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1  It was morning when I awoke, and my first care was to visit the fire.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
2  I was pained at this and sat still watching the operation of the fire.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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3  An old man sat in it, near a fire, over which he was preparing his breakfast.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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4  He threatened excommunication and hell fire in my last moments if I continued obdurate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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5  In one corner, near a small fire, sat an old man, leaning his head on his hands in a disconsolate attitude.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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6  When night came on and brought sleep with it, I was in the greatest fear lest my fire should be extinguished.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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7  But I consented to listen, and seating myself by the fire which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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8  She seemed pleased and went into the garden for some roots and plants, which she placed in water, and then upon the fire.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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9  In this emigration I exceedingly lamented the loss of the fire which I had obtained through accident and knew not how to reproduce it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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10  One day, when I was oppressed by cold, I found a fire which had been left by some wandering beggars, and was overcome with delight at the warmth I experienced from it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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11  I reflected on this, and by touching the various branches, I discovered the cause and busied myself in collecting a great quantity of wood, that I might dry it and have a plentiful supply of fire.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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12  I found that the youth spent a great part of each day in collecting wood for the family fire, and during the night I often took his tools, the use of which I quickly discovered, and brought home firing sufficient for the consumption of several days.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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13  The girl met him at the door, helped to relieve him of his burden, and taking some of the fuel into the cottage, placed it on the fire; then she and the youth went apart into a nook of the cottage, and he showed her a large loaf and a piece of cheese.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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14  As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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15  But I was enchanted by the appearance of the hut; here the snow and rain could not penetrate; the ground was dry; and it presented to me then as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandemonium appeared to the demons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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16  It was echoed from Saleve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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17  When night came again I found, with pleasure, that the fire gave light as well as heat and that the discovery of this element was useful to me in my food, for I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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