It seemed cruel to keep that pitiless inscription still staring from the walls after the unhappy wretch had been in his grave five hundred years.

The unhappy wretch who entered the Bastile ceased, as he crossed the threshold, to be a man - he became a number.

Soon afterward the unhappy wretch received sentence of death, and was remanded to the county jail to await the inexorable vengeance of the law.

"Well, be it so," at length said Eugenie; "return by the same road you came, and we will say nothing about you, unhappy wretch."

"Ah, monseigneur, how dearly have I paid for that fault, unhappy wretch as I am!"

Deeply conscious of this bitter sarcasm, the unhappy wretch was put into the cutter, and was soon left far behind.

Now they could be seen one by one, and they bore no resemblance to pilgrims, or to unhappy wretches asking relief for their ailments.

Miserable, unhappy wretch that I am!

After a long silence he murmured for the third time, "Miserable, unhappy wretch that I am!"

What had I done," says he, "that such an unhappy wretch should come into my ship?