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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I remained for several years their only child.
2 This was the commencement of a nervous fever which confined me for several months.
3 The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre and add an air of severity to the scene.
4 Elizabeth had caught the scarlet fever; her illness was severe, and she was in the greatest danger.
5 One of my first duties on my recovery was to introduce Clerval to the several professors of the university.
6 Your favourite schoolfellow, Louis Manoir, has suffered several misfortunes since the departure of Clerval from Geneva.
7 He asked me several questions concerning my progress in the different branches of science appertaining to natural philosophy.
8 As I still pursued my journey to the northward, the snows thickened and the cold increased in a degree almost too severe to support.
9 My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation.
10 He looked upon me, however, with some degree of severity, and then, turning towards my conductors, he asked who appeared as witnesses on this occasion.
11 He then related that, the morning on which the murder of poor William had been discovered, Justine had been taken ill, and confined to her bed for several days.
12 The winter has been dreadfully severe, but the spring promises well, and it is considered as a remarkably early season, so that perhaps I may sail sooner than I expected.
13 Hence there is less distinction between the several classes of its inhabitants; and the lower orders, being neither so poor nor so despised, their manners are more refined and moral.
14 No one did at first; but several circumstances came out, that have almost forced conviction upon us; and her own behaviour has been so confused, as to add to the evidence of facts a weight that, I fear, leaves no hope for doubt.
15 Summer passed away in these occupations, and my return to Geneva was fixed for the latter end of autumn; but being delayed by several accidents, winter and snow arrived, the roads were deemed impassable, and my journey was retarded until the ensuing spring.
16 But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.
17 I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest practical advantage.
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