1 But it is true that I am a wretch.
2 Ay, stare if you please; but it is nevertheless true.
3 I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer.
4 The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens than that which I now affirm is true.
5 I read it, as I had read the other volumes which had fallen into my hands, as a true history.
6 I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling.
7 But I, the true murderer, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom, which allowed of no hope or consolation.
8 It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
9 I desired that I might pass my life on that barren rock, wearily, it is true, but uninterrupted by any sudden shock of misery.
10 He is desirous to be a true Swiss and to enter into foreign service, but we cannot part with him, at least until his elder brother returns to us.
11 I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest: I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
12 Krempe a great deal of sound sense and real information, combined, it is true, with a repulsive physiognomy and manners, but not on that account the less valuable.
13 The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.
14 I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.
15 It is true, he seldom came to see me, for although he ardently desired to relieve the sufferings of every human creature, he did not wish to be present at the agonies and miserable ravings of a murderer.
16 I expressed a wish to visit England, but concealing the true reasons of this request, I clothed my desires under a guise which excited no suspicion, while I urged my desire with an earnestness that easily induced my father to comply.