Chapter 3

    Cards (14)

    • “my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union”
    • “Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to my younger children”
    • ‘the first misfortune of my life occurredan omen, as it were, of my future misery’.
    • They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows."
    • ‘Chanceor rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me’
    • “I was now alone.”
    • “I believed myself totally unfitted for 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 sweetest I had ever heard.”
    • “They penetrate into the 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.
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