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To Mrs. Sav\u00adille, <\/span>Eng\u00adland.<\/span><\/p>\n

St. Peters\u00adburgh<\/span>, Dec. 11th, 17\u2014.<\/p>\n

You will rejoice<\/span> to hear that no dis\u00adas\u00adter has accom\u00adpa\u00adnied the com\u00admence\u00adment of an enter\u00adprise<\/span> which you have regard\u00aded with such evil fore\u00adbod\u00adings<\/span>. I arrived here yes\u00adter\u00adday, and my first task is to assure my dear sis\u00adter of my wel\u00adfare and increas\u00ading con\u00adfi\u00addence in the suc\u00adcess of my undertaking.<\/p>\n

I am already far north of Lon\u00addon, and as I walk in the streets of Peters\u00adburgh<\/span>, I feel a cold north\u00adern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces<\/span> my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you under\u00adstand this feel\u00ading? This breeze, which has trav\u00adelled from the regions towards which I am advanc\u00ading, gives me a fore\u00adtaste<\/span> of those icy climes<\/span>. Inspir\u00adit\u00aded<\/span> by this wind of promise, my day\u00addreams<\/span> become more fer\u00advent<\/span> and vivid<\/span>. I try in vain<\/span> to be per\u00adsuad\u00aded that the pole is the seat of frost and des\u00ado\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span>; it ever presents itself to my imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion as the region of beau\u00adty and delight. There, Mar\u00adgaret, the sun is for ever vis\u00adi\u00adble, its broad disk just skirt\u00ading<\/span> the hori\u00adzon and dif\u00adfus\u00ading<\/span> a per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal<\/span> splen\u00addour<\/span>. There\u2014for<\/span> with your leave<\/span>, my sis\u00adter, I will put some trust in<\/span> pre\u00adced\u00ading navigators\u2014there snow and frost are ban\u00adished<\/span>; and, sail\u00ading over a calm sea, we may be waft\u00aded<\/span> to a land sur\u00adpass\u00ading<\/span> in won\u00adders and in beau\u00adty every region hith\u00ader\u00adto<\/span> dis\u00adcov\u00adered on the hab\u00adit\u00adable<\/span> globe. Its pro\u00adduc\u00adtions and fea\u00adtures may be with\u00adout exam\u00adple, as the phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adna<\/span> of the heav\u00aden\u00adly bod\u00adies undoubt\u00aded\u00adly are in those undis\u00adcov\u00adered soli\u00adtudes<\/span>. What may not be expect\u00aded in a coun\u00adtry of eter\u00adnal light? I may there dis\u00adcov\u00ader the won\u00addrous<\/span> pow\u00ader which attracts the nee\u00addle and may reg\u00adu\u00adlate a thou\u00adsand celes\u00adtial<\/span> obser\u00adva\u00adtions that require only this voy\u00adage to ren\u00adder their seem\u00ading eccen\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adties<\/span> con\u00adsis\u00adtent for ever. I shall sati\u00adate<\/span> my ardent<\/span> curios\u00adi\u00adty with the sight of a part of the world nev\u00ader before vis\u00adit\u00aded, and may tread<\/span> a land nev\u00ader before imprint\u00aded<\/span> by the foot of man. These are my entice\u00adments<\/span>, and they are suf\u00adfi\u00adcient to con\u00adquer<\/span> all fear of dan\u00adger or death and to induce me to com\u00admence this labo\u00adri\u00adous<\/span> voy\u00adage with the joy a child feels when he embarks<\/span> in a lit\u00adtle boat, with his hol\u00adi\u00adday mates, on an expe\u00addi\u00adtion of dis\u00adcov\u00adery up his native riv\u00ader. But sup\u00adpos\u00ading all these con\u00adjec\u00adtures<\/span> to be false, you can\u00adnot con\u00adtest the ines\u00adtimable<\/span> ben\u00ade\u00adfit which I shall con\u00adfer<\/span> on all mankind, to the last gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion, by dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00ading a pas\u00adsage near the pole to those coun\u00adtries, to reach which at present<\/span> so many months are req\u00adui\u00adsite<\/span>; or by ascer\u00adtain\u00ading<\/span> the secret of the mag\u00adnet<\/span>, which, if at all<\/span> pos\u00adsi\u00adble, can only be effect\u00aded<\/span> by an under\u00adtak\u00ading such as mine.<\/p>\n

These reflec\u00adtions have dis\u00adpelled<\/span> the agi\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> with which I began my let\u00adter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm which ele\u00advates<\/span> me to heav\u00aden, for<\/span> noth\u00ading con\u00adtributes so much to tran\u00adquil\u00adlise<\/span> the mind as a steady purpose\u2014a point on which the soul may fix its intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal eye. This expe\u00addi\u00adtion has been the favourite dream of my ear\u00adly years. I have read with ardour<\/span> the accounts of the var\u00adi\u00adous voy\u00adages which have been made in the prospect<\/span> of arriv\u00ading at the North Pacif\u00adic Ocean through the seas which sur\u00adround the pole. You may remem\u00adber that a his\u00adto\u00adry of all the voy\u00adages made for pur\u00adpos\u00ades of dis\u00adcov\u00adery com\u00adposed the whole of our good Uncle Thomas\u2019 library. My edu\u00adca\u00adtion was neglect\u00aded<\/span>, yet I was pas\u00adsion\u00adate\u00adly<\/span> fond<\/span> of read\u00ading. These vol\u00adumes were my study day and night, and my famil\u00adiar\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> with them increased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learn\u00ading that my father\u2019s dying injunc\u00adtion<\/span> had for\u00adbid\u00adden my uncle to allow me to embark<\/span> in a sea\u00adfar\u00ading<\/span> life.<\/p>\n

These visions fad\u00aded when I perused<\/span>, for the first time, those poets whose effu\u00adsions<\/span> entranced<\/span> my soul and lift\u00aded it to heav\u00aden. I also became a poet and for one year lived in a par\u00adadise of my own cre\u00adation; I imag\u00adined that I also might obtain a niche<\/span> in the tem\u00adple where the names of Homer and Shake\u00adspeare are con\u00adse\u00adcrat\u00aded<\/span>. You are well acquaint\u00aded with my fail\u00adure and how heav\u00adi\u00adly I bore the dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment. But just at that time I inher\u00adit\u00aded the for\u00adtune of my cousin, and my thoughts were turned into the chan\u00adnel of their ear\u00adli\u00ader bent<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Six years have passed since I resolved on my present under\u00adtak\u00ading. I can, even now, remem\u00adber the hour from which I ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded myself to this great enter\u00adprise<\/span>. I com\u00admenced by inur\u00ading<\/span> my body to hard\u00adship. I accom\u00adpa\u00adnied the whale-fish\u00aders on sev\u00ader\u00adal expe\u00addi\u00adtions to the North Sea; I vol\u00adun\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adly endured cold, famine<\/span>, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked hard\u00ader than the com\u00admon sailors dur\u00ading the day and devot\u00aded my nights to the study of math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adics, the the\u00ado\u00adry of med\u00adi\u00adcine, and those branch\u00ades of phys\u00adi\u00adcal sci\u00adence from which a naval adven\u00adtur\u00ader might derive the great\u00adest prac\u00adti\u00adcal advan\u00adtage. Twice I actu\u00adal\u00adly hired myself as an under-mate in a Green\u00adland whaler<\/span>, and acquit\u00adted<\/span> myself to admi\u00adra\u00adtion. I must own<\/span> I felt a lit\u00adtle proud when my cap\u00adtain offered me the sec\u00adond dig\u00adni\u00adty<\/span> in the ves\u00adsel and entreat\u00aded<\/span> me to remain with the great\u00adest earnest\u00adness<\/span>, so valu\u00adable did he con\u00adsid\u00ader my services.<\/p>\n

And now, dear Mar\u00adgaret, do I not deserve to accom\u00adplish some great pur\u00adpose? My life might have been passed in ease and lux\u00adu\u00adry, but I pre\u00adferred glo\u00adry to every entice\u00adment<\/span> that wealth placed in my path. Oh, that some encour\u00adag\u00ading voice would answer in the affir\u00adma\u00adtive<\/span>! My courage and my res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion is firm; but my hopes fluc\u00adtu\u00adate<\/span>, and my spir\u00adits are often depressed. I am about to<\/span> pro\u00adceed on a long and dif\u00adfi\u00adcult voy\u00adage, the emer\u00adgen\u00adcies of which will demand all my for\u00adti\u00adtude<\/span>: I am required not only to raise the spir\u00adits of oth\u00aders, but some\u00adtimes to sus\u00adtain my own, when theirs are failing.<\/p>\n

This is the most favourable peri\u00adod for trav\u00adel\u00adling in Rus\u00adsia. They fly quick\u00adly over the snow in their sledges<\/span>; the motion is pleas\u00adant, and, in my opin\u00adion, far more agree\u00adable than that of an Eng\u00adlish stage\u00adcoach<\/span>. The cold is not exces\u00adsive, if you are wrapped in furs\u2014a dress which I have already adopt\u00aded, for there is a great dif\u00adfer\u00adence between walk\u00ading the deck and remain\u00ading seat\u00aded motion\u00adless for hours, when no exer\u00adcise pre\u00advents the blood from actu\u00adal\u00adly freez\u00ading in your veins<\/span>. I have no ambi\u00adtion to lose my life on the post-road between St. Peters\u00adburgh<\/span> and Archangel<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I shall depart for the lat\u00adter town in a fort\u00adnight<\/span> or three weeks; and my inten\u00adtion is to hire a ship there, which can eas\u00adi\u00adly be done by pay\u00ading the insur\u00adance for the own\u00ader, and to engage as many sailors as I think nec\u00ades\u00adsary among those who are accus\u00adtomed to the whale-fish\u00ading. I do not intend to sail until the month of June; and when shall I return? Ah, dear sis\u00adter, how can I answer this ques\u00adtion? If I suc\u00adceed, many, many months, per\u00adhaps years, will pass before you and I may meet. If I fail, you will see me again soon, or never.<\/p>\n

Farewell<\/span>, my dear, excel\u00adlent Mar\u00adgaret. Heav\u00aden show\u00ader down bless\u00adings on you, and save me, that I may again and again tes\u00adti\u00adfy my grat\u00adi\u00adtude for all your love and kindness.<\/p>\n

Your affec\u00adtion\u00adate broth\u00ader, R. Walton<\/p>\n

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Saint Peters\u00adburg<\/span> \u21d2 For\u00admer\u00adly Pet\u00adro\u00adgrad (1914\u20131924<\/span>) and Leningrad (1924\u20131991<\/span>) A city of north\u00adwest Rus\u00adsia on the Neva Riv\u00ader at the head of the Gulf of Fin\u00adland. Found\u00aded by Peter the Great in 1703 as St. Peters\u00adburg, it became the cap\u00adi\u00adtal of Rus\u00adsia in 1712. It was replaced by Moscow as cap\u00adi\u00adtal in 1918.<\/p>\n

rejoice<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8\u02a4\u0254\u026as<\/span> v <\/span>To feel joy\u00adful; be delight\u00aded: cheer<\/span><\/p>\n

enter\u00adprise<\/span> \u02c8\u025bn\u00adt\u0259pra\u026az<\/span> n <\/span>A project or under\u00adtak\u00ading, espe\u00adcial\u00adly one that requires bold\u00adness or effort: project, task, undertaking<\/span><\/p>\n

fore\u00adbod\u00ading<\/span> f\u0254\u02d0\u02c8b\u0259\u028ad\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>A sense of impend\u00ading evil or mis\u00adfor\u00adtune: omen, warn\u00ading, pre\u00addic\u00adtion, sign, token,<\/span><\/p>\n

brace<\/span> bre\u026as<\/span> v <\/span>To stim\u00adu\u00adlate: fresh\u00aden, invigorate<\/span><\/p>\n

fore\u00adtaste<\/span> \u02c8f\u0254\u02d0te\u026ast<\/span> n <\/span>An advance token or warn\u00ading: expec\u00adta\u00adtion, prospect<\/span><\/p>\n

clime<\/span> kla\u026am<\/span> n <\/span>Cli\u00admate, weather.<\/p>\n

inspir\u00adit<\/span> \u026an\u02c8sp\u026ar\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To instill courage, inspi\u00adra\u00adtion, and res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion to: ani\u00admate, embold\u00aden, encour\u00adage, inspire<\/span><\/p>\n

day\u00addream<\/span> \u02c8de\u026a\u02cc\u00addri\u02d0m<\/span> n <\/span>A pleas\u00adant dream\u00adlike fan\u00adta\u00adsy indulged in while awake: fan\u00adcy, fan\u00adta\u00adsy, fic\u00adtion, illu\u00adsion, phantasm<\/span><\/p>\n

fer\u00advent<\/span> \u02c8f\u025c\u02d0v\u0259nt<\/span> adv<\/span> Hav\u00ading or show\u00ading great warmth or inten\u00adsi\u00adty of spir\u00adit, feel\u00ading, enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm, etc.: ardent<\/span><\/p>\n

vivid<\/span> \u02c8v\u026av\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Very clear, pow\u00ader\u00adful, and detailed in your mind: clear, bright, intense<\/span><\/p>\n

in vain<\/span> \u21d2 To no avail; with\u00adout success.<\/p>\n

des\u00ado\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccd\u025bs\u0259\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>The state of being decayed, destroyed, for\u00adsak\u00aden or aban\u00addoned: iso\u00adla\u00adtion, lone\u00adli\u00adness, soli\u00adtude, wild\u00adness, bar\u00adren\u00adness, solitariness<\/span><\/p>\n

skirt<\/span> sk\u025c\u02d0t<\/span> To pass close to; miss nar\u00adrow\u00adly: pass by<\/span><\/p>\n

dif\u00adfuse<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8fju\u02d0z<\/span> v <\/span>To spread or cause to spread in all direc\u00adtions: spread, dis\u00adtrib\u00adute<\/span><\/p>\n

per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal<\/span> p\u0259\u02c8p\u025b\u02a7\u028a\u0259l<\/span> adj<\/span> Endur\u00ading for all time: eter\u00adnal, end\u00adless, ever\u00adlast\u00ading, cease\u00adless, never-ending<\/span><\/p>\n

splen\u00addour<\/span> \u02c8spl\u025bnd\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A refined qual\u00adi\u00adty of grace\u00adful\u00adness and good taste: ele\u00adgance, magnificence<\/span><\/p>\n

for<\/span> f\u0254\u02d0<\/span> cj<\/span> Because; since.<\/p>\n

with your leave<\/span> \u21d2 (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) With your permission.<\/p>\n

to put one\u2019s trust in some\u00adone or some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To trust some\u00adone or something.<\/p>\n

ban\u00adish<\/span> \u02c8b\u00e6n\u026a\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To dri\u00adve away: expel<\/span><\/p>\n

waft<\/span> w\u0251\u02d0ft<\/span> v <\/span>To float eas\u00adi\u00adly and gen\u00adtly, as on the air: drift<\/span><\/p>\n

sur\u00adpass<\/span> s\u025c\u02d0\u02c8p\u0251\u02d0s<\/span> v <\/span>To go beyond in amount, extent, or degree; be greater than: exceed<\/span><\/p>\n

hith\u00ader\u00adto<\/span> \u02c8h\u026a\u00f0\u0259\u02c8\u00adtu\u02d0<\/span> adv<\/span> Until now; before this time.<\/p>\n

hab\u00adit\u00adable<\/span> \u02c8h\u00e6b\u026at\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Suit\u00adable to live in or on: inhab\u00adit\u00adable, liv\u00adable, liveable<\/span><\/p>\n

phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon<\/span> f\u0259\u02c8n\u0252m\u026an\u0259n<\/span> n pl<\/span> phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adna<\/span> (Physics<\/span>) An observ\u00adable event.<\/p>\n

soli\u00adtude<\/span> \u02c8s\u0252l\u026atju\u02d0d<\/span> n <\/span>The state or qual\u00adi\u00adty of being alone or remote from oth\u00aders: iso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span><\/p>\n

won\u00addrous<\/span> \u02c8w\u028cn\u00addr\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnar\u00adi\u00adly good or great: won\u00adder\u00adful; remarkable<\/span><\/p>\n

celes\u00adtial<\/span> s\u026a\u02c8l\u025bsti\u0259l<\/span> adj<\/span> Of or relat\u00ading to the sky or phys\u00adi\u00adcal uni\u00adverse as under\u00adstood in astron\u00ado\u00admy: heav\u00aden\u00adly<\/span><\/p>\n

eccen\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> \u02cc\u025bk\u00ads\u025bn\u02c8tr\u026as\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>Strange and uncon\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal behav\u00adior: strange\u00adness, odd\u00adi\u00adty, oddness<\/span><\/p>\n

sati\u00adate<\/span> \u02c8se\u026a\u0283ie\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To fill or sup\u00adply beyond capac\u00adi\u00adty or desire, often arous\u00ading weari\u00adness: sur\u00adfeit<\/span><\/p>\n

ardent<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Express\u00ading or char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by warmth of feel\u00ading: pas\u00adsion\u00adate<\/span><\/p>\n

tread<\/span> tr\u025bd<\/span> v <\/span>To step, walk, or tram\u00adple so as to press, crush, or injure some\u00adthing: squash, step on, trample<\/span><\/p>\n

imprint<\/span> \u026am\u02c8pr\u026ant<\/span> v <\/span>To pro\u00adduce (a mark or pat\u00adtern<\/span>) on a sur\u00adface by pres\u00adsure: stamp<\/span><\/p>\n

entice\u00adment<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u00adta\u026as\u00adm\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adthing that seduces or has the qual\u00adi\u00adty to seduce: temp\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adquer<\/span> \u02c8k\u0252\u014bk\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>Take pos\u00adses\u00adsion of by force, as after an inva\u00adsion: sub\u00addue, crush, subjugate<\/span><\/p>\n

labo\u00adri\u00adous<\/span> l\u0259\u02c8b\u0254\u02d0r\u026a\u0259s\u00adli<\/span> adv<\/span> Involv\u00ading great exer\u00adtion or long effort: ardu\u00adous, dif\u00adfi\u00adcult, hard<\/span><\/p>\n

embark<\/span> \u026am\u02c8b\u0251\u02d0k<\/span> v <\/span>To board a ship, air\u00adcraft, or oth\u00ader vehi\u00adcle, as for a jour\u00adney: board<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adjec\u00adture<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8\u02a4\u025bk\u02a7\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>The for\u00adma\u00adtion of con\u00adclu\u00adsions from incom\u00adplete evi\u00addence: guess, sup\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion; theory<\/span><\/p>\n

ines\u00adtimable<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u025bst\u026am\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Impos\u00adsi\u00adble to be cal\u00adcu\u00adlat\u00aded: count\u00adless, immea\u00adsur\u00adable, infi\u00adnite, innu\u00admer\u00adable, uncountable<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adfer<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8f\u025c\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>To meet and exchange views to reach a deci\u00adsion: advise, con\u00adsult, talk<\/span><\/p>\n

at present<\/span> \u21d2 At this time, now.<\/p>\n

req\u00adui\u00adsite<\/span> \u02c8r\u025bk\u00adw\u026az\u026at<\/span> n <\/span>Any\u00adthing indis\u00adpens\u00adable: want, need, neces\u00adsi\u00adty, require\u00adment, must<\/span><\/p>\n

ascer\u00adtain<\/span> \u00e6s\u0259\u02c8te\u026an<\/span> v <\/span>Estab\u00adlish after a cal\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adtion, inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtion, exper\u00adi\u00adment, sur\u00advey, or study: deter\u00admine<\/span><\/p>\n

secret of the mag\u00adnet<\/span> \u21d2 A ref\u00ader\u00adence that the goal of the jour\u00adney is reach\u00ading the North Pole, and pos\u00adsi\u00adbly learn\u00ading more about the Earth\u2019s magnetism.<\/p>\n

at all<\/span> \u21d2 In any way; for any rea\u00adson; to any extent; whatever.<\/p>\n

effect<\/span> \u026a\u02c8f\u025bkt<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to occur; bring about: accom\u00adplish<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adpel<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8sp\u025bl<\/span> v <\/span>To dri\u00adve off in var\u00adi\u00adous direc\u00adtions: dis\u00adperse, dissipate<\/span><\/p>\n

agi\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6\u02a4\u026a\u02c8te\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Extreme emo\u00adtion\u00adal dis\u00adtur\u00adbance: tur\u00admoil, commotion<\/span><\/p>\n

ele\u00advate<\/span> \u02c8\u025bl\u026ave\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To move some\u00adthing to a high\u00ader place or posi\u00adtion from a low\u00ader one: lift, heave, hoist, raise<\/span><\/p>\n

for<\/span> f\u0254\u02d0<\/span> cj<\/span> Because; since.<\/p>\n

tran\u00adquil\u00adlise<\/span> \u02c8tr\u00e6\u014bk\u00adw\u026ala\u026az<\/span> v <\/span>To make calm or still: soothe, qui\u00adeten, calm down<\/span><\/p>\n

ardour<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading of strong ener\u00adgy or eager\u00adness: zeal<\/span><\/p>\n

in prospect<\/span> \u21d2 In sight; as a possibility.<\/p>\n

neglect<\/span> n\u026a\u02c8gl\u025bkt<\/span> v <\/span>To fail to care for or attend to properly.<\/p>\n

pas\u00adsion\u00adate\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8p\u00e6\u0283\u1d4an\u0259tli<\/span> adv<\/span> With strong or pow\u00ader\u00adful emo\u00adtion: emo\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly, eagerly<\/span><\/p>\n

fond<\/span> f\u0252nd<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading or dis\u00adplay\u00ading warmth or affec\u00adtion: lov\u00ading, ten\u00adder, affec\u00adtion\u00adate, love\u00adsome, warm<\/span><\/p>\n

famil\u00adiar\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> f\u0259\u02ccm\u026al\u026a\u02c8\u00e6r\u026ati<\/span> n <\/span>Close acquain\u00adtance\u00adship or inti\u00adma\u00adcy: close\u00adness<\/span><\/p>\n

injunc\u00adtion<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u02a4\u028c\u014bk\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A judi\u00adcial process or order requir\u00ading the per\u00adson or per\u00adsons to whom it is direct\u00aded to do or refrain from doing a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar act.<\/p>\n

sea\u00adfar\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8si\u02d0\u02ccfe\u0259r\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Fol\u00adlow\u00ading a life at sea.<\/p>\n

peruse<\/span> p\u0259\u02c8ru\u02d0z<\/span> v <\/span>Read through thor\u00adough\u00adly; exam\u00adine in detail: scru\u00adti\u00adnize<\/span><\/p>\n

effu\u00adsion<\/span> \u026a\u02c8fju\u02d0\u0292\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>An unre\u00adstrained expres\u00adsion of feel\u00ading, as in speech or writing.<\/p>\n

entrance<\/span> \u026an\u02c8tr\u0251\u02d0ns<\/span> v <\/span>To fill with delight, won\u00adder, or enchant\u00adment: spell\u00adbind<\/span><\/p>\n

niche<\/span> ni\u02d0\u0283<\/span> n <\/span>(Archi\u00adtec\u00adture<\/span>) A recess in a wall.<\/p>\n

con\u00adse\u00adcrate<\/span> \u02c8k\u0252n\u00ads\u026akre\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To declare or set apart as hal\u00adlowed or sacred.<\/p>\n

bent<\/span> b\u025bnt<\/span> n <\/span>A rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly per\u00adma\u00adnent incli\u00adna\u00adtion to react in a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar way: incli\u00adna\u00adtion, ten\u00adden\u00adcy, disposition<\/span><\/p>\n

inure<\/span> \u026a\u02c8n\u00adj\u028a\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to accept or become hard\u00adened to: adapt, habit\u00adu\u00adate<\/span><\/p>\n

famine<\/span> \u02c8f\u00e6m\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>A severe short\u00adage of food result\u00ading in vio\u00adlent hunger and star\u00adva\u00adtion and death.<\/p>\n

whaler<\/span> \u02c8we\u026al\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A whal\u00ading ship.<\/p>\n

acquit<\/span> \u0259\u02c8k\u00adw\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To con\u00adduct one\u00adself in a spec\u00adi\u00adfied way: act, bear, behave<\/span><\/p>\n

own<\/span> \u0259\u028an<\/span> v <\/span>To admit as being in accor\u00addance with fact, truth, or a claim: acknowl\u00adedge<\/span><\/p>\n

dig\u00adni\u00adty<\/span> \u02c8d\u026a\u0261n\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>A high office or rank: sta\u00adtus, position<\/span><\/p>\n

entreat<\/span> \u026an\u02c8tri\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>To make an earnest request: beg, pray, appeal, implore, plead with<\/span><\/p>\n

earnest\u00adness<\/span> \u02c8\u025c\u02d0n\u026ast\u00adn\u0259s<\/span> n <\/span>Deter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion and seri\u00adous\u00adness, espe\u00adcial\u00adly when this is with\u00adout humour.<\/p>\n

affir\u00adma\u00adtive<\/span> \u0259\u02c8f\u025c\u02d0m\u0259t\u026av<\/span> adj<\/span> Assert\u00ading that some\u00adthing is true or cor\u00adrect: pos\u00adi\u00adtive, optimistic<\/span><\/p>\n

fluc\u00adtu\u00adate<\/span> \u02c8fl\u028ck\u00adtj\u028ae\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To vary irreg\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly: wave<\/span><\/p>\n

to be about to do some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To be going to do some\u00adthing very soon.<\/p>\n

for\u00adti\u00adtude<\/span> \u02c8f\u0254\u02d0t\u026atju\u02d0d<\/span> n <\/span>Strength of mind that enables one to endure adver\u00adsi\u00adty with courage: brav\u00adery, guts, courage, fearlessness<\/span><\/p>\n

sledge<\/span> sl\u025b\u02a4<\/span> n <\/span>A vehi\u00adcle mount\u00aded on run\u00adners and pulled by hors\u00ades or dogs; for trans\u00adporta\u00adtion over snow: sleigh<\/span><\/p>\n

stage\u00adcoach<\/span> \u02c8ste\u026a\u02a4k\u0259\u028a\u02a7<\/span> n <\/span>A large four-wheeled horse-drawn vehi\u00adcle for\u00admer\u00adly used to car\u00adry pas\u00adsen\u00adgers, mail, etc, on a reg\u00adu\u00adlar route between towns and cities.<\/p>\n

vein<\/span> ve\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>Any of the tubu\u00adlar ves\u00adsels that con\u00advey oxy\u00adgen-deplet\u00aded blood to the heart.<\/p>\n

Arkhangel\u00adsk<\/span>, also known as <\/span>Archangel <\/span>and<\/span> Archangel\u00adsk<\/span> \u21d2 A city in Rus\u00adsia, the chief sea\u00adport of medieval and ear\u00adly mod\u00adern Rus\u00adsia until 1703, when it was replaced by the new\u00adly found\u00aded Saint Petersburg.<\/p>\n

fort\u00adnight<\/span> \u02c8f\u0254\u02d0t\u00adna\u026at<\/span> n <\/span>A peri\u00adod of four\u00adteen con\u00adsec\u00adu\u00adtive days: two weeks<\/span><\/p>\n

farewell<\/span> \u02ccfe\u0259\u02c8w\u025bl<\/span> n <\/span>An acknowl\u00adedg\u00adment or expres\u00adsion of good\u00adwill at part\u00ading: good\u00adby, adieu<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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To Mrs. Sav\u00adille, <\/span>Eng\u00adland.<\/span><\/p>\n

Archangel<\/span>, 28th March, 17\u2014.<\/p>\n

How slow\u00adly the time pass\u00ades here, encom\u00adpassed<\/span> as I am by frost and snow! Yet a sec\u00adond step is tak\u00aden towards my enter\u00adprise<\/span>. I have hired a ves\u00adsel and am occu\u00adpied in col\u00adlect\u00ading my sailors; those whom I have already engaged appear to be men on whom I can depend and are cer\u00adtain\u00adly pos\u00adsessed of daunt\u00adless<\/span> courage.<\/p>\n

But I have one want which I have nev\u00ader yet been able to sat\u00adis\u00adfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I have no friend, Mar\u00adgaret: when I am glow\u00ading with the enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm of suc\u00adcess, there will be none to par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpate my joy; if I am assailed<\/span> by dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment, no one will endeav\u00adour<\/span> to sus\u00adtain me in dejec\u00adtion<\/span>. I shall com\u00admit my thoughts to<\/span> paper, it is true; but that is a poor medi\u00adum for the com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion of feel\u00ading. I desire the com\u00adpa\u00adny of a man who could sym\u00adpa\u00adthise with me, whose eyes would reply to mine. You may deem<\/span> me roman\u00adtic, my dear sis\u00adter, but I bit\u00adter\u00adly feel the want of a friend. I have no one near me, gen\u00adtle yet coura\u00adgeous, pos\u00adsessed of a cul\u00adti\u00advat\u00aded as well as<\/span> of a capa\u00adcious<\/span> mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans. How would such a friend repair the faults of your poor broth\u00ader! I am too ardent<\/span> in exe\u00adcu\u00adtion and too impa\u00adtient of dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adties. But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-edu\u00adcat\u00aded: for the first four\u00adteen years of my life I ran wild on a com\u00admon and read noth\u00ading but our Uncle Thomas\u2019 books of voy\u00adages. At that age I became acquaint\u00aded with the cel\u00ade\u00adbrat\u00aded poets of our own coun\u00adtry; but it was only when it had ceased to be in my pow\u00ader to derive its most impor\u00adtant ben\u00ade\u00adfits from such a con\u00advic\u00adtion that I per\u00adceived the neces\u00adsi\u00adty of becom\u00ading acquaint\u00aded with more lan\u00adguages than that of my native coun\u00adtry. Now I am twen\u00adty-eight and am in real\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> more illit\u00ader\u00adate<\/span> than many school\u00adboys of fif\u00adteen. It is true that I have thought more and that my day\u00addreams<\/span> are more extend\u00aded and mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent, but they want (as the painters call it) keep\u00ading;<\/span> and I great\u00adly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise<\/span> me as roman\u00adtic, and affec\u00adtion enough for me to endeav\u00adour<\/span> to reg\u00adu\u00adlate my mind.<\/p>\n

