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1She died calmly, and her countenance expressed affection even in death. I need not describe the feelings of those whose
2dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is
3exhibited on the countenance. It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose
4very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed for ever--that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been
5extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard. These are
6the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness
7of grief commences. Yet from whom has not that rude hand rent away some dear connection? And why should I describe a
8sorrow which all have felt, and must feel? The time at length arrives when grief is rather an indulgence than a
9necessity; and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished. My mother was
10dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think
11ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized. My departure for Ingolstadt, which had been
12deferred by these events, was now again determined upon. I obtained from my father a respite of some weeks. It appeared
13to me sacrilege so soon to leave the repose, akin to death, of the house of mourning and to rush into the thick of life.
14I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me. I was unwilling to quit the sight of those that remained to me,
15and above all, I desired to see my sweet Elizabeth in some degree consoled. She indeed veiled her grief and strove to
16act the comforter to us all. She looked steadily on life and assumed its duties with courage and zeal. She devoted
17herself to those whom she had been taught to call her uncle and cousins. Never was she so enchanting as at this time,
18when she recalled the sunshine of her smiles and spent them upon us. She forgot even her own regret in her endeavours to
19make us forget. The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to
20persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a
21narrow-minded trader and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the
22misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and
23in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce. We sat
24late. We could not tear ourselves away from each other nor persuade ourselves to say the word "Farewell!" It was said,
25and we retired under the pretence of seeking repose, each fancying that the other was deceived; but when at morning's
26dawn I descended to the carriage which was to convey me away, they were all there--my father again to bless me, Clerval
27to press my hand once more, my Elizabeth to renew her entreaties that I would write often and to bestow the last
28feminine attentions on her playmate and friend. I threw myself into the chaise that was to convey me away and indulged
29in the most melancholy reflections. I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continually engaged in
30endeavouring to bestow mutual pleasure--I was now alone. In the university whither I was going I must form my own
31friends and be my own protector. My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me
32invincible repugnance to new countenances. I loved my brothers, Elizabeth, and Clerval; these were "old familiar faces,"
33but I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers. Such were my reflections as I commenced my journey;
34but as I proceeded, my spirits and hopes rose. I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge. I had often, when at
35home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my
36station among other human beings. Now my desires were complied with, and it would, indeed, have been folly to repent. I
37had sufficient leisure for these and many other reflections during my journey to Ingolstadt, which was long and
38fatiguing. At length the high white steeple of the town met my eyes. I alighted and was conducted to my solitary
39apartment to spend the evening as I pleased. The next morning I delivered my letters of introduction and paid a visit to
40some of the principal professors. Chance--or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted
41omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my father's door--led me first to M. Krempe,
42professor of natural philosophy. He was an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science. He asked me
43several questions concerning my progress in the different branches of science appertaining to natural philosophy. I
44replied carelessly, and partly in contempt, mentioned the names of my alchemists as the principal authors I had studied.
45The professor stared. "Have you," he said, "really spent your time in studying such nonsense?" I replied in the
46affirmative. "Every minute," continued M. Krempe with warmth, "every instant that you have wasted on those books is
47utterly and entirely lost. You have burdened your memory with exploded systems and useless names. Good God! In what
48desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily
49imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient? I little expected, in this enlightened and scientific
50age, to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus. My dear sir, you must begin your studies entirely anew." So
51saying, he stepped aside and wrote down a list of several books treating of natural philosophy which he desired me to
52procure, and dismissed me after mentioning that in the beginning of the following week he intended to commence a course
53of lectures upon natural philosophy in its general relations, and that M. Waldman, a fellow professor, would lecture
54upon chemistry the alternate days that he omitted. I returned home not disappointed, for I have said that I had long
55considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned not at all the more inclined to recur to
56these studies in any shape. M. Krempe was a little squat man with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance; the
57teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits. In rather a too philosophical and connected a
58strain, perhaps, I have given an account of the conclusions I had come to concerning them in my early years. As a child
59I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science. With a confusion of ideas
60only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge
61along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists.
62Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy. It was very different when the masters of the
63science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand; but now the scene was changed. The
64ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was
65chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth. Such were my
66reflections during the first two or three days of my residence at Ingolstadt, which were chiefly spent in becoming
67acquainted with the localities and the principal residents in my new abode. But as the ensuing week commenced, I thought
68of the information which M. Krempe had given me concerning the lectures. And although I could not consent to go and hear
69that little conceited fellow deliver sentences out of a pulpit, I recollected what he had said of M. Waldman, whom I had
70never seen, as he had hitherto been out of town.
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