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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I was pained at this and sat still watching the operation of the fire.
2 I remained, while the storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight.
3 While I watched the tempest, so beautiful yet terrific, I wandered on with a hasty step.
4 I had been awake the whole of the preceding night, my nerves were agitated, and my eyes inflamed by watching and misery.
5 We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice.
6 He is now much recovered from his illness and is continually on the deck, apparently watching for the sledge that preceded his own.
7 I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless.
8 Most of the night she spent here watching; towards morning she believed that she slept for a few minutes; some steps disturbed her, and she awoke.
9 Clerval, who had watched my countenance as I read this letter, was surprised to observe the despair that succeeded the joy I at first expressed on receiving new from my friends.
10 For a short space of time I remained at the window watching the pallid lightnings that played above Mont Blanc and listening to the rushing of the Arve, which pursued its noisy way beneath.
11 Some of my comrades groaned, and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own situation.
12 I was anxious and watchful, while my right hand grasped a pistol which was hidden in my bosom; every sound terrified me, but I resolved that I would sell my life dearly and not shrink from the conflict until my own life or that of my adversary was extinguished.
13 Night quickly shut in, but to my extreme wonder, I found that the cottagers had a means of prolonging light by the use of tapers, and was delighted to find that the setting of the sun did not put an end to the pleasure I experienced in watching my human neighbours.
14 I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching and endeavouring to discover the motives which influenced their actions.
15 My father, who was watching over me, perceiving my restlessness, awoke me; the dashing waves were around, the cloudy sky above, the fiend was not here: a sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.