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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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2 I will hover near and direct the steel aright.
3 Day dawned; and I directed my steps towards the town.
4 My wanderings were directed towards the valley of Chamounix.
5 When my hunger was appeased, I directed my steps towards the well-known path that conducted to the cottage.
6 My attention at this time was solely directed towards my plan of introducing myself into the cottage of my protectors.
7 A few incidents now and then directed me, and I possessed a map of the country; but I often wandered wide from my path.
8 As I was in a state of extreme debility, I resolved to sail directly towards the town, as a place where I could most easily procure nourishment.
9 The old man returned to the cottage, and the youth, with tools different from those he had used in the morning, directed his steps across the fields.
10 They insisted, therefore, that I should engage with a solemn promise that if the vessel should be freed I would instantly direct my course southwards.
11 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.
12 I quickly destroyed part of my sledge to construct oars, and by these means was enabled, with infinite fatigue, to move my ice raft in the direction of your ship.
13 But it refreshed me and filled me with such agreeable sensations that I resolved to prolong my stay on the water, and fixing the rudder in a direct position, stretched myself at the bottom of the boat.
14 Not that, like a magic scene, it all opened upon me at once: the information I had obtained was of a nature rather to direct my endeavours so soon as I should point them towards the object of my search than to exhibit that object already accomplished.
15 The more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures; to see their sweet looks directed towards me with affection was the utmost limit of my ambition.
16 It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
17 I do not know that the relation of my disasters will be useful to you; yet, when I reflect that you are pursuing the same course, exposing yourself to the same dangers which have rendered me what I am, I imagine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale, one that may direct you if you succeed in your undertaking and console you in case of failure.
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