Well, these are use\u00adless com\u00adplaints; I shall cer\u00adtain\u00adly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel<\/span>, among mer\u00adchants and sea\u00admen. Yet some feel\u00adings, unal\u00adlied to the dross<\/span> of human nature, beat even in these rugged<\/span> bosoms<\/span>. My lieu\u00adtenant<\/span>, for instance<\/span>, is a man of won\u00adder\u00adful courage and enter\u00adprise<\/span>; he is mad\u00adly desirous of glo\u00adry, or rather, to word my phrase more char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly, of advance\u00adment in his pro\u00adfes\u00adsion. He is an Eng\u00adlish\u00adman, and in the midst of nation\u00adal and pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal prej\u00adu\u00addices<\/span>, unsoft\u00adened by cul\u00adti\u00adva\u00adtion<\/span>, retains some of the noblest endow\u00adments<\/span> of human\u00adi\u00adty. I first became acquaint\u00aded with him on board a whale ves\u00adsel; find\u00ading that he was unem\u00adployed in this city, I eas\u00adi\u00adly engaged him to assist in my enter\u00adprise<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The mas\u00adter is a per\u00adson of an excel\u00adlent dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion and is remark\u00adable in the ship for his gen\u00adtle\u00adness and the mild\u00adness of his dis\u00adci\u00adpline. This cir\u00adcum\u00adstance, added to his well-known integri\u00adty<\/span> and daunt\u00adless<\/span> courage, made me very desirous to engage him. A youth passed in soli\u00adtude<\/span>, my best years spent under your gen\u00adtle and fem\u00adi\u00adnine<\/span> fos\u00adter\u00adage<\/span>, has so refined the ground\u00adwork<\/span> of my char\u00adac\u00adter that I can\u00adnot over\u00adcome an intense dis\u00adtaste<\/span> to the usu\u00adal bru\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty exer\u00adcised on board ship: I have nev\u00ader believed it to be nec\u00ades\u00adsary, and when I heard of a mariner<\/span> equal\u00adly not\u00aded for his kind\u00adli\u00adness of heart and the respect and obe\u00addi\u00adence<\/span> paid to him by his crew, I felt myself pecu\u00adliar\u00adly<\/span> for\u00adtu\u00adnate in being able to secure his ser\u00advices. I heard of him first in rather a roman\u00adtic man\u00adner, from a lady who owes to him the hap\u00adpi\u00adness of her life. This, briefly, is his sto\u00adry. Some years ago he loved a young Russ\u00adian lady of mod\u00ader\u00adate for\u00adtune, and hav\u00ading amassed<\/span> a con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable sum in prize-mon\u00adey, the father of the girl con\u00adsent\u00aded to the match. He saw his mis\u00adtress once before the des\u00adtined<\/span> cer\u00ade\u00admo\u00adny; but she was bathed in tears, and throw\u00ading her\u00adself at his feet, entreat\u00aded<\/span> him to spare<\/span> her, con\u00adfess\u00ading at the same time that she loved anoth\u00ader, but that he was poor, and that her father would nev\u00ader con\u00adsent to the union. My gen\u00ader\u00adous friend reas\u00adsured the sup\u00adpli\u00adant<\/span>, and on being informed of the name of her lover, instant\u00adly aban\u00addoned his pur\u00adsuit. He had already bought a farm with his mon\u00adey, on which he had designed to pass the remain\u00adder of his life; but he bestowed<\/span> the whole on his rival, togeth\u00ader with the remains of his prize-mon\u00adey to pur\u00adchase stock, and then him\u00adself solicit\u00aded<\/span> the young woman\u2019s father to con\u00adsent to her mar\u00adriage with her lover. But the old man decid\u00aded\u00adly refused, think\u00ading him\u00adself bound in hon\u00adour to my friend, who, when he found the father inex\u00adorable<\/span>, quit\u00adted his coun\u00adtry, nor returned until he heard that his for\u00admer mis\u00adtress was mar\u00adried accord\u00ading to her incli\u00adna\u00adtions<\/span>. \u201cWhat a noble fel\u00adlow!\u201d you will exclaim<\/span>. He is so; but then he is whol\u00adly une\u00add\u00adu\u00adcat\u00aded: he is as silent as a Turk, and a kind of igno\u00adrant care\u00adless\u00adness attends him, which, while it ren\u00adders his con\u00adduct the more aston\u00adish\u00ading, detracts<\/span> from the inter\u00adest and sym\u00adpa\u00adthy which oth\u00ader\u00adwise he would command.<\/p>\n

Yet do not sup\u00adpose, because I com\u00adplain a lit\u00adtle or because I can con\u00adceive a con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> for my toils<\/span> which I may nev\u00ader know, that I am waver\u00ading<\/span> in my res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtions. Those are as fixed as fate, and my voy\u00adage is only now delayed until the weath\u00ader shall per\u00admit my embarka\u00adtion<\/span>. The win\u00adter has been dread\u00adful\u00adly<\/span> severe, but the spring promis\u00ades well, and it is con\u00adsid\u00adered as a remark\u00adably ear\u00adly sea\u00adson, so that per\u00adhaps I may sail soon\u00ader than I expect\u00aded. I shall do noth\u00ading rash\u00adly<\/span>: you know me suf\u00adfi\u00adcient\u00adly to con\u00adfide in my<\/span> pru\u00addence<\/span> and con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adate\u00adness when\u00adev\u00ader the safe\u00adty of oth\u00aders is com\u00admit\u00adted to my care.<\/p>\n

I can\u00adnot describe to you my sen\u00adsa\u00adtions on the near prospect of my under\u00adtak\u00ading. It is impos\u00adsi\u00adble to com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcate to you a con\u00adcep\u00adtion of the trem\u00adbling sen\u00adsa\u00adtion, half plea\u00adsur\u00adable and half fear\u00adful, with which I am prepar\u00ading to depart. I am going to unex\u00adplored regions, to \u201cthe land of mist<\/span> and snow,\u201d but I shall kill no alba\u00adtross<\/span>; there\u00adfore do not be alarmed for my safe\u00adty or if I should come back to you as worn and woe\u00adful<\/span> as the \u201cAncient Mariner<\/span>.\u201d You will smile at my allu\u00adsion<\/span>, but I will dis\u00adclose a secret. I have often attrib\u00aduted<\/span> my attach\u00adment<\/span> to, my pas\u00adsion\u00adate enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm for, the dan\u00adger\u00adous mys\u00adter\u00adies of ocean to that pro\u00adduc\u00adtion of the most imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtive<\/span> of mod\u00adern poets. There is some\u00adthing at work in my soul which I do not under\u00adstand. I am prac\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly indus\u00adtri\u00adous<\/span>\u2014painstak\u00ading<\/span>, a work\u00adman<\/span> to exe\u00adcute with per\u00adse\u00adver\u00adance<\/span> and labour\u2014but besides this there is a love for the mar\u00advel\u00adlous, a belief in the mar\u00advel\u00adlous, inter\u00adtwined<\/span> in all my projects, which hur\u00adries me out of the com\u00admon path\u00adways of men, even to the wild sea and unvis\u00adit\u00aded regions I am about to<\/span> explore.<\/p>\n

But to return to dear\u00ader con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions. Shall I meet you again, after hav\u00ading tra\u00adversed<\/span> immense<\/span> seas, and returned by the most south\u00adern cape of Africa or Amer\u00adi\u00adca? I dare not expect such suc\u00adcess, yet I can\u00adnot bear<\/span> to look on the reverse of the pic\u00adture. Con\u00adtin\u00adue for the present<\/span> to write to me by every oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty: I may receive your let\u00adters on some occa\u00adsions when I need them most to sup\u00adport my spir\u00adits. I love you very ten\u00adder\u00adly. Remem\u00adber me with affec\u00adtion, should you nev\u00ader hear from me again.<\/p>\n

Your affec\u00adtion\u00adate broth\u00ader, Robert Walton<\/p>\n

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Arkhangel\u00adsk<\/span>, also known as <\/span>Archangel <\/span>and<\/span> Archangel\u00adsk<\/span> \u21d2 A city in Rus\u00adsia, the chief sea\u00adport of medieval and ear\u00adly mod\u00adern Rus\u00adsia until 1703, when it was replaced by the new\u00adly found\u00aded Saint Petersburg.<\/p>\n

encom\u00adpass<\/span> \u026an\u02c8k\u028cm\u00adp\u0259s<\/span> v <\/span>To enclose with\u00adin a cir\u00adcle: sur\u00adround<\/span><\/p>\n

enter\u00adprise<\/span> \u02c8\u025bn\u00adt\u0259pra\u026az<\/span> n <\/span>A project or under\u00adtak\u00ading, espe\u00adcial\u00adly one that requires bold\u00adness or effort: project, task, undertaking<\/span><\/p>\n

daunt\u00adless<\/span> \u02c8d\u0254\u02d0ntl\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Inca\u00adpable of being intim\u00adi\u00addat\u00aded or dis\u00adcour\u00adaged: fear\u00adless<\/span><\/p>\n

assail<\/span> \u0259\u02c8se\u026al<\/span> v <\/span>To trou\u00adble; to set upon with vio\u00adlent force: hit, strike, attack, assault, sail in<\/span><\/p>\n

endeav\u00adour<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u025bv\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To attempt: essay, try, assay, seek<\/span><\/p>\n

dejec\u00adtion<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8\u02a4\u025bk\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>(Psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/span>) Low\u00adness of spir\u00adits: depres\u00adsion; melancholy<\/span><\/p>\n

com\u00admit some\u00adone, some\u00adthing, or one\u00adself to some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To devote or ded\u00adi\u00adcate one\u00adself or anoth\u00ader to some\u00adone or something.<\/p>\n

deem<\/span> di\u02d0m<\/span> v <\/span>To regard as: con\u00adsid\u00ader:<\/span><\/p>\n

as well as<\/span> \u21d2 Equal\u00adly well; to the same standard.<\/p>\n

capa\u00adcious<\/span> k\u0259\u02c8pe\u026a\u0283\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Capa\u00adble of con\u00adtain\u00ading a large quan\u00adti\u00adty: big, large<\/span><\/p>\n

ardent<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Express\u00ading or char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by warmth of feel\u00ading: pas\u00adsion\u00adate<\/span><\/p>\n

in real\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> \u21d2 Actu\u00adal\u00adly; real\u00adly; in fact.<\/p>\n

illit\u00ader\u00adate<\/span> \u026a\u02c8l\u026at\u1d4ar\u0259t<\/span> adj<\/span> Not able to read or write; une\u00add\u00adu\u00adcat\u00aded in the fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtals of a giv\u00aden art or branch of learn\u00ading; lack\u00ading knowl\u00adedge of a spe\u00adcif\u00adic field.<\/p>\n

day\u00addream<\/span> \u02c8de\u026a\u02cc\u00addri\u02d0m<\/span> n <\/span>A pleas\u00adant dream\u00adlike fan\u00adta\u00adsy indulged in while awake: fan\u00adcy, fan\u00adta\u00adsy, fic\u00adtion, illu\u00adsion, phantasm<\/span><\/p>\n

despise<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8s\u00adpa\u026az<\/span> v <\/span>To look upon with scorn and con\u00adtempt: dis\u00addain<\/span><\/p>\n

dross<\/span> dr\u0252s<\/span> n <\/span>The scum formed by oxi\u00adda\u00adtion at the sur\u00adface of molten met\u00adals; Worth\u00adless, com\u00admon\u00adplace, or triv\u00adial mat\u00adter: rub\u00adbish, remains, refuse, lees, waste, debris, crust, impu\u00adri\u00adty, scum, dregs, sco\u00adria, recremen<\/span><\/p>\n

rugged<\/span> \u02c8r\u028c\u0261\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Stur\u00addy and strong in form, con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion, or con\u00adstruc\u00adtion: robust, strong<\/span><\/p>\n

bosom<\/span> \u02c8b\u028az\u0259m<\/span> n <\/span>A person\u2019s breast or chest: chest, breast<\/span><\/p>\n

lieu\u00adtenant<\/span> l\u025bf\u02c8t\u025bn\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>(Mil\u00adi\u00adtary<\/span>) A mil\u00adi\u00adtary offi\u00adcer hold\u00ading com\u00admis\u00adsioned rank imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly junior to a captain.<\/p>\n

for instance<\/span> \u21d2 As an exam\u00adple; for example.<\/p>\n

prej\u00adu\u00addice<\/span> \u02c8pr\u025b\u02a4\u028ad\u026as<\/span> n <\/span>An incli\u00adna\u00adtion against some\u00adthing that inhibits impar\u00adtial judg\u00adment: bias, par\u00adtial\u00adi\u00adty, prepossession<\/span><\/p>\n

cul\u00adti\u00adva\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cck\u028clt\u026a\u02c8ve\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Social\u00adiza\u00adtion through train\u00ading and edu\u00adca\u00adtion to devel\u00adop one\u2019s mind or man\u00adners: accul\u00adtur\u00ada\u00adtion, enculturation<\/span><\/p>\n

endow\u00adments<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u00adda\u028am\u0259nts<\/span> n <\/span>A nat\u00adur\u00adal gift, abil\u00adi\u00adty, or qual\u00adi\u00adty: tal\u00adent, abil\u00adi\u00adty, gift, capacity<\/span><\/p>\n

integri\u00adty<\/span> \u026an\u02c8t\u025b\u0261r\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>Stead\u00adfast adher\u00adence to a strict moral or eth\u00adi\u00adcal code: hon\u00adesty, prin\u00adci\u00adple, hon\u00adour, virtue, morality<\/span><\/p>\n

soli\u00adtude<\/span> \u02c8s\u0252l\u026atju\u02d0d<\/span> n <\/span>The state or qual\u00adi\u00adty of being alone or remote from oth\u00aders: iso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span><\/p>\n

fem\u00adi\u00adnine<\/span> \u02c8f\u025bm\u026an\u026an<\/span> adj<\/span> Of or relat\u00ading to women or girls: wom\u00adan\u00adly<\/span><\/p>\n

fos\u00adter\u00adage<\/span> \u02c8f\u0252st\u0259r\u026a\u02a4<\/span> n <\/span>The act of car\u00ading for or bring\u00ading up a fos\u00adter child: bring\u00ading up, rear\u00ading, upbring\u00ading, breed\u00ading, raising<\/span><\/p>\n

ground\u00adwork<\/span> \u02c8\u0261ra\u028and\u00adw\u025c\u02d0k<\/span> n <\/span>The fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal assump\u00adtions from which some\u00adthing is begun or devel\u00adoped or cal\u00adcu\u00adlat\u00aded or explained: cor\u00adner\u00adstone, fun\u00adda\u00adment, basis, foun\u00adda\u00adtion, base<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adtaste<\/span> d\u026as\u02c8te\u026ast<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading of intense dis\u00adlike: antipa\u00adthy, aversion<\/span><\/p>\n

mariner<\/span> \u02c8m\u00e6r\u026an\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson who directs or assists in the nav\u00adi\u00adga\u00adtion of a ship: sailor<\/span><\/p>\n

obe\u00addi\u00adence<\/span> \u0259\u02c8bi\u02d0di\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>The qual\u00adi\u00adty or state of will\u00ading\u00adly car\u00adry\u00ading out the wish\u00ades of oth\u00aders: sub\u00admis\u00adsion, submissiveness<\/span><\/p>\n

pecu\u00adliar\u00adly<\/span> p\u026a\u02c8kju\u02d0li\u0259li<\/span> adv<\/span> In an usu\u00adal or strange man\u00adner: espe\u00adcial\u00adly, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly, specially<\/span><\/p>\n

amass<\/span> \u0259\u02c8m\u00e6s<\/span> v <\/span>To gath\u00ader togeth\u00ader or accu\u00admu\u00adlate a large quan\u00adti\u00adty of some\u00adthing: accu\u00admu\u00adlate, aggre\u00adgate, col\u00adlect, gath\u00ader, hive, pile up<\/span><\/p>\n

des\u00adtined<\/span> \u02c8d\u025bst\u026and<\/span> adj<\/span> Seem\u00ading cer\u00adtain to hap\u00adpen at some time in the future.<\/p>\n

entreat<\/span> \u026an\u02c8tri\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>To make an earnest request: beg, pray, appeal, implore, plead with<\/span><\/p>\n

spare<\/span> spe\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To refrain from harm\u00ading, injur\u00ading, destroy\u00ading, or killing: have mer\u00adcy on, par\u00addon, have pity on, release<\/span><\/p>\n

sup\u00adpli\u00adant<\/span> \u02c8s\u028c\u00adpli\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>One pray\u00ading humbly for some\u00adthing: beg\u00adgar, prayer, suit\u00ador, supplicant<\/span><\/p>\n

bestow<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8st\u0259\u028a<\/span> v <\/span>To give for\u00admal\u00adly or offi\u00adcial\u00adly: present, grant<\/span><\/p>\n

solic\u00adit<\/span> s\u0259\u02c8l\u026as\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To seek to obtain by per\u00adsua\u00adsion or entreaty; to peti\u00adtion per\u00adsis\u00adtent\u00adly: beg<\/span><\/p>\n

inex\u00adorable<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u025bk\u00ads\u0259r\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Not able to be moved by entreaty or per\u00adsua\u00adsion: unre\u00adlent\u00ading, relent\u00adless, implaca\u00adble, hard, severe<\/span><\/p>\n

incli\u00adna\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u026an\u00adkl\u026a\u02c8ne\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion, espe\u00adcial\u00adly a lik\u00ading or pref\u00ader\u00adence: desire, long\u00ading, wish, need, aspi\u00adra\u00adtion, crav\u00ading, yearning<\/span><\/p>\n

exclaim<\/span> \u026aks\u02c8k\u00adle\u026am<\/span> v <\/span>To cry out or speak sud\u00adden\u00adly and vehe\u00adment\u00adly, as in sur\u00adprise, strong emo\u00adtion, or protest.<\/p>\n

detract<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8tr\u00e6kt<\/span> v <\/span>To take away a part of the qual\u00adi\u00adty, val\u00adue, or rep\u00adu\u00adta\u00adtion: dep\u00adre\u00adcate, depre\u00adci\u00adate, dero\u00adgate, dis\u00adcount, downgrade<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cck\u0252n\u00ads\u0259\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The com\u00adfort you feel when con\u00adsoled in times of dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment: com\u00adfort, help, sup\u00adport, relief, ease, cheer<\/span><\/p>\n

toil<\/span> t\u0254\u026al<\/span> n <\/span>Work that is dif\u00adfi\u00adcult and unpleas\u00adant and that lasts for a long time: hard work, labor<\/span><\/p>\n

waver<\/span> \u02c8we\u026av\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To exhib\u00adit irres\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion or inde\u00adci\u00adsion: vac\u00adil\u00adlate<\/span><\/p>\n

embarka\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u025bm\u00adb\u0251\u02d0\u02c8ke\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The act of pas\u00adsen\u00adgers and crew get\u00adting aboard a ship or air\u00adcraft: board\u00ading, embarkment<\/span><\/p>\n

dread\u00adful\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8dr\u025bd\u00adf\u1d4ali<\/span> adv<\/span> In an extreme\u00adly bad, unpleas\u00adant, or dis\u00adtaste\u00adful way: ter\u00adri\u00adbly, bad\u00adly, hor\u00adri\u00adbly, awfully<\/span><\/p>\n

rash\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8r\u00e6\u0283li<\/span> adj<\/span> With\u00adout care\u00adful con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of the pos\u00adsi\u00adble con\u00adse\u00adquences: impetu\u00adous\u00adly<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adfide in some\u00adone<\/span> \u21d2 To trust some\u00adone with one\u2019s secrets or per\u00adson\u00adal matters.<\/p>\n

pru\u00addence<\/span> \u02c8pru\u02d0d\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>Wis\u00addom with regard to prac\u00adti\u00adcal mat\u00adters: cau\u00adtion, care, discretion<\/span><\/p>\n

mist<\/span> m\u026ast<\/span> n <\/span>A mass of fine droplets of water in the atmos\u00adphere near or in con\u00adtact with the earth: fog{mist}<\/span><\/p>\n

alba\u00adtross<\/span> \u02c8\u00e6l\u00adb\u0259tr\u0252s<\/span> n <\/span>Large web-foot\u00aded birds of the south\u00adern hemi\u00adsphere hav\u00ading long nar\u00adrow wings; not\u00aded for pow\u00ader\u00adful glid\u00ading flight.<\/p>\n

woe\u00adful<\/span> \u02c8w\u0259\u028af\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Affect\u00aded by or full of woe: heart\u00adbreak\u00ading, griev\u00adous, mourn\u00adful, sor\u00adrow\u00adful, doleful<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner\u201d<\/span> \u21d2 A rime by Samuel Tay\u00adlor Coleridge about a wan\u00adder\u00ading sailor, who was cursed by the crew because his slay\u00ading of the alba\u00adtross is caus\u00ading their deaths, when he and his crew near\u00adly die of thirst.<\/p>\n

mariner<\/span> \u02c8m\u00e6r\u026an\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson who directs or assists in the nav\u00adi\u00adga\u00adtion of a ship: sailor<\/span><\/p>\n

allu\u00adsion<\/span> \u0259\u02c8lu\u02d0\u0292\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Pass\u00ading ref\u00ader\u00adence or indi\u00adrect men\u00adtion: ref\u00ader\u00adence, men\u00adtion, sug\u00adges\u00adtion, hint, implication<\/span><\/p>\n

attribute<\/span> \u0259\u02c8tr\u026ab\u00adju\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>To regard as result\u00ading from a spec\u00adi\u00adfied cause: ascribe, cred\u00adit, refer, trace, assign<\/span><\/p>\n

attach\u00adment<\/span> \u0259\u02c8t\u00e6\u02a7m\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading that binds one to a per\u00adson, thing, cause, ide\u00adal, or the like: affec\u00adtion, love, devotion<\/span><\/p>\n

imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtive<\/span> \u026a\u02c8m\u00e6\u02a4\u026an\u0259t\u026av<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading a live\u00adly imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion, espe\u00adcial\u00adly a cre\u00adative imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion: cre\u00adative, inspired, fan\u00adtas\u00adtic, clever, vivid<\/span><\/p>\n

indus\u00adtri\u00adous<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u028cstri\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Ener\u00adgetic in appli\u00adca\u00adtion to work or study: hard-work\u00ading, dili\u00adgent, assiduous<\/span><\/p>\n

painstak\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8pe\u026anz\u02ccte\u026ak\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by extreme care and great effort: con\u00adsci\u00aden\u00adtious, scrupulous<\/span><\/p>\n

work\u00adman<\/span> \u02c8w\u025c\u02d0k\u00adm\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>A man who per\u00adforms man\u00adu\u00adal or indus\u00adtri\u00adal labor for wages: labor\u00ader, worker<\/span><\/p>\n

per\u00adse\u00adver\u00adance<\/span> \u02ccp\u025c\u02d0s\u026a\u02c8v\u026a\u0259r\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>Steady per\u00adsis\u00adtence in adher\u00ading to a course of action, a belief, or a pur\u00adpose: per\u00adsis\u00adtence, res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion, deter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion, ded\u00adi\u00adca\u00adtion, sta\u00admi\u00adna, endurance, constancy<\/span><\/p>\n

inter\u00adtwine<\/span> \u02cc\u026an\u00adt\u0259\u02c8t\u00adwa\u026and<\/span> v <\/span>To join or become joined by twin\u00ading togeth\u00ader: inter\u00adweave, entwine, interlace,<\/span><\/p>\n

to be about to do some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To be going to do some\u00adthing very soon.<\/p>\n

tra\u00adverse<\/span> \u02c8tr\u00e6v\u0259(<\/span>\u02d0<\/span><\/span>)s<\/span> v <\/span>To move over, along, through, or across: cross<\/span><\/p>\n

immense<\/span> \u026a\u02c8m\u025bns<\/span> adj<\/span> Extreme\u00adly large in size or degree: huge<\/span><\/p>\n

bear<\/span> <\/span>be\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To endure some\u00adthing with tol\u00ader\u00adance or patience: hold up, stand up<\/span><\/p>\n

for the present<\/span> \u21d2 At the present moment; for the time being; for now; temporarily.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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To Mrs. Sav\u00adille, <\/span>Eng\u00adland.<\/span><\/p>\n

July 7th, 17\u2014.<\/p>\n

My dear Sister,<\/p>\n

I write a few lines in haste<\/span> to say that I am safe\u2014and well advanced on my voy\u00adage. This let\u00adter will reach Eng\u00adland by a mer\u00adchant\u00adman now on its home\u00adward<\/span> voy\u00adage from Archangel<\/span>; more for\u00adtu\u00adnate than I, who may not see my native land, per\u00adhaps, for many years. I am, how\u00adev\u00ader, in good spir\u00adits: my men are bold and appar\u00adent\u00adly firm of pur\u00adpose, nor do the float\u00ading sheets of ice that con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly pass us, indi\u00adcat\u00ading the dan\u00adgers of the region towards which we are advanc\u00ading, appear to dis\u00admay<\/span> them. We have already reached a very high lat\u00adi\u00adtude<\/span>; but it is the height of sum\u00admer, and although not so warm as in Eng\u00adland, the south\u00adern gales<\/span>, which blow us speed\u00adi\u00adly towards those shores which I so ardent\u00adly<\/span> desire to attain, breathe a degree of ren\u00ado\u00advat\u00ading<\/span> warmth which I had not expected.<\/p>\n

No inci\u00addents have hith\u00ader\u00adto<\/span> befall\u00aden<\/span> us that would make a fig\u00adure in a let\u00adter. One or two stiff gales<\/span> and the spring\u00ading of a leak<\/span> are acci\u00addents which expe\u00adri\u00adenced nav\u00adi\u00adga\u00adtors scarce\u00adly<\/span> remem\u00adber to record, and I shall be well con\u00adtent if noth\u00ading worse hap\u00adpen to us dur\u00ading our voyage.<\/p>\n

Adieu<\/span>, my dear Mar\u00adgaret. Be assured that for my own sake<\/span>, as well as<\/span> yours, I will not rash\u00adly<\/span> encounter dan\u00adger. I will be cool, per\u00adse\u00adver\u00ading<\/span>, and pru\u00addent<\/span>.<\/p>\n

But suc\u00adcess shall<\/span> crown my endeav\u00adours<\/span>. Where\u00adfore<\/span> not? Thus far<\/span> I have gone, trac\u00ading a secure way over the path\u00adless seas, the very stars them\u00adselves being wit\u00adness\u00ades and tes\u00adti\u00admonies of my tri\u00adumph. Why not still pro\u00adceed over the untamed<\/span> yet obe\u00addi\u00adent<\/span> ele\u00adment? What can stop the deter\u00admined heart and resolved will of man?<\/p>\n

My swelling<\/span> heart invol\u00adun\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adly pours itself out thus. But I must fin\u00adish. Heav\u00aden bless my beloved sister!<\/p>\n

R.W.<\/p>\n

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in haste<\/span> \u21d2 In a hur\u00adried or hasty manner.<\/p>\n

home\u00adward<\/span> h\u0259\u028amw\u0259d<\/span> adj<\/span> Direct\u00aded or going home.<\/p>\n

Arkhangel\u00adsk<\/span>, also known as <\/span>Archangel <\/span>and<\/span> Archangel\u00adsk<\/span> \u21d2 A city in Rus\u00adsia, the chief sea\u00adport of medieval and ear\u00adly mod\u00adern Rus\u00adsia until 1703, when it was replaced by the new\u00adly found\u00aded Saint Petersburg.<\/p>\n

dis\u00admay<\/span> d\u026as\u02c8me\u026a<\/span> v <\/span>To break down the courage of com\u00adplete\u00adly, as by sud\u00adden dan\u00adger or trou\u00adble: alarm, fright\u00aden, scare, pan\u00adic, dis\u00adtress, ter\u00adri\u00adfy, appal<\/span><\/p>\n

lat\u00adi\u00adtude<\/span> \u02c8l\u00e6t\u026atju\u02d0d<\/span> n <\/span>The angu\u00adlar dis\u00adtance, mea\u00adsured north or south from the equa\u00adtor, of a point on the earth\u2019s sur\u00adface, expressed in degrees.<\/p>\n

gale<\/span> \u0261e\u026al<\/span> n <\/span>A strong wind, specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly one of force sev\u00aden to ten on the Beau\u00adfort scale or from 45 to 90 kilo\u00adme\u00adtres per hour.<\/p>\n

ardent\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u0259ntli<\/span> adj<\/span> In an enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adtic and pas\u00adsion\u00adate manner.<\/p>\n

ren\u00ado\u00advate<\/span> \u02c8r\u025bn\u0259ve\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>Give new life or ener\u00adgy to: recre\u00adate, rehabilitate<\/span><\/p>\n

hith\u00ader\u00adto<\/span> \u02c8h\u026a\u00f0\u0259\u02c8\u00adtu\u02d0<\/span> adv<\/span> Until now; before this time<\/p>\n

befall<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8f\u0254\u02d0l<\/span> pp<\/span> befell,<\/span> pt<\/span> befall\u00aden<\/span> n <\/span>Occur or be the case in the course of events or by chance: hap\u00adpen<\/span><\/p>\n

leak<\/span> li\u02d0k<\/span> n <\/span>The dis\u00adcharge of a flu\u00adid from some con\u00adtain\u00ader: leak\u00adage, out\u00adflow, escape<\/span><\/p>\n

scarce\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8ske\u0259s\u00adli<\/span> adv<\/span> Not quite, almost not: bare\u00adly, hardly<\/span><\/p>\n

adieu<\/span> \u0259\u02c8d\u00adju\u02d0<\/span> int<\/span> Said to wish a final farewell: good\u00adbye, farewell,au revoir<\/span><\/p>\n

for one\u2019s own sake<\/span> \u21d2 For one\u2019s good or ben\u00ade\u00adfit; in hon\u00ador of someone.<\/p>\n

as well as<\/span> \u21d2 Equal\u00adly well; to the same standard.<\/p>\n

rash\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8r\u00e6\u0283li<\/span> adj<\/span> With\u00adout care\u00adful con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of the pos\u00adsi\u00adble con\u00adse\u00adquences: impetu\u00adous\u00adly<\/span><\/p>\n

per\u00adse\u00adver\u00ading<\/span> \u02ccp\u025c\u02d0s\u026a\u02c8v\u026a\u0259r\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Qui\u00adet\u00adly and steadi\u00adly per\u00adsist\u00ading in or remain con\u00adstant to a pur\u00adpose, idea, or task in the face of obsta\u00adcles or dis\u00adcour\u00adage\u00adment: dili\u00adgent<\/span><\/p>\n

pru\u00addent<\/span> \u02c8pru\u02d0d\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Care\u00adful or wise in han\u00addling prac\u00adti\u00adcal mat\u00adters; exer\u00adcis\u00ading good judg\u00adment or com\u00admon sense: wise, ratio\u00adnal, rea\u00adson\u00adable, saga\u00adcious, sage, sane, well-founded<\/span><\/p>\n

endeav\u00adour<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u025bv\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>An effort to do or attain some\u00adthing: attempt, try, effort, tri\u00adal, aim, under\u00adtak\u00ading, essay<\/span><\/p>\n

where\u00adfore<\/span> \u02c8we\u0259f\u0254\u02d0<\/span> adv<\/span> (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) For what? Why?<\/p>\n

thus far<\/span> \u21d2 Up to the cur\u00adrent point or moment in time.<\/p>\n

untamed<\/span> \u02cc\u028cn\u02c8te\u026amd<\/span> adj<\/span> Not cul\u00adti\u00advat\u00aded, domes\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded, or con\u00adtrolled: wild, fierce, sav\u00adage, uncon\u00adtrol\u00adlable, undomesticated,<\/span><\/p>\n

obe\u00addi\u00adent<\/span> \u0259\u02c8bi\u02d0di\u0259nt<\/span> adj<\/span> Com\u00adply\u00ading with or sub\u00admis\u00adsive to author\u00adi\u00adty: sub\u00admis\u00adsive, yield\u00ading, com\u00adpli\u00adant, docile, meek<\/span><\/p>\n

swell<\/span> sw\u025bl<\/span> v <\/span>To increase in amount, degree, force, etc: increase, rise, grow, expand<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To Mrs. Sav\u00adille, <\/span>Eng\u00adland.<\/span><\/p>\n

