Clerval and the Professors

One of my first duties on my recovery was to introduce Clerval to the several professors of the

university. In doing this, I underwent a kind of rough usage, ill befitting the

wounds that my mind had sustained. Ever since the fatal night, the end of my labours,

and the beginning of my misfortunes, I had conceived a violent antipathy even to the name

of natural philosophy. When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical

instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms. Henry saw this, and had removed

all my apparatus from my view. He had also changed my apartment; for he perceived that

I had acquired a dislike for the room which had previously been my laboratory. But these cares