1 Waldman, whom I had never seen, as he had hitherto been out of town.
2 These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me.
3 I had never yet seen a being resembling me or who claimed any intercourse with me.
4 I passed through scenes familiar to my youth, but which I had not seen for nearly six years.
5 His appearance, different from any I had ever before seen, and his flight somewhat surprised me.
6 In other places human beings were seldom seen, and I generally subsisted on the wild animals that crossed my path.
7 On her return, at about nine o'clock, she met a man who asked her if she had seen anything of the child who was lost.
8 It was, in fact, a sledge, like that we had seen before, which had drifted towards us in the night on a large fragment of ice.
9 The spirits of the departed seemed to flit around and to cast a shadow, which was felt but not seen, around the head of the mourner.
10 When I returned, as often as it was necessary, I cleared their path from the snow and performed those offices that I had seen done by Felix.
11 And the same feelings which made me neglect the scenes around me caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time.
12 About five in the morning I discovered my lovely boy, whom the night before I had seen blooming and active in health, stretched on the grass livid and motionless; the print of the murder's finger was on his neck.
13 Presently Ernest came, and enquired if we had seen his brother; he said, that he had been playing with him, that William had run away to hide himself, and that he vainly sought for him, and afterwards waited for a long time, but that he did not return.
14 His tale is connected and told with an appearance of the simplest truth, yet I own to you that the letters of Felix and Safie, which he showed me, and the apparition of the monster seen from our ship, brought to me a greater conviction of the truth of his narrative than his asseverations, however earnest and connected.