August 5th, 17\u2014.<\/p>\n

So strange an acci\u00addent has hap\u00adpened to us that I can\u00adnot for\u00adbear<\/span> record\u00ading it, although it is very prob\u00ada\u00adble that you will see me before these papers can come into your possession.<\/p>\n

Last Mon\u00adday (July 31st) we were near\u00adly sur\u00adround\u00aded by ice, which closed in the ship on<\/span> all sides, scarce\u00adly<\/span> leav\u00ading her the sea-room in which she float\u00aded. Our sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion was some\u00adwhat dan\u00adger\u00adous, espe\u00adcial\u00adly as we were com\u00adpassed<\/span> round by a very thick fog. We accord\u00ading\u00adly lay to<\/span>, hop\u00ading that some change would take place in the atmos\u00adphere and weather.<\/p>\n

About two o\u2019clock the mist<\/span> cleared away, and we beheld<\/span>, stretched out in every direc\u00adtion, vast and irreg\u00adu\u00adlar plains of ice, whichseemed to<\/span> have no end. Some of my com\u00adrades<\/span> groaned<\/span>, and my own mind began to grow watch\u00adful<\/span> with anx\u00adious thoughts, when a strange sight sud\u00adden\u00adly attract\u00aded our atten\u00adtion and divert\u00aded<\/span> our solic\u00adi\u00adtude<\/span> from our own sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion. We per\u00adceived a low car\u00adriage<\/span>, fixed on a sledge<\/span> and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the dis\u00adtance of half a mile; a being which had the shape of a man, but appar\u00adent\u00adly of gigan\u00adtic<\/span> stature<\/span>, sat in the sledge<\/span> and guid\u00aded the dogs. We watched the rapid progress of the trav\u00adeller with our tele\u00adscopes until he was lost among the dis\u00adtant inequal\u00adi\u00adties of the ice.<\/p>\n

This appear\u00adance excit\u00aded our unqual\u00adi\u00adfied won\u00adder. We were, as we believed, many hun\u00addred miles from any land; but this appari\u00adtion<\/span> seemed to<\/span> denote<\/span> that it was not, in real\u00adi\u00adty<\/span>, so dis\u00adtant as we had sup\u00adposed. Shut in, how\u00adev\u00ader, by ice, it was impos\u00adsi\u00adble to fol\u00adlow his track, which we had observed with the great\u00adest attention.<\/p>\n

About two hours after this occur\u00adrence we heard the ground sea<\/span>, and before night the ice broke and freed our ship. We, how\u00adev\u00ader, lay to<\/span> until the morn\u00ading, fear\u00ading to encounter in the dark those large loose mass\u00ades which float about after the break\u00ading up of the ice. I prof\u00adit\u00aded of this time to rest for a few hours.<\/p>\n

In the morn\u00ading, how\u00adev\u00ader, as soon as<\/span> it was light, I went upon deck and found all the sailors busy on one side of the ves\u00adsel, appar\u00adent\u00adly talk\u00ading to some\u00adone in the sea. It was, in fact, a sledge<\/span>, like that we had seen before, which had drift\u00aded towards us in the night on a large frag\u00adment of ice. Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being with\u00adin it whom the sailors were per\u00adsuad\u00ading to enter the ves\u00adsel. He was not, as the oth\u00ader trav\u00adeller seemed to<\/span> be, a sav\u00adage inhab\u00adi\u00adtant<\/span> of some undis\u00adcov\u00adered island, but a Euro\u00adpean. When I appeared on deck the mas\u00adter said, \u201cHere is our cap\u00adtain, and he will not allow you to per\u00adish<\/span> on the open sea.\u201d<\/p>\n

On per\u00adceiv\u00ading me, the stranger addressed me in Eng\u00adlish, although with a for\u00adeign accent. \u201cBefore I come on board your ves\u00adsel,\u201d said he, \u201cwill you have the kind\u00adness to inform me whith\u00ader<\/span> you are bound<\/span>?\u201d<\/p>\n

You may con\u00adceive my aston\u00adish\u00adment on hear\u00ading such a ques\u00adtion addressed to me from a man on the brink of<\/span> destruc\u00adtion and to whom I should have sup\u00adposed that my ves\u00adsel would have been a resource which he would not have exchanged for the most pre\u00adcious wealth the earth can afford. I replied, how\u00adev\u00ader, that we were on a voy\u00adage of dis\u00adcov\u00adery towards the north\u00adern pole.<\/p>\n

Upon hear\u00ading this he appeared sat\u00adis\u00adfied and con\u00adsent\u00aded to come on board. Good God! Mar\u00adgaret, if you had seen the man who thus capit\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded<\/span> for his safe\u00adty, your sur\u00adprise would have been bound\u00adless<\/span>. His limbs were near\u00adly frozen, and his body dread\u00adful\u00adly<\/span> ema\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded<\/span> by fatigue and suf\u00adfer\u00ading. I nev\u00ader saw a man in so wretched<\/span> a con\u00addi\u00adtion. We attempt\u00aded to car\u00adry him into the cab\u00adin, but as soon as<\/span> he had quit\u00adted the fresh air he faint\u00aded. We accord\u00ading\u00adly brought him back to the deck and restored him to ani\u00adma\u00adtion by rub\u00adbing him with brandy<\/span> and forc\u00ading him to swal\u00adlow a small quan\u00adti\u00adty. As <\/span>soon as<\/span> he showed signs of life we wrapped him up in blan\u00adkets and placed him near the chim\u00adney<\/span> of the kitchen stove. By slow degrees he recov\u00adered and ate a lit\u00adtle soup, which restored him wonderfully.<\/p>\n

Two days passed in this man\u00adner before he was able to speak, and I often feared that his suf\u00adfer\u00adings had deprived<\/span> him of under\u00adstand\u00ading. When he had in some mea\u00adsure recov\u00adered, I removed him to my own cab\u00adin and attend\u00aded on him as much as my duty would per\u00admit. I nev\u00ader saw a more inter\u00adest\u00ading crea\u00adture: his eyes have gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly an expres\u00adsion of wild\u00adness, and even mad\u00adness, but there are moments when, if any\u00adone per\u00adforms an act of kind\u00adness towards him or does him any the most tri\u00adfling<\/span> ser\u00advice, his whole coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> is light\u00aded up, as it were, with a beam of benev\u00ado\u00adlence<\/span> and sweet\u00adness that I nev\u00ader saw equalled. But he is gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly melan\u00adcholy<\/span> and despair\u00ading, and some\u00adtimes he gnash\u00ades<\/span> his teeth, as if impa\u00adtient of the weight of woes<\/span> that oppress\u00ades<\/span> him.<\/p>\n

When my guest was a lit\u00adtle recov\u00adered I had great trou\u00adble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thou\u00adsand ques\u00adtions; but I would not allow him to be tor\u00adment\u00aded<\/span> by their idle curios\u00adi\u00adty, in a state of body and mind whose restora\u00adtion evi\u00addent\u00adly depend\u00aded upon entire repose<\/span>. Once, how\u00adev\u00ader, the lieu\u00adtenant<\/span> asked why he had come so far upon the ice in so strange a vehicle.<\/p>\n

His coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> instant\u00adly assumed an aspect of the deep\u00adest gloom<\/span>, and he replied, \u201cTo seek one who fled from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd did the man whom you pur\u00adsued trav\u00adel in the same fashion?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I fan\u00adcy<\/span> we have seen him, for the day before we picked you up we saw some dogs draw\u00ading a sledge<\/span>, with a man in it, across the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n

This aroused<\/span> the stranger\u2019s atten\u00adtion, and he asked a mul\u00adti\u00adtude of ques\u00adtions con\u00adcern\u00ading the route which the d\u00e6mon<\/span>, as he called him, had pur\u00adsued. Soon after, when he was alone with me, he said, \u201cI have, doubt\u00adless, excit\u00aded your curios\u00adi\u00adty, as well as<\/span> that of these good peo\u00adple; but you are too con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adate to make inquiries.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCer\u00adtain\u00adly; it would indeed be very imper\u00adti\u00adnent<\/span> and inhu\u00adman in me to trou\u00adble you with any inquis\u00adi\u00adtive\u00adness<\/span> of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd yet you res\u00adcued me from a strange and per\u00adilous<\/span> sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion; you have benev\u00ado\u00adlent\u00adly<\/span> restored me to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon after this he inquired if I thought that the break\u00ading up of the ice had destroyed the oth\u00ader sledge<\/span>. I replied that I could not answer with any degree of cer\u00adtain\u00adty, for<\/span> the ice had not bro\u00adken until near mid\u00adnight, and the trav\u00adeller might have arrived at a place of safe\u00adty before that time; but of this I could not judge.<\/p>\n

From this time a new spir\u00adit of life ani\u00admat\u00aded the decay\u00ading<\/span> frame<\/span> of the stranger. He man\u00adi\u00adfest\u00aded<\/span> the great\u00adest eager\u00adness to be upon deck to watch for the sledge<\/span> which had before appeared; but I have per\u00adsuad\u00aded him to remain in the cab\u00adin, for<\/span> he is far too weak to sus\u00adtain the raw\u00adness<\/span> of the atmos\u00adphere. I have promised that some\u00adone should watch for him and give him instant notice if any new object should appear in sight.<\/p>\n

Such is my jour\u00adnal of what relates to this strange occur\u00adrence up to the present day. The stranger has grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly improved in health but is very silent and appears uneasy when any\u00adone except myself enters his cab\u00adin. Yet his man\u00adners are so con\u00adcil\u00adi\u00adat\u00ading<\/span> and gen\u00adtle that the sailors are all inter\u00adest\u00aded in him, although they have had very lit\u00adtle com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion with him. For my own part, I begin to love him as a broth\u00ader, and his con\u00adstant and deep grief fills me with sym\u00adpa\u00adthy and com\u00adpas\u00adsion<\/span>. He must have been a noble crea\u00adture in his bet\u00adter days, being even now in wreck<\/span> so attrac\u00adtive and ami\u00adable<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I said in one of my let\u00adters, my dear Mar\u00adgaret, that I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spir\u00adit had been bro\u00adken by mis\u00adery, I should have been hap\u00adpy to have pos\u00adsessed as the broth\u00ader of my heart.<\/p>\n

I shall con\u00adtin\u00adue my jour\u00adnal con\u00adcern\u00ading the stranger at inter\u00advals, should I have any fresh inci\u00addents to record.<\/p>\n

August 13th, 17\u2014.<\/p>\n

My affec\u00adtion for my guest increas\u00ades every day. He excites at once<\/span> my admi\u00adra\u00adtion and my pity to an aston\u00adish\u00ading degree. How can I see so noble a crea\u00adture destroyed by mis\u00adery with\u00adout feel\u00ading the most poignant<\/span> grief? He is so gen\u00adtle, yet so wise; his mind is so cul\u00adti\u00advat\u00aded, and when he speaks, although his words are culled<\/span> with the choic\u00adest art, yet they flow with rapid\u00adi\u00adty and unpar\u00adal\u00adleled<\/span> elo\u00adquence<\/span>.<\/p>\n

He is now much recov\u00adered from his ill\u00adness and is con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly on the deck, appar\u00adent\u00adly watch\u00ading for the sledge<\/span> that pre\u00adced\u00aded his own. Yet, although unhap\u00adpy, he is not so utter\u00adly<\/span> occu\u00adpied by his own mis\u00adery but that he inter\u00adests him\u00adself deeply in the projects of oth\u00aders. He has fre\u00adquent\u00adly con\u00adversed<\/span> with me on mine, which I have com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00aded to him with\u00adout dis\u00adguise<\/span>. He entered atten\u00adtive\u00adly into all my argu\u00adments in favour of<\/span> my even\u00adtu\u00adal suc\u00adcess and into every minute<\/span> detail of the mea\u00adsures I had tak\u00aden to secure it. I was eas\u00adi\u00adly led by the sym\u00adpa\u00adthy which he evinced<\/span> to use the lan\u00adguage of my heart, to give utter\u00adance<\/span> to the burn\u00ading ardour<\/span> of my soul and to say, with all the fer\u00advour<\/span> that warmed me, how glad\u00adly I would sac\u00adri\u00adfice my for\u00adtune, my exis\u00adtence, my every hope, to the fur\u00adther\u00adance<\/span> of my enter\u00adprise<\/span>. One man\u2019s life or death were but<\/span> a small price to pay for the acquire\u00adment<\/span> of the knowl\u00adedge which I sought, for the domin\u00adion<\/span> I should acquire and trans\u00admit over the ele\u00admen\u00adtal<\/span> foes<\/span> of our race. As I spoke, a dark gloom<\/span> spread over my listener\u2019s coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span>. At first<\/span> I per\u00adceived that he tried to sup\u00adpress his emo\u00adtion; he placed his hands before his eyes, and my voice quiv\u00adered<\/span> and failed me as I beheld<\/span> tears trick\u00adle<\/span> fast from between his fin\u00adgers; a groan<\/span> burst from his heav\u00ading<\/span> breast. I paused; at length<\/span> he spoke, in bro\u00adken accents: \u201cUnhap\u00adpy man! Do you share my mad\u00adness? Have you drunk also of the intox\u00adi\u00adcat\u00ading<\/span> draught<\/span>? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash<\/span> the cup from your lips!\u201d<\/p>\n

Such words, you may imag\u00adine, strong\u00adly excit\u00aded my curios\u00adi\u00adty; but the parox\u00adysm<\/span> of grief that had seized the stranger over\u00adcame his weak\u00adened pow\u00aders, and many hours of repose<\/span> and tran\u00adquil<\/span> con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion were nec\u00ades\u00adsary to restore his com\u00adpo\u00adsure<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Hav\u00ading con\u00adquered<\/span> the vio\u00adlence of his feel\u00adings, he appeared to despise<\/span> him\u00adself for being the slave of pas\u00adsion; and quelling<\/span> the dark tyran\u00adny<\/span> of despair, he led me again to con\u00adverse<\/span> con\u00adcern\u00ading myself per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly. He asked me the his\u00adto\u00adry of my ear\u00adli\u00ader years. The tale was quick\u00adly told, but it awak\u00adened var\u00adi\u00adous trains<\/span> of reflec\u00adtion. I spoke of my desire of find\u00ading a friend, of my thirst for a more inti\u00admate sym\u00adpa\u00adthy with a fel\u00adlow mind than had ever fall\u00aden to my lot<\/span>, and expressed my con\u00advic\u00adtion that a man could boast of lit\u00adtle hap\u00adpi\u00adness who did not enjoy this blessing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI agree with you,\u201d replied the stranger; \u201cwe are unfash\u00adioned<\/span> crea\u00adtures, but<\/span> half made up, if one wis\u00ader, bet\u00adter, dear\u00ader than ourselves\u2014such a friend ought to be\u2014do not lend his aid to per\u00adfec\u00adtion\u00adate<\/span> our weak and faulty<\/span> natures. I once had a friend, the most noble of human crea\u00adtures, and am enti\u00adtled<\/span>, there\u00adfore, to judge respect\u00ading friend\u00adship. You have hope, and the world before you, and have no cause for despair. But I\u2014I have lost every\u00adthing and can\u00adnot begin life anew<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he said this his coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> became expres\u00adsive<\/span> of a calm, set\u00adtled grief that touched me to the heart. But he was silent and present\u00adly retired to his cabin.<\/p>\n

Even bro\u00adken in spir\u00adit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beau\u00adties of nature. The star\u00adry sky, the sea, and every sight afford\u00aded by these won\u00adder\u00adful regions seem still to have the pow\u00ader of ele\u00advat\u00ading<\/span> his soul from earth. Such a man has a dou\u00adble exis\u00adtence: he may suf\u00adfer mis\u00adery and be over\u00adwhelmed by dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adments, yet when he has retired into him\u00adself, he will be like a celes\u00adtial<\/span> spir\u00adit that has a halo<\/span> around him, with\u00adin whose cir\u00adcle no grief or fol\u00adly<\/span> ventures.<\/p>\n

Will you smile at the enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm I express con\u00adcern\u00ading this divine wan\u00adder\u00ader? You would not if you saw him. You have been tutored<\/span> and refined by books and retire\u00adment from the world, and you are there\u00adfore some\u00adwhat fas\u00adtid\u00adi\u00adous<\/span>; but this only ren\u00adders you the more fit to appre\u00adci\u00adate the extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnary mer\u00adits of this won\u00adder\u00adful man. Some\u00adtimes I have endeav\u00adoured<\/span> to dis\u00adcov\u00ader what qual\u00adi\u00adty it is which he pos\u00adsess\u00ades that ele\u00advates<\/span> him so immea\u00adsur\u00adably above any oth\u00ader per\u00adson I ever knew. I believe it to be an intu\u00aditive<\/span> dis\u00adcern\u00adment<\/span>, a quick but nev\u00ader-fail\u00ading pow\u00ader of judg\u00adment, a pen\u00ade\u00adtra\u00adtion into the caus\u00ades of things, unequalled for clear\u00adness and pre\u00adci\u00adsion; add to this a facil\u00adi\u00adty of expres\u00adsion and a voice whose var\u00adied into\u00adna\u00adtions are soul-sub\u00addu\u00ading<\/span> music.<\/p>\n

August 19th, 17\u2014.<\/p>\n

Yes\u00adter\u00adday the stranger said to me, \u201cYou may eas\u00adi\u00adly per\u00adceive, Cap\u00adtain Wal\u00adton, that I have suf\u00adfered great and unpar\u00adal\u00adleled<\/span> mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes. I had deter\u00admined at one time that the mem\u00ado\u00adry of these evils should die with me, but you have won me to alter my deter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion. You seek for knowl\u00adedge and wis\u00addom, as I once did; and I ardent\u00adly<\/span> hope that the grat\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion<\/span> of your wish\u00ades may not be a ser\u00adpent<\/span> to sting<\/span> you, as mine has been. I do not know that the rela\u00adtion of my dis\u00adas\u00adters will be use\u00adful to you; yet, when I reflect that you are pur\u00adsu\u00ading the same course, expos\u00ading your\u00adself to the same dan\u00adgers which have ren\u00addered me what I am, I imag\u00adine that you may deduce<\/span> an apt<\/span> moral from my tale, one that may direct you if you suc\u00adceed in your under\u00adtak\u00ading and con\u00adsole you in case of fail\u00adure. Pre\u00adpare to hear of occur\u00adrences which are usu\u00adal\u00adly deemed<\/span> mar\u00advel\u00adlous. Were we among the tamer<\/span> scenes of nature I might fear to encounter your unbe\u00adlief, per\u00adhaps your ridicule<\/span>; but many things will appear pos\u00adsi\u00adble in these wild and mys\u00adte\u00adri\u00adous regions which would pro\u00advoke the laugh\u00adter of those unac\u00adquaint\u00aded with the ever-var\u00adied pow\u00aders of nature; nor can I doubt but that my tale con\u00adveys in its series inter\u00adnal evi\u00addence of the truth of the events of which it is composed.\u201d<\/p>\n

You may eas\u00adi\u00adly imag\u00adine that I was much grat\u00adi\u00adfied<\/span> by the offered com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion, yet I could not endure that he should renew his grief by a recital<\/span> of his mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes. I felt the great\u00adest eager\u00adness to hear the promised nar\u00adra\u00adtive, part\u00adly from curios\u00adi\u00adty and part\u00adly from a strong desire to ame\u00adlio\u00adrate<\/span> his fate if it were in my pow\u00ader. I expressed these feel\u00adings in my answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thank you,\u201d he replied, \u201cfor your sym\u00adpa\u00adthy, but<\/span> it is use\u00adless; my fate is near\u00adly ful\u00adfilled. I wait but<\/span> for one event, and then I shall repose<\/span> in peace. I under\u00adstand your feel\u00ading,\u201d con\u00adtin\u00adued he, per\u00adceiv\u00ading that I wished to inter\u00adrupt him; \u201cbut you are mis\u00adtak\u00aden, my friend, if thus you will allow me to name you; noth\u00ading can alter my des\u00adtiny; lis\u00adten to my his\u00adto\u00adry, and you will per\u00adceive how irrev\u00ado\u00adca\u00adbly<\/span> it is determined.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then told me that he would com\u00admence his nar\u00adra\u00adtive the next day when I should be at leisure<\/span>. This promise drew from me the warmest thanks. I have resolved every night, when I am not imper\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly<\/span> occu\u00adpied by my duties, to record, as near\u00adly as pos\u00adsi\u00adble in his own words, what he has relat\u00aded<\/span> dur\u00ading the day. If I should be engaged, I will at least<\/span> make notes. This man\u00adu\u00adscript<\/span> will doubt\u00adless afford you the great\u00adest plea\u00adsure; but to me, who know him, and who hear it from his own lips\u2014with what inter\u00adest and sym\u00adpa\u00adthy shall I read it in some future day! Even now, as I com\u00admence my task, his full-toned voice swells<\/span> in my ears; his lus\u00adtrous<\/span> eyes dwell on me<\/span> with all their melan\u00adcholy<\/span> sweet\u00adness; I see his thin hand raised in ani\u00adma\u00adtion, while the lin\u00adea\u00adments<\/span> of his face are irra\u00addi\u00adat\u00aded<\/span> by the soul with\u00adin. Strange and har\u00adrow\u00ading<\/span> must be his sto\u00adry, fright\u00adful the storm which embraced the gal\u00adlant<\/span> ves\u00adsel on its course and wrecked<\/span> it\u2014thus!<\/p>\n

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for\u00adbear<\/span> f\u0254\u02d0\u02c8be\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To keep one\u00adself from doing some\u00adthing: refrain, hold back<\/span><\/p>\n

close in on some\u00adone or some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To phys\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly sur\u00adround, encir\u00adcle, or approach some\u00adone or something.<\/p>\n

scarce\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8ske\u0259s\u00adli<\/span> adv<\/span> Not quite, almost not: bare\u00adly, hardly<\/span><\/p>\n

com\u00adpass<\/span> \u02c8k\u028cm\u00adp\u0259s<\/span> v <\/span>To sur\u00adround; encir\u00adcle: encom\u00adpass<\/span><\/p>\n

lay to<\/span> \u21d2 (Nau\u00adti\u00adcal<\/span>) To bring (a ship<\/span>) to a stop in open water.<\/p>\n

mist<\/span> m\u026ast<\/span> n <\/span>A mass of fine droplets of water in the atmos\u00adphere near or in con\u00adtact with the earth: fog{mist}<\/span><\/p>\n

behold<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u0259\u028ald<\/span> pp<\/span>, pt<\/span> beheld<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u025bld<\/span> v <\/span>To appre\u00adhend some\u00adthing by use of the eyes: see, per\u00adceive<\/span><\/p>\n

to seem to<\/span> \u21d2 To appear to one\u2019s own mind, sens\u00ades, etc.<\/p>\n

com\u00adrade<\/span> \u02c8k\u0252m\u00adre\u026ad<\/span> n <\/span>A friend who is fre\u00adquent\u00adly in the com\u00adpa\u00adny of anoth\u00ader: com\u00adpan\u00adion, fel\u00adlow, mate<\/span><\/p>\n

groan<\/span> gr\u0259\u028an<\/span> v <\/span>To pro\u00adduce a deep, inar\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlate sound, as of pain: moan, mur\u00admur, whine, howl, sob, cry<\/span><\/p>\n

watch\u00adful<\/span> \u02c8w\u0252\u02a7f\u028al<\/span> adj<\/span> Engaged in or accus\u00adtomed to close obser\u00adva\u00adtion: vig\u00adi\u00adlant, open-eyed, wake\u00adful, alert, awake<\/span><\/p>\n

diverte<\/span> da\u026a\u02c8v\u025c\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>To turn aside from a course or direc\u00adtion: draw away, turn aside<\/span><\/p>\n

solic\u00adi\u00adtude<\/span> s\u0259\u02c8l\u026as\u026atju\u02d0d<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading of exces\u00adsive care or con\u00adcern: solic\u00adi\u00adtous\u00adness, con\u00adcern, anx\u00adi\u00adety, con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion, regard<\/span><\/p>\n

car\u00adriage<\/span> \u02c8k\u00e6r\u026a\u02a4<\/span> n <\/span>A com\u00adfort\u00adable wheeled vehi\u00adcle for con\u00advey\u00ading per\u00adsons, usu\u00adal\u00adly drawn by hors\u00ades: freight<\/span><\/p>\n

sledge<\/span> sl\u025b\u02a4<\/span> n <\/span>A vehi\u00adcle mount\u00aded on run\u00adners and pulled by hors\u00ades or dogs; for trans\u00adporta\u00adtion over snow: sleigh<\/span><\/p>\n

gigan\u00adtic<\/span> \u02a4a\u026a\u02c8\u0261\u00e6n\u00adt\u026ak<\/span> adj<\/span> Exceed\u00ading\u00adly large in size, extent, or amount, espe\u00adcial\u00adly for its kind: colos\u00adsal, enor\u00admous, giant, huge<\/span><\/p>\n

stature<\/span> \u02c8st\u00e6\u02a7\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>The height of some\u00adthing, espe\u00adcial\u00adly a per\u00adson or ani\u00admal when stand\u00ading: height, build, size, tallness<\/span><\/p>\n

appari\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6p\u0259\u02c8r\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A ghost\u00adly appear\u00ading fig\u00adure: ghost, phan\u00adtom, spirit<\/span><\/p>\n

seemed to<\/span> \u21d2 To appear to one\u2019s own mind, sens\u00ades, etc.<\/p>\n

denote<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8n\u0259\u028at<\/span> v <\/span>Be a sign or indi\u00adca\u00adtion of: indi\u00adcate, show, mean, imply, signify<\/span><\/p>\n

in real\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> \u21d2 Actu\u00adal\u00adly; real\u00adly; in fact.<\/p>\n

ground sea<\/span> \u21d2 A swell of the ocean, which occurs in calm weath\u00ader and with\u00adout obvi\u00adous cause, break\u00ading on the shore in heavy roar\u00ading billows.<\/p>\n

as soon as<\/span> \u21d2 Imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly, right after.<\/p>\n

inhab\u00adi\u00adtant<\/span> \u026an\u02c8h\u00e6b\u026at\u1d4ant<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson or ani\u00admal that lives in or occu\u00adpies a place: res\u00adi\u00addent, dweller<\/span><\/p>\n

per\u00adish<\/span> \u02c8p\u025br\u026a\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To cease liv\u00ading: die, pass away, expire<\/span><\/p>\n

whith\u00ader<\/span> \u02c8w\u026a\u00f0\u0259<\/span> conj<\/span> To which spec\u00adi\u00adfied place or position.<\/p>\n

to be bound to<\/span> \u21d2 Be cer\u00adtain or des\u00adtined to.<\/p>\n

on the brink of some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 On the verge of doing some\u00adthing or of hav\u00ading some immi\u00adnent event hap\u00adpen, espe\u00adcial\u00adly that which is bad or disastrous.<\/p>\n

capit\u00adu\u00adlate<\/span> k\u0259\u02c8p\u026a\u02a7\u0259le\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To sur\u00adren\u00adder under spec\u00adi\u00adfied con\u00addi\u00adtions: sur\u00adren\u00adder, sub\u00admit, suc\u00adcumb, yield<\/span><\/p>\n

bound\u00adless<\/span> \u02c8ba\u028andl\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Being with\u00adout bound\u00adaries or lim\u00adits: unlim\u00adit\u00aded, end\u00adless, illim\u00aditable, infinite<\/span><\/p>\n

dread\u00adful\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8dr\u025bd\u00adf\u1d4ali<\/span> adv<\/span> In an extreme\u00adly bad, unpleas\u00adant, or dis\u00adtaste\u00adful way: ter\u00adri\u00adbly, bad\u00adly, hor\u00adri\u00adbly, awfully<\/span><\/p>\n

ema\u00adci\u00adate<\/span> \u026a\u02c8me\u026asie\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To make or become extreme\u00adly thin, espe\u00adcial\u00adly as a result of star\u00adva\u00adtion: mac\u00ader\u00adate, waste<\/span><\/p>\n

wretched<\/span> \u02c8r\u025b\u02a7\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> In a deplorable state of dis\u00adtress or mis\u00adfor\u00adtune: mis\u00ader\u00adable<\/span><\/p>\n

brandy<\/span> \u02c8br\u00e6n\u00addi<\/span> n <\/span>A spir\u00adit dis\u00adtilled from wine or from fer\u00adment\u00aded fruit juice.<\/p>\n

chim\u00adney<\/span> \u02c8\u02a7\u026am\u00adni<\/span> n <\/span>A ver\u00adti\u00adcal struc\u00adture of brick, mason\u00adry, or steel that car\u00adries smoke or steam away from a fire.<\/p>\n

deprive<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8pra\u026av<\/span> v <\/span>Pre\u00advent a per\u00adson from hav\u00ading or using some\u00adthing: rob of<\/span><\/p>\n

tri\u00adfling<\/span> \u02c8tra\u026afl\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Of slight worth or impor\u00adtance: neg\u00adli\u00adgi\u00adble, paltry<\/span><\/p>\n

coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> \u02c8ka\u028an\u00adt\u1d4an\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>The appear\u00adance con\u00adveyed by a person\u2019s face: vis\u00adage<\/span><\/p>\n

benev\u00ado\u00adlence<\/span> b\u0259\u02c8n\u025bv\u1d4al\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>An incli\u00adna\u00adtion to per\u00adform kind, char\u00adi\u00adta\u00adble acts: kind\u00adness, under\u00adstand\u00ading, char\u00adi\u00adty, goodness<\/span><\/p>\n

melan\u00adcholy<\/span> \u02c8m\u025bl\u0259nk\u0259li<\/span> n <\/span>Sad\u00adness or depres\u00adsion of the spir\u00adits: depres\u00adsion, mis\u00adery, gloom, sorrow<\/span><\/p>\n

gnash<\/span> n\u00e6\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To grind or strike (the teeth, for exam\u00adple<\/span>) togeth\u00ader: crunch, grind<\/span><\/p>\n

woe<\/span> w\u0259\u028a<\/span> n <\/span>Intense mourn\u00adful\u00adness: sor\u00adrow, grief, dis\u00adtress, trouble<\/span><\/p>\n

oppress<\/span> \u0259\u02c8pr\u025bs<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to feel wor\u00adried or depressed: depress, bur\u00adden, dis\u00adcour\u00adage, torment<\/span><\/p>\n

