"He is the complete type of man of the world, the social ideal,--courteous, quiet, well informed, imperturbably. ... I--a man of thought, the bookworm of great libraries...men call me wise...I might have foreseen all this...I might have beheld the bale-fire of that scarlet letter blazing at the end of our path!" ...
"He is the complete type of man of the world, the social ideal,--courteous, quiet, well informed, imperturbably. ... I--a man of thought, the bookworm of great libraries...men call me wise...I might have foreseen all this...I might have beheld the bale-fire of that scarlet letter blazing at the end of our path!" ...
Victor's parents wish he would study at Ingolstadt, however; Elizabeth falls ill with scarlet fever before he leaves. ... Victor then reads a letter Elizabeth has written him. ... Another letter from Elizabeth reveals the news of William's death. ...
