CONSENT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 The die is cast; I have consented to return if we are not destroyed.
2 Upon hearing this he appeared satisfied and consented to come on board.
3 I do refuse it," I replied; "and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me.
4 But I consented to listen, and seating myself by the fire which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale.
5 If you consent, neither you nor any other human being shall ever see us again; I will go to the vast wilds of South America.
6 I shuddered when I thought of the possible consequences of my consent, but I felt that there was some justice in his argument.
7 Some years ago he loved a young Russian lady of moderate fortune, and having amassed a considerable sum in prize-money, the father of the girl consented to the match.
8 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.
9 But death was no evil to me if the loss of Elizabeth were balanced with it, and I therefore, with a contented and even cheerful countenance, agreed with my father that if my cousin would consent, the ceremony should take place in ten days, and thus put, as I imagined, the seal to my fate.
10 He had already bought a farm with his money, on which he had designed to pass the remainder of his life; but he bestowed the whole on his rival, together with the remains of his prize-money to purchase stock, and then himself solicited the young woman's father to consent to her marriage with her lover.
11 I had heard of some discoveries having been made by an English philosopher, the knowledge of which was material to my success, and I sometimes thought of obtaining my father's consent to visit England for this purpose; but I clung to every pretence of delay and shrank from taking the first step in an undertaking whose immediate necessity began to appear less absolute to me.