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Draft of Frankenstein. Volume one. Chapter seven.

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Mary Shelley It was on a dreary night of November that I held the accomplishment of my toils with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony.

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I collected the instruments of life around me that I might infuse a spark of being into the life, this thing that lay at my feet.

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It was already one in the morning.

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The rain patted dismally against the pans and my candle was nearly burnt out when by the glimmer of the half extinguished light,

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I slipped a dull yellow eye of the creature, opened it pretty hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

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How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe?

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Or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and I had endeavoured to form his limbs too in proportion,

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and I had selected his features as a beautiful, beautiful, great God.

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His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath his

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hair was of a lustrous black and flowing his teeth of a pearly whiteness.

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But these experiences only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes that

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seemed almost of the same colour as the dumb white sockets in which they were set.

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His shrivelled complexion and straight black let the different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

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I had worked half, nearly two years for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.

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For this, I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had decided with an ardour that far exceeded moderation.

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But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished.

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And breathless horror and disgust filled my heart, unable to enjoy the aspect of the being I had created.

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I rushed out of the room and continued a long time, traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.

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At length, Latitude conceded to the tumult I had before endured.

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And I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness.

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But it was in vain. I slept indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams.

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I thought I saw Elizabeth in the bloom of health, walking in the streets in Ingolstadt.

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Delighted and surprised, I embraced her. But as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the shoe of death.

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A features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms.

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A shroud enveloped her form. And I saw the grave ones crawling in the folds of the flannel.

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I started from my sleep with horror.

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A cold Jew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed, one by the dim and yellow night of the moon.

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As it forced its way to the window shutters. I beheld the wretch, the miserable monster whom I created.

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He held up the curse of the bed. And his eyes, if I say, may be called for fixed on me.

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His doors opened and he muttered some inarticulate sounds while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.

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He might have spoken, but I did not hear. One hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed down the stairs.

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I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited where I remained during the rest of the night,

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walking up and down in the greatest agitation,

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listening attentively, catching and firing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demon I to corpse,

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to which I had so miserably given life. Oh, no mortal could support the horror of that countenance.

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A mummy again in due to with animation could not be so hideous.

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A stretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished.

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He was ugly then. But when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing.

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Such as? Even Dante could not have conceived my path that night.

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Wretchedly. Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every artery and

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others I nearly sight to the ground through languor and extreme weakness mingled with this horror.

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I felt the bitterness of disappointment, dreams that have been my food and pleasant rest for so long.

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This space will now become a help to me. And the change was so rapid to overthrow.

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So complete.