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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 My mode of life in my hovel was uniform.
2 I eagerly seized the prize and returned with it to my hovel.
3 I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair.
4 I crept into my hovel and remained in silent expectation of the accustomed hour when the family arose.
5 Being thus provided, I resolved to reside in this hovel until something should occur which might alter my determination.
6 Soon after my arrival in the hovel I discovered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory.
7 This hovel however, joined a cottage of a neat and pleasant appearance, but after my late dearly bought experience, I dared not enter it.
8 Again I rose, and exerting all the firmness of which I was master, removed the planks which I had placed before my hovel to conceal my retreat.
9 The peasants were shut up in their hovels, and only a few of the most hardy ventured forth to seize the animals whom starvation had forced from their hiding-places to seek for prey.
10 I have copies of these letters, for I found means, during my residence in the hovel, to procure the implements of writing; and the letters were often in the hands of Felix or Agatha.
11 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.
12 The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village.
13 I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching and endeavouring to discover the motives which influenced their actions.