1 Your affectionate brother, Robert Walton.
2 It was dawn, and she quitted her asylum, that she might again endeavour to find my brother.
3 Tears, unrestrained, fell from my brother's eyes; a sense of mortal agony crept over my frame.
4 For my own part, I begin to love him as a brother, and his constant and deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion.
5 One by one, her brothers and sister died; and her mother, with the exception of her neglected daughter, was left childless.
6 I had hitherto supposed him to be the murderer of my brother, and I eagerly sought a confirmation or denial of this opinion.
7 I do not know what you mean," replied my brother, in accents of wonder, "but to us the discovery we have made completes our misery.
8 She sometimes begged Justine to forgive her unkindness, but much oftener accused her of having caused the deaths of her brothers and sister.
9 He is desirous to be a true Swiss and to enter into foreign service, but we cannot part with him, at least until his elder brother returns to us.
10 I loved my brothers, Elizabeth, and Clerval; these were "old familiar faces," but I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers.
11 She most of all," said Ernest, "requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched.
12 To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.
13 Agatha, the ever-gentle Agatha, kissed the hands of the lovely stranger, and pointing to her brother, made signs which appeared to me to mean that he had been sorrowful until she came.
14 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.
15 A sister or a brother can never, unless indeed such symptoms have been shown early, suspect the other of fraud or false dealing, when another friend, however strongly he may be attached, may, in spite of himself, be contemplated with suspicion.
16 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.
17 The first part of this deposition did not in the least interest me, but when the mark of the fingers was mentioned I remembered the murder of my brother and felt myself extremely agitated; my limbs trembled, and a mist came over my eyes, which obliged me to lean on a chair for support.
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