tor\u00adment<\/span> t\u0254\u02d0\u02c8m\u025bnt<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to under\u00adgo great phys\u00adi\u00adcal pain or men\u00adtal anguish: tor\u00adture<\/span><\/p>\n

repose<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8p\u0259\u028az<\/span> n <\/span>Free\u00addom from activ\u00adi\u00adty: rest<\/span><\/p>\n

lieu\u00adtenant<\/span> l\u025bf\u02c8t\u025bn\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>(Mil\u00adi\u00adtary<\/span>) A mil\u00adi\u00adtary offi\u00adcer hold\u00ading com\u00admis\u00adsioned rank imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly junior to a captain.<\/p>\n

gloom<\/span> \u0261lu\u02d0m<\/span> n <\/span>Par\u00adtial or total dark\u00adness: dusk, dim\u00adness<\/span><\/p>\n

fan\u00adcy<\/span> \u02c8f\u00e6n\u00adsi<\/span> v <\/span>To imag\u00adine or sup\u00adpose: think, believe, imag\u00adine, guess, reckon<\/span><\/p>\n

arouse<\/span> \u0259\u02c8ra\u028az<\/span> v <\/span>Call forth (emo\u00adtions, feel\u00adings, and respons\u00ades<\/span>): cause, induce, prompt, set off, trig\u00adger, stir up<\/span><\/p>\n

d\u00e6mon<\/span> vari\u00adant of<\/span><\/span> demon<\/span> \u02c8di\u02d0m\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>An evil super\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal being: dev\u00adil<\/span><\/p>\n

as well as<\/span> \u21d2 Equal\u00adly well; to the same standard.<\/p>\n

imper\u00adti\u00adnent<\/span> \u026am\u02c8p\u025c\u02d0t\u026an\u0259nt<\/span> adj<\/span> Not show\u00ading prop\u00ader respect or exceed\u00ading the lim\u00adits of pro\u00adpri\u00adety or good man\u00adners: rude, irrel\u00ade\u00advant<\/span><\/p>\n

inquis\u00adi\u00adtive\u00adness<\/span> \u026an\u02c8k\u00adw\u026az\u026at\u026avn\u0259s<\/span> n <\/span>A state of active curios\u00adi\u00adty: curi\u00adous\u00adness<\/span><\/p>\n

per\u00adilous<\/span> \u02c8p\u025br\u026al\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Very haz\u00adardous or dan\u00adger\u00adous: threat\u00aden\u00ading, vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble, risky, unsafe<\/span><\/p>\n

benev\u00ado\u00adlent\u00adly<\/span> b\u0259\u02c8n\u025bv\u1d4al\u1d4antli<\/span> adv<\/span> In a kind and friend\u00adly manner.<\/p>\n

for<\/span> f\u0254\u02d0<\/span> cj<\/span> Because; since.<\/p>\n

decay<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8ke\u026a<\/span> v <\/span>(Biol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/span>) To rot or cause to rot as a result of bac\u00adte\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal, fun\u00adgal, or chem\u00adi\u00adcal action: rot, rot\u00adten, dete\u00adri\u00ado\u00adrate; dis\u00adin\u00adte\u00adgrate, decompose<\/span><\/p>\n

frame<\/span> fre\u026am<\/span> v <\/span>(Obso\u00adlete<\/span>) The struc\u00adture or physique of a human or ani\u00admal body: shape; form<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

man\u00adi\u00adfest<\/span> \u02c8m\u00e6n\u026af\u025bst<\/span> v <\/span>To make clear or evi\u00addent to the eye or the under\u00adstand\u00ading: demon\u00adstrate, dis\u00adplay, reveal, show<\/span><\/p>\n

raw\u00adness<\/span> \u02c8r\u0254\u02d0n\u0259s<\/span> n <\/span>A a chilly damp\u00adnes: damp, damp\u00adness, moistness<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adcil\u00adi\u00adate<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8s\u026alie\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To over\u00adcome the dis\u00adtrust or hos\u00adtil\u00adi\u00adty of: paci\u00adfy, soothe, reconcile<\/span><\/p>\n

com\u00adpas\u00adsion<\/span> k\u0259m\u02c8p\u00e6\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A deep aware\u00adness of and sym\u00adpa\u00adthy for another\u2019s suf\u00adfer\u00ading: sym\u00adpa\u00adthy, under\u00adstand\u00ading, char\u00adi\u00adty, mercy<\/span><\/p>\n

wreck<\/span> r\u025bk<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson of ruined health; some\u00adone in bad shape phys\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly or men\u00adtal\u00adly: derelict, ruins<\/span><\/p>\n

ami\u00adable<\/span> \u02c8e\u026ami\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Pleas\u00adant and friend\u00adly: cor\u00addial, good-natured<\/span><\/p>\n

at once<\/span> \u21d2 With\u00adout delay; at the same time; immediately.<\/p>\n

poignant<\/span> \u02c8p\u0254\u026an\u0259nt<\/span> adj<\/span> Keen\u00adly dis\u00adtress\u00ading to the mind or feel\u00adings: painful, pierc\u00ading<\/span><\/p>\n

cull<\/span> k\u028cl<\/span> v <\/span>To pick out from oth\u00aders: select, choose, pick<\/span><\/p>\n

unpar\u00adal\u00adleled<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8p\u00e6r\u0259l\u025bld<\/span> adj<\/span> Rad\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly dis\u00adtinc\u00adtive and with\u00adout equal: incom\u00adpa\u00adra\u00adble, match\u00adless, peer\u00adless, unequaled, unique, unmatched<\/span><\/p>\n

elo\u00adquence<\/span> \u02c8\u025bl\u0259k\u00adw\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>Ease in using lan\u00adguage to best effect: flu\u00aden\u00adcy<\/span><\/p>\n

utter\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8\u028ct\u0259li<\/span> adv<\/span> Com\u00adplete\u00adly and with\u00adout qual\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion: com\u00adplete\u00adly, absolute\u00adly, entire\u00adly, totally<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adverse<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8v\u025c\u02d0s<\/span> v <\/span>Car\u00adry on a con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion: dis\u00adcourse, gos\u00adsip, speak<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adguise<\/span> d\u026as\u02c8\u0261a\u026az<\/span> v <\/span>To mod\u00adi\u00adfy the appear\u00adance or man\u00adner in order to con\u00adceal: hide, cov\u00ader, con\u00adceal, screen, mask<\/span><\/p>\n

in favor of some\u00adone or some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 In sup\u00adport of some\u00adone or something.<\/p>\n

minute<\/span> ma\u026a\u02c8n\u00adju\u02d0t<\/span> adj<\/span> Excep\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly small: lit\u00adtle, tiny, minia\u00adture, microscopic<\/span><\/p>\n

evince<\/span> \u026a\u02c8v\u026ans<\/span> v <\/span>To show or demon\u00adstrate clear\u00adly: man\u00adi\u00adfest<\/span><\/p>\n

utter\u00adance<\/span> \u02c8\u028ct\u1d4ar\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>An act of utter\u00ading; vocal expres\u00adsion: artic\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion, ver\u00adbal\u00adiza\u00adtion, vocalization<\/span><\/p>\n

ardour<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading of strong ener\u00adgy or eager\u00adness: zeal<\/span><\/p>\n

fer\u00advour<\/span> \u02c8f\u025c\u02d0v\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>Great warmth, earnest\u00adness and inten\u00adsi\u00adty of emo\u00adtion: ardour, pas\u00adsion, enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm, zeal, eagerness<\/span><\/p>\n

fur\u00adther\u00adance<\/span> \u02c8f\u025c\u02d0\u00f0\u1d4ar\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>The advance\u00adment of some enter\u00adprise: advance, progress, progression<\/span><\/p>\n

enter\u00adprise<\/span> \u02c8\u025bn\u00adt\u0259pra\u026az<\/span> n <\/span>A project or under\u00adtak\u00ading, espe\u00adcial\u00adly one that requires bold\u00adness or effort: project, task, undertaking<\/span><\/p>\n

but<\/span> b\u028ct<\/span> adv<\/span> (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) Mere\u00adly; just; only.<\/p>\n

acquire\u00adment<\/span> \u0259\u02c8k\u00adwa\u026a\u0259m\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>An attain\u00adment, such as a skill or social accom\u00adplish\u00adment: achieve\u00adment, acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion, attainment<\/span><\/p>\n

domin\u00adion<\/span> d\u0259\u02c8m\u026an\u00adj\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>Con\u00adtrol or the exer\u00adcise of con\u00adtrol: con\u00adtrol, gov\u00adern\u00adment, rule, author\u00adi\u00adty, sov\u00ader\u00adeign\u00adty, sway, mastery<\/span><\/p>\n

ele\u00admen\u00adtal<\/span> \u02cc\u025bl\u026a\u02c8m\u025bn\u00adt\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Per\u00adtain\u00ading to or con\u00adsti\u00adtut\u00ading a base or basis: fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal, basic, primal<\/span><\/p>\n

foe<\/span> f\u0259\u028a<\/span> n <\/span>An ene\u00admy or oppo\u00adnent: ene\u00admy, rival, oppo\u00adnent, adversary<\/span><\/p>\n

at first<\/span> \u21d2 In the beggining.<\/p>\n

quiver<\/span> \u02c8kw\u026av\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To shake with a slight, rapid, tremu\u00adlous move\u00adment: shake, trem\u00adble, shiv\u00ader, shudder<\/span><\/p>\n

behold<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u0259\u028ald<\/span> pp<\/span>, pt<\/span> beheld<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u025bld<\/span> v <\/span>To appre\u00adhend some\u00adthing by use of the eyes: see, per\u00adceive<\/span><\/p>\n

trick\u00adle<\/span> \u02c8tr\u026akl<\/span> n <\/span>A flow of liq\u00aduid in a small stream.<\/p>\n

heave<\/span> hi\u02d0v<\/span> v <\/span>Rise and move, as in waves or bil\u00adlows: lift, raise, hoist, heft<\/span><\/p>\n

at length<\/span> \u21d2 After some time; even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly. final\u00adly, at last.<\/p>\n

intox\u00adi\u00adcat\u00ading<\/span> \u026an\u02c8t\u0252k\u00ads\u026ake\u026at\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading, excit\u00ading, or pro\u00adduc\u00ading great ela\u00adtion: excit\u00ading, thrilling, stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading, exhilarating<\/span><\/p>\n

draught<\/span> dr\u0251\u02d0ft<\/span> n <\/span>A por\u00adtion of liq\u00aduid to be drunk.<\/p>\n

dash<\/span> d\u00e6\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To move hasti\u00adly or reck\u00adless\u00adly: rush, speed<\/span><\/p>\n

parox\u00adysm<\/span> \u02c8p\u00e6r\u0252k\u00ads\u026az\u1d4am<\/span> n <\/span>A sud\u00adden out\u00adburst of emo\u00adtion or action: out\u00adburst, fit, seizure, spasm, convulsion<\/span><\/p>\n

tran\u00adquil<\/span> \u02c8tr\u00e6\u014bk\u00adw\u026al<\/span> adj<\/span> Calm, peace\u00adful or qui\u00adet: placid, unruf\u00adfled, still, qui\u00adet, smooth<\/span><\/p>\n

com\u00adpo\u00adsure<\/span> k\u0259m\u02c8p\u0259\u028a\u0292\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A sta\u00adble, calm state of the emo\u00adtions: bal\u00adance, poise, cool\u00adness, self-possession<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adquer<\/span> \u02c8k\u0252\u014bk\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>Take pos\u00adses\u00adsion of by force, as after an inva\u00adsion: sub\u00addue, crush, subjugate<\/span><\/p>\n

despise<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8s\u00adpa\u026az<\/span> v <\/span>To look upon with scorn and con\u00adtempt: dis\u00addain<\/span><\/p>\n

quell<\/span> kw\u025bl<\/span> v <\/span>To put down forcibly: sup\u00adpress<\/span><\/p>\n

tyran\u00adny<\/span> \u02c8t\u026ar\u0259ni<\/span> n <\/span>Dom\u00adi\u00adnance through threat of pun\u00adish\u00adment and vio\u00adlence: abso\u00adlutism, despotism<\/span><\/p>\n

train<\/span> tre\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>A sequence or series, as of events, thoughts, etc: sequence, series, chain, succession<\/span><\/p>\n

fall to someone\u2019s lot<\/span> \u21d2 Become someone\u2019s task or responsibility.<\/p>\n

unfash\u00adioned<\/span> \u02cc\u028cn\u02c8f\u00e6\u0283\u1d4and<\/span> adj<\/span> Not planned and made: not formed<\/span><\/p>\n

but<\/span> b\u028ct<\/span> adv<\/span> (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) Mere\u00adly; just; only.<\/p>\n

per\u00adfec\u00adtion\u00adate<\/span> p\u0259\u02c8f\u025bk\u0283\u1d4ane\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To make per\u00adfec: per\u00adfect<\/span><\/p>\n

faulty<\/span> \u02c8f\u0254\u02d0lti<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading faults or defects: imper\u00adfect<\/span><\/p>\n

enti\u00adtle<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u00adta\u026at\u1d4al<\/span> v <\/span>To fur\u00adnish with a right or claim to some\u00adthing: empow\u00ader, enable<\/span><\/p>\n

anew<\/span> \u0259\u02c8n\u00adju\u02d0<\/span> adv<\/span> Again, once again.<\/p>\n

expres\u00adsive<\/span> \u026aks\u02c8pr\u025bs\u026av<\/span> Effec\u00adtive\u00adly con\u00advey\u00ading mean\u00ading, feel\u00ading, or mood: mean\u00ading\u00adful, indica\u00adtive, sug\u00adges\u00adtive, demon\u00adstra\u00adtive, reveal\u00ading, significant<\/span><\/p>\n

ele\u00advate<\/span> \u02c8\u025bl\u026ave\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To move some\u00adthing to a high\u00ader place or posi\u00adtion from a low\u00ader one: lift, heave, hoist, raise<\/span><\/p>\n

celes\u00adtial<\/span> s\u026a\u02c8l\u025bsti\u0259l<\/span> adj<\/span> Of or relat\u00ading to the sky or phys\u00adi\u00adcal uni\u00adverse as under\u00adstood in astron\u00ado\u00admy: heav\u00aden\u00adly<\/span><\/p>\n

halo<\/span> \u02c8he\u026al\u0259\u028a<\/span> n <\/span>A lumi\u00adnous ring or disk of light sur\u00adround\u00ading the heads or bod\u00adies of sacred fig\u00adures, such as saints, in reli\u00adgious paint\u00adings: nim\u00adbus<\/span><\/p>\n

fol\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8f\u0252li<\/span> n <\/span>Fool\u00adish behav\u00adiour: absur\u00addi\u00adty, insan\u00adi\u00adty, fool\u00adish\u00adness, crazi\u00adness, pre\u00adpos\u00adter\u00adous\u00adness, sense\u00adless\u00adness, silliness<\/span><\/p>\n

tutor<\/span> \u02c8tju\u02d0t\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To study under a tutor: edu\u00adcate, instruct, teach, train<\/span><\/p>\n

fas\u00adtid\u00adi\u00adous<\/span> f\u00e6s\u02c8t\u026adi\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Show\u00ading or act\u00ading with care\u00adful atten\u00adtion to detail: par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, metic\u00adu\u00adlous, fussy<\/span><\/p>\n

endeav\u00adour<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u025bv\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To attempt: essay, try, assay, seek<\/span><\/p>\n

intu\u00aditive<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u02a7u\u02d0\u026at\u026av<\/span> adj<\/span> Derived from or prompt\u00aded by a nat\u00adur\u00adal ten\u00adden\u00adcy or impulse: instinc\u00adtive, spon\u00adta\u00adneous, innate<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adcern\u00adment<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8s\u025c\u02d0n\u00adm\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>Skill in per\u00adceiv\u00ading, dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adnat\u00ading, or judg\u00ading: wit, per\u00adcep\u00adtive\u00adness, sagac\u00adi\u00adty, shrewdness<\/span><\/p>\n

sub\u00addue<\/span> s\u0259b\u02c8d\u00adju\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>To over\u00adcome and bring under con\u00adtrol, as by intim\u00adi\u00adda\u00adtion or per\u00adsua\u00adsion: con\u00adtrol, master<\/span><\/p>\n

ardent\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u0259ntli<\/span> adj<\/span> In an enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adtic and pas\u00adsion\u00adate manner.<\/p>\n

grat\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u0261r\u00e6t\u026af\u026a\u02c8ke\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The state of being grat\u00adi\u00adfied or sat\u00adis\u00adfied: sat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adtion, delight, pleasure<\/span><\/p>\n

ser\u00adpent<\/span> \u02c8s\u025c\u02d0p\u1d4ant<\/span> n <\/span>Limb\u00adless scaly elon\u00adgate rep\u00adtile; some are ven\u00adomous: snake<\/span><\/p>\n

sting<\/span> st\u026a\u014b<\/span> v <\/span>To pierce or wound painful\u00adly with a sharp-point\u00aded struc\u00adture or organ, as that of cer\u00adtain insects or plants.<\/p>\n

deduce<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8d\u00adju\u02d0s<\/span> v <\/span>To work out from facts one knows or guess\u00ades: con\u00adclude, rea\u00adson, under\u00adstand, gather<\/span><\/p>\n

apt<\/span> \u00e6pt<\/span> adj<\/span> Exact\u00adly suit\u00adable: appro\u00adpri\u00adate, right, fit, rel\u00ade\u00advant, proper<\/span><\/p>\n

deem<\/span> di\u02d0m<\/span> v <\/span>To regard as: con\u00adsid\u00ader:<\/span><\/p>\n

tame<\/span> te\u026am<\/span> adj<\/span> Lack\u00ading in excite\u00adment: unex\u00adcit\u00ading, bor\u00ading, dull, bland, flat<\/span><\/p>\n

ridicule<\/span> \u02c8r\u026ad\u026akju\u02d0l<\/span> n <\/span>Speech or action intend\u00aded to cause con\u00adtemp\u00adtu\u00adous laugh\u00adter: deri\u00adsion<\/span><\/p>\n

grat\u00adi\u00adfy<\/span> \u02c8gr\u00e6t\u026a\u00adfa\u026a<\/span> v <\/span>To give great plea\u00adsure to: please, delight<\/span><\/p>\n

recital<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8sa\u026at\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>A very detailed account or report of some\u00adthing: nar\u00adra\u00adtion, enu\u00admer\u00ada\u00adtion, recapitulation<\/span><\/p>\n

ame\u00adlio\u00adrate<\/span> \u0259\u02c8mi\u02d0li\u0259re\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To advance to a more desir\u00adable state: improve, amend, bet\u00adter, upgrade<\/span><\/p>\n

irrev\u00ado\u00adca\u00adbly<\/span> \u026a\u02c8r\u025bv\u0259k\u0259b\u1d4ali<\/span> adv<\/span> In not able to be changed, or undone man\u00adner: irre\u00adversibly, unalterably<\/span><\/p>\n

at leisure<\/span> \u21d2 With free time; unoccupied.<\/p>\n

imper\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly<\/span> \u026am\u02c8p\u025br\u0259t\u026avli<\/span> adv<\/span> In nec\u00ades\u00adsary or urgent manner.<\/p>\n

relate<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8le\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To give an account of (an occur\u00adrence, for exam\u00adple<\/span>); nar\u00adrate<\/p>\n

at least<\/span> \u21d2 If noth\u00ading else. Not less than.<\/p>\n

man\u00adu\u00adscript<\/span> \u02c8m\u00e6n\u00adj\u0259skr\u026apt<\/span> n <\/span>A ver\u00adsion of a book, arti\u00adcle, or oth\u00ader work before being pub\u00adlished or pre\u00adpared for publication.<\/p>\n

swell<\/span> sw\u025bl<\/span> v <\/span>To increase in amount, degree, force, etc: increase, rise, grow, expand<\/span><\/p>\n

lus\u00adtrous<\/span> \u02c8l\u028cstr\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading a sheen or glow: gleam\u00ading<\/span><\/p>\n

dwell up\/on some\u00adone or some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To obses\u00adsive\u00adly think or wor\u00adry about something.<\/p>\n

lin\u00adea\u00adment<\/span> \u02c8l\u026an\u026a\u0259m\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>A dis\u00adtinc\u00adtive shape, con\u00adtour, or line, espe\u00adcial\u00adly of the face.<\/p>\n

irra\u00addi\u00adate<\/span> \u026a\u02c8re\u026adie\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To shed light on: illu\u00admi\u00adnate<\/span><\/p>\n

har\u00adrow<\/span> \u02c8h\u00e6r\u0259\u028a<\/span> adj<\/span> Extreme\u00adly dis\u00adtress\u00ading: ago\u00adniz\u00ading<\/span><\/p>\n

gal\u00adlant<\/span> \u02c8\u0261\u00e6l\u0259nt<\/span> adj<\/span> State\u00adly; majestic.<\/p>\n

wreck<\/span> r\u025bk<\/span> v <\/span>To cause the destruc\u00adtion of in a col\u00adli\u00adsion: destroy, break, ruin,<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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I am by birth a Gen\u00adevese<\/span>, and my fam\u00adi\u00adly is one of the most dis\u00adtin\u00adguished of that repub\u00adlic. My ances\u00adtors had been for many years coun\u00adsel\u00adlors<\/span> and syn\u00addics<\/span>, and my father had filled sev\u00ader\u00adal pub\u00adlic sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions with hon\u00adour and rep\u00adu\u00adta\u00adtion. He was respect\u00aded by all who knew him for his integri\u00adty<\/span> and inde\u00adfati\u00adga\u00adble<\/span> atten\u00adtion to pub\u00adlic busi\u00adness. He passed his younger days per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly<\/span> occu\u00adpied by the affairs of his coun\u00adtry; a vari\u00adety of cir\u00adcum\u00adstances had pre\u00advent\u00aded his mar\u00adry\u00ading ear\u00adly, nor was it until the decline of life that he became a hus\u00adband and the father of a family.<\/p>\n

As the cir\u00adcum\u00adstances of his mar\u00adriage illus\u00adtrate his char\u00adac\u00adter, I can\u00adnot refrain from<\/span> relat\u00ading them. One of his most inti\u00admate friends was a mer\u00adchant who, from a flour\u00adish\u00ading<\/span> state, fell, through numer\u00adous mis\u00adchances<\/span>, into pover\u00adty. This man, whose name was Beau\u00adfort, was of a proud and unbend\u00ading<\/span> dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion and could not bear<\/span> to live in pover\u00adty and obliv\u00adion<\/span> in the same coun\u00adtry where he had for\u00admer\u00adly been dis\u00adtin\u00adguished for his rank and mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcence<\/span>. Hav\u00ading paid his debts, there\u00adfore, in the most hon\u00adourable man\u00adner, he retreat\u00aded with his daugh\u00adter to the town of Lucerne<\/span>, where he lived unknown and in wretched\u00adness<\/span>. My father loved Beau\u00adfort with the truest friend\u00adship and was deeply griev\u00aded by his retreat in these unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate cir\u00adcum\u00adstances. He bit\u00adter\u00adly deplored<\/span> the false pride which led his friend to a con\u00adduct so lit\u00adtle wor\u00adthy of the affec\u00adtion that unit\u00aded them. He lost no time in endeav\u00adour\u00ading<\/span> to seek him out, with the hope of per\u00adsuad\u00ading him to begin the world again through his cred\u00adit and assistance.<\/p>\n

Beau\u00adfort had tak\u00aden effec\u00adtu\u00adal<\/span> mea\u00adsures to con\u00adceal<\/span> him\u00adself, and it was ten months before my father dis\u00adcov\u00adered his abode<\/span>. Over\u00adjoyed at this dis\u00adcov\u00adery, he has\u00adtened to the house, which was sit\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded in a mean street near the Reuss<\/span>. But when he entered, mis\u00adery and despair alone wel\u00adcomed him. Beau\u00adfort had saved but<\/span> a very small sum of mon\u00adey from the wreck<\/span> of his for\u00adtunes, but it was suf\u00adfi\u00adcient to pro\u00advide him with sus\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> for some months, and in the mean\u00adtime he hoped to pro\u00adcure<\/span> some respectable employ\u00adment in a merchant\u2019s house. The inter\u00adval was, con\u00adse\u00adquent\u00adly, spent in inac\u00adtion<\/span>; his grief only became more deep and rankling<\/span> when he had leisure for reflec\u00adtion, and at length<\/span> it took so fast hold of his mind<\/span> that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sick\u00adness, inca\u00adpable of any exer\u00adtion<\/span>.<\/p>\n

His daugh\u00adter attend\u00aded him with the great\u00adest ten\u00adder\u00adness, but she saw with despair that their lit\u00adtle fund was rapid\u00adly decreas\u00ading and that there was no oth\u00ader prospect of sup\u00adport. But Car\u00ado\u00adline Beau\u00adfort pos\u00adsessed a mind of an uncom\u00admon mould<\/span>, and her courage rose to sup\u00adport her in her adver\u00adsi\u00adty<\/span>. She pro\u00adcured<\/span> plain work; she plait\u00aded straw<\/span> and by var\u00adi\u00adous means con\u00adtrived<\/span> to earn a pit\u00adtance<\/span> scarce\u00adly<\/span> suf\u00adfi\u00adcient to sup\u00adport life.<\/p>\n

Sev\u00ader\u00adal months passed in this man\u00adner. Her father grew worse; her time was more entire\u00adly occu\u00adpied in attend\u00ading him; her means of sub\u00adsis\u00adtence<\/span> decreased; and in the tenth month her father died in her arms, leav\u00ading her an orphan<\/span> and a beg\u00adgar<\/span>. This last blow over\u00adcame her, and she knelt<\/span> by Beaufort\u2019s cof\u00adfin<\/span> weep\u00ading<\/span> bit\u00adter\u00adly, when my father entered the cham\u00adber. He came like a pro\u00adtect\u00ading spir\u00adit to the poor girl, who com\u00admit\u00adted her\u00adself to his care; and after the inter\u00adment<\/span> of his friend he con\u00adduct\u00aded her to Gene\u00adva and placed her under the pro\u00adtec\u00adtion of a rela\u00adtion. Two years after this event Car\u00ado\u00adline became his wife.<\/p>\n

There was a con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable dif\u00adfer\u00adence between the ages of my par\u00adents, but this cir\u00adcum\u00adstance seemed to<\/span> unite them only clos\u00ader in bonds of devot\u00aded affec\u00adtion. There was a sense of jus\u00adtice in my father\u2019s upright<\/span> mind which ren\u00addered it nec\u00ades\u00adsary that he should approve high\u00adly to love strong\u00adly. Per\u00adhaps dur\u00ading for\u00admer years he had suf\u00adfered from the late-dis\u00adcov\u00adered unwor\u00adthi\u00adness<\/span> of one beloved and so was dis\u00adposed<\/span> to set a greater val\u00adue on tried worth. There was a show of grat\u00adi\u00adtude and wor\u00adship in his attach\u00adment<\/span> to my moth\u00ader, dif\u00adfer\u00ading whol\u00adly from the dot\u00ading<\/span> fond\u00adness<\/span> of age, for it was inspired by rev\u00ader\u00adence<\/span> for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, rec\u00adom\u00adpens\u00ading<\/span> her for the sor\u00adrows she had endured, but which gave inex\u00adpress\u00adible grace to his behav\u00adiour to her. Every\u00adthing was made to yield to her wish\u00ades and her con\u00adve\u00adnience. He strove<\/span> to shel\u00adter her, as a fair exot\u00adic is shel\u00adtered by the gar\u00adden\u00ader, from every rougher wind and to sur\u00adround her with all that could tend to excite plea\u00adsur\u00adable emo\u00adtion in her soft and benev\u00ado\u00adlent<\/span> mind. Her health, and even the tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty<\/span> of her hith\u00ader\u00adto<\/span> con\u00adstant spir\u00adit, had been shak\u00aden by what she had gone through. Dur\u00ading the two years that had elapsed<\/span> pre\u00advi\u00adous to their mar\u00adriage my father had grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly relin\u00adquished<\/span> all his pub\u00adlic func\u00adtions; and imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly after their union they sought the pleas\u00adant cli\u00admate of Italy, and the change of scene and inter\u00adest atten\u00addant<\/span> on a tour through that land of won\u00adders, as a restora\u00adtive<\/span> for her weak\u00adened frame<\/span>.<\/p>\n

From Italy they vis\u00adit\u00aded Ger\u00admany and France. I, their eldest child, was born at Naples<\/span>, and as an infant accom\u00adpa\u00adnied them in their ram\u00adbles<\/span>. I remained for sev\u00ader\u00adal years their only child. Much as they were attached to each oth\u00ader, they seemed to<\/span> draw inex\u00adhaustible<\/span> stores of affec\u00adtion from a very mine of love to bestow<\/span> them upon me. My mother\u2019s ten\u00adder caress\u00ades<\/span> and my father\u2019s smile of benev\u00ado\u00adlent<\/span> plea\u00adsure while regard\u00ading me are my first rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtions<\/span>. I was their play\u00adthing<\/span> and their idol, and some\u00adthing better\u2014their child, the inno\u00adcent and help\u00adless crea\u00adture bestowed<\/span> on them by Heav\u00aden, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot<\/span> it was in their hands to direct to hap\u00adpi\u00adness or mis\u00adery, accord\u00ading as they ful\u00adfilled their duties towards me. With this deep con\u00adscious\u00adness of what they owed towards the being to which they had giv\u00aden life, added to the active spir\u00adit of ten\u00adder\u00adness that ani\u00admat\u00aded both, it may be imag\u00adined that while dur\u00ading every hour of my infant life I received a les\u00adson of patience, of char\u00adi\u00adty, and of self-con\u00adtrol, I was so guid\u00aded by a silken<\/span> cord that all seemed but one train<\/span> of enjoy\u00adment to me.<\/p>\n

For a long time I was their only care. My moth\u00ader had much desired to have a daugh\u00adter, but I con\u00adtin\u00adued their sin\u00adgle off\u00adspring<\/span>. When I was about five years old, while mak\u00ading an excur\u00adsion<\/span> beyond the fron\u00adtiers of Italy, they passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como<\/span>. Their benev\u00ado\u00adlent<\/span> dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion often made them enter the cot\u00adtages of the poor. This, to my moth\u00ader, was more than a duty; it was a neces\u00adsi\u00adty, a passion\u2014remembering what she had suf\u00adfered, and how she had been relieved\u2014for her to act in her turn the guardian angel<\/span> to the afflict\u00aded<\/span>. Dur\u00ading one of their walks a poor cot<\/span> in the fold\u00adings<\/span> of a vale<\/span> attract\u00aded their notice as being sin\u00adgu\u00adlar\u00adly<\/span> dis\u00adcon\u00adso\u00adlate<\/span>, while the num\u00adber of half-clothed chil\u00addren gath\u00adered about it spoke of penury<\/span> in its worst shape. One day, when my father had gone by him\u00adself<\/span> to Milan, my moth\u00ader, accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by me, vis\u00adit\u00aded this abode<\/span>. She found a peas\u00adant<\/span> and his wife, hard work\u00ading, bent down by care and labour, dis\u00adtrib\u00adut\u00ading a scanty<\/span> meal to five hun\u00adgry babes. Among these there was one which attract\u00aded my moth\u00ader far above all the rest. She appeared of a dif\u00adfer\u00adent stock. The four oth\u00aders were dark-eyed, hardy<\/span> lit\u00adtle vagrants<\/span>; this child was thin and very fair. Her hair was the bright\u00adest liv\u00ading gold, and despite the pover\u00adty of her cloth\u00ading, seemed to<\/span> set a crown of dis\u00adtinc\u00adtion on her head. Her brow<\/span> was clear and ample<\/span>, her blue eyes cloud\u00adless, and her lips and the mould\u00ading<\/span> of her face so expres\u00adsive<\/span> of sen\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty and sweet\u00adness that none could behold<\/span> her with\u00adout look\u00ading on her as of a dis\u00adtinct species, a being heav\u00aden-sent, and bear\u00ading a celes\u00adtial<\/span> stamp in all her features.<\/p>\n

