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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 About this time we retired to our house at Belrive.
2 But he was silent and presently retired to his cabin.
3 As night came on, Agatha and the Arabian retired early.
4 It came from the room into which Elizabeth had retired.
5 I broke from the house angry and disturbed and retired to meditate on some other mode of action.
6 They retired and I turned towards my friend, but he was sunk in languor and almost deprived of life.
7 Often, after the rest of the family had retired for the night, I took the boat and passed many hours upon the water.
8 During this conversation I had retired to a corner of the prison room, where I could conceal the horrid anguish that possessed me.
9 When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm.
10 It was evening when I arrived, and I retired to a hiding-place among the fields that surround it to meditate in what manner I should apply to you.
11 When they had retired to rest, if there was any moon or the night was star-light, I went into the woods and collected my own food and fuel for the cottage.
12 I retired to rest at night; my slumbers, as it were, waited on and ministered to by the assemblance of grand shapes which I had contemplated during the day.
13 Having thus arranged my dwelling and carpeted it with clean straw, I retired, for I saw the figure of a man at a distance, and I remembered too well my treatment the night before to trust myself in his power.
14 I spoke; I told them to retire and consider of what had been said, that I would not lead them farther north if they strenuously desired the contrary, but that I hoped that, with reflection, their courage would return.
15 Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery and be overwhelmed by disappointments, yet when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.
16 It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines.
17 I passed an hour in this state of mind, when suddenly I reflected how fearful the combat which I momentarily expected would be to my wife, and I earnestly entreated her to retire, resolving not to join her until I had obtained some knowledge as to the situation of my enemy.
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