1 Yet I would die to make her happy.
2 I do not fear to die," she said; "that pang is past.
3 Her mother was a German and had died on giving her birth.
4 The die is cast; I have consented to return if we are not destroyed.
5 She died calmly, and her countenance expressed affection even in death.
6 In that hour I should die and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice.
7 Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die.
8 But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being.
9 Whether he had died or still lingered in the dungeons of Austria was not known.
10 But soon," he cried with sad and solemn enthusiasm, "I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt.
11 How all this will terminate, I know not, but I had rather die than return shamefully, my purpose unfulfilled.
12 I had determined at one time that the memory of these evils should die with me, but you have won me to alter my determination.
13 If I returned, it was to be sacrificed or to see those whom I most loved die under the grasp of a daemon whom I had myself created.
14 The wounded deer dragging its fainting limbs to some untrodden brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die, was but a type of me.
15 Her father grew worse; her time was more entirely occupied in attending him; her means of subsistence decreased; and in the tenth month her father died in her arms, leaving her an orphan and a beggar.
16 Sometimes the peasants, scared by this horrid apparition, informed me of his path; sometimes he himself, who feared that if I lost all trace of him I should despair and die, left some mark to guide me.
17 Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation.
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