The peas\u00adant<\/span> woman, per\u00adceiv\u00ading that my moth\u00ader fixed eyes of won\u00adder and admi\u00adra\u00adtion on this love\u00adly girl, eager\u00adly com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00aded her his\u00adto\u00adry. She was not her child, but the daugh\u00adter of a Milanese<\/span> noble\u00adman<\/span>. Her moth\u00ader was a Ger\u00adman and had died on giv\u00ading her birth. The infant had been placed with these good peo\u00adple to nurse: they were bet\u00adter off<\/span> then. They had not been long mar\u00adried, and their eldest child was but<\/span> just born. The father of their charge was one of those Ital\u00adians nursed in the mem\u00ado\u00adry of the antique glo\u00adry of Italy\u2014one among the schi\u00adavi ogn\u00ador fre\u00admen\u00adti<\/span>,<\/span> who exert\u00aded<\/span> him\u00adself to obtain the lib\u00ader\u00adty of his coun\u00adtry. He became the vic\u00adtim of its weak\u00adness. Whether he had died or still lin\u00adgered<\/span> in the dun\u00adgeons<\/span> of Aus\u00adtria was not known. His prop\u00ader\u00adty was con\u00adfis\u00adcat\u00aded<\/span>; his child became an orphan<\/span> and a beg\u00adgar<\/span>. She con\u00adtin\u00adued with her fos\u00adter par\u00adents and bloomed in their rude<\/span> abode<\/span>, fair\u00ader than a gar\u00adden rose among dark-leaved<\/span> bram\u00adbles<\/span>.<\/p>\n

When my father returned from Milan, he found play\u00ading with me in the hall of our vil\u00adla a child fair\u00ader than pic\u00adtured cherub<\/span>\u2014a crea\u00adture who seemed to<\/span> shed radi\u00adance<\/span> from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois<\/span> of the hills. The appari\u00adtion<\/span> was soon explained. With his per\u00admis\u00adsion my moth\u00ader pre\u00advailed on her rus\u00adtic<\/span> guardians to yield their charge to<\/span> her. They were fond<\/span> of the sweet orphan<\/span>. Her pres\u00adence had seemed a bless\u00ading to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in pover\u00adty and want when Prov\u00adi\u00addence afford\u00aded her such pow\u00ader\u00adful pro\u00adtec\u00adtion. They con\u00adsult\u00aded their vil\u00adlage priest, and the result was that Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Laven\u00adza<\/span> became the inmate<\/span> of my par\u00adents\u2019 house\u2014my more than sister\u2014the beau\u00adti\u00adful and adored<\/span> com\u00adpan\u00adion of all my occu\u00adpa\u00adtions and my pleasures.<\/p>\n

Every\u00adone loved Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth. The pas\u00adsion\u00adate and almost rev\u00ader\u00aden\u00adtial<\/span> attach\u00adment<\/span> with which all regard\u00aded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight. On the evening pre\u00advi\u00adous to her being brought to my home, my moth\u00ader had said play\u00adful\u00adly, \u201cI have a pret\u00adty present for my Victor\u2014tomorrow he shall have it.\u201d And when, on the mor\u00adrow<\/span>, she pre\u00adsent\u00aded Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth to me as her promised gift, I, with child\u00adish seri\u00adous\u00adness, inter\u00adpret\u00aded her words lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly and looked upon Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth as mine\u2014mine to pro\u00adtect, love, and cher\u00adish<\/span>. All prais\u00ades bestowed<\/span> on her I received as made to a pos\u00adses\u00adsion of my own. We called each oth\u00ader famil\u00adiar\u00adly<\/span> by the name of cousin. No word, no expres\u00adsion could body forth<\/span> the kind of rela\u00adtion in which she stood to me\u2014my more than sis\u00adter, since till death she was to be mine only.<\/p>\n

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Gen\u00adevese<\/span> \u02ccd\u0292en\u0259\u02c8viz , \u2011\u02c8vis<\/span> also Genevan<\/span> \u02a4\u0259\u02c8ni\u02d0v\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>A native or inhab\u00adi\u00adtant of Gene\u00adva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

coun\u00adsel\u00adlor<\/span> \u02c8ka\u028an\u00ads\u1d4al\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson who gives coun\u00adsel: advis\u00ader, consultant<\/span><\/p>\n

syn\u00addic<\/span> \u02c8s\u026and\u026ak<\/span> n <\/span>One appoint\u00aded to rep\u00adre\u00adsent a city or uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty or cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtion in busi\u00adness transactions<\/p>\n

integri\u00adty<\/span> \u026an\u02c8t\u025b\u0261r\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>Stead\u00adfast adher\u00adence to a strict moral or eth\u00adi\u00adcal code: hon\u00adesty, prin\u00adci\u00adple, hon\u00adour, virtue, morality<\/span><\/p>\n

inde\u00adfati\u00adga\u00adble<\/span> \u02cc\u026and\u026a\u02c8f\u00e6t\u026a\u0261\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Show\u00ading sus\u00adtained enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adtic action with unflag\u00adging vital\u00adi\u00adty: tire\u00adless, inexhaustible<\/span><\/p>\n

per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly<\/span> p\u0259\u02c8p\u025b\u02a7u\u0259li<\/span> adv<\/span> With\u00adout inter\u00adrup\u00adtion; for all time: ever\u00adlast\u00ading\u00adly, con\u00adstant\u00adly, inces\u00adsant\u00adly, always, for\u00adev\u00ader, non-stop<\/span><\/p>\n

to refrain form<\/span> \u21d2 To hold back from doing something.<\/p>\n

flour\u00adish\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8fl\u028cr\u026a\u0283\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Very live\u00adly and prof\u00aditable: boom\u00ading, boomy, pros\u00adper\u00ading, prosperous<\/span><\/p>\n

mis\u00adchance<\/span> m\u026as\u02c8\u02a7\u0251\u02d0ns<\/span> n <\/span>An unex\u00adpect\u00aded and usu\u00adal\u00adly unde\u00adsir\u00adable event: acci\u00addent, misfortune<\/span><\/p>\n

unbend\u00ading<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8b\u025bnd\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Inca\u00adpable of adapt\u00ading or chang\u00ading to meet cir\u00adcum\u00adstances: rigid, inflex\u00adi\u00adble, strict, firm, tough, severe, stubborn<\/span><\/p>\n

bear<\/span> <\/span>be\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To endure some\u00adthing with tol\u00ader\u00adance or patience: hold up, stand up<\/span><\/p>\n

obliv\u00adion<\/span> \u0259\u02c8bl\u026avi\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>The state of being dis\u00adre\u00adgard\u00aded or for\u00adgot\u00adten: neglect, anonymi\u00adty, insignif\u00adi\u00adcance, unimportance<\/span><\/p>\n

mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcence<\/span> m\u00e6\u0261\u02c8n\u026af\u026asns<\/span> n <\/span>Great\u00adness or lav\u00adish\u00adness of sur\u00adround\u00adings: splen\u00addour, grandeur, bril\u00adliance, gorgeousness<\/span><\/p>\n

Lucerne<\/span> \u21d2 A city in cen\u00adtral Switzer\u00adland, in the Ger\u00adman-speak\u00ading por\u00adtion of the country.<\/p>\n

wretched\u00adness<\/span> \u02c8r\u025b\u02a7\u026ad\u00adn\u0259s<\/span> n <\/span>A state of ill-being due to afflic\u00adtion or mis\u00adfor\u00adtune: mis\u00adery, unhappiness<\/span><\/p>\n

deplore<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8\u00adpl\u0254\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>To feel or express strong dis\u00adap\u00adproval of: con\u00addemn<\/span><\/p>\n

endeav\u00adour<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u025bv\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To attempt: essay, try, assay, seek<\/span><\/p>\n

effec\u00adtu\u00adal<\/span> \u026a\u02c8f\u025bk\u02a7u\u0259l<\/span> adj<\/span> Capa\u00adble of or suc\u00adcess\u00adful in pro\u00adduc\u00ading an intend\u00aded result: effec\u00adtive, effi\u00adcient, productive<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adceal<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8si\u02d0l<\/span> n <\/span>To hide some\u00adthing or pre\u00advent\u00ading it from being known: hide<\/span><\/p>\n

abode<\/span> \u0259\u02c8b\u0259\u028ad<\/span> n <\/span>Hous\u00ading that some\u00adone is liv\u00ading in: home, house, lodg\u00ading, place, residence<\/span><\/p>\n

the Reuss<\/span> \u21d2 A riv\u00ader in Switzer\u00adland, the fourth largest riv\u00ader in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

but<\/span> b\u028ct<\/span> adv<\/span> (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) Mere\u00adly; just; only.<\/p>\n

wreck<\/span> r\u025bk<\/span> n <\/span>The remains of some\u00adthing that has been destroyed: debris, rub\u00adble, ruin, wreckage<\/span><\/p>\n

sus\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> \u02c8s\u028cst\u0259n\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>The sup\u00adport\u00ading of life or health; main\u00adte\u00adnance or means of liveli\u00adhood: ali\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion, alimo\u00adny, maintenance<\/span><\/p>\n

pro\u00adcure<\/span> pr\u0259\u02c8kj\u028a\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To come into pos\u00adses\u00adsion of: get, obtain, acquire, secure<\/span><\/p>\n

inac\u00adtion<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u00e6k\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A lack of action or activ\u00adi\u00adty: idle\u00adness, inac\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adty, inert\u00adness, inop\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adness, stagnation<\/span><\/p>\n

ran\u00adkle<\/span> \u02c8r\u00e6\u014bk\u1d4al\u026a\u014b<\/span> v <\/span>To con\u00adtin\u00adue to irri\u00adtate or cause bit\u00adter resent\u00adment: annoy, anger, irritate<\/span><\/p>\n

at length<\/span> \u21d2 After some time; even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly. final\u00adly, at last.<\/p>\n

to take a hold of some\u00adone or some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To gain con\u00adtrol over some\u00adone or something.<\/p>\n

exer\u00adtion<\/span> \u026ag\u02c8z\u025c\u02d0\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>Ener\u00adgetic phys\u00adi\u00adcal action: activ\u00adi\u00adty, exercise<\/span><\/p>\n

mould<\/span> m\u0259\u028ald<\/span> n <\/span>Spe\u00adcif\u00adic nature, char\u00adac\u00adter, or type: nature, char\u00adac\u00adter, sort, kind, quality<\/span><\/p>\n

adver\u00adsi\u00adty<\/span> \u0259d\u02c8v\u025c\u02d0s\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>A stroke of ill for\u00adtune; a calami\u00adtous event: hard\u00adship, trou\u00adble, dis\u00adtress, tri\u00adal, disaster<\/span><\/p>\n

plait<\/span> pl\u00e6t<\/span> To inter\u00adtwine (strands or strips<\/span>) in a pat\u00adtern: braid, lace<\/span><\/p>\n

plait\u00aded straw<\/span> \u21d2 A method of weav\u00ading or braid\u00ading. Straw plait\u00aded hats are still com\u00admon in some regions of the world.<\/p>\n

con\u00adtrive<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8\u00adtra\u026av<\/span> v <\/span>Come up with (an idea, plan, expla\u00adna\u00adtion, the\u00ado\u00adry, or prin\u00adci\u00adple<\/span>) after a men\u00adtal effort: devise, invent<\/span><\/p>\n

pit\u00adtance<\/span> \u02c8p\u026at\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>A scanty wage or remuneration.<\/p>\n

scarce\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8ske\u0259s\u00adli<\/span> adv<\/span> Not quite, almost not: bare\u00adly, hardly<\/span><\/p>\n

sub\u00adsis\u00adtence<\/span> s\u0259b\u02c8s\u026ast\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>The means (food, mon\u00adey, etc.<\/span>) by which one main\u00adtains life: ali\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion, alimony<\/span><\/p>\n

orphan<\/span> \u02c8\u0254\u02d0f\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A child, one or (more com\u00admon\u00adly<\/span>) both of whose par\u00adents are dead.<\/p>\n

beg\u00adgar<\/span> \u02c8b\u025b\u0261\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>One who solic\u00adits alms for a liv\u00ading: tramp, pau\u00adper<\/span><\/p>\n

kneel<\/span> ni\u02d0l<\/span> pp<\/span> knelt<\/span> n\u025blt<\/span> v <\/span>Rest one\u2019s weight on one\u2019s knees.<\/p>\n

cof\u00adfin<\/span> \u02c8k\u0252f\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>An oblong box in which a corpse is buried: cas\u00adket<\/span><\/p>\n

weep<\/span> wi\u02d0p<\/span> v <\/span>To shed tears as an expres\u00adsion of grief or unhappiness.<\/p>\n

inter\u00adment<\/span> \u026an\u02c8t\u025c\u02d0m\u0259nt<\/span> The act or rit\u00adu\u00adal of bur\u00adial: bur\u00adial, entomb\u00adment, inhu\u00adma\u00adtion, sepulture<\/span><\/p>\n

to seem to<\/span> \u21d2 To appear to one\u2019s own mind, sens\u00ades, etc.<\/p>\n

upright<\/span> \u02c8\u028cpra\u026at<\/span> adj<\/span> Adher\u00ading to rec\u00adti\u00adtude; right\u00adeous, hon\u00adest, or just: hon\u00adest, good, prin\u00adci\u00adpled, just, true, faith\u00adful, ethical<\/span><\/p>\n

unwor\u00adthi\u00adness<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8w\u025c\u02d0\u00f0\u026an\u0259s<\/span> n <\/span>The qual\u00adi\u00adty of being not par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly suit\u00adable or befit\u00adting: inap\u00adpro\u00adpri\u00adate\u00adness<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adpose<\/span> d\u026as\u02c8p\u0259\u028azd<\/span> v <\/span>Hav\u00ading an incli\u00adna\u00adtion as spec\u00adi\u00adfied towards some\u00adthing: tend\u00ading, mind\u00aded, giv\u00aden, inclined apt<\/span><\/p>\n

attach\u00adment<\/span> \u0259\u02c8t\u00e6\u02a7m\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading that binds one to a per\u00adson, thing, cause, ide\u00adal, or the like: affec\u00adtion, love, devotion<\/span><\/p>\n

dot\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8d\u0259\u028at\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Exces\u00adsive\u00adly or fool\u00adish\u00adly affectionate.<\/p>\n

fond\u00adness<\/span> \u02c8f\u0252nd\u00adn\u026as<\/span> n <\/span>A pre\u00addis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion to like some\u00adthing: lik\u00ading<\/span><\/p>\n

rev\u00ader\u00adence<\/span> \u02c8r\u025bv\u1d4ar\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading of pro\u00adfound awe and respect and often love: respect, hon\u00adour, wor\u00adship, admi\u00adra\u00adtion, awe<\/span><\/p>\n

rec\u00adom\u00adpense<\/span> \u02c8r\u025bk\u0259m\u00adp\u025bns<\/span> To give a sat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adto\u00adry return for ser\u00advice, loss, or suf\u00adfer\u00ading: com\u00adpen\u00adsate, indem\u00adni\u00adfy, pay, remunerate<\/span><\/p>\n

strive<\/span> stra\u026av<\/span> v <\/span>To make an attempt to do or make: attempt, endeav\u00ador, assay, essay, seek, try<\/span><\/p>\n

benev\u00ado\u00adlent<\/span> b\u0259\u02c8n\u025bv\u1d4al\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by or express\u00ading good\u00adwill or kind\u00adly feel\u00adings: good-heart\u00aded, kind\u00adly, charitable<\/span><\/p>\n

tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty<\/span> tr\u00e6\u014b\u02c8k\u00adw\u026al\u026ati<\/span> n <\/span>A state of peace and qui\u00adet: quiet\u00adness, relax\u00adation, repose, calmness<\/span><\/p>\n

hith\u00ader\u00adto<\/span> \u02c8h\u026a\u00f0\u0259\u02c8\u00adtu\u02d0<\/span> adv<\/span> Until now; before this time<\/p>\n

elapse<\/span> \u026a\u02c8l\u00e6ps<\/span> v <\/span>(of time<\/span>) To slip or pass by: pass, go, go by, lapse, pass by, slip away<\/span><\/p>\n

relin\u00adquish<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8l\u026a\u014bk\u00adw\u026a\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To give up or aban\u00addon: leave, release, drop, aban\u00addon, resign, desert, quit<\/span><\/p>\n

atten\u00addant<\/span> \u0259\u02c8t\u025bnd\u1d4ant<\/span> n <\/span>Accom\u00adpa\u00adny\u00ading or fol\u00adlow\u00ading as a result: accom\u00adpa\u00adny\u00ading, relat\u00aded, asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded, con\u00adse\u00adquent, resultant,<\/span><\/p>\n

restora\u00adtive<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8st\u0252r\u0259t\u026av<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adthing that helps to restore health, strength, or con\u00adscious\u00adness: rob\u00ado\u00adrant, tonic<\/span><\/p>\n

frame<\/span> fre\u026am<\/span> n <\/span>(Obso\u00adlete<\/span>) Shape; form.<\/p>\n

Naples<\/span> \u02c8ne\u026ap\u1d4alz<\/span> A city sit\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded on the Gulf of Naples, on the west\u00adern coast of south\u00adern Italy.<\/p>\n

ram\u00adble<\/span> \u02c8r\u00e6m\u00adb\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>A leisure\u00adly, some\u00adtimes lengthy walk.<\/p>\n

inex\u00adhaustible<\/span> \u02cc\u026an\u026a\u0261\u02c8z\u0254\u02d0st\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Nev\u00ader weary\u00ading: tire\u00adless, weari\u00adless, indefatigable<\/span><\/p>\n

bestow<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8st\u0259\u028a<\/span> v <\/span>To give for\u00admal\u00adly or offi\u00adcial\u00adly: present, grant<\/span><\/p>\n

caress<\/span> k\u0259\u02c8r\u025bs<\/span> n <\/span>A gen\u00adtle or lov\u00ading touch: stroke, pat, cud\u00addle, fondling<\/span><\/p>\n

rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccr\u025bk\u0259\u02c8l\u025bk\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>The abil\u00adi\u00adty to recall past occur\u00adrences: reten\u00adtion, remembrance<\/span><\/p>\n

play\u00adthing<\/span> \u02c8ple\u026a\u03b8\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>An object used for plea\u00adsure or enjoy\u00adment, such as a child\u2019s toy.<\/p>\n

lot<\/span> l\u0252t<\/span> n <\/span>Por\u00adtion in life: fate, des\u00adtiny, fortune<\/span><\/p>\n

silken<\/span> \u02c8s\u026alk\u1d4an<\/span> adj<\/span> Made of fine lus\u00adtrous fiber com\u00adposed main\u00adly of fibroin and pro\u00adduced by cer\u00adtain insect.<\/p>\n

train<\/span> tre\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>A sequence or series, as of events, thoughts, etc: sequence, series, chain, succession<\/span><\/p>\n

off\u00adspring<\/span> \u02c8\u0252f\u00adspr\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>A child or chil\u00addren of a par\u00adent or par\u00adents: child, baby, kid, infant, successor<\/span><\/p>\n

Lake Como<\/span> \u21d2 A lake of glacial ori\u00adgin in Lom\u00adbardy, Italy.<\/p>\n

guardian angel<\/span> \u21d2 A guardian angel is a type of angel that is assigned to pro\u00adtect and guide a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar per\u00adson, group or nation.<\/p>\n

the afflict\u00aded<\/span> \u21d2 pl <\/span>n<\/span><\/span><\/span> Peo\u00adple struck by suf\u00adfer\u00ading or unhap\u00adpi\u00adness con\u00adsid\u00adered collectively.<\/p>\n

cot<\/span> k\u0252t<\/span> n <\/span>(Archi\u00adtec\u00adture, lit\u00ader\u00adary or archa\u00adic<\/span>) A small cottage.<\/p>\n

fold\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8f\u0259\u028ald\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>(Geol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/span>) Geol\u00ado\u00adgy bends in strat\u00adi\u00adfied rocks that result from move\u00adments with\u00adin the earth\u2019s crust and pro\u00adduce wavy structures.<\/p>\n

vale<\/span> \u02c8f\u0259\u028ald\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>A val\u00adley.<\/p>\n

sin\u00adgu\u00adlar\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8s\u026a\u014bgj\u028al\u0259li<\/span> adv<\/span> In a way that is very notice\u00adable or unusu\u00adal: remark\u00adably, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly, excep\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly, especially<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adcon\u00adso\u00adlate<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8sk\u0252n\u00ads\u1d4al\u0259t<\/span> adj<\/span> Very unhap\u00adpy or sad inca\u00adpable of being con\u00adsoled: incon\u00adsolable, unconsolable<\/span><\/p>\n

penury<\/span> \u02c8p\u025bn\u00adj\u0259ri<\/span> n <\/span>A state of extreme pover\u00adty or des\u00adti\u00adtu\u00adtion: impov\u00ader\u00adish\u00adment, poor\u00adness, poverty<\/span><\/p>\n

by him\u00adself<\/span> \u21d2 Alone; unac\u00adcom\u00adpa\u00adnied; apart.<\/p>\n

peas\u00adant<\/span> \u02c8p\u025bz\u1d4ant<\/span> n <\/span>A mem\u00adber of a class of small farm\u00aders or farm labor\u00aders of low social rank.<\/p>\n

scanty<\/span> \u02c8sk\u00e6n\u00adti<\/span> adj<\/span> Very mall or insuf\u00adfi\u00adcient in amount, size, or extent: insuf\u00adfi\u00adcient, mea\u00adgre, sparse, restrict\u00aded, poor<\/span><\/p>\n

hardy<\/span> \u02c8h\u0251\u02d0\u00addi<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading or demand\u00ading a tough con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion: robust, rugged, stout, strong, sturdy<\/span><\/p>\n

vagrants<\/span> \u02c8ve\u026a\u0261r\u1d4ant<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson who wan\u00adders about idly and has no per\u00adma\u00adnent home or employ\u00adment: vagabond<\/span><\/p>\n

brow<\/span> bra\u028a<\/span> n <\/span>The ridge over the eye and the hair grow\u00ading on that ridge: eye\u00adbrow<\/span><\/p>\n

ample<\/span> \u02c8\u00e6m\u00adp\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Of large or great size, amount, extent, or capac\u00adi\u00adty: siz\u00adable, big, large<\/span><\/p>\n

mould\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8m\u0259\u028ald\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>A shape.<\/p>\n

expres\u00adsive<\/span> \u026aks\u02c8pr\u025bs\u026av<\/span> Effec\u00adtive\u00adly con\u00advey\u00ading mean\u00ading, feel\u00ading, or mood: mean\u00ading\u00adful, indica\u00adtive, sug\u00adges\u00adtive, demon\u00adstra\u00adtive, reveal\u00ading, sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant, allusive<\/span><\/p>\n

behold<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u0259\u028ald<\/span> pp<\/span>, pt<\/span> beheld<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u025bld<\/span> v <\/span>To appre\u00adhend some\u00adthing by use of the eyes: see, per\u00adceive<\/span><\/p>\n

celes\u00adtial<\/span> s\u026a\u02c8l\u025bsti\u0259l<\/span> adj<\/span> Of or relat\u00ading to the sky or phys\u00adi\u00adcal uni\u00adverse as under\u00adstood in astron\u00ado\u00admy: heav\u00aden\u00adly<\/span><\/p>\n

Milanese<\/span> \u02ccm\u026al\u0259\u02c8ni\u02d0z<\/span> adj<\/span> Of or relat\u00ading to Milan, its peo\u00adple, cul\u00adture, etc.<\/p>\n

noble\u00adman<\/span> \u02c8n\u0259\u028ablm\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>A man of noble rank, title, or sta\u00adtus: peer; aris\u00adto\u00adcrat<\/span><\/p>\n

to be bet\u00adter off<\/span> \u21d2 To be in a bet\u00adter or more pros\u00adper\u00adous condition.<\/p>\n

but<\/span> b\u028ct<\/span> adv<\/span> (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) Mere\u00adly; just; only.<\/p>\n

schi\u00adavi ogn\u00ador fre\u00admen\u00adti<\/span> \u21d2 (Ital\u00adian<\/span>) \u201cslaves for\u00adev\u00ader enraged\u201d. Elizabeth\u2019s birth father, is a Milanese noble\u00adman. The term applies to the group of Milanese cit\u00adi\u00adzens who didn\u2019t like being part of Aus\u00adtria and want\u00aded to restore Lom\u00adbardy as a province of Italy again.<\/p>\n

exert<\/span> \u026a\u0261\u02c8z\u025c\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>To put forth or into use, as pow\u00ader; exer\u00adcise, as abil\u00adi\u00adty or influ\u00adence: strug\u00adgle, strain, strive<\/span><\/p>\n

linger<\/span> \u02c8l\u026a\u014bg\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To stay in a place or be slow in leav\u00ading it, often out of reluc\u00adtance: stay, remain<\/span><\/p>\n

dun\u00adgeon<\/span> \u02c8d\u028cn\u02a4\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A close prison cell, often under\u00adground: prison, cell, cage, vault<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adfis\u00adcate<\/span> \u02c8k\u0252n\u00adf\u026aske\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>Take tem\u00adpo\u00adrary pos\u00adses\u00adsion of as a secu\u00adri\u00adty, by legal author\u00adi\u00adty: grab, seize, snatch, appro\u00adpri\u00adate, impound, sequester, commandeer<\/span><\/p>\n

rude<\/span> ru\u02d0d<\/span> adj<\/span> Rough in man\u00adners or behav\u00adior: uncouth, unciv\u00adi\u00adlized, rough, sav\u00adage, igno\u00adrant, coarse,<\/span><\/p>\n

leaved<\/span> li\u02d0vd<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading or bear\u00ading a leaf or leaves.<\/p>\n

bram\u00adble<\/span> \u02c8br\u00e6m\u00adb\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>A thorny vine, shrub or bush.<\/p>\n

cherub<\/span> \u02c8\u02a7\u025br\u0259b<\/span> n <\/span>A celes\u00adtial being, usu\u00adaly pic\u00adtured as a A winged baby.<\/p>\n

radi\u00adance<\/span> \u02c8re\u026adi\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>The qual\u00adi\u00adty of being bright and send\u00ading out rays of light.<\/p>\n

chamois<\/span> \u02c8\u0283\u00e6mw\u0251\u02d0<\/span> n <\/span>Small ani\u00admal that looks like a goat and that lives on moun\u00adtains in Europe and west\u00adern Asia,<\/p>\n

appari\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6p\u0259\u02c8r\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A ghost\u00adly appear\u00ading fig\u00adure: ghost, phan\u00adtom, spirit<\/span><\/p>\n

rus\u00adtic<\/span> \u02c8r\u028cst\u026ak<\/span> adv<\/span> Of, relat\u00ading to, or typ\u00adi\u00adcal of coun\u00adtry life or coun\u00adtry peo\u00adple: rur\u00adal, coun\u00adtry, pas\u00adtoral, bucolic <\/span><\/p>\n

to yield to some\u00adone or some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To give up one\u2019s place, as to one that is superior,<\/p>\n

inmate<\/span> \u02c8\u026an\u00adme\u026at<\/span> n <\/span>A res\u00adi\u00addent of a dwelling that hous\u00ades a num\u00adber of occupants<\/p>\n

adore<\/span> \u0259\u02c8d\u0254\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>To regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect: love, wor\u00adship \u02ccr\u025bv\u1d4ar\u02c8\u025bn\u0283\u1d4al<\/span><\/p>\n

rev\u00ader\u00aden\u00adtial<\/span> \u02ccr\u025bv\u1d4ar\u02c8\u025bn\u0283\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Show\u00ading feel\u00ading of pro\u00adfound awe and respect and often love: rev\u00ader\u00adent, ven\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtional, worshipful<\/span><\/p>\n

mor\u00adrow<\/span> \u02c8m\u0252r\u0259\u028a<\/span> n <\/span>The fol\u00adlow\u00ading day.<\/p>\n

cher\u00adish<\/span> \u02c8\u02a7\u025br\u026a\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To treat with affec\u00adtion and ten\u00adder\u00adness: appre\u00adci\u00adate, respect<\/span><\/p>\n

famil\u00adiar\u00adly<\/span> f\u0259\u02c8m\u026ali\u0259li<\/span> In an inti\u00admate\u00adly famil\u00adiar manner.<\/p>\n

body forth<\/span> \u21d2 To rep\u00adre\u00adsent in bod\u00adi\u00adly form.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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We were brought up togeth\u00ader; there was not quite a year dif\u00adfer\u00adence in our ages. I need not say that we were strangers to any species of dis\u00adunion or dis\u00adpute. Har\u00admo\u00adny was the soul of our com\u00adpan\u00adion\u00adship, and the diver\u00adsi\u00adty and con\u00adtrast that sub\u00adsist\u00aded<\/span> in our char\u00adac\u00adters drew us near\u00ader togeth\u00ader. Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth was of a calmer and more con\u00adcen\u00adtrat\u00aded dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion; but, with all my ardour<\/span>, I was capa\u00adble of a more intense appli\u00adca\u00adtion and was more deeply smit\u00adten<\/span> with the thirst for knowl\u00adedge. She bus\u00adied her\u00adself with fol\u00adlow\u00ading the aer\u00adi\u00adal<\/span> cre\u00adations of the poets; and in the majes\u00adtic<\/span> and won\u00addrous<\/span> scenes which sur\u00adround\u00aded our Swiss home \u2014the sub\u00adlime<\/span> shapes of the moun\u00adtains, the changes of the sea\u00adsons, tem\u00adpest<\/span> and calm, the silence of win\u00adter, and the life and tur\u00adbu\u00adlence<\/span> of our Alpine summers\u2014she found ample<\/span> scope for admi\u00adra\u00adtion and delight. While my com\u00adpan\u00adion con\u00adtem\u00adplat\u00aded with a seri\u00adous and sat\u00adis\u00adfied spir\u00adit the mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent appear\u00adances of things, I delight\u00aded in inves\u00adti\u00adgat\u00ading their caus\u00ades. The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine. Curios\u00adi\u00adty, earnest<\/span> research to learn the hid\u00adden laws of nature, glad\u00adness akin<\/span> to rap\u00adture<\/span>, as they were unfold\u00aded to me, are among the ear\u00adli\u00adest sen\u00adsa\u00adtions I can remember.<\/p>\n

