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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Soon after we heard that the poor victim had expressed a desire to see my cousin.
2 His person was short but remarkably erect and his voice the sweetest I had ever heard.
3 I heard of him first in rather a romantic manner, from a lady who owes to him the happiness of her life.
4 Listen to my tale; when you have heard that, abandon or commiserate me, as you shall judge that I deserve.
5 About two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea, and before night the ice broke and freed our ship.
6 I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants.
7 Immense glaciers approached the road; I heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche and marked the smoke of its passage.
8 While I was thus engaged, Ernest entered: he had heard me arrive, and hastened to welcome me: "Welcome, my dearest Victor," said he.
9 And when I received their cold answers and heard the harsh, unfeeling reasoning of these men, my purposed avowal died away on my lips.
10 She had at first yielded to our entreaties, but when she heard that the life of her favourite was menaced, she could no longer control her anxiety.
11 The sun is yet high in the heavens; before it descends to hide itself behind your snowy precipices and illuminate another world, you will have heard my story and can decide.
12 A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses.
13 She returned to the house about eight o'clock, and when one inquired where she had passed the night, she replied that she had been looking for the child and demanded earnestly if anything had been heard concerning him.
14 I ate my breakfast with pleasure and was about to remove a plank to procure myself a little water when I heard a step, and looking through a small chink, I beheld a young creature, with a pail on her head, passing before my hovel.
15 This benefit was fully repaid; Justine was the most grateful little creature in the world: I do not mean that she made any professions I never heard one pass her lips, but you could see by her eyes that she almost adored her protectress.
16 But the old man decidedly refused, thinking himself bound in honour to my friend, who, when he found the father inexorable, quitted his country, nor returned until he heard that his former mistress was married according to her inclinations.
17 Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.
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