The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (translated by R.D. Boylan)
October 10.
Only to gaze upon her dark eyes is to me a source of happiness! And what grieves me, is, that Albert does not seem so happy as he hoped to be as I should have been if I am no friend to these pauses, but here I cannot express it otherwise; and probably I am explicit enough.