"D--n the fellow!" cried he; "why, M.Clerval, I assure you he has outstript us all.

Ay, stare if you please; but it is nevertheless true.

A youngster who, but a few years ago, believed in Cornelius Agrippa as firmly as in the gospel, has now set himself at the head of the university; and if he is not soon pulled down, we shall all be out of countenance .-- Ay, ay," continued he, observing my face expressive of suffering, "M.

Frankenstein is modest; an excellent quality in a young man.

Young men should be diffident of themselves, you know, M.
Clerval: I was myself when young; but that wears out in a very short time." M.Krempe had now commenced an eulogy on himself, which happily turned the conversation from a subject that was so annoying to me.
Clerval had never sympathized in my tastes for natural science; and his literary pursuits differed wholly from those which had occupied me.