VICTIM in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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2 I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations.
3 Soon after we heard that the poor victim had expressed a desire to see my cousin.
4 I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge.
5 Thus I might proclaim myself a madman, but not revoke the sentence passed upon my wretched victim.
6 The government of France were greatly enraged at the escape of their victim and spared no pains to detect and punish his deliverer.
7 But, as if possessed of magic powers, the monster had blinded me to his real intentions; and when I thought that I had prepared only my own death, I hastened that of a far dearer victim.
8 Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.
9 I know," continued the unhappy victim, "how heavily and fatally this one circumstance weighs against me, but I have no power of explaining it; and when I have expressed my utter ignorance, I am only left to conjecture concerning the probabilities by which it might have been placed in my pocket.
10 The past appeared to me in the light of a frightful dream; yet the vessel in which I was, the wind that blew me from the detested shore of Ireland, and the sea which surrounded me told me too forcibly that I was deceived by no vision and that Clerval, my friend and dearest companion, had fallen a victim to me and the monster of my creation.