The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5)

by Lemony Snicket

It is truly awful that this keeps happening, but that is how the story goes.

Mr. Poe meant well, but a jar of mustard probably also means well and would do a better job of keeping the Baudelaires out of danger. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny had long ago learned that the only thing they could count on from Mr. Poe was that he was always coughing.

Memento Mori’ means ‘Remember you will die.’”

Let us enjoy this brief moment of comfort, as the Baudelaires enjoyed it in the company of the Quagmire triplets and, in Sunny’s case, an armrest. Let us enjoy, at the end of this chapter, the last happy moment any of these children would have for a long, long time.

The Baudelaire orphans hung on to one another, and wept and wept while the adults argued endlessly behind them.