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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 The magistrate observed me with a keen eye and of course drew an unfavourable augury from my manner.
2 The difference of manners which he observed was to him an inexhaustible source of instruction and amusement.
3 I observed this also and contrived a fan of branches, which roused the embers when they were nearly extinguished.
4 The storm appeared to approach rapidly, and, on landing, I ascended a low hill, that I might observe its progress.
5 Shut in, however, by ice, it was impossible to follow his track, which we had observed with the greatest attention.
6 My aunt observed this, and when Justine was twelve years of age, prevailed on her mother to allow her to live at our house.
7 I observed, with pleasure, that he did not go to the forest that day, but spent it in repairing the cottage and cultivating the garden.
8 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.
9 I began also to observe, with greater accuracy, the forms that surrounded me and to perceive the boundaries of the radiant roof of light which canopied me.
10 And you, my friend, would be far more amused with the journal of Clerval, who observed the scenery with an eye of feeling and delight, than in listening to my reflections.
11 Clerval, who had watched my countenance as I read this letter, was surprised to observe the despair that succeeded the joy I at first expressed on receiving new from my friends.
12 But I scarcely observed this; rage and hatred had at first deprived me of utterance, and I recovered only to overwhelm him with words expressive of furious detestation and contempt.
13 As it drew nearer I observed that it was the Swiss diligence; it stopped just where I was standing, and on the door being opened, I perceived Henry Clerval, who, on seeing me, instantly sprung out.
14 Clerval at first attributed my unusual spirits to joy on his arrival, but when he observed me more attentively, he saw a wildness in my eyes for which he could not account, and my loud, unrestrained, heartless laughter frightened and astonished him.
15 My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by arguments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.
16 About half a dozen men came forward; and, one being selected by the magistrate, he deposed that he had been out fishing the night before with his son and brother-in-law, Daniel Nugent, when, about ten o'clock, they observed a strong northerly blast rising, and they accordingly put in for port.
17 If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.
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