SILENCE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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2 I avoided explanation and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created.
3 I listened to my father in silence and remained for some time incapable of offering any reply.
4 His voice became fainter as he spoke, and at length, exhausted by his effort, he sank into silence.
5 My father made no reproach in his letters and only took notice of my silence by inquiring into my occupations more particularly than before.
6 I was innocent; that could easily be proved; accordingly I followed my conductor in silence and was led to one of the best houses in the town.
7 Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.
8 The child still struggled and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart; I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet.
9 I felt the silence, although I was hardly conscious of its extreme profundity, until my ear was suddenly arrested by the paddling of oars near the shore, and a person landed close to my house.