1 I must absent myself from all I loved while thus employed.
2 My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects.
3 Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to my younger children.
4 To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
5 I must say also a few words to you, my dear cousin, of little darling William.
6 In the university whither I was going I must form my own friends and be my own protector.
7 He must have been a noble creature in his better days, being even now in wreck so attractive and amiable.
8 You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.
9 Elizabeth read my anguish in my countenance, and kindly taking my hand, said, "My dearest friend, you must calm yourself."
10 The picture I present to you is peaceful and human, and you must feel that you could deny it only in the wantonness of power and cruelty.
11 I became acquainted with the science of anatomy, but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body.
12 But in giving an account of the progress of my intellect, I must not omit a circumstance which occurred in the beginning of the month of August of the same year.
13 I must own I felt a little proud when my captain offered me the second dignity in the vessel and entreated me to remain with the greatest earnestness, so valuable did he consider my services.
14 If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing of whose existence everyone will be ignorant.
15 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.
16 Yet, before I departed, there was a task to perform, on which I shuddered to reflect; I must pack up my chemical instruments, and for that purpose I must enter the room which had been the scene of my odious work, and I must handle those utensils the sight of which was sickening to me.
17 A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, improved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instruments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
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