Violet and Sunny realize that Count Olaf is disguised as Shirley, a receptionist and that Klaus has been (and is being) hypnotized by Orwell, who is in cahoots with Olaf.

Orwell, seemingly friendly, lets them in, and tells Violet and Sunny to sit in the waiting room. Together, they arrive at the eye-shaped building they saw on their arrival to Lucky Smells. This time though, Violet and Sunny accompany Klaus to Dr. Foreman Flacutono trips him again, once again causing his glasses to break. Klaus explains that he doesn't remember what happened between when he broke his glasses and waking up in the mill. The other workers ask what the unfamiliar word means and Klaus defines the word. Flacutono exclaims that the machine 'cost an inordinate amount of money'. Klaus causes an accident by dropping the machine on Phil, an optimistic coworker. The next day in the lumbermill, Flacutono instructs Klaus to operate a stamping machine. When Klaus returns from the optometrist, hours later, he acts strangely, as if in a trance.

Klaus breaks his own glasses when he is purposely tripped by the new foreman, Flacutono, and is sent to see Dr. Georgina Orwell, the local optometrist, who lives in an eye-shaped building, which also resembles, suspiciously, the tattoo on their nemesis Count Olaf's ankle. They meet Sir's more sympathetic partner, Charles, who shows them the library, which contains three books, one about the history of the lumbermill, one about the town constitution, and one donated by Dr. Upon arrival, the children learn that they will have to work at the mill, but as part of the deal, their new guardian, Sir (whose name is impossible to pronounce otherwise), will try to keep Count Olaf, their nemesis, away. Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are traveling on a train heading for Paltryville, the location of the children's new home, the Lucky Smells Lumbermill. The book was published on April 15, 2000, by HarperCollins and illustrated by Brett Helquist. In this novel, the Baudelaire orphans live with the owner of Lucky Smells Lumber Mill. The Miserable Mill is the fourth novel of the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.

The miserable mill book