1 Yet I would die to make her happy.
2 I do not fear to die," she said; "that pang is past.
3 The die is cast; I have consented to return if we are not destroyed.
4 In that hour I should die and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice.
5 Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die.
6 But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being.
7 But soon," he cried with sad and solemn enthusiasm, "I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt.
8 She sang, and her voice flowed in a rich cadence, swelling or dying away like a nightingale of the woods.
9 How all this will terminate, I know not, but I had rather die than return shamefully, my purpose unfulfilled.
10 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 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.
14 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.
15 His voice seemed suffocated, and my first impulses, which had suggested to me the duty of obeying the dying request of my friend in destroying his enemy, were now suspended by a mixture of curiosity and compassion.
16 These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.
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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