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Shelley - -Release Date: March 13, 2013 [EBook #42324] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRANKENSTEIN *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42324 ***</div> <div class="figleft"> <img src="images/tp.jpg" alt=""/> @@ -936,7 +899,7 @@ replied, "To seek one who fled from me."</p> saw some dogs drawing a sledge, with a man in it, across the ice."</p> <p>This aroused the stranger's attention; and he asked a multitude of -questions concerning the route which the dæmon, as he called him, had +questions concerning the route which the dæmon, as he called him, had pursued. Soon after, when he was alone with me, he said,—"I have, doubtless, excited your curiosity, as well as that of these good people; but you are too considerate to make enquiries."</p> @@ -1829,7 +1792,7 @@ every object the most insupportable to the delicacy of the human feelings. I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to the blooming cheek of life; I saw how the worm inherited the wonders of the eye and brain. I paused, -examining and analysing all the minutiæ of causation, as exemplified in +examining and analysing all the minutiæ of causation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me—a light so brilliant and wondrous, yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the @@ -1966,7 +1929,7 @@ those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic -affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Cæsar would have spared his +affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Cæsar would have spared his country; America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.</p> @@ -2677,16 +2640,16 @@ violence quickly increased.</p> <p>I quitted my seat, and walked on, although the darkness and storm increased every minute, and the thunder burst with a terrific crash over -my head. It was echoed from Salêve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; +my head. It was echoed from Salêve, 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. The storm, as is often the case in Switzerland, appeared at once in various parts of the heavens. The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over that part of the lake which lies -between the promontory of Belrive and the village of Copêt. Another +between the promontory of Belrive and the village of Copêt. Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and -sometimes disclosed the Môle, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake.</p> +sometimes disclosed the Môle, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake.</p> <p>While I watched the tempest, so beautiful yet terrific, I wandered on with a hasty step. This noble war in the sky elevated my spirits; I @@ -2697,7 +2660,7 @@ fixed, gazing intently: I could not be mistaken. A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the -filthy dæmon, to whom I had given life. What did he there? Could he be +filthy dæmon, to whom I had given life. What did he there? Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother? No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than I became convinced of its truth; my teeth chattered, and I was forced to lean against a tree for @@ -2706,7 +2669,7 @@ Nothing in human shape could have destroyed that fair child. <i>He</i> was the murderer! I could not doubt it. The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact. I thought of pursuing the devil; but it would have been in vain, for another flash discovered him to me hanging -among the rocks of the nearly perpendicular ascent of Mont Salêve, a +among the rocks of the nearly perpendicular ascent of Mont Salêve, a hill that bounds Plainpalais on the south. He soon reached the summit, and disappeared.</p> @@ -2743,7 +2706,7 @@ ravings of insanity. Besides, the strange nature of the animal would elude all pursuit, even if I were so far credited as to persuade my relatives to commence it. And then of what use would be pursuit? Who could arrest a creature capable of scaling the overhanging sides of Mont -Salêve? These reflections determined me, and I resolved to remain +Salêve? These reflections determined me, and I resolved to remain silent.</p> <p>It was about five in the morning when I entered my father's house. I @@ -2938,7 +2901,7 @@ suspicious."</p> <p>She then related that, by the permission of Elizabeth, she had passed the evening of the night on which the murder had been committed at the -house of an aunt at Chêne, a village situated at about a league from +house of an aunt at Chêne, a village situated at about a league from Geneva. On her return, at about nine o'clock, she met a man, who asked her if she had seen any thing of the child who was lost. She was alarmed by this account, and passed several hours in looking for him, when the @@ -3006,7 +2969,7 @@ poor Justine, on whom the public indignation was turned with renewed violence, charging her with the blackest ingratitude. She herself wept as Elizabeth spoke, but she did not answer. My own agitation and anguish was extreme during the whole trial. I believed in her innocence; I knew -it. Could the dæmon, who had (I did not for a minute doubt) murdered my +it. Could the dæmon, who had (I did not for a minute doubt) murdered my brother, also in his hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy? I could not sustain the horror of my situation; and when I perceived that the popular voice, and the countenances of the judges, @@ -3346,7 +3309,7 @@ rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.