But at a certain stage of prosperity, as in a balloon ascent, the fortunate person passes through a zone of clouds, and sublunary matters are thenceforward hidden from his view.
但富足达到一定程度时,幸运者便像乘气球上升那样穿过一层云雾,从此再也看不见尘世间的事。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · An Inland Voyage · Pont-sur-Sambre · We Are Pedlars —