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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I commenced by inuring my body to hardship.
2 We passed a few sad hours until eleven o'clock, when the trial was to commence.
3 This was the commencement of a nervous fever which confined me for several months.
4 He then told me that he would commence his narrative the next day when I should be at leisure.
5 Such were my reflections as I commenced my journey; but as I proceeded, my spirits and hopes rose.
6 Once commenced, it would quickly be achieved, and I might be restored to my family in peace and happiness.
7 I wrote, and this exertion greatly fatigued me; but my convalescence had commenced, and proceeded regularly.
8 I found several letters, and, among others, one which I discovered from its commencement to be from your father.
9 But this thought, which supported me in the commencement of my career, now serves only to plunge me lower in the dust.
10 Krempe had now commenced an eulogy on himself, which happily turned the conversation from a subject that was so annoying to me.
11 Besides, the strange nature of the animal would elude all pursuit, even if I were so far credited as to persuade my relatives to commence it.
12 You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
13 I knew that every minute was precious to me, yet I remained irresolute in what manner to commence the interview, when the old man addressed me.
14 Besides, I found that my understanding improved so much with every day's experience that I was unwilling to commence this undertaking until a few more months should have added to my sagacity.
15 The month of May had already commenced, and I expected the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure, when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the country I had so long inhabited.
16 This interfered with the solitude I coveted for the prosecution of my task; yet at the commencement of my journey the presence of my friend could in no way be an impediment, and truly I rejoiced that thus I should be saved many hours of lonely, maddening reflection.
17 These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.
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