1 I entered the room where the corpse lay and was led up to the coffin.
2 I commit my cause to the justice of my judges, yet I see no room for hope.
3 Through this crevice a small room was visible, whitewashed and clean but very bare of furniture.
4 I motioned him to take up the letter, while I walked up and down the room in the extremest agitation.
5 We ascended into my room, and the servant presently brought breakfast; but I was unable to contain myself.
6 Entreating him, therefore, to remain a few minutes at the bottom of the stairs, I darted up towards my own room.
7 This whole winter, instead of being spent in study, as you promised yourself, has been consumed in my sick room.
8 The human frame could no longer support the agonies that I endured, and I was carried out of the room in strong convulsions.
9 I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me.
10 During this conversation I had retired to a corner of the prison room, where I could conceal the horrid anguish that possessed me.
11 Do not ask me," cried I, putting my hands before my eyes, for I thought I saw the dreaded spectre glide into the room; "HE can tell.
12 He had also changed my apartment; for he perceived that I had acquired a dislike for the room which had previously been my laboratory.
13 I left the room, and locking the door, made a solemn vow in my own heart never to resume my labours; and then, with trembling steps, I sought my own apartment.
14 Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.
15 Mr. Kirwin, on hearing this evidence, desired that I should be taken into the room where the body lay for interment, that it might be observed what effect the sight of it would produce upon me.
16 The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials; and often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion.
17 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.
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