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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I found that the berries were spoiled by this operation, and the nuts and roots much improved.
2 I found that the wind was northeast and must have driven me far from the coast from which I had embarked.
3 I found that the sparrow uttered none but harsh notes, whilst those of the blackbird and thrush were sweet and enticing.
4 I do not know how long I remained in this situation, but when I awoke I found that the sun had already mounted considerably.
5 I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition.
6 I found that these people possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds.
7 The old man, I could perceive, often endeavoured to encourage his children, as sometimes I found that he called them, to cast off their melancholy.
8 On examining my dwelling, I found that one of the windows of the cottage had formerly occupied a part of it, but the panes had been filled up with wood.
9 Besides, I found that my understanding improved so much with every day's experience that I was unwilling to commence this undertaking until a few more months should have added to my sagacity.
10 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.
11 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.
12 I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption, but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots which I gathered from a neighbouring wood.
13 I know not whether the fiend possessed the same advantages, but I found that, as before I had daily lost ground in the pursuit, I now gained on him, so much so that when I first saw the ocean he was but one day's journey in advance, and I hoped to intercept him before he should reach the beach.