1 Krempe had given me concerning the lectures.
2 I requested his advice concerning the books I ought to procure.
3 I read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or massacring their species.
4 I tried to calm Ernest; I enquired more minutely concerning my father, and here I named my cousin.
5 That is my least concern; I am, by a course of strange events, become the most miserable of mortals.
6 Now, dear Victor, I dare say you wish to be indulged in a little gossip concerning the good people of Geneva.
7 I shall continue my journal concerning the stranger at intervals, should I have any fresh incidents to record.
8 The form of the monster on whom I had bestowed existence was forever before my eyes, and I raved incessantly concerning him.
9 He asked me several questions concerning my progress in the different branches of science appertaining to natural philosophy.
10 When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should employ it.
11 I found myself similar yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read and to whose conversation I was a listener.
12 This aroused the stranger's attention, and he asked a multitude of questions concerning the route which the demon, as he called him, had pursued.
13 In rather a too philosophical and connected a strain, perhaps, I have given an account of the conclusions I had come to concerning them in my early years.
14 Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he appeared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.
15 She returned to the house about eight o'clock, and when one inquired where she had passed the night, she replied that she had been looking for the child and demanded earnestly if anything had been heard concerning him.
16 Several other men were examined concerning my landing, and they agreed that, with the strong north wind that had arisen during the night, it was very probable that I had beaten about for many hours and had been obliged to return nearly to the same spot from which I had departed.
17 I know," continued the unhappy victim, "how heavily and fatally this one circumstance weighs against me, but I have no power of explaining it; and when I have expressed my utter ignorance, I am only left to conjecture concerning the probabilities by which it might have been placed in my pocket.
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