</p> -<p>I passed the bridge of Pélissier, where the ravine, which the river +<p>I passed the bridge of Pélissier, where the ravine, which the river forms, opened before me, and I began to ascend the mountain that overhangs it. Soon after I entered the valley of Chamounix. This valley is more wonderful and sublime, but not so beautiful and picturesque, as @@ -3356,7 +3319,7 @@ castles and fertile fields. Immense glaciers approached the road; I heard the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche, and marked the smoke of its passage. Mont Blanc, the supreme and magnificent Mont Blanc, raised itself from the surrounding <i>aiguilles</i>, and its -tremendous <i>dôme</i> overlooked the valley.</p> +tremendous <i>dôme</i> overlooked the valley.</p> <p>A tingling long-lost sense of pleasure often came across me during this journey. Some turn in the road, some new object suddenly perceived and @@ -3498,7 +3461,7 @@ insect! or rather, stay, that I may trample you to dust! and, oh! that I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!"</p> -<p>"I expected this reception," said the dæmon. "All men hate the wretched; +<p>"I expected this reception," said the dæmon. "All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You @@ -3727,7 +3690,7 @@ capable. His appearance, different from any I had ever before seen, and his flight, somewhat surprised me. 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 -Pandæmonium appeared to the dæmons of hell after their sufferings in the +Pandæmonium appeared to the dæmons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire. I greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd's breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk, and wine; the latter, however, I did not like. Then, overcome by fatigue, I lay down among @@ -5682,7 +5645,7 @@ engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.</p> and conceived an affection for some of the inhabitants, when the period of our appointment with our Scotch friend approached, and we left them to travel on. For my own part I was not sorry. I had now neglected my -promise for some time, and I feared the effects of the dæmon's +promise for some time, and I feared the effects of the dæmon's disappointment. He might remain in Switzerland, and wreak his vengeance on my relatives. This idea pursued me, and tormented me at every moment from which I might otherwise have snatched repose and peace. I waited @@ -5815,7 +5778,7 @@ deserted by one of his own species.</p> <p>Even if they were to leave Europe, and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the -dæmon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be +dæmon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth, who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror. Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? @@ -5827,7 +5790,7 @@ had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.</p> <p>I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, -by the light of the moon, the dæmon at the casement. A ghastly grin +by the light of the moon, the dæmon at the casement. A ghastly grin wrinkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat fulfilling the task which he had allotted to me. Yes, he had followed me in my travels; he had loitered in forests, hid himself in caves, or taken refuge in wide @@ -5888,7 +5851,7 @@ master;—obey!"</p> <p>"The hour of my irresolution is past, and the period of your power is arrived. Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness; but they confirm me in a determination of not creating you a companion in -vice. Shall I, in cool blood, set loose upon the earth a dæmon, whose +vice. Shall I, in cool blood, set loose upon the earth a dæmon, whose delight is in death and wretchedness? Begone! I am firm, and your words will only exasperate my rage."</p> @@ -5946,7 +5909,7 @@ fellow-creatures; nay, a wish that such should prove the fact stole across me. I desired that I might pass my life on that barren rock, wearily, it is true, but uninterrupted by any sudden shock of misery. If I returned, it was to be sacrificed, or to see those whom I most loved -die under the grasp of a dæmon whom I had myself created.</p> +die under the grasp of a dæmon whom I had myself created.</p> <p>I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved, and miserable in the separation. When it became noon, and the sun @@ -5991,7 +5954,7 @@ the sea that very night; and in the mean time I sat upon the beach, employed in cleaning and arranging my chemical apparatus.</p> <p>Nothing could be more complete than the alteration that had taken place -in my feelings since the night of the appearance of the dæmon. I had +in my feelings since the night of the appearance of the dæmon. I had before regarded my promise with a gloomy despair, as a thing that, with whatever consequences, must be fulfilled; but I now felt as if a film had been taken from before my eyes, and that I, for the first time, saw @@ -6634,7 +6597,7 @@ shall need no other happiness.