A Farewell Walk Near Ingolstadt

The winter, however, was spent cheerfully; and although the spring was uncommonly

late, when it came, its beauty compensated for its dilatoriness. The month of May

had already commenced, and I expected the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure,

when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt that I might bid a personal

farewell to the country I had so long inhabited. I acceded with pleasure to this proposition:

I was fond of exercise, and Clerval had always been my favourite companion in the rambles of this

nature that I had taken among the scenes of my native country.