On the birth of a sec\u00adond son, my junior by sev\u00aden years, my par\u00adents gave up<\/span> entire\u00adly their wan\u00adder\u00ading life and fixed them\u00adselves in their native coun\u00adtry. We pos\u00adsessed a house in Gene\u00adva, and a cam\u00adpagne<\/span> on Bel\u00adrive<\/span>, the east\u00adern shore of the lake, at the dis\u00adtance of rather more than a league<\/span> from the city. We resided<\/span> prin\u00adci\u00adpal\u00adly in the lat\u00adter, and the lives of my par\u00adents were passed in con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable seclu\u00adsion<\/span>. It was my tem\u00adper<\/span> to avoid a crowd and to attach<\/span> myself fer\u00advent\u00adly<\/span> to a few. I was indif\u00adfer\u00adent, there\u00adfore, to my school-fel\u00adlows in gen\u00ader\u00adal; but I unit\u00aded myself in the bonds of the clos\u00adest friend\u00adship to one among them. Hen\u00adry Cler\u00adval was the son of a mer\u00adchant of Gene\u00adva. He was a boy of sin\u00adgu\u00adlar<\/span> tal\u00adent and fan\u00adcy. He loved enter\u00adprise<\/span>, hard\u00adship, and even dan\u00adger for its own sake<\/span>. He was deeply read in books of chival\u00adry<\/span> and romance. He com\u00adposed hero\u00adic songs and began to write many a tale<\/span> of enchant\u00adment<\/span> and knight\u00adly<\/span> adven\u00adture. He tried to make us act plays and to enter into mas\u00adquer\u00adades<\/span>, in which the char\u00adac\u00adters were drawn from the heroes of Ron\u00adces\u00advalles<\/span>, of the Round Table<\/span> of King Arthur<\/span>, and the chival\u00adrous<\/span> train<\/span> who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepul\u00adchre<\/span> from the hands of the infi\u00addels<\/span>.<\/p>\n

No human being could have passed a hap\u00adpi\u00ader child\u00adhood than myself. My par\u00adents were pos\u00adsessed by the very spir\u00adit of kind\u00adness and indul\u00adgence<\/span>. We felt that they were not the tyrants<\/span> to rule our lot<\/span> accord\u00ading to their caprice<\/span>, but the agents and cre\u00adators of all the many delights which we enjoyed. When I min\u00adgled<\/span> with oth\u00ader fam\u00adi\u00adlies I dis\u00adtinct\u00adly dis\u00adcerned<\/span> how pecu\u00adliar\u00adly<\/span> for\u00adtu\u00adnate my lot<\/span> was, and grat\u00adi\u00adtude assist\u00aded the devel\u00adop\u00adment of fil\u00adial<\/span> love.<\/p>\n

My tem\u00adper<\/span> was some\u00adtimes vio\u00adlent, and my pas\u00adsions vehe\u00adment<\/span>; but by some law in my tem\u00adper\u00ada\u00adture<\/span> they were turned not towards child\u00adish pur\u00adsuits but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn all things indis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adnate\u00adly<\/span>. I con\u00adfess that nei\u00adther the struc\u00adture of lan\u00adguages, nor the code of gov\u00adern\u00adments, nor the pol\u00adi\u00adtics of var\u00adi\u00adous states pos\u00adsessed attrac\u00adtions for me. It was the secrets of heav\u00aden and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the out\u00adward sub\u00adstance of things or the inner spir\u00adit of nature and the mys\u00adte\u00adri\u00adous soul of man that occu\u00adpied me, still my inquiries were direct\u00aded to the meta\u00adphys\u00adi\u00adcal<\/span>, or in its high\u00adest sense, the phys\u00adi\u00adcal secrets of the world.<\/p>\n

Mean\u00adwhile Cler\u00adval occu\u00adpied him\u00adself, so to speak<\/span>, with the moral rela\u00adtions of things. The busy stage of life, the virtues of heroes, and the actions of men were his theme; and his hope and his dream was to become one among those whose names are record\u00aded in sto\u00adry<\/span> as the gal\u00adlant<\/span> and adven\u00adtur\u00adous bene\u00adfac\u00adtors<\/span> of our species. The saint\u00adly soul of Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth shone like a shrine<\/span>-ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded lamp in our peace\u00adful home. Her sym\u00adpa\u00adthy was ours; her smile, her soft voice, the sweet glance of her celes\u00adtial<\/span> eyes, were ever there to bless and ani\u00admate us. She was the liv\u00ading spir\u00adit of love to soft\u00aden and attract; I might have become sullen<\/span> in my study, rough through the ardour<\/span> of my nature, but that she was there to sub\u00addue<\/span> me to a sem\u00adblance<\/span> of her own gen\u00adtle\u00adness. And Clerval\u2014could aught<\/span> ill entrench<\/span> on the noble spir\u00adit of Cler\u00adval? Yet he might not have been so per\u00adfect\u00adly humane, so thought\u00adful in his gen\u00aderos\u00adi\u00adty, so full of kind\u00adness and ten\u00adder\u00adness amidst his pas\u00adsion for adven\u00adtur\u00adous exploit, had she not unfold\u00aded to him the real love\u00adli\u00adness of benef\u00adi\u00adcence<\/span> and made the doing good the end and aim of his soar\u00ading ambition.<\/p>\n

I feel exquis\u00adite<\/span> plea\u00adsure in dwelling on the rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtions<\/span> of child\u00adhood, before mis\u00adfor\u00adtune had taint\u00aded<\/span> my mind and changed its bright visions of exten\u00adsive use\u00adful\u00adness into gloomy<\/span> and nar\u00adrow reflec\u00adtions upon self. Besides, in draw\u00ading the pic\u00adture of my ear\u00adly days, I also record those events which led, by insen\u00adsi\u00adble steps, to my after tale of mis\u00adery, for<\/span> when I would account to myself for the birth of that pas\u00adsion which after\u00adwards ruled my des\u00adtiny I find it arise, like a moun\u00adtain riv\u00ader, from igno\u00adble<\/span> and almost for\u00adgot\u00adten sources; but, swelling<\/span> as it pro\u00adceed\u00aded, it became the tor\u00adrent<\/span> which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.<\/p>\n

Nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> is the genius that has reg\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded my fate; I desire, there\u00adfore, in this nar\u00adra\u00adtion, to state those facts which led to my predilec\u00adtion<\/span> for that sci\u00adence. When I was thir\u00adteen years of age we all went on a par\u00adty of plea\u00adsure to the baths near Thonon<\/span>; the inclemen\u00adcy<\/span> of the weath\u00ader oblig\u00aded us to remain a day con\u00adfined<\/span> to the inn. In this house I chanced to find a vol\u00adume of the works of Cor\u00adnelius Agrip\u00adpa<\/span>. I opened it with apa\u00adthy<\/span>; the the\u00ado\u00adry which he attempts to demon\u00adstrate and the won\u00adder\u00adful facts which he relates soon changed this feel\u00ading into enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm. A new light seemed to<\/span> dawn upon my mind, and bound\u00ading<\/span> with joy, I com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00aded my dis\u00adcov\u00adery to my father. My father looked care\u00adless\u00adly at the title page of my book and said, \u201cAh! Cor\u00adnelius Agrip\u00adpa<\/span>! My dear Vic\u00adtor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash.\u201d<\/p>\n

If, instead of this remark, my father had tak\u00aden the pains to explain to me that the prin\u00adci\u00adples of Agrip\u00adpa<\/span> had been entire\u00adly explod\u00aded and that a mod\u00adern sys\u00adtem of sci\u00adence had been intro\u00adduced which pos\u00adsessed much greater pow\u00aders than the ancient, because the pow\u00aders of the lat\u00adter were chimeri\u00adcal<\/span>, while those of the for\u00admer were real and prac\u00adti\u00adcal, under such cir\u00adcum\u00adstances I should cer\u00adtain\u00adly have thrown Agrip\u00adpa<\/span> aside and have con\u00adtent\u00aded my imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion, warmed as it was, by return\u00ading with greater ardour<\/span> to my for\u00admer stud\u00adies. It is even pos\u00adsi\u00adble that the train<\/span> of my ideas would nev\u00ader have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin. But the cur\u00adso\u00adry<\/span> glance my father had tak\u00aden of my vol\u00adume by no means<\/span> assured me that he was acquaint\u00aded with its con\u00adtents, and I con\u00adtin\u00adued to read with the great\u00adest avid\u00adi\u00adty<\/span>.<\/p>\n

When I returned home my first care was to pro\u00adcure<\/span> the whole works of this author, and after\u00adwards of Paracel\u00adsus<\/span> and Alber\u00adtus Mag\u00adnus<\/span>. I read and stud\u00adied the wild fan\u00adcies of these writ\u00aders with delight; they appeared to me trea\u00adsures known to few besides myself. I have described myself as always hav\u00ading been imbued<\/span> with a fer\u00advent<\/span> long\u00ading to pen\u00ade\u00adtrate the secrets of nature. In spite of<\/span> the intense labour and won\u00adder\u00adful dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies of mod\u00adern philoso\u00adphers, I always came from my stud\u00adies dis\u00adcon\u00adtent\u00aded and unsat\u00adis\u00adfied. Sir Isaac New\u00adton<\/span> is said to have avowed<\/span> that he felt like a child pick\u00ading up shells beside the great and unex\u00adplored ocean of truth. Those of his suc\u00adces\u00adsors<\/span> in each branch of nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> with whom I was acquaint\u00aded appeared even to my boy\u2019s appre\u00adhen\u00adsions<\/span> as tyros<\/span> engaged in the same pursuit.<\/p>\n

The untaught peas\u00adant<\/span> beheld<\/span> the ele\u00adments around him and was acquaint\u00aded with their prac\u00adti\u00adcal uses. The most learned philoso\u00adpher knew lit\u00adtle more. He had par\u00adtial\u00adly unveiled<\/span> the face of Nature, but her immor\u00adtal<\/span> lin\u00adea\u00adments<\/span> were still a won\u00adder and a mys\u00adtery. He might dis\u00adsect<\/span>, anatomise<\/span>, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, caus\u00ades in their sec\u00adondary and ter\u00adtiary<\/span> grades were utter\u00adly<\/span> unknown to him. I had gazed upon the for\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtions<\/span> and imped\u00adi\u00adments<\/span> that seemed to<\/span> keep human beings from enter\u00ading the citadel<\/span> of nature, and rash\u00adly<\/span> and igno\u00adrant\u00adly<\/span> I had repined<\/span>.<\/p>\n

But here were books, and here were men who had pen\u00ade\u00adtrat\u00aded deep\u00ader and knew more. I took their word for all that they averred<\/span>, and I became their dis\u00adci\u00adple<\/span>. It may appear strange that such should arise in the eigh\u00adteenth cen\u00adtu\u00adry; but while I fol\u00adlowed the rou\u00adtine of edu\u00adca\u00adtion in the schools of Gene\u00adva, I was, to a great degree, self-taught with regard to my favourite stud\u00adies. My father was not sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic, and I was left to strug\u00adgle with a child\u2019s blind\u00adness, added to a student\u2019s thirst for knowl\u00adedge. Under the guid\u00adance of my new pre\u00adcep\u00adtors<\/span> I entered with the great\u00adest dili\u00adgence<\/span> into the search of the philosopher\u2019s stone<\/span> and the elixir<\/span> of life; but the lat\u00adter soon obtained my undi\u00advid\u00aded atten\u00adtion. Wealth was an infe\u00adri\u00ador<\/span> object, but what glo\u00adry would attend the dis\u00adcov\u00adery if I could ban\u00adish<\/span> dis\u00adease from the human frame<\/span> and ren\u00adder man invul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble<\/span> to any but<\/span> a vio\u00adlent death!<\/p>\n

Nor were these my only visions. The rais\u00ading of ghosts or dev\u00adils was a promise lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly accord\u00aded<\/span> by my favourite authors, the ful\u00adfil\u00adment of which I most eager\u00adly sought; and if my incan\u00adta\u00adtions<\/span> were always unsuc\u00adcess\u00adful, I attrib\u00aduted<\/span> the fail\u00adure rather to my own inex\u00adpe\u00adri\u00adence and mis\u00adtake than to a want of skill or fideli\u00adty<\/span> in my instruc\u00adtors. And thus for a time I was occu\u00adpied by explod\u00aded sys\u00adtems, min\u00adgling<\/span>, like an unadept<\/span>, a thou\u00adsand con\u00adtra\u00addic\u00adto\u00adry<\/span> the\u00ado\u00adries and floun\u00adder\u00ading<\/span> des\u00adper\u00adate\u00adly in a very slough<\/span> of mul\u00adti\u00adfar\u00adi\u00adous<\/span> knowl\u00adedge, guid\u00aded by an ardent<\/span> imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion and child\u00adish rea\u00adson\u00ading, till an acci\u00addent again changed the cur\u00adrent of my ideas.<\/p>\n

When I was about fif\u00adteen years old we had retired to our house near Bel\u00adrive<\/span>, when we wit\u00adnessed a most vio\u00adlent and ter\u00adri\u00adble thun\u00adder\u00adstorm<\/span>. It advanced from behind the moun\u00adtains of Jura<\/span>, and the thun\u00adder burst at once<\/span> with fright\u00adful loud\u00adness from var\u00adi\u00adous quar\u00adters of the heav\u00adens. I remained, while the storm last\u00aded, watch\u00ading its progress with curios\u00adi\u00adty and delight. As I stood at the door, on a sud\u00adden I beheld<\/span> a stream of fire issue from an old and beau\u00adti\u00adful oak which stood about twen\u00adty yards from our house; and so soon as<\/span> the daz\u00adzling<\/span> light van\u00adished, the oak had dis\u00adap\u00adpeared, and noth\u00ading remained but a blast\u00aded stump<\/span>. When we vis\u00adit\u00aded it the next morn\u00ading, we found the tree shat\u00adtered<\/span> in a sin\u00adgu\u00adlar<\/span> man\u00adner. It was not splin\u00adtered<\/span> by the shock, but entire\u00adly reduced to thin rib\u00adbons of wood. I nev\u00ader beheld<\/span> any\u00adthing so utter\u00adly<\/span> destroyed.<\/p>\n

Before this I was not unac\u00adquaint\u00aded with the more obvi\u00adous laws of elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty. On this occa\u00adsion a man of great research in nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> was with us, and excit\u00aded by this cat\u00ada\u00adstro\u00adphe, he entered on the expla\u00adna\u00adtion of a the\u00ado\u00adry which he had formed on the sub\u00adject of elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty and gal\u00advanism<\/span>, which was at once<\/span> new and aston\u00adish\u00ading to me. All that he said threw great\u00adly into the shade<\/span> Cor\u00adnelius Agrip\u00adpa<\/span>, Alber\u00adtus Mag\u00adnus<\/span>, and Paracel\u00adsus<\/span>, the lords of my imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion; but by some fatal\u00adi\u00adty the over\u00adthrow<\/span> of these men dis\u00adin\u00adclined<\/span> me to pur\u00adsue my accus\u00adtomed stud\u00adies. It seemed to<\/span> me as if noth\u00ading would or could ever be known. All that had so long engaged my atten\u00adtion sud\u00adden\u00adly grew despi\u00adca\u00adble<\/span>. By one of those caprices<\/span> of the mind which we are per\u00adhaps most sub\u00adject to in ear\u00adly youth, I at once<\/span> gave up<\/span> my for\u00admer occu\u00adpa\u00adtions, set down<\/span> nat\u00adur\u00adal his\u00adto\u00adry and all its prog\u00ade\u00adny<\/span> as a deformed and abortive<\/span> cre\u00adation, and enter\u00adtained the great\u00adest dis\u00addain<\/span> for a would-be sci\u00adence which could nev\u00ader even step with\u00adin the thresh\u00adold of real knowl\u00adedge. In this mood of mind I betook<\/span> myself to the math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adics and the branch\u00ades of study apper\u00adtain\u00ading<\/span> to that sci\u00adence as being built upon secure foun\u00adda\u00adtions, and so wor\u00adthy of my consideration.<\/p>\n

Thus strange\u00adly are our souls con\u00adstruct\u00aded, and by such slight lig\u00ada\u00adments<\/span> are we bound to<\/span> pros\u00adper\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> or ruin. When I look back, it seems to me as if this almost mirac\u00adu\u00adlous change of incli\u00adna\u00adtion<\/span> and will was the imme\u00addi\u00adate sug\u00adges\u00adtion of the guardian angel<\/span> of my life\u2014the last effort made by the spir\u00adit of preser\u00adva\u00adtion to avert<\/span> the storm that was even then hang\u00ading in the stars and ready to envel\u00adop me. Her vic\u00adto\u00adry was announced by an unusu\u00adal tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty<\/span> and glad\u00adness of soul which fol\u00adlowed the relin\u00adquish\u00ading<\/span> of my ancient and lat\u00adter\u00adly tor\u00adment\u00ading<\/span> stud\u00adies. It was thus that I was to be taught to asso\u00adciate evil with their pros\u00ade\u00adcu\u00adtion<\/span>, hap\u00adpi\u00adness with their dis\u00adre\u00adgard<\/span>.<\/p>\n

It was a strong effort of the spir\u00adit of good, but it was inef\u00adfec\u00adtu\u00adal<\/span>. Des\u00adtiny was too potent<\/span>, and her immutable<\/span> laws had decreed<\/span> my utter<\/span> and ter\u00adri\u00adble destruction.<\/p>\n

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sub\u00adsist<\/span> s\u0259b\u02c8s\u026ast<\/span> v <\/span>To remain or con\u00adtin\u00adue in exis\u00adtence: exist, sur\u00advive, live<\/span><\/p>\n

ardour<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading of strong ener\u00adgy or eager\u00adness: zeal<\/span><\/p>\n

smite<\/span> sma\u026at<\/span> v pp<\/span> smote<\/span> sma\u026at<\/span> pt<\/span> smit\u00adten<\/span> \u02c8sm\u026at\u1d4an<\/span> or smit<\/span> \u02c8sm\u026at<\/span> or smote<\/span> Affect sud\u00adden\u00adly with deep feel\u00ading: impress, strike, affect, move<\/span><\/p>\n

aer\u00adi\u00adal<\/span> \u02c8e\u0259ri\u0259l<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading a light, unsub\u00adstan\u00adtial and grace\u00adful beau\u00adty: ethe\u00adre\u00adal, imag\u00adi\u00adnary; visionary<\/span><\/p>\n

majes\u00adtic<\/span> m\u0259\u02c8\u02a4\u025bst\u026ak<\/span> adj<\/span> Impres\u00adsive or beau\u00adti\u00adful in a dig\u00adni\u00adfied or inspir\u00ading way: grand, mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent, impres\u00adsive, superb<\/span><\/p>\n

won\u00addrous<\/span> \u02c8w\u028cn\u00addr\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnar\u00adi\u00adly good or great: won\u00adder\u00adful; remarkable<\/span><\/p>\n

sub\u00adlime<\/span> s\u0259\u02c8bla\u026am<\/span> adj<\/span> Inspir\u00ading awe, or uplift\u00ading emo\u00adtion because of its beau\u00adty: noble, mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent, glo\u00adri\u00adous, impres\u00adsive, tempest<\/span><\/p>\n

tem\u00adpest<\/span> \u02c8t\u025bm\u00adp\u026ast<\/span> n <\/span>A vio\u00adlent wind\u00adstorm, fre\u00adquent\u00adly accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by rain, snow, or hail: storm, hur\u00adri\u00adcane, gale, tor\u00adna\u00addo, cyclone, typhoon<\/span><\/p>\n

tur\u00adbu\u00adlence<\/span> t\u025c\u02d0b\u00adj\u0259l\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span> A state or con\u00addi\u00adtion of con\u00adfu\u00adsion, move\u00adment, or agi\u00adta\u00adtion; dis\u00ador\u00adder: tur\u00admoil, unrest<\/span><\/p>\n

ample<\/span> \u02c8\u00e6m\u00adp\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Of large or great size, amount, extent, or capac\u00adi\u00adty: siz\u00adable, big, large<\/span><\/p>\n

earnest<\/span> \u02c8\u025c\u02d0n\u026ast<\/span> adv<\/span> Show\u00ading or express\u00ading sin\u00adcer\u00adi\u00adty or seri\u00adous\u00adness: seri\u00adous, keen, grave, intense, steady, ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded, eager <\/span><\/p>\n

akin<\/span> \u0259\u02c8k\u026an<\/span> adj<\/span> Sim\u00adi\u00adlar in qual\u00adi\u00adty or char\u00adac\u00adter: sim\u00adi\u00adlar to, like, relat\u00aded to, cor\u00adre\u00adspond\u00ading to, par\u00adal\u00adlel to<\/span><\/p>\n

rap\u00adture<\/span> \u02c8r\u00e6p\u02a7\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A state of being car\u00adried away by over\u00adwhelm\u00ading emo\u00adtion or elat\u00aded bliss: ecsta\u00adsy, delight, enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm, joy, spell<\/span><\/p>\n

to give up<\/span> \u21d2 To cease to do or perform.<\/p>\n

cam\u00adpagne<\/span> \u21d2 (French<\/span>) Coun\u00adtry\u00adside. Prob\u00ada\u00adbly in ref\u00ader\u00adence to a sum\u00admer home or addi\u00adtion\u00adal residence.<\/p>\n

Bel\u00adrive<\/span> \u21d2 A town itu\u00adat\u00aded with\u00adin the can\u00adton of Gene\u00adva, Switzer\u00adland. Now known as \u201cCol\u00adlonge-Bel\u00adlerive\u201d. The munic\u00adi\u00adpal\u00adi\u00adty derives its name from the French words \u201cbelle\u201d (beau\u00adti\u00adful<\/span>) and \u201crive\u201d (riv\u00ader<\/span>). <\/p>\n

league<\/span> li\u02d0\u0261<\/span> A unit of dis\u00adtance equal to 3.0 statute miles (4.8 kilo\u00adme\u00adters<\/span>).<\/p>\n

reside<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8za\u00ad\u026ad<\/span> v <\/span>To live per\u00adma\u00adnent\u00adly or for a con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable time: lodge, dwell<\/span><\/p>\n

seclu\u00adsion<\/span> s\u026a\u02c8k\u00adlu\u02d0\u0292\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The act of remov\u00ading from social con\u00adtact and activ\u00adi\u00adty: pri\u00adva\u00adcy, iso\u00adla\u00adtion, soli\u00adtude, hiding,<\/span><\/p>\n

tem\u00adper<\/span> \u02c8t\u025bm\u00adp\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtic state of feel\u00ading: mood, humour, atti\u00adtude, disposition<\/span><\/p>\n

attach<\/span> \u0259\u02c8t\u00e6\u02a7<\/span> n <\/span>To bind by emo\u00adtion\u00adal ties, as of affec\u00adtion or loy\u00adal\u00adty: bind, bond, tie<\/span><\/p>\n

fer\u00advent\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8f\u025c\u02d0v\u1d4antli<\/span> adv<\/span> With pas\u00adsion\u00adate warmth and inten\u00adsi\u00adty of emo\u00adtion: fer\u00advid\u00adly, fierily<\/span><\/p>\n

sin\u00adgu\u00adlar<\/span> \u02c8s\u026a\u014bgj\u028al\u0259<\/span> adj<\/span> Beyond or devi\u00adat\u00ading from the usu\u00adal or expect\u00aded: bizarre, pecu\u00adliar, strange, unusual<\/span><\/p>\n

enter\u00adprise<\/span> \u02c8\u025bn\u00adt\u0259pra\u026az<\/span> n <\/span>A project or under\u00adtak\u00ading, espe\u00adcial\u00adly one that requires bold\u00adness or effort: project, task, undertaking<\/span><\/p>\n

for something\u2019s own sake<\/span> \u21d2 Of a pur\u00adsuit of some kind, sole\u00adly due to it being worth\u00adwhile by itself, as opposed to any oth\u00ader reasons. <\/p>\n

chival\u00adry<\/span> \u02c8\u0283\u026av\u0259l\u00adri<\/span> n <\/span>The medieval sys\u00adtem, prin\u00adci\u00adples, and cus\u00adtoms of knight\u00adhood: knight\u00adhood <\/span><\/p>\n

many a some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 Many. (Always fol\u00adlowed by a sin\u00adgu\u00adlar noun.<\/span>)<\/p>\n

enchant\u00adment<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u02a7\u0251\u02d0nt\u00adm\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>A mag\u00adic spell or the prac\u00adtice of cast\u00ading mag\u00adic spells.<\/p>\n

knight\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8na\u026atli<\/span> adj<\/span> Char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtic of the time of chival\u00adry and knight\u00adhood in the Mid\u00addle Ages: chival\u00adrous, noble, heroic<\/span><\/p>\n

mas\u00adquer\u00adade<\/span> \u02ccm\u00e6sk\u0259\u02c8re\u026ad<\/span> n <\/span>A fes\u00adtive gath\u00ader\u00ading of peo\u00adple wear\u00ading masks and cos\u00adtumes: masked ball<\/span><\/p>\n

Bat\u00adtle of Ron\u00adces\u00advalles<\/span> \u21d2 This bat\u00adtle took place between French and Anglo-Por\u00adtuguese forces dur\u00ading the Penin\u00adsu\u00adlar War (1808\u20131814<\/span>).<\/p>\n

The Round Table<\/span> \u21d2 The leg\u00adendary gath\u00ader\u00ading place of King Arthur\u2019s knights in the Arthuri\u00adan legend.<\/p>\n

King Arthur<\/span> \u21d2 A king of Britain, a folk hero and a cen\u00adtral fig\u00adure in the medieval lit\u00ader\u00adary tra\u00addi\u00adtion known as the Mat\u00adter of Britain.<\/p>\n

chival\u00adrous<\/span> \u02c8\u0283\u026av\u0259l\u00adr\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading the qual\u00adi\u00adties of gal\u00adlantry and hon\u00ador attrib\u00aduted to an ide\u00adal knight.<\/p>\n

train<\/span> tre\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>A pro\u00adces\u00adsion of peo\u00adple, vehi\u00adcles, etc, trav\u00adel\u00adling togeth\u00ader, such as one car\u00adry\u00ading sup\u00adplies of ammu\u00adni\u00adtion or equip\u00adment in sup\u00adport of a mil\u00adi\u00adtary oper\u00ada\u00adtion: pro\u00adces\u00adsion<\/span><\/p>\n

sepul\u00adchre<\/span> or <\/span><\/span>sep\u00adul\u00adcher<\/span> \u02c8s\u025bp\u0259lk\u0259<\/span> A recep\u00adta\u00adcle for sacred relics: altar<\/span><\/p>\n

infi\u00addel<\/span> \u02c8\u026an\u00adf\u026ad\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson who has no reli\u00adgious belief: unbe\u00adliev\u00ader, non\u00adbe\u00adliev\u00ader, athe\u00adist, heretic, agnos\u00adtic, heathen<\/span><\/p>\n

indul\u00adgence<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u028cl\u02a4\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>A dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion to yield to the wish\u00ades of some\u00adone:: lenience, lenien\u00adcy<\/span><\/p>\n

tyrant<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u028cl\u02a4\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>An extreme\u00adly oppres\u00adsive, unjust, or cru\u00adel ruler: dic\u00adta\u00adtor, oppressor<\/span><\/p>\n

lot<\/span> l\u0252t<\/span> n <\/span>Por\u00adtion in life: fate, des\u00adtiny, fortune<\/span><\/p>\n

caprice<\/span> k\u0259\u02c8pri\u02d0s<\/span> n <\/span>A sud\u00adden or unpre\u00addictable change of atti\u00adtude, behav\u00adiour, etc: whim, impulse<\/span><\/p>\n

min\u00adgle<\/span> \u02c8m\u026a\u014bgl<\/span> v <\/span>To mix togeth\u00ader but still stay rec\u00adog\u00adniz\u00adable: mix, com\u00admix, uni\u00adfy, amal\u00adga\u00admate blend, inter\u00admin\u00adgle, com\u00admin\u00adgle, inter\u00admix, inter\u00adweave, inter\u00adlace, com\u00adbine, merge, fuse, unite<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adcern<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8s\u025c\u02d0n<\/span> adj<\/span> To per\u00adceive with a spe\u00adcial effort of the sens\u00ades or the mind: detect, dis\u00adtin\u00adguish, mark, mind, note, notice, observe, remark, see<\/span><\/p>\n

pecu\u00adliar\u00adly<\/span> p\u026a\u02c8kju\u02d0li\u0259li<\/span> adv<\/span> In an usu\u00adal or strange man\u00adner: espe\u00adcial\u00adly, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly, specially<\/span><\/p>\n

fil\u00adial<\/span> \u02c8f\u026ali\u0259l<\/span> Of or relat\u00ading to a son or daughter.<\/p>\n

vehe\u00adment<\/span> \u02c8vi\u02d0\u026am\u0259nt<\/span> adj<\/span> Strong, filled with strong or eager feel\u00ading: strong, emo\u00adtion\u00adal, eager, ardent<\/span><\/p>\n

tem\u00adper\u00ada\u00adture<\/span> \u02c8t\u025bm\u00adpr\u0259\u02a7\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>(Archa\u00adic<\/span>) Tem\u00adpera\u00adment.<\/p>\n

indis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adnate\u00adly<\/span> \u02cc\u026and\u026a\u02c8skr\u026am\u026an\u0259tli<\/span> adj<\/span> Not mak\u00ading or based on care\u00adful dis\u00adtinc\u00adtions: uns\u00ade\u00adlec\u00adtive, at random<\/span><\/p>\n

meta\u00adphys\u00adi\u00adcal<\/span> \u02ccm\u025bt\u0259\u02c8f\u026az\u026ak\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> With\u00adout mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal form or sub\u00adstance: super\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal, spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal, unre\u00adal, intangible<\/span><\/p>\n

so to speak<\/span> \u21d2 If I can express in that way.<\/p>\n

sto\u00adry<\/span> st\u0254\u02d0ri<\/span> n <\/span>(Archa\u00adic<\/span>) His\u00adto\u00adry.<\/p>\n

gal\u00adlant<\/span> \u02c8\u0261\u00e6l\u0259nt<\/span> adj<\/span> (of a man<\/span>) Atten\u00adtive to women: chival\u00adrous, cour\u00adte\u00adous, man\u00adner\u00adly, gen\u00adtle\u00adman\u00adly, polite, gra\u00adcious, atten\u00adtive, courtly<\/span><\/p>\n

bene\u00adfac\u00adtor<\/span> \u02c8b\u025bn\u026af\u00e6k\u00adt\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>One that gives aid, espe\u00adcial\u00adly finan\u00adcial aid: sup\u00adport\u00ader, sponsor<\/span><\/p>\n

shrine<\/span> \u0283ra\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>The tomb of a saint or oth\u00ader holy per\u00adson: sacrar\u00adi\u00adum, sanc\u00adto\u00adri\u00adum, sanctuary<\/span><\/p>\n

celes\u00adtial<\/span> s\u026a\u02c8l\u025bsti\u0259l<\/span> adj<\/span> Of or relat\u00ading to the sky or phys\u00adi\u00adcal uni\u00adverse as under\u00adstood in astron\u00ado\u00admy: heav\u00aden\u00adly<\/span><\/p>\n

sullen<\/span> \u02c8s\u028cl\u0259n<\/span> adj<\/span> Gloomy or som\u00adbre in colour: dark<\/span><\/p>\n

sub\u00addue<\/span> s\u0259b\u02c8d\u00adju\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>To over\u00adcome and bring under con\u00adtrol, as by intim\u00adi\u00adda\u00adtion or per\u00adsua\u00adsion: con\u00adtrol, master<\/span><\/p>\n

sem\u00adblance<\/span> \u02c8s\u025bm\u00adbl\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>The state of being some\u00adwhat like some\u00adthing but not tru\u00adly or ful\u00adly the same thing: touch, sug\u00adges\u00adtion, trace, hint, tinge<\/span><\/p>\n

aught<\/span> \u0254\u02d0t<\/span> pron<\/span> Any\u00adthing what\u00adev\u00ader; any part.<\/p>\n

entrench<\/span> \u026an\u02c8tr\u025bn\u02a7<\/span> v <\/span>To implant so deeply as to make change near\u00adly impos\u00adsi\u00adble: embed, fas\u00adten, fix, root<\/span><\/p>\n

benef\u00adi\u00adcence<\/span> b\u0259\u02c8n\u025bf\u026as\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>The act of doing good: kind\u00adness<\/span><\/p>\n

exquis\u00adite<\/span> \u02c8\u025bk\u00adskw\u026az\u026at<\/span> adj<\/span> Of such taste\u00adful beau\u00adty as to elic\u00adit admi\u00adra\u00adtion: ele\u00adgant, graceful<\/span><\/p>\n

dwell up\/on some\u00adone or some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To obses\u00adsive\u00adly think or wor\u00adry about something.<\/p>\n

rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccr\u025bk\u0259\u02c8l\u025bk\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>The abil\u00adi\u00adty to recall past occur\u00adrences: reten\u00adtion, remembrance<\/span><\/p>\n

taint<\/span> te\u026ant<\/span> v <\/span>To mod\u00adi\u00adfy by a trace of some\u00adthing bad or offen\u00adsive: spoil, mar, deflower, impair, vitiate<\/span><\/p>\n

gloomy<\/span> \u02c8\u0261lu\u02d0\u00admi<\/span> adj<\/span> Par\u00adtial\u00adly or total\u00adly dark, espe\u00adcial\u00adly dis\u00admal and drea\u00adry: black, dark, drea\u00adry, somber<\/span><\/p>\n

for<\/span> f\u0254\u02d0<\/span> cj<\/span> Because; since.<\/p>\n

igno\u00adble<\/span> \u026a\u0261\u02c8n\u0259\u028ab\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Com\u00adplete\u00adly lack\u00ading nobil\u00adi\u00adty in char\u00adac\u00adter or qual\u00adi\u00adty or pur\u00adpose: dis\u00adhon\u00adourable, low, base, mean<\/span><\/p>\n

swell<\/span> sw\u025bl<\/span> v <\/span>To increase in amount, degree, force, etc: increase, rise, grow, expand<\/span><\/p>\n

tor\u00adrent<\/span> \u02c8t\u0252r\u1d4ant<\/span> n <\/span>A stream of water flow\u00ading with great rapid\u00adi\u00adty and vio\u00adlence: stream, flow, rush, flood, tide<\/span><\/p>\n

nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> or <\/span><\/span>the phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy of nature<\/span> \u21d2 The philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal study of nature and the phys\u00adi\u00adcal uni\u00adverse that was dom\u00adi\u00adnant before the devel\u00adop\u00adment of mod\u00adern sci\u00adence. It is con\u00adsid\u00adered to be the pre\u00adcur\u00adsor of nat\u00adur\u00adal sci\u00adences such as physics.<\/p>\n

predilec\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccpri\u02d0d\u026a\u02c8l\u025bk\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A ten\u00adden\u00adcy to think favor\u00adably of some\u00adthing in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar: par\u00adtial\u00adi\u00adty; pref\u00ader\u00adence, disposition<\/span><\/p>\n

