1 He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.
2 When I reflect, my dear cousin," said she, "on the miserable death of Justine Moritz, I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me.
3 The weather was fine; it was about the middle of the month of August, nearly two months after the death of Justine, that miserable epoch from which I dated all my woe.
4 I am miserable, and they shall share my wretchedness.
5 I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept.
6 Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.
7 If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
8 My thoughts now became more active, and I longed to discover the motives and feelings of these lovely creatures; I was inquisitive to know why Felix appeared so miserable and Agatha so sad.
9 They found a miserable asylum in the cottage in Germany, where I discovered them.
10 Such were the events that preyed on the heart of Felix and rendered him, when I first saw him, the most miserable of his family.
11 For some weeks I led a miserable life in the woods, endeavouring to cure the wound which I had received.
12 I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me.
13 You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes.
14 I am malicious because I am miserable.
15 I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.