A Series of Unfortunate Events #4: The Miserable Mill

Appearance matters a great deal, because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves

You and I, of course, cannot be too surprised that the Baudelaire orphans’ first day at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill was a horrid one

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have

The whole place had a damp smell, a smell rooms get when the windows have not been opened for quite some time

Assiduous’ and ‘diligent’ both mean the same thing,” said Klaus, who knew lots of impressive words from all the books he had read. “‘Hardworking.’”

The three siblings looked at one another, and felt a little better. It is true, of course, that you never know. A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out

When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the news again and again.

The three children looked at one another, and then at the building, and then at each other again, shaking their heads. Try as they might, they just couldn’t believe it was a coincidence that the town in which they were to live had a building that looked just like the tattoo of Count Olaf

if Paltryville had been listed in a guidebook the only helpful hint about what to do when you got there would be: “Leave.”

Ghand!” Sunny shrieked. Like many infants, Sunny spoke mostly in sounds that were often difficult to translate. This time she probably meant something like “But Klaus reads many complicated books!”