Thonon<\/span> \u21d2 A town now belong\u00ading to the east\u00adern region of France, near the Swiss border.<\/p>\n

inclemen\u00adcy<\/span> \u026an\u02c8k\u00adl\u025bm\u0259n\u00adsi<\/span> adj<\/span> Stormy: tur\u00adbu\u00adlen\u00adcy<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adfine<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8\u00adfa\u026an<\/span> v <\/span>Place lim\u00adits on extent or access: con\u00adstrain, restrict, lim\u00adit, bound<\/span><\/p>\n

Hein\u00adrich Cor\u00adnelius Agrip\u00adpa<\/span> \u21d2 A Ger\u00adman Renais\u00adsance poly\u00admath, physi\u00adcian, legal schol\u00adar, sol\u00addier, knight, the\u00adolo\u00adgian, and occult writer. Agrippa\u2019s Three Books of Occult Phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> pub\u00adlished in 1533 drew heav\u00adi\u00adly upon Kab\u00adbal\u00adah, Her\u00admeti\u00adcism, and neo-Pla\u00adton\u00adism. His book was wide\u00adly influ\u00aden\u00adtial among eso\u00adteri\u00adcists of the ear\u00adly mod\u00adern peri\u00adod, and was con\u00addemned as hereti\u00adcal by the inquisi\u00adtor of Cologne.<\/p>\n

apa\u00adthy<\/span> \u02c8t\u0252r\u1d4ant<\/span> n <\/span>The trait of lack\u00ading enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm for or inter\u00adest in things gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly: spir\u00adit\u00adless\u00adness, numb\u00adness, indifference<\/span><\/p>\n

to seemed to<\/span> \u21d2 To appear to one\u2019s own mind, sens\u00ades, etc.<\/p>\n

bound<\/span> ba\u028and<\/span> v <\/span>To leap for\u00adward or upward: jump, spring<\/span><\/p>\n

chimeri\u00adcal<\/span> ka\u026a\u02c8m\u025br\u026ak\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> High\u00adly improb\u00ada\u00adble or illu\u00adso\u00adry: fan\u00adci\u00adful, fan\u00adtas\u00adtic, fan\u00adtas\u00adti\u00adcal, imag\u00adi\u00adnary, unreal<\/span><\/p>\n

train<\/span> tre\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>A sequence or series, as of events, thoughts, etc: sequence, series, chain, succession<\/span><\/p>\n

cur\u00adso\u00adry<\/span> \u02c8k\u025c\u02d0s\u1d4ari<\/span> adj<\/span> Per\u00adformed with haste and scant atten\u00adtion to detail: brief, rapid, casu\u00adal, hur\u00adried, care\u00adless, super\u00adfi\u00adcial, hasty<\/span><\/p>\n

by no means<\/span> \u21d2 In no sense; not at all; absolute\u00adly not; cer\u00adtain\u00adly not. <\/p>\n

avid\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> \u0259\u02c8v\u026ad\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>A pos\u00adi\u00adtive feel\u00ading of want\u00adi\u00adng to push ahead with some\u00adthing: avid\u00adness, eager\u00adness, keenness <\/span><\/p>\n

pro\u00adcure<\/span> pr\u0259\u02c8kj\u028a\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To come into pos\u00adses\u00adsion of: get, obtain, acquire, secure<\/span><\/p>\n

Paracel\u00adsus <\/span>born<\/span><\/span> Theophras\u00adtus von Hohen\u00adheim<\/span> \u21d2 A Swiss physi\u00adcian, alchemist, lay the\u00adolo\u00adgian, and philoso\u00adpher of the Ger\u00adman Renaissance.<\/p>\n

Alber\u00adtus Mag\u00adnus OP,<\/span> also known as <\/span><\/span>Saint Albert the Great, Albert of Swabia<\/span> or <\/span><\/span>Albert of Cologne<\/span> \u21d2 A Ger\u00adman Domini\u00adcan fri\u00adar, philoso\u00adpher, sci\u00aden\u00adtist, and bish\u00adop, con\u00adsid\u00adered one of the great\u00adest medieval philoso\u00adphers and thinkers.<\/p>\n

imbue<\/span> \u026am\u02c8b\u00adju\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>To inspire or influ\u00adence thor\u00adough\u00adly: per\u00advade<\/span><\/p>\n

fer\u00advent<\/span> \u02c8f\u025c\u02d0v\u0259nt<\/span> adv<\/span> Hav\u00ading or show\u00ading great warmth or inten\u00adsi\u00adty of spir\u00adit, feel\u00ading, enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm, etc.: ardent<\/span><\/p>\n

in spite of<\/span> \u21d2 With\u00adout wor\u00adry\u00ading about; although.<\/p>\n

Isaac New\u00adton<\/span> \u21d2 An Eng\u00adlish sci\u00aden\u00adtist and author who was described in his time as a nat\u00adur\u00adal philoso\u00adpher. He was a key fig\u00adure in the Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion and the Enlight\u00aden\u00adment that fol\u00adlowed. His pio\u00adneer\u00ading book Philosophi\u00e6 Nat\u00adu\u00adralis Prin\u00adcip\u00adia Math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adi\u00adca (Math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal Prin\u00adci\u00adples of Nat\u00adur\u00adal Phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span>), first pub\u00adlished in 1687, con\u00adsol\u00adi\u00addat\u00aded many pre\u00advi\u00adous results and estab\u00adlished clas\u00adsi\u00adcal mechanics.<\/p>\n

avow<\/span> \u0259\u02c8va\u028a<\/span> v <\/span>To rec\u00adog\u00adnize, often reluc\u00adtant\u00adly, the real\u00adi\u00adty or truth of: allow, admit, acknowledge<\/span><\/p>\n

suc\u00adces\u00adsor<\/span> s\u0259k\u02c8s\u025bs\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson who fol\u00adlows next in order or that imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly replaces some\u00adthing or some\u00adone: sub\u00adsti\u00adtute, replace\u00adment, heir<\/span><\/p>\n

appre\u00adhen\u00adsion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6pr\u026a\u02c8h\u025bn\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The abil\u00adi\u00adty to appre\u00adhend or under\u00adstand: under\u00adstand\u00ading<\/span><\/p>\n

tyros<\/span> \u02c8ta\u026a\u0259r\u0259\u028a<\/span> n <\/span>A begin\u00adner in learn\u00ading some\u00adthing: abecedar\u00adi\u00adan, begin\u00adner, fresh\u00adma, novice<\/span><\/p>\n

peas\u00adant<\/span> \u02c8p\u025bz\u1d4ant<\/span> n <\/span>A mem\u00adber of a class of small farm\u00aders or farm labor\u00aders of low social rank.<\/p>\n

behold<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u0259\u028ald<\/span> pp<\/span>, pt<\/span> beheld<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u025bld<\/span> v <\/span>To appre\u00adhend some\u00adthing by use of the eyes: see, per\u00adceive<\/span><\/p>\n

unveil<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8ve\u026al<\/span> v <\/span>To make some\u00adthing secret or con\u00adcealed known or pub\u00adlic: divulge; reveal<\/span><\/p>\n

immor\u00adtal<\/span> \u026a\u02c8m\u0254\u02d0t\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Not sub\u00adject to death: time\u00adless, eter\u00adnal, everlasting<\/span><\/p>\n

lin\u00adea\u00adment<\/span> \u02c8l\u026an\u026a\u0259m\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>A dis\u00adtinc\u00adtive shape, con\u00adtour, or line, espe\u00adcial\u00adly of the face.<\/p>\n

dis\u00adsect<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8s\u025bkt<\/span> n <\/span>To cut apart (an ani\u00admal body, plant, etc.<\/span>) to exam\u00adine the struc\u00adture and rela\u00adtion of parts: ana\u00adlyze, anatomize<\/span><\/p>\n

anatomise<\/span> \u0259\u02c8n\u00e6t\u0259\u00adma\u026az<\/span> v <\/span>To sep\u00ada\u00adrate into parts for study: ana\u00adlyze, break down, dis\u00adsect, resolve<\/span><\/p>\n

ter\u00adtiary<\/span> \u02c8t\u025c\u02d0\u0283\u1d4ari<\/span> adj<\/span> Third in place, order, degree, or rank: third<\/span><\/p>\n

utter\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8\u028ct\u0259li<\/span> adv<\/span> Com\u00adplete\u00adly and with\u00adout qual\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion: com\u00adplete\u00adly, absolute\u00adly, entire\u00adly, totally<\/span><\/p>\n

for\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccf\u0254\u02d0t\u026af\u026a\u02c8ke\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> A wall, mound, etc, used to pro\u00adtect a place<\/p>\n

imped\u00adi\u00adment<\/span> \u026am\u02c8p\u025bd\u026am\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adthing imma\u00adte\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal that inter\u00adferes with or delays action or progress: obsta\u00adcle, hin\u00addrance, difficulty<\/span><\/p>\n

citadel<\/span> \u02c8s\u026at\u0259d\u025bl<\/span> adj<\/span> A for\u00adti\u00adfied place attached to, or with\u00adin, a city: bas\u00adtion<\/span><\/p>\n

rash\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8r\u00e6\u0283li<\/span> adj<\/span> With\u00adout care\u00adful con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of the pos\u00adsi\u00adble con\u00adse\u00adquences: impetu\u00adous\u00adly<\/span><\/p>\n

igno\u00adrant\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8\u026a\u0261n\u1d4ar\u1d4antli<\/span> adj<\/span> In lack\u00ading edu\u00adca\u00adtion or knowl\u00adedge manner: <\/p>\n

repine<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8\u00adpa\u026an<\/span> v <\/span>To be dis\u00adcon\u00adtent\u00aded or low in spir\u00adits and feel or express dejec\u00adtion or dis\u00adcon\u00adtent: com\u00adplain<\/span><\/p>\n

aver<\/span> \u0259\u02c8v\u025c\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>To express an opin\u00adion, judg\u00adment, or posi\u00adtion: affirm, allege, argue, assert<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adci\u00adple<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8sa\u026ap\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adone who believes and helps to spread the doc\u00adtrine of anoth\u00ader: fol\u00adlow\u00ader, adherent<\/span><\/p>\n

pre\u00adcep\u00adtor<\/span> pr\u026a\u02c8s\u025bp\u00adt\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>Teacher at a uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty or col\u00adlege: instruc\u00adtor, teacher, don <\/span><\/p>\n

dili\u00adgence<\/span> \u02c8d\u026al\u026a\u02a4\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>Earnest and per\u00adsis\u00adtent appli\u00adca\u00adtion to an under\u00adtak\u00ading; steady effort: care, activ\u00adi\u00adty, atten\u00adtion, per\u00adse\u00adver\u00adance, earnest\u00adness, atten\u00adtive\u00adness, assiduity<\/span><\/p>\n

philosopher\u2019s stone<\/span> \u21d2 A sub\u00adstance that was believed to have the pow\u00ader of trans\u00admut\u00ading base met\u00adal into gold. Also called elixir.<\/p>\n

elixir<\/span> \u026a\u02c8l\u026ak\u00ads\u0259<\/span> n <\/span> A sub\u00adstance believed to main\u00adtain life indefinitely.<\/p>\n

infe\u00adri\u00ador<\/span> \u026an\u02c8f\u026a\u0259ri\u0259<\/span> adj<\/span> Low or low\u00ader in order, degree, or rank: low\u00ader, junior, minor, secondary<\/span><\/p>\n

ban\u00adish<\/span> \u02c8b\u00e6n\u026a\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To dri\u00adve away: expel<\/span><\/p>\n

frame<\/span> fre\u026am<\/span> v <\/span>(Obso\u00adlete<\/span>) The struc\u00adture or physique of a human or ani\u00admal body: shape; form<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

invul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble<\/span> \u026an\u02c8v\u028cl\u00adn\u1d4ar\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Inca\u00adpable of being wound\u00aded, hurt, dam\u00adaged, etc, either phys\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly or emo\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly: invin\u00adci\u00adble, impenetrable<\/span><\/p>\n

but<\/span> b\u028ct<\/span> adv<\/span> (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) Mere\u00adly; just; only.<\/p>\n

accord<\/span> \u0259\u02c8k\u0254\u02d0d<\/span> v <\/span>To be in agree\u00adment or har\u00admo\u00adny: agree<\/span><\/p>\n

incan\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u026ank\u00e6n\u02c8te\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Rit\u00adu\u00adal recita\u00adtion of ver\u00adbal charms or spells to pro\u00adduce a mag\u00adic effect: chant, spell<\/span><\/p>\n

attribute<\/span> \u0259\u02c8tr\u026ab\u00adju\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>To regard as result\u00ading from a spec\u00adi\u00adfied cause: ascribe, cred\u00adit, refer, trace, assign<\/span><\/p>\n

fideli\u00adty<\/span> f\u026a\u02c8d\u025bl\u026ati n <\/span>The qual\u00adi\u00adty of being faith\u00adful: loy\u00adal\u00adty, ded\u00adi\u00adca\u00adtion, faithfulness<\/span><\/p>\n

unadept<\/span> \u02cc\u028cn\u02c8\u00e6d\u025bpt<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson who is not pro\u00adfi\u00adcient in some\u00adthing requir\u00ading skill or man\u00adu\u00adal dex\u00adter\u00adi\u00adty: awk\u00adward, clum\u00adsy, inept, unskilled, amateurish<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adtra\u00addic\u00adto\u00adry<\/span> \u02cck\u0252n\u00adtr\u0259\u02c8d\u026ak\u00adt\u1d4ari<\/span> adj<\/span> Unable to be both true at the same time: mutu\u00adal\u00adly exclusive<\/span><\/p>\n

floun\u00adder<\/span> \u02c8fla\u028and\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To move clum\u00adsi\u00adly or with lit\u00adtle progress, as through water or mud: strug\u00adgle, stum\u00adble, tum\u00adble, muddle<\/span><\/p>\n

slough<\/span> sla\u028a<\/span> n <\/span>A swamp, marsh, bog, or pond: wal\u00adlow, welter<\/span><\/p>\n

mul\u00adti\u00adfar\u00adi\u00adous<\/span> \u02ccm\u028clt\u026a\u02c8fe\u0259ri\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Of many and var\u00adi\u00adous kinds: mul\u00adti\u00adfac\u00adeted, many-sided, miscellaneous<\/span><\/p>\n

ardent<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Express\u00ading or char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by warmth of feel\u00ading: pas\u00adsion\u00adate<\/span><\/p>\n

Bel\u00adrive<\/span> \u21d2 A town itu\u00adat\u00aded with\u00adin the can\u00adton of Gene\u00adva, Switzer\u00adland. Now known as \u201cCol\u00adlonge-Bel\u00adlerive\u201d. The munic\u00adi\u00adpal\u00adi\u00adty derives its name from the French words \u201cbelle\u201d (beau\u00adti\u00adful<\/span>) and \u201crive\u201d (riv\u00ader<\/span>). <\/p>\n

thun\u00adder\u00adstorm<\/span> \u02c8\u03b8\u028cnd\u0259st\u0254\u02d0m<\/span> n <\/span>A tran\u00adsient, some\u00adtimes vio\u00adlent storm of thun\u00adder and light\u00adning, often accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by rain and some\u00adtimes hail.<\/p>\n

Jura<\/span> \u21d2 Sub-alpine moun\u00adtain range sit\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded north of the West\u00adern Alps.The Jura moun\u00adtain range is main\u00adly locat\u00aded in France and Switzer\u00adland, the range con\u00adtin\u00adues north\u00adeast\u00adwards through north\u00adern Switzer\u00adland and Germany.<\/p>\n

at once<\/span> \u21d2 With\u00adout delay; at the same time; immediately.<\/p>\n

so soon as<\/span> \u21d2 As ear\u00adly as.<\/p>\n

daz\u00adzling<\/span> \u02c8d\u00e6z\u1d4al\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> So bright as to blind some\u00adone tem\u00adporar\u00adi\u00adly: blaz\u00ading, blind\u00ading, glaring<\/span><\/p>\n

stump<\/span> st\u028cmp<\/span> n <\/span>The bot\u00adtom part of a tree that is left in the ground after the rest of it has been cut down.{stump}<\/p>\n

shat\u00adter<\/span> \u02c8\u0283\u00e6t\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To break sud\u00adden\u00adly into very small pieces, or to make some\u00adthing break in this way.<\/p>\n

splin\u00adter<\/span> \u02c8spl\u026an\u00adt\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To split or break into sharp, slen\u00adder pieces; form splin\u00adters: cleave, split<\/span><\/p>\n

gal\u00advanism<\/span> \u02c8\u0261\u00e6lv\u0259n\u026az\u1d4am<\/span> n <\/span>1.<\/span> Direct-cur\u00adrent elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty, espe\u00adcial\u00adly when pro\u00adduced chem\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly: voltaism<\/span><\/p>\n

2.<\/span> Ther\u00ada\u00adpeu\u00adtic appli\u00adca\u00adtion of direct-cur\u00adrent elec\u00adtric\u00adi\u00adty, espe\u00adcial\u00adly the elec\u00adtric stim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion of nerves and muscle.<\/p>\n

put some\u00adone or some\u00adthing in the shade<\/span> \u21d2 To make some\u00adone or some\u00adthing seem less inter\u00adest\u00ading, impor\u00adtant, or remark\u00adable by comparison.<\/p>\n

over\u00adthrow<\/span> \u02cc\u0259\u028av\u0259\u02c8\u03b8r\u0259\u028a<\/span> n <\/span>The act of dis\u00adturb\u00ading the mind or body: derange\u00adment, upset <\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adin\u00adcline<\/span> \u02ccd\u026as\u026an\u02c8k\u00adla\u026an<\/span> v <\/span>To make or be unwill\u00ading, reluc\u00adtant, or averse: indis\u00adpose<\/span><\/p>\n

despi\u00adca\u00adble<\/span> \u02c8d\u025bsp\u026ak\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Deserv\u00ading of con\u00adtempt or scorn: vile, con\u00adtemptible, mean, shameful<\/span><\/p>\n

to set down<\/span> \u21d2 To regard; consider.<\/p>\n

prog\u00ade\u00adny<\/span> \u02c8pr\u0252\u02a4\u0259ni<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adthing that is the prod\u00aduct of some\u00adthing else: off\u00adspring<\/span><\/p>\n

abortive<\/span> \u0259\u02c8b\u0254\u02d0t\u026av<\/span> adj<\/span> Imper\u00adfect\u00adly devel\u00adoped: rudi\u00admen\u00adta\u00adry<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00addain<\/span> d\u026as\u02c8de\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>Feel\u00ading or show of supe\u00adri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adty and dis\u00adlike: con\u00adtempt, scorn<\/span><\/p>\n

betake<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8te\u026ak<\/span> v <\/span>(Archa\u00adic<\/span>) To apply or com\u00admit one\u00adself to: devote <\/span><\/p>\n

apper\u00adtain<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6p\u0259\u02c8te\u026an<\/span> v <\/span>To belong as a prop\u00ader func\u00adtion or part: per\u00adtain, belong<\/span><\/p>\n

lig\u00ada\u00adment<\/span> \u02c8l\u026a\u0261\u0259m\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>A uni\u00adfy\u00ading or con\u00adnect\u00ading tie or bond: lig\u00ada\u00adture, link, bond, tie<\/span><\/p>\n

to be bound to<\/span> \u21d2 Be cer\u00adtain or des\u00adtined to.<\/p>\n

pros\u00adper\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> pr\u0252s\u02c8p\u025br\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>The con\u00addi\u00adtion of hav\u00ading good for\u00adtune: suc\u00adcess, wealth<\/span><\/p>\n

guardian angel<\/span> \u21d2 A guardian angel is a type of angel that is assigned to pro\u00adtect and guide a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar per\u00adson, group or nation.<\/p>\n

avert<\/span> \u0259\u02c8v\u025c\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>To turn away or aside.<\/p>\n

tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty<\/span> tr\u00e6\u014b\u02c8k\u00adw\u026al\u026ati<\/span> n <\/span>A state of peace and qui\u00adet: quiet\u00adness, relax\u00adation, repose, calmness<\/span><\/p>\n

relin\u00adquish<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8l\u026a\u014bk\u00adw\u026a\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To give up or aban\u00addon: leave, release, drop, aban\u00addon, resign, desert, quit<\/span><\/p>\n

tor\u00adment<\/span> t\u0254\u02d0\u02c8m\u025bnt<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to under\u00adgo great phys\u00adi\u00adcal pain or men\u00adtal anguish: tor\u00adture<\/span><\/p>\n

pros\u00ade\u00adcu\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccpr\u0252s\u026a\u02c8kju\u02d0\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> Tn he act of begin\u00adning and car\u00adry\u00ading through to com\u00adple\u00adtion: dis\u00adcharge, effec\u00adtu\u00ada\u00adtion, exe\u00adcu\u00adtion, per\u00adfor\u00admance<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adre\u00adgard<\/span> \u02ccd\u026as\u00adr\u026a\u02c8\u0261\u0251\u02d0d<\/span> n <\/span>To give lit\u00adtle or no atten\u00adtion to: ignore, neglect<\/span><\/p>\n

inef\u00adfec\u00adtu\u00adal<\/span> \u02cc\u026an\u026a\u02c8f\u025bk\u00adtj\u028a\u0259l<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading no use\u00adful result: use\u00adless, vain, unsuc\u00adcess\u00adful, futile, fruitless<\/span><\/p>\n

potent<\/span> \u02c8p\u0259\u028at\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Pos\u00adsess\u00ading great strength: pow\u00ader\u00adful, mighty<\/span><\/p>\n

immutable<\/span> \u026a\u02c8mju\u02d0t\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Not sub\u00adject or sus\u00adcep\u00adti\u00adble to change or vari\u00ada\u00adtion in form or qual\u00adi\u00adty or nature: inal\u00adter\u00adable, invari\u00adable, rigid, unal\u00adter\u00adable, unchangeable<\/span><\/p>\n

decree<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8kri\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>To com\u00admand, ordain, or decide by or as if by decree: ordain, pre\u00adscribe<\/span><\/p>\n

utter<\/span> \u02c8\u028ct\u0259<\/span> adj<\/span> Com\u00adplete and absolute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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When I had attained the age of sev\u00aden\u00adteen my par\u00adents resolved that I should become a stu\u00addent at the uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span>. I had hith\u00ader\u00adto<\/span> attend\u00aded the schools of Gene\u00adva, but my father thought it nec\u00ades\u00adsary for the com\u00adple\u00adtion of my edu\u00adca\u00adtion that I should be made acquaint\u00aded with oth\u00ader cus\u00adtoms than those of my native coun\u00adtry. My depar\u00adture was there\u00adfore fixed at an ear\u00adly date, but before the day resolved upon could arrive, the first mis\u00adfor\u00adtune of my life occurred\u2014an omen<\/span>, as it were, of my future misery.<\/p>\n

Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth had caught the scar\u00adlet fever<\/span>; her ill\u00adness was severe, and she was in the great\u00adest dan\u00adger. Dur\u00ading her ill\u00adness many argu\u00adments had been urged to per\u00adsuade my moth\u00ader to refrain from<\/span> attend\u00ading upon her. She had at first<\/span> yield\u00aded to our entreaties<\/span>, but when she heard that the life of her favourite was men\u00adaced<\/span>, she could no longer con\u00adtrol her anx\u00adi\u00adety. She attend\u00aded her sickbed; her watch\u00adful<\/span> atten\u00adtions tri\u00adumphed over the malig\u00adni\u00adty<\/span> of the dis\u00adtem\u00adper<\/span>\u2014Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth was saved, but the con\u00adse\u00adquences of this impru\u00addence<\/span> were fatal to her pre\u00adserv\u00ader. On the third day my moth\u00ader sick\u00adened; her fever was accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by the most alarm\u00ading symp\u00adtoms, and the looks of her med\u00adical atten\u00addants<\/span> prog\u00adnos\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded<\/span> the worst event. On her deathbed the for\u00adti\u00adtude<\/span> and benig\u00adni\u00adty<\/span> of this best of women did not desert her. She joined the hands of Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth and myself. \u201cMy chil\u00addren,\u201d she said, \u201cmy firmest hopes of future hap\u00adpi\u00adness were placed on the prospect of your union. This expec\u00adta\u00adtion will now be the con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> of your father. Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, my love, you must sup\u00adply my place to my younger chil\u00addren. Alas<\/span>! I regret that I am tak\u00aden from you; and, hap\u00adpy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to quit you all? But these are not thoughts befit\u00adting<\/span> me; I will endeav\u00adour<\/span> to resign myself cheer\u00adful\u00adly to death and will indulge<\/span> a hope of meet\u00ading you in anoth\u00ader world.\u201d<\/p>\n

She died calm\u00adly, and her coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> expressed affec\u00adtion even in death. I need not describe the feel\u00adings of those whose dear\u00adest ties are rent<\/span> by that most irrepara\u00adble<\/span> evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhib\u00adit\u00aded on the coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span>. It is so long before the mind can per\u00adsuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very<\/span> exis\u00adtence appeared a part of our own can have depart\u00aded for ever\u2014that the bright\u00adness of a beloved eye can have been extin\u00adguished<\/span> and the sound of a voice so famil\u00adiar and dear to the ear can be hushed<\/span>, nev\u00ader more to be heard. These are the reflec\u00adtions of the first days; but when the lapse<\/span> of time proves the real\u00adi\u00adty of the evil, then the actu\u00adal bit\u00adter\u00adness of grief com\u00admences. Yet from whom has not that rude<\/span> hand rent<\/span> away some dear con\u00adnec\u00adtion? And why should I describe a sor\u00adrow which all have felt, and must feel? The time at length<\/span> arrives when grief is rather an indul\u00adgence<\/span> than a neces\u00adsi\u00adty; and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed<\/span> a sac\u00adri\u00adlege<\/span>, is not ban\u00adished<\/span>. My moth\u00ader was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to per\u00adform; we must con\u00adtin\u00adue our course with the rest and learn to think our\u00adselves for\u00adtu\u00adnate whilst one remains whom the spoil\u00ader<\/span> has not seized.<\/p>\n

My depar\u00adture for Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span>, which had been deferred<\/span> by these events, was now again deter\u00admined upon. I obtained from my father a respite<\/span> of some weeks. It appeared to me sac\u00adri\u00adlege<\/span> so soon to leave the repose<\/span>, akin<\/span> to death, of the house of mourn\u00ading<\/span> and to rush into the thick<\/span> of life. I was new to sor\u00adrow, but it did not the less alarm me. I was unwill\u00ading to quit the sight of those that remained to me, and above all, I desired to see my sweet Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth in some degree consoled.<\/p>\n

