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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.
2 I started up and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees.
3 It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.
4 It was a lovely sight, even to me, poor wretch who had never beheld aught beautiful before.
5 The untaught peasant beheld the elements around him and was acquainted with their practical uses.
6 As I said this I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed.
7 As the sun became warmer and the light of day longer, the snow vanished, and I beheld the bare trees and the black earth.
8 Time had altered her since I last beheld her; it had endowed her with loveliness surpassing the beauty of her childish years.
9 About two o'clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end.
10 We entered the gloomy prison chamber and beheld Justine sitting on some straw at the farther end; her hands were manacled, and her head rested on her knees.
11 But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result.
12 I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life; I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain.
13 Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.
14 At first I perceived that he tried to suppress his emotion; he placed his hands before his eyes, and my voice quivered and failed me as I beheld tears trickle fast from between his fingers; a groan burst from his heaving breast.
15 I ate my breakfast with pleasure and was about to remove a plank to procure myself a little water when I heard a step, and looking through a small chink, I beheld a young creature, with a pail on her head, passing before my hovel.
16 As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.
17 The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village.
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