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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 You have hope, and the world before you, and have no cause for despair.
2 About two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea, and before night the ice broke and freed our ship.
3 Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself, and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode.
4 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.
5 Two days passed in this manner before he was able to speak, and I often feared that his sufferings had deprived him of understanding.
6 My father made no reproach in his letters and only took notice of my silence by inquiring into my occupations more particularly than before.
7 The leaves of that year had withered before my work drew near to a close, and now every day showed me more plainly how well I had succeeded.
8 I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.
9 At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness.
10 In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.
11 So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your possession.
12 I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
13 He manifested the greatest eagerness to be upon deck to watch for the sledge which had before appeared; but I have persuaded him to remain in the cabin, for he is far too weak to sustain the rawness of the atmosphere.
14 I replied that I could not answer with any degree of certainty, for the ice had not broken until near midnight, and the traveller might have arrived at a place of safety before that time; but of this I could not judge.
15 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.
16 I said in one of my letters, my dear Margaret, that I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.
17 He saw his mistress once before the destined ceremony; but she was bathed in tears, and throwing herself at his feet, entreated him to spare her, confessing at the same time that she loved another, but that he was poor, and that her father would never consent to the union.
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