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1  But just at that time I inherited the fortune of my cousin, and my thoughts were turned into the channel of their earlier bent.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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2  Clerval continued talking for some time about our mutual friends and his own good fortune in being permitted to come to Ingolstadt.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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3  When I mingled with other families I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and gratitude assisted the development of filial love.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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4  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.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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5  This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage from Archangel; more fortunate than I, who may not see my native land, perhaps, for many years.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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6  I could hardly believe that so great a good fortune could have befallen me, but when I became assured that my enemy had indeed fled, I clapped my hands for joy and ran down to Clerval.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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7  They remained confined for five months before the trial took place, the result of which deprived them of their fortune and condemned them to a perpetual exile from their native country.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
8  But I discovered no trace of him and was beginning to conjecture that some fortunate chance had intervened to prevent the execution of his menaces when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
9  You are younger; yet I do not suppose, possessed as you are of a competent fortune, that an early marriage would at all interfere with any future plans of honour and utility that you may have formed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
10  My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
11  Justine, thus received in our family, learned the duties of a servant, a condition which, in our fortunate country, does not include the idea of ignorance and a sacrifice of the dignity of a human being.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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12  Beaufort had saved but a very small sum of money from the wreck of his fortunes, but it was sufficient to provide him with sustenance for some months, and in the meantime he hoped to procure some respectable employment in a merchant's house.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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13  A few months before my arrival they had lived in a large and luxurious city called Paris, surrounded by friends and possessed of every enjoyment which virtue, refinement of intellect, or taste, accompanied by a moderate fortune, could afford.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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14  I was easily led by the sympathy which he evinced to use the language of my heart, to give utterance to the burning ardour of my soul and to say, with all the fervour that warmed me, how gladly I would sacrifice my fortune, my existence, my every hope, to the furtherance of my enterprise.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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