“my firmest hopes of futurehappiness were placedon the prospect of your union”
“Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my placeto my younger children”
‘the first misfortuneof my life occurred – an omen, as it were, of my future misery’.
They have acquired newand almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible worldwith its own shadows."
‘Chance – or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotentsway over me’
“I wasnow alone.”
“I believed myselftotally unfittedfor the company of strangers.”
“‘Every minute,’continued M. Krempe with warmth, ‘every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost.’”
“M. Krempe was a little squat man, with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance"
“M. Waldman entered shortly after (…) his voice the sweetestI had ever heard.”
“They penetrate intothe recesses of nature”
“Thus ended a day memorable to me: it decided my future destiny.”
She forgot even in her own regret in her endeavors to make us forget.
Such was the professor's words - rather let me say such the words of the fate - enounced to destroy me.