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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 All praises bestowed on her I received as made to a possession of my own.
2 My sensations had by this time become distinct, and my mind received every day additional ideas.
3 For some weeks I led a miserable life in the woods, endeavouring to cure the wound which I had received.
4 These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving.
5 I afterwards hired a mule, as the more sure-footed and least liable to receive injury on these rugged roads.
6 Preparations were made for the event, congratulatory visits were received, and all wore a smiling appearance.
7 It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin.
8 After passing some months in London, we received a letter from a person in Scotland who had formerly been our visitor at Geneva.
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 The pretty Miss Mansfield has already received the congratulatory visits on her approaching marriage with a young Englishman, John Melbourne, Esq.
11 Continue for the present to write to me by every opportunity: I may receive your letters on some occasions when I need them most to support my spirits.
12 I was exceedingly surprised on receiving so rude an answer from a stranger, and I was also disconcerted on perceiving the frowning and angry countenances of his companions.
13 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.
14 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.
15 I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it and curling in thick wreaths around the opposite mountains, whose summits were hid in the uniform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melancholy impression I received from the objects around me.
16 During the ensuing days, while the preparations were going forward for the escape of the merchant, the zeal of Felix was warmed by several letters that he received from this lovely girl, who found means to express her thoughts in the language of her lover by the aid of an old man, a servant of her father who understood French.
17 With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the being to which they had given life, added to the active spirit of tenderness that animated both, it may be imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self-control, I was so guided by a silken cord that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me.
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