THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 18 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 18 A Night in the Bastille Suffering in human life is proportioned to human strength. We will not pretend to say that God always apportions to a man s capability of endurance the anguish he permits him to suffer such indeed would not be exact since God permits the existence of death which is sometimes the only refuge open to those who are too closely pressed - too bitterly afflicted so far as the body is concerned. Suffering is proportioned to strength in this sense - that the weak suffer more where the trial is the same than the strong. And what are the elementary principles which compose human strength Are they not- more than anything else- exercise habit experience We shall not even take the trouble to demonstrate that it is an axiom in morals as in physics. When the young King stupefied crushed found himself led to a cell in the Bastille he fancied at first that death is like sleep and has its dreams that the bed had broken through the flooring of his room at Vaux that death had resulted and that still carrying out his dream Louis XIV now dead was dreaming of those horrors impossible to realize in life which are termed dethronement imprisonment and degradation of a King all-powerful but yesterday. To be a spectator as palpable phantom of his own wretched suffering to float in an incomprehensible mystery between resemblance and reality to hear everything to see everything without confusing the details of that agony - was it not said the King to himself a torture the more terrible since it might be eternal Is this what is termed eternity - hell Louis murmured at the moment the door closed upon him shut by Baisemeaux himself. He did not even look around him and in that chamber leaning with his back against the wall he allowed himself to be carried away by the terrible supposition that he was already dead as he closed his eyes in order to avoid looking upon something even worse. How can I have died he said to himself
