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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I profited of this time to rest for a few hours.
2 We passed a few sad hours until eleven o'clock, when the trial was to commence.
3 The field of ice is almost a league in width, but I spent nearly two hours in crossing it.
4 We stayed several hours with Justine, and it was with great difficulty that Elizabeth could tear herself away.
5 About two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea, and before night the ice broke and freed our ship.
6 The old man, whom I soon perceived to be blind, employed his leisure hours on his instrument or in contemplation.
7 Some hours passed thus, while they, by their countenances, expressed joy, the cause of which I did not comprehend.
8 Often, after the rest of the family had retired for the night, I took the boat and passed many hours upon the water.
9 Accordingly I hid myself in some thick underwood, determining to devote the ensuing hours to reflection on my situation.
10 Several hours passed, and I remained near my window gazing on the sea; it was almost motionless, for the winds were hushed, and all nature reposed under the eye of the quiet moon.
11 I gave several hours to the serious consideration of this difficulty, but I was obliged to relinquish all attempt to supply it, and wrapping myself up in my cloak, I struck across the wood towards the setting sun.
12 Such words, you may imagine, strongly excited my curiosity; but the paroxysm of grief that had seized the stranger overcame his weakened powers, and many hours of repose and tranquil conversation were necessary to restore his composure.
13 This interfered with the solitude I coveted for the prosecution of my task; yet at the commencement of my journey the presence of my friend could in no way be an impediment, and truly I rejoiced that thus I should be saved many hours of lonely, maddening reflection.
14 She was alarmed by this account and passed several hours in looking for him, when the gates of Geneva were shut, and she was forced to remain several hours of the night in a barn belonging to a cottage, being unwilling to call up the inhabitants, to whom she was well known.
15 It was noon when I awoke, and allured by the warmth of the sun, which shone brightly on the white ground, I determined to recommence my travels; and, depositing the remains of the peasant's breakfast in a wallet I found, I proceeded across the fields for several hours, until at sunset I arrived at a village.
16 These were the reflections of my hours of despondency and solitude; but when I contemplated the virtues of the cottagers, their amiable and benevolent dispositions, I persuaded myself that when they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues they would compassionate me and overlook my personal deformity.
17 A few days after, the Turk entered his daughter's apartment and told her hastily that he had reason to believe that his residence at Leghorn had been divulged and that he should speedily be delivered up to the French government; he had consequently hired a vessel to convey him to Constantinople, for which city he should sail in a few hours.
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