Victorin Hulot

From the mistfortunes implacably pursuing his family, Victorin Hulot recieved the hammering that makes a man or breaks him. It perfected Victorin. In the great storms of life we act like ships' captains at sea, and lighten ship by throwing the heavy cargo overboard. The lawyer had abandoned his inner arrogance, and his political pretensions. He grew to be Adeline's masculine counterpart. He resolved to make the best of his Célestine, although she was certainly not the wife he had dreamed of, and achieved a balanced view of life, realizing that we are obliged by universal law to be content with with a more or less imperfect approximation to the ideal. He solemnly vowed, in his profound sense of shock at his father's behaviour, to do all his duty. His resolution was confirmed as he sat at his mother's bedside on the day that she passed the crisis of her illness.