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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 But that would be a cruel kindness, and I dare not do it.
2 I writhed under his words, yet dared not exhibit the pain I felt.
3 I dared not think that they would turn them from me with disdain and horror.
4 I dare not ask you to do what I think right, for I may still be misled by passion.
5 You may give up your purpose, but mine is assigned to me by heaven, and I dare not.
6 I dared not ask the fatal question, but I was known, and the officer guessed the cause of my visit.
7 What chiefly struck me was the gentle manners of these people, and I longed to join them, but dared not.
8 Now, dear Victor, I dare say you wish to be indulged in a little gossip concerning the good people of Geneva.
9 Fear overcame me; I dared no advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them.
10 This hovel however, joined a cottage of a neat and pleasant appearance, but after my late dearly bought experience, I dared not enter it.
11 Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
12 I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky.
13 For an instant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spirit, but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.
14 I looked towards its completion with a tremulous and eager hope, which I dared not trust myself to question but which was intermixed with obscure forebodings of evil that made my heart sicken in my bosom.
15 I waited for my letters with feverish impatience; if they were delayed I was miserable and overcome by a thousand fears; and when they arrived and I saw the superscription of Elizabeth or my father, I hardly dared to read and ascertain my fate.
16 But you are distant from me, and it is possible that you may dread and yet be pleased with this explanation; and in a probability of this being the case, I dare not any longer postpone writing what, during your absence, I have often wished to express to you but have never had the courage to begin.
17 I endeavoured to crush these fears and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo; and sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathizing with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation.
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