</p> <hr style="width: 45%;" /> <p>This letter revived in my memory what I had before forgotten, the threat of the fiend—"<i>I will be with you on your wedding night!</i>" Such was my -sentence, and on that night would the dæmon employ every art to destroy +sentence, and on that night would the dæmon employ every art to destroy me, and tear me from the glimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings. On that night he had determined to consummate his crimes by my death. Well, be it so; a deadly struggle would then @@ -6784,7 +6747,7 @@ smiled on our nuptial embarkation.</p> feeling of happiness. We passed rapidly along: the sun was hot, but we were sheltered from its rays by a kind of canopy, while we enjoyed the beauty of the scene, sometimes on one side of the lake, where we saw -Mont Salêve, the pleasant banks of Montalègre, and at a distance, +Mont Salêve, the pleasant banks of Montalègre, and at a distance, surmounting all, the beautiful Mont Blanc, and the assemblage of snowy mountains that in vain endeavour to emulate her; sometimes coasting the opposite banks, we saw the mighty Jura opposing its dark side to the @@ -6991,7 +6954,7 @@ cell had been my habitation.</p> <p>Liberty, however, had been an useless gift to me, had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge. As the memory of past misfortunes pressed upon me, I began to reflect on their -cause—the monster whom I had created, the miserable dæmon whom I had +cause—the monster whom I had created, the miserable dæmon whom I had sent abroad into the world for my destruction. I was possessed by a maddening rage when I thought of him, and desired and ardently prayed that I might have him within my grasp to wreak a great and signal @@ -7121,7 +7084,7 @@ lived, and to destroy him I must drag out my weary existence. I knelt on the grass, and kissed the earth, and with quivering lips exclaimed, "By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, -and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the dæmon, who caused +and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the dæmon, who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict. For this purpose I will preserve my life: to execute this dear revenge, will I again behold the sun, and tread the green herbage of earth, which @@ -7176,7 +7139,7 @@ had invoked to aid me. Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish.</p> -<p>I followed, when I could, the courses of the rivers; but the dæmon +<p>I followed, when I could, the courses of the rivers; but the dæmon generally avoided these, as it was here that the population of the country chiefly collected. In other places human beings were seldom seen; and I generally subsisted on the wild animals that crossed my @@ -7201,7 +7164,7 @@ arms of my dearest friends. What agonising fondness did I feel for them! how did I cling to their dear forms, as sometimes they haunted even my waking hours, and persuade myself that they still lived! At such moments vengeance, that burned within me, died in my heart, and I pursued my -path towards the destruction of the dæmon, more as a task enjoined by +path towards the destruction of the dæmon, more as a task enjoined by heaven, as the mechanical impulse of some power of which I was unconscious, than as the ardent desire of my soul.</p> @@ -7302,7 +7265,7 @@ discover what it could be, and uttered a wild cry of ecstasy when I distinguished a sledge, and the distorted proportions of a well-known form within. Oh! with what a burning gush did hope revisit my heart! warm tears filled my eyes, which I hastily wiped away, that they might -not intercept the view I had of the dæmon; but still my sight was dimmed +not intercept the view I had of the dæmon; but still my sight was dimmed by the burning drops, until, giving way to the emotions that oppressed me, I wept aloud.</p> @@ -7341,7 +7304,7 @@ direction was northward. You took me on board when my vigour was exhausted, and I should soon have sunk under my multiplied hardships into a death which I still dread—for my task is unfulfilled.</p> -<p>Oh! when will my guiding spirit, in conducting me to the dæmon, allow me +<p>Oh! when will my guiding spirit, in conducting me to the dæmon, allow me the rest I so much desire; or must I die, and he yet live? If I do, swear to me, Walton, that he shall not escape; that you will seek him, and satisfy my vengeance in his death. And do I dare to ask of you to @@ -7733,7 +7696,7 @@ listened to the voice of conscience, and heeded the stings of remorse, before you had urged your diabolical vengeance to this extremity, Frankenstein would yet have lived.</p> -<p>"And do you dream?" said the dæmon; "do you think that I was then dead +<p>"And do you dream?" said the dæmon; "do you think that I was then dead to agony and remorse?—He," he continued, pointing to the corpse, "he suffered not in the consummation of the deed—oh! not the ten-thousandth portion of the anguish that was mine during the lingering detail of its @@ -7891,381 +7854,6 @@ New-Street-Square.</p> "I do no not fear to die" to "I do now not fear to die"<br /><br /> "fulfil the wishes of you parents" to "your parents"]</p></blockquote> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Frankenstein, by Mary W. 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