SHE WAS in Classic Quotes

1  I know, I feel she was innocent; you are of the same opinion, and that confirms me.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9

2  Elizabeth had caught the scarlet fever; her illness was severe, and she was in the greatest danger.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

3  The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14

4  My aunt conceived a great attachment for her, by which she was induced to give her an education superior to that which she had at first intended.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6

5  Sometimes she struggled with her tears, but when she was desired to plead, she collected her powers and spoke in an audible although variable voice.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

6  The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom and would not forgo their hold.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

7  Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb; her fair hair was plaited but not adorned: she looked patient yet sad.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11

8  I soon perceived that although the stranger uttered articulate sounds and appeared to have a language of her own, she was neither understood by nor herself understood the cottagers.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13

9  A woman was sleeping on some straw; she was young, not indeed so beautiful as her whose portrait I held, but of an agreeable aspect and blooming in the loveliness of youth and health.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16

10  My journey had been my own suggestion, and Elizabeth therefore acquiesced, but she was filled with disquiet at the idea of my suffering, away from her, the inroads of misery and grief.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18

11  She was the living spirit of love to soften and attract; I might have become sullen in my study, rought through the ardour of my nature, but that she was there to subdue me to a semblance of her own gentleness.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2

12  But on the day that was to fulfil my wishes and my destiny, she was melancholy, and a presentiment of evil pervaded her; and perhaps also she thought of the dreadful secret which I had promised to reveal to her on the following day.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22

13  Presently I found, by the frequent recurrence of some sound which the stranger repeated after them, that she was endeavouring to learn their language; and the idea instantly occurred to me that I should make use of the same instructions to the same end.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13

14  He saw his mistress once before the destined ceremony; but she was bathed in tears, and throwing herself at his feet, entreated him to spare her, confessing at the same time that she loved another, but that he was poor, and that her father would never consent to the union.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 2

15  She was alarmed by this account and passed several hours in looking for him, when the gates of Geneva were shut, and she was forced to remain several hours of the night in a barn belonging to a cottage, being unwilling to call up the inhabitants, to whom she was well known.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

16  Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8

17  She nursed Madame Frankenstein, my aunt, in her last illness, with the greatest affection and care and afterwards attended her own mother during a tedious illness, in a manner that excited the admiration of all who knew her, after which she again lived in my uncle's house, where she was beloved by all the family.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8