynplaine was a mountebank.

格溫普蘭是個江湖藝人。

He showed himself on the platform.

他在台上露面。

No such effect had ever before been produced.

此前從未有過這樣的效果。

Hypochondriacs were cured by the sight of him alone.

憂鬱症患者只要看他一眼便痊癒了。

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

服喪的人都躲著他，因為一見到他，他們便不顧應有的莊重，忍不住笑出聲來。

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

有一天，劊子手來了，格溫普蘭也把他逗笑了。

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

凡是見到格溫普蘭的人都捧腹大笑；他一開口，眾人便笑得滿地打滾。

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

他與悲傷相距之遠，猶如南北兩極。一極是憂鬱；另一極是格溫普蘭。

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

就這樣，他在市集和街頭巷口迅速聲名鵲起，贏得了「可怕之人」這一頗令人滿意的名號。