She indeed veiled<\/span> her grief and strove<\/span> to act the com\u00adforter<\/span> to us all. She looked steadi\u00adly on life and assumed its duties with courage and zeal<\/span>. She devot\u00aded her\u00adself to those whom she had been taught to call her uncle and cousins. Nev\u00ader was she so enchant\u00adi\u00adng<\/span> as at this time, when she recalled the sun\u00adshine of her smiles and spent them upon us. She for\u00adgot even her own regret in her endeav\u00adours<\/span> to make us forget.<\/p>\n

The day of my depar\u00adture at length<\/span> arrived. Cler\u00adval spent the last evening with us. He had endeav\u00adoured<\/span> to per\u00adsuade his father to per\u00admit him to accom\u00adpa\u00adny me and to become my fel\u00adlow stu\u00addent, but in vain<\/span>. His father was a nar\u00adrow-mind\u00aded trad\u00ader and saw idle\u00adness and ruin in the aspi\u00adra\u00adtions and ambi\u00adtion of his son. Hen\u00adry deeply felt the mis\u00adfor\u00adtune of being debarred<\/span> from a lib\u00ader\u00adal edu\u00adca\u00adtion. He said lit\u00adtle, but when he spoke I read in his kin\u00addling<\/span> eye and in his ani\u00admat\u00aded glance a restrained<\/span> but firm resolve not to be chained to the mis\u00ader\u00adable details of commerce.<\/p>\n

We sat late. We could not tear our\u00adselves away from each oth\u00ader nor per\u00adsuade our\u00adselves to say the word \u201cFarewell<\/span>!\u201d It was said, and we retired under the pre\u00adtence<\/span> of seek\u00ading repose<\/span>, each fan\u00adcy\u00ading that the oth\u00ader was deceived<\/span>; but when at morning\u2019s dawn I descend\u00aded to the car\u00adriage<\/span> which was to con\u00advey me away, they were all there\u2014my father again to bless me, Cler\u00adval to press my hand once more, my Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth to renew her entreaties<\/span> that I would write often and to bestow<\/span> the last fem\u00adi\u00adnine<\/span> atten\u00adtions on her play\u00admate<\/span> and friend.<\/p>\n

I threw myself into the chaise<\/span> that was to con\u00advey me away and indulged<\/span> in the most melan\u00adcholy<\/span> reflec\u00adtions. I, who had ever been sur\u00adround\u00aded by ami\u00adable<\/span> com\u00adpan\u00adions, con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly engaged in endeav\u00adour\u00ading<\/span> to bestow<\/span> mutu\u00adal pleasure\u2014I was now alone. In the uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty whith\u00ader<\/span> I was going I must form my own friends and be my own pro\u00adtec\u00adtor. My life had hith\u00ader\u00adto<\/span> been remark\u00adably seclud\u00aded<\/span> and domes\u00adtic, and this had giv\u00aden me invin\u00adci\u00adble<\/span> repug\u00adnance<\/span> to new coun\u00adte\u00adnances<\/span>. I loved my broth\u00aders, Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, and Cler\u00adval; these were \u201cold famil\u00adiar faces,\u201d but I believed myself total\u00adly unfit\u00adted<\/span> for the com\u00adpa\u00adny of strangers. Such were my reflec\u00adtions as I com\u00admenced my jour\u00adney; but as I pro\u00adceed\u00aded, my spir\u00adits and hopes rose. I ardent\u00adly<\/span> desired the acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion of knowl\u00adedge. I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain dur\u00ading my youth cooped up<\/span> in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my sta\u00adtion<\/span> among oth\u00ader human beings. Now my desires were com\u00adplied with, and it would, indeed, have been fol\u00adly<\/span> to repent<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I had suf\u00adfi\u00adcient leisure for these and many oth\u00ader reflec\u00adtions dur\u00ading my jour\u00adney to Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span>, which was long and fatigu\u00ading. At length<\/span> the high white steeple<\/span> of the town met my eyes. I alight\u00aded<\/span> and was con\u00adduct\u00aded to my soli\u00adtary<\/span> apart\u00adment to spend the evening as I pleased.<\/p>\n

The next morn\u00ading I deliv\u00adered my let\u00adters of intro\u00adduc\u00adtion and paid a vis\u00adit to some of the prin\u00adci\u00adpal pro\u00adfes\u00adsors<\/span>. Chance\u2014or rather the evil influ\u00adence, the Angel of Destruc\u00adtion, which assert\u00aded omnipo\u00adtent<\/span> sway<\/span> over me from the moment I turned my reluc\u00adtant steps from my father\u2019s door\u2014led me first to M. Krempe, pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span>. He was an uncouth<\/span> man, but deeply imbued<\/span> in the secrets of his sci\u00adence. He asked me sev\u00ader\u00adal ques\u00adtions con\u00adcern\u00ading my progress in the dif\u00adfer\u00adent branch\u00ades of sci\u00adence apper\u00adtain\u00ading<\/span> to nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span>. I replied care\u00adless\u00adly, and part\u00adly in con\u00adtempt<\/span>, men\u00adtioned the names of my alchemists as the prin\u00adci\u00adpal authors I had stud\u00adied. The pro\u00adfes\u00adsor stared. \u201cHave you,\u201d he said, \u201creal\u00adly spent your time in study\u00ading such non\u00adsense<\/span>?\u201d<\/p>\n

I replied in the affir\u00adma\u00adtive<\/span>. \u201cEvery minute,\u201d con\u00adtin\u00adued M. Krempe with warmth, \u201cevery instant that you have wast\u00aded on those books is utter\u00adly<\/span> and entire\u00adly lost. You have bur\u00addened your mem\u00ado\u00adry with explod\u00aded sys\u00adtems and use\u00adless names. Good God! In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fan\u00adcies which you have so greed\u00adi\u00adly<\/span> imbibed<\/span> are a thou\u00adsand years old and as musty<\/span> as they are ancient? I lit\u00adtle expect\u00aded, in this enlight\u00adened<\/span> and sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic age, to find a dis\u00adci\u00adple<\/span> of Alber\u00adtus Mag\u00adnus<\/span> and Paracel\u00adsus<\/span>. My dear sir, you must begin your stud\u00adies entire\u00adly anew<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

So say\u00ading, he stepped aside and wrote down a list of sev\u00ader\u00adal books treat\u00ading of nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> which he desired me to pro\u00adcure<\/span>, and dis\u00admissed me after men\u00adtion\u00ading that in the begin\u00adning of the fol\u00adlow\u00ading week he intend\u00aded to com\u00admence a course of lec\u00adtures upon nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> in its gen\u00ader\u00adal rela\u00adtions, and that M. Wald\u00adman, a fel\u00adlow pro\u00adfes\u00adsor, would lec\u00adture upon chem\u00adistry the alter\u00adnate days that he omitted.<\/p>\n

I returned home not dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00aded, for I have said that I had long con\u00adsid\u00adered those authors use\u00adless whom the pro\u00adfes\u00adsor repro\u00adbat\u00aded<\/span>; but I returned not at all<\/span> the more inclined<\/span> to recur<\/span> to these stud\u00adies in any shape. M. Krempe was a lit\u00adtle squat<\/span> man with a gruff<\/span> voice and a repul\u00adsive<\/span> coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span>; the teacher, there\u00adfore, did not pre\u00adpos\u00adsess<\/span> me in favour of<\/span> his pur\u00adsuits. In rather a too philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal and con\u00adnect\u00aded a strain, per\u00adhaps, I have giv\u00aden an account of the con\u00adclu\u00adsions<\/span> I had come to con\u00adcern\u00ading them in my ear\u00adly years. As a child I had not been con\u00adtent with the results promised by the mod\u00adern pro\u00adfes\u00adsors of nat\u00adur\u00adal sci\u00adence. With a con\u00adfu\u00adsion of ideas only to be account\u00aded for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such mat\u00adters, I had retrod<\/span> the steps of knowl\u00adedge along the paths of time and exchanged the dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies of recent inquir\u00aders<\/span> for the dreams of for\u00adgot\u00adten alchemists. Besides, I had a con\u00adtempt<\/span> for the uses of mod\u00adern nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span>. It was very dif\u00adfer\u00adent when the mas\u00adters of the sci\u00adence sought immor\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> and pow\u00ader; such views, although futile<\/span>, were grand; but now the scene was changed. The ambi\u00adtion of the inquir\u00ader<\/span> seemed to<\/span> lim\u00adit itself to the anni\u00adhi\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> of those visions on which my inter\u00adest in sci\u00adence was chiefly found\u00aded. I was required to exchange chimeras<\/span> of bound\u00adless<\/span> grandeur<\/span> for real\u00adi\u00adties of lit\u00adtle worth.<\/p>\n

Such were my reflec\u00adtions dur\u00ading the first two or three days of my res\u00adi\u00addence at Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span>, which were chiefly spent in becom\u00ading acquaint\u00aded with the local\u00adi\u00adties<\/span> and the prin\u00adci\u00adpal res\u00adi\u00addents in my new abode<\/span>. But as the ensu\u00ading<\/span> week com\u00admenced, I thought of the infor\u00adma\u00adtion which M. Krempe had giv\u00aden me con\u00adcern\u00ading the lec\u00adtures. And although I could not con\u00adsent to go and hear that lit\u00adtle con\u00adceit\u00aded<\/span> fel\u00adlow deliv\u00ader sen\u00adtences out of a pul\u00adpit<\/span>, I rec\u00adol\u00adlect\u00aded<\/span> what he had said of M. Wald\u00adman, whom I had nev\u00ader seen, as he had hith\u00ader\u00adto<\/span> been out of town.<\/p>\n

Part\u00adly from curios\u00adi\u00adty and part\u00adly from idle\u00adness, I went into the lec\u00adtur\u00ading room, which M. Wald\u00adman entered short\u00adly after. This pro\u00adfes\u00adsor was very unlike his col\u00adleague. He appeared about fifty years of age, but with an aspect expres\u00adsive<\/span> of the great\u00adest benev\u00ado\u00adlence<\/span>; a few grey hairs cov\u00adered his tem\u00adples<\/span>, but those at the back of his head were near\u00adly black. His per\u00adson was short but remark\u00adably erect<\/span> and his voice the sweet\u00adest I had ever heard. He began his lec\u00adture by a reca\u00adpit\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> of the his\u00adto\u00adry of chem\u00adistry and the var\u00adi\u00adous improve\u00adments made by dif\u00adfer\u00adent men of learn\u00ading, pro\u00adnounc\u00ading with fer\u00advour<\/span> the names of the most dis\u00adtin\u00adguished dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00aders. He then took a cur\u00adso\u00adry<\/span> view of the present state of the sci\u00adence and explained many of its ele\u00admen\u00adtary terms. After hav\u00ading made a few prepara\u00adto\u00adry<\/span> exper\u00adi\u00adments, he con\u00adclud\u00aded with a pan\u00ade\u00adgyric<\/span> upon mod\u00adern chem\u00adistry, the terms of which I shall nev\u00ader forget:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ancient teach\u00aders of this sci\u00adence,\u201d said he, \u201cpromised impos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adties and per\u00adformed noth\u00ading. The mod\u00adern mas\u00adters promise very lit\u00adtle; they know that met\u00adals can\u00adnot be trans\u00admut\u00aded<\/span> and that the elixir<\/span> of life is a chimera<\/span> but these philoso\u00adphers, whose hands seem only made to dab\u00adble<\/span> in dirt, and their eyes to pore<\/span> over the micro\u00adscope or cru\u00adcible<\/span>, have indeed per\u00adformed mir\u00ada\u00adcles. They pen\u00ade\u00adtrate into the recess\u00ades<\/span> of nature and show how she works in her hid\u00ading-places. They ascend<\/span> into the heav\u00adens; they have dis\u00adcov\u00adered how the blood cir\u00adcu\u00adlates<\/span>, and the nature of the air we breathe. They have acquired<\/span> new and almost unlim\u00adit\u00aded pow\u00aders; they can com\u00admand the thun\u00adders of heav\u00aden, mim\u00adic<\/span> the earth\u00adquake, and even mock<\/span> the invis\u00adi\u00adble world with its own shadows.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such were the professor\u2019s words\u2014rather let me say such the words of the fate\u2014enounced<\/span> to destroy me. As he went on I felt as if my soul were grap\u00adpling<\/span> with a pal\u00adpa\u00adble<\/span> ene\u00admy; one by one the var\u00adi\u00adous keys were touched which formed the mech\u00ada\u00adnism of my being; chord<\/span> after chord<\/span> was sound\u00aded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one con\u00adcep\u00adtion, one pur\u00adpose. So much has been done, exclaimed<\/span> the soul of Frankenstein\u2014more, far more, will I achieve; tread\u00ading<\/span> in the steps already marked, I will pio\u00adneer a new way, explore unknown pow\u00aders, and unfold to the world the deep\u00adest mys\u00adter\u00adies of creation.<\/p>\n

I closed not my eyes that night. My inter\u00adnal being was in a state of insur\u00adrec\u00adtion<\/span> and tur\u00admoil<\/span>; I felt that order would thence<\/span> arise, but I had no pow\u00ader to pro\u00adduce it. By degrees<\/span>, after the morning\u2019s dawn, sleep came. I awoke, and my yesternight\u2019s<\/span> thoughts were as a dream. There only remained a res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion to return to my ancient stud\u00adies and to devote myself to a sci\u00adence for which I believed myself to pos\u00adsess a nat\u00adur\u00adal tal\u00adent. On the same day I paid M. Wald\u00adman a vis\u00adit<\/span>. His man\u00adners in pri\u00advate were even more mild and attrac\u00adtive than in pub\u00adlic, for<\/span> there was a cer\u00adtain dig\u00adni\u00adty in his mien<\/span> dur\u00ading his lec\u00adture which in his own house was replaced by the great\u00adest affa\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> and kind\u00adness. I gave him pret\u00adty near\u00adly the same account of my for\u00admer pur\u00adsuits as I had giv\u00aden to his fel\u00adlow pro\u00adfes\u00adsor. He heard with atten\u00adtion the lit\u00adtle nar\u00adra\u00adtion con\u00adcern\u00ading my stud\u00adies and smiled at the names of Cor\u00adnelius Agrip\u00adpa<\/span> and Paracel\u00adsus<\/span>, but with\u00adout the con\u00adtempt<\/span> that M. Krempe had exhib\u00adit\u00aded. He said that \u201cThese were men to whose inde\u00adfati\u00adga\u00adble<\/span> zeal<\/span> mod\u00adern philoso\u00adphers were indebt\u00aded for most of the foun\u00adda\u00adtions of their knowl\u00adedge. They had left to us, as an eas\u00adi\u00ader task, to give new names and arrange in con\u00adnect\u00aded clas\u00adsi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtions the facts which they in a great degree<\/span> had been the instru\u00adments of bring\u00ading to light. The labours of men of genius, how\u00adev\u00ader erro\u00adneous\u00adly<\/span> direct\u00aded, scarce\u00adly<\/span> ever fail in ulti\u00admate\u00adly turn\u00ading to the sol\u00adid advan\u00adtage of mankind.\u201d I lis\u00adtened to his state\u00adment, which was deliv\u00adered with\u00adout any pre\u00adsump\u00adtion<\/span> or affec\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span>, and then added that his lec\u00adture had removed my prej\u00adu\u00addices<\/span> against mod\u00adern chemists; I expressed myself in mea\u00adsured terms, with the mod\u00adesty and def\u00ader\u00adence<\/span> due from a youth to his instruc\u00adtor, with\u00adout let\u00adting escape (inex\u00adpe\u00adri\u00adence in life would have made me ashamed) any of the enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm which stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded my intend\u00aded labours. I request\u00aded his advice con\u00adcern\u00ading the books I ought to pro\u00adcure<\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am hap\u00adpy,\u201d said M. Wald\u00adman, \u201cto have gained a dis\u00adci\u00adple<\/span>; and if your appli\u00adca\u00adtion equals your abil\u00adi\u00adty, I have no doubt of your suc\u00adcess. Chem\u00adistry is that branch of nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> in which the great\u00adest improve\u00adments have been and may be made; it is on that account<\/span> that I have made it my pecu\u00adliar<\/span> study; but at the same time, I have not neglect\u00aded<\/span> the oth\u00ader branch\u00ades of sci\u00adence. A man would make but<\/span> a very sor\u00adry chemist if he attend\u00aded to that depart\u00adment of human knowl\u00adedge alone. If your wish is to become real\u00adly a man of sci\u00adence and not mere\u00adly a pet\u00adty<\/span> exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span>, includ\u00ading mathematics.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then took me into his lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry and explained to me the uses of his var\u00adi\u00adous machines, instruct\u00ading me as to what I ought to pro\u00adcure<\/span> and promis\u00ading me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the sci\u00adence not to derange<\/span> their mech\u00ada\u00adnism. He also gave me the list of books which I had request\u00aded, and I took my leave<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Thus end\u00aded a day mem\u00ado\u00adrable to me; it decid\u00aded my future destiny.<\/p>\n

\n

Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span> \u21d2 An inde\u00adpen\u00addent city on the Danube in Upper Bavaria, Germany.<\/p>\n

hith\u00ader\u00adto<\/span> \u02c8h\u026a\u00f0\u0259\u02c8\u00adtu\u02d0<\/span> adv<\/span> Until now; before this time<\/p>\n

omen<\/span> \u02c8\u0259\u028am\u025bn<\/span> n <\/span>A sign of some\u00adthing about to hap\u00adpen: fore\u00adrun\u00adner, fore\u00adto\u00adken, pre\u00adfig\u00adure\u00adment, sign, augury<\/span><\/p>\n

scar\u00adlet fever<\/span> \u21d2 An acute com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adble dis\u00adease (usu\u00adal\u00adly in chil\u00addren<\/span>) char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by fever and a red rash: scar\u00adlati\u00adna<\/span><\/p>\n

to refrain form<\/span> \u21d2 To hold back from doing something.<\/p>\n

at first<\/span> \u21d2 In the beggining.<\/p>\n

entreaty<\/span> \u026an\u02c8tri\u02d0ti<\/span> n <\/span>Earnest or urgent request: appeal, prayer, plea, suit, request<\/span><\/p>\n

men\u00adace<\/span> \u02c8m\u025bn\u0259s<\/span> v <\/span>To threat\u00aden with vio\u00adlence, dan\u00adger, etc: intim\u00adi\u00addate, endan\u00adger, imper\u00adil, jeop\u00adar\u00addize, peril<\/span><\/p>\n

watch\u00adful<\/span> \u02c8w\u0252\u02a7f\u028al<\/span> adj<\/span> Engaged in or accus\u00adtomed to close obser\u00adva\u00adtion: vig\u00adi\u00adlant, open-eyed, wake\u00adful, alert, awake<\/span><\/p>\n

malig\u00adni\u00adty<\/span> m\u0259\u02c8l\u026a\u0261n\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>The con\u00addi\u00adtion or qual\u00adi\u00adty of being high\u00adly dan\u00adger\u00adous or inju\u00adri\u00adous: dead\u00adli\u00adness<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adtem\u00adper<\/span> \u02ccd\u026as\u02c8t\u025bm\u00adp\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>(Archa\u00adic<\/span>) A dis\u00adease or dis\u00ador\u00adder: dis\u00adease, dis\u00ador\u00adder, sick\u00adness, affec\u00adtion, ail, ail\u00adment, complaint<\/span><\/p>\n

impru\u00addence<\/span> \u026am\u02c8pru\u02d0d\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>The qual\u00adi\u00adty of being unwise indis\u00adcreet or incau\u00adtious in prac\u00adti\u00adcal affairs: incau\u00adtion, incau\u00adtious\u00adness, rash\u00adness, heed\u00adless\u00adness, mind\u00adless\u00adness, improv\u00adi\u00addence, shortsightedness<\/span><\/p>\n

atten\u00addant<\/span> \u0259\u02c8t\u025bnd\u1d4ant<\/span> n <\/span>(Usu\u00adal\u00adly <\/span>pl<\/span><\/span>) Per\u00adsons who are present, as an event or meeting.<\/p>\n

prog\u00adnos\u00adti\u00adcate<\/span> pr\u0259\u0261\u02c8n\u0252st\u026ake\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>Make a pre\u00addic\u00adtion about: fore\u00adcast, fore\u00adrun, fore\u00adshad\u00adow, fore\u00adtell, foretoken<\/span><\/p>\n

for\u00adti\u00adtude<\/span> \u02c8f\u0254\u02d0t\u026atju\u02d0d<\/span> n <\/span>Strength of mind that enables one to endure adver\u00adsi\u00adty with courage: brav\u00adery, guts, courage, fearlessness<\/span><\/p>\n

benig\u00adni\u00adty<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8n\u026a\u0261n\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>The qual\u00adi\u00adty of being kind and gen\u00adtle: benig\u00adnan\u00adcy, gra\u00adcious\u00adness, kindness<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cck\u0252n\u00ads\u0259\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The com\u00adfort you feel when con\u00adsoled in times of dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment: com\u00adfort, help, sup\u00adport, relief, ease, cheer<\/span><\/p>\n

alas<\/span> \u0259\u02c8l\u00e6s<\/span> interj<\/span> Used to express grief, pity, or con\u00adcern: sad\u00adly, unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, inopportunely<\/span><\/p>\n

befit<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8f\u026at<\/span> To be appro\u00adpri\u00adate to or suit\u00adable for to be appro\u00adpri\u00adate to or suit\u00adable for: beseem, suit<\/span><\/p>\n

endeav\u00adour<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u025bv\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To attempt: essay, try, assay, seek<\/span><\/p>\n

indulge<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u028cl\u02a4<\/span> v <\/span>To allow to fol\u00adlow one\u2019s will or incli\u00adna\u00adtion: wal\u00adlow<\/span><\/p>\n

coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> \u02c8ka\u028an\u00adt\u1d4an\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>The appear\u00adance con\u00adveyed by a person\u2019s face: vis\u00adage<\/span><\/p>\n

rend<\/span> r\u025bnd<\/span> v pp<\/span>, pt<\/span> rend\u00aded;<\/span> rent <\/span>To sep\u00ada\u00adrate into parts with force or vio\u00adlence: tear apart<\/span><\/p>\n

irrepara\u00adble<\/span> \u026a\u02c8r\u025bp\u0259r\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Impos\u00adsi\u00adble to repair, rec\u00adti\u00adfy, or amend: irre\u00adversible, irrecov\u00ader\u00adable, incur\u00adable, irretrievable<\/span><\/p>\n

very<\/span> \u02c8v\u025bri<\/span> adj<\/span> Used to empha\u00adsize the impor\u00adtance of what is spec\u00adi\u00adfied: exact, actu\u00adal, pre\u00adcise, same, real, express, iden\u00adti\u00adcal, unqual\u00adi\u00adfied, selfsame<\/span><\/p>\n

extin\u00adguish<\/span> \u026aks\u02c8t\u026a\u014bg\u00adw\u026a\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to stop burn\u00ading or giv\u00ading light: put out, douse, quench, snuff<\/span><\/p>\n

hush<\/span> h\u028c\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>Cause to be qui\u00adet or not talk: qui\u00adeten, silence, still, shut up<\/span><\/p>\n

lapse<\/span> l\u00e6ps<\/span> v <\/span>An inter\u00adval or pas\u00adsage of time; elapsed peri\u00adod: inter\u00adval, break, gap, passage<\/span><\/p>\n

rude<\/span> ru\u02d0d<\/span> adj<\/span> Social\u00adly incor\u00adrect in behav\u00adior: impo\u00adlite, unman\u00adner\u00adly, impolite<\/span><\/p>\n

at length<\/span> \u21d2 After some time; even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly. final\u00adly, at last.<\/p>\n

indul\u00adgence<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u028cl\u02a4\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>A dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion to yield to the wish\u00ades of some\u00adone: lenience, lenien\u00adcy<\/span><\/p>\n

deem<\/span> di\u02d0m<\/span> v <\/span>To regard as: con\u00adsid\u00ader:<\/span><\/p>\n

sac\u00adri\u00adlege<\/span> \u02c8s\u00e6kr\u026al\u026a\u02a4<\/span> n <\/span>The act of depriv\u00ading some\u00adthing of its sacred char\u00adac\u00adter: des\u00ade\u00adcra\u00adtion, pro\u00adfa\u00adna\u00adtion, blasphemy<\/span><\/p>\n

ban\u00adish<\/span> \u02c8b\u00e6n\u026a\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To dri\u00adve away: expel<\/span><\/p>\n

spoil\u00ader<\/span> \u02c8sp\u0254\u02d0\u026al\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adone who pam\u00adpers or spoils by exces\u00adsive indul\u00adgence: cod\u00addler, mol\u00adly\u00adcod\u00addler, pamperer<\/span><\/p>\n

defer<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8f\u025c\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>Hold back to a lat\u00ader time: post\u00adpone, pro\u00adrogue, put off, set back<\/span><\/p>\n

respite<\/span> \u02c8r\u025bs\u00adpa\u026at<\/span> n <\/span>A usu\u00adal\u00adly short peri\u00adod of rest or relief: pause, rest, relief, break, halt, inter\u00adval, interruption<\/span><\/p>\n

repose<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8p\u0259\u028az<\/span> n <\/span>Free\u00addom from activ\u00adi\u00adty: rest<\/span><\/p>\n

akin<\/span> \u0259\u02c8k\u026an<\/span> adj<\/span> Sim\u00adi\u00adlar in qual\u00adi\u00adty or char\u00adac\u00adter: sim\u00adi\u00adlar to, like, relat\u00aded to, cor\u00adre\u00adspond\u00ading to, par\u00adal\u00adlel to<\/span><\/p>\n

mourn\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8m\u0254\u02d0n\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>State of sor\u00adrow over the death or depar\u00adture of a loved one: bereave\u00adment<\/span><\/p>\n

thick<\/span> \u03b8\u026ak<\/span> The most intense\u00adly active cen\u00adtral part: eye, midst<\/span><\/p>\n

veil<\/span> ve\u026al<\/span> v <\/span>To cov\u00ader, or con\u00adceal with or as if with a veil: con\u00adceal, hide, disguise<\/span><\/p>\n

strive<\/span> stra\u026av<\/span> v pp<\/span> strove<\/span> or strived<\/span>, pt<\/span> striv\u00b7en<\/span> or strived<\/span> To make an attempt to do or make: attempt, endeav\u00ador, assay, essay, seek, try<\/span><\/p>\n

com\u00adforter<\/span> \u02c8k\u028cm\u00adf\u0259t\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson who reduces the inten\u00adsi\u00adty (e.g., of fears<\/span>) and calms and paci\u00adfies: allay\u00ader, reliever<\/span><\/p>\n

zeal<\/span> zi\u02d0l<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading of strong eager\u00adness, usu\u00adal\u00adly in favor of a per\u00adson or cause: ardor, ardour, elan<\/span><\/p>\n

enchant\u00adi\u00adng<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u02a7\u0251\u02d0n\u00adt\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Cap\u00adtur\u00ading inter\u00adest as if by a spell: cap\u00adti\u00advat\u00ading, entranc\u00ading, fascinating<\/span><\/p>\n

in vain<\/span> \u21d2 To no avail; with\u00adout success.<\/p>\n

debar<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8b\u0251\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>Pre\u00advent tem\u00adporar\u00adi\u00adly; from school, office, etc: sus\u00adpend<\/span><\/p>\n

kin\u00addle<\/span> \u02c8k\u026and\u1d4al<\/span> v <\/span>To become bright: glow<\/span><\/p>\n

restrain<\/span> r\u026as\u02c8tre\u026an<\/span> v <\/span>To hold, fas\u00adten, or secure so as to pre\u00advent or lim\u00adit move\u00adment: con\u00adfine, lim\u00adit, throt\u00adtle, tram\u00admel, restrict, bound<\/span><\/p>\n

farewell<\/span> \u02ccfe\u0259\u02c8w\u025bl<\/span> n <\/span>An acknowl\u00adedg\u00adment or expres\u00adsion of good\u00adwill at part\u00ading: good\u00adby, adieu<\/span><\/p>\n

pre\u00adtence<\/span> pr\u026a\u02c8t\u025bns<\/span> n <\/span>A false claim or alle\u00adga\u00adtion: pre\u00adtext, claim, excuse<\/span><\/p>\n

deceive<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8si\u02d0v<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to believe what is not true: mis\u00adlead, fool, delude, dupe<\/span><\/p>\n

car\u00adriage<\/span> \u02c8k\u00e6r\u026a\u02a4<\/span> n <\/span>A com\u00adfort\u00adable wheeled vehi\u00adcle for con\u00advey\u00ading per\u00adsons, usu\u00adal\u00adly drawn by hors\u00ades: freight<\/span><\/p>\n

bestow<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8st\u0259\u028a<\/span> v <\/span>To give for\u00admal\u00adly or offi\u00adcial\u00adly: present, grant<\/span><\/p>\n

fem\u00adi\u00adnine<\/span> \u02c8f\u025bm\u026an\u026an<\/span> adj<\/span> Of or relat\u00ading to women or girls: wom\u00adan\u00adly<\/span><\/p>\n

play\u00admate<\/span> \u02c8ple\u026ame\u026at<\/span> n <\/span>A com\u00adpan\u00adion at play: playfel\u00adlow <\/span><\/p>\n

chaise<\/span> \u02a7e\u026az<\/span> n <\/span>Any of var\u00adi\u00adous light open car\u00adriages, often with a col\u00adlapsi\u00adble hood, espe\u00adcial\u00adly a two-wheeled car\u00adriage drawn by one horse.<\/p>\n

melan\u00adcholy<\/span> \u02c8m\u025bl\u0259nk\u0259li<\/span> n <\/span>Sad\u00adness or depres\u00adsion of the spir\u00adits: depres\u00adsion, mis\u00adery, gloom, sorrow<\/span><\/p>\n

ami\u00adable<\/span> \u02c8e\u026ami\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Pleas\u00adant and friend\u00adly: cor\u00addial, good-natured<\/span><\/p>\n

endeav\u00adour<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u025bv\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To attempt: essay, try, assay, seek<\/span><\/p>\n

whith\u00ader<\/span> \u02c8w\u026a\u00f0\u0259<\/span> conj<\/span> To which spec\u00adi\u00adfied place or position.<\/p>\n

seclud\u00aded<\/span> s\u026a\u02c8k\u00adlu\u02d0d\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Con\u00adfined to par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar per\u00adsons or groups or pro\u00advid\u00ading pri\u00adva\u00adcy: pri\u00advate, shel\u00adtered, iso\u00adlat\u00aded, lone\u00adly, solitary<\/span><\/p>\n

invin\u00adci\u00adble<\/span> \u026an\u02c8v\u026an\u00ads\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Inca\u00adpable of being over\u00adcome or defeat\u00aded: uncon\u00adquer\u00adable, unbeatable<\/span><\/p>\n

repug\u00adnance<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8p\u028cgn\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>Extreme hos\u00adtil\u00adi\u00adty and dis\u00adlike: hatred, hate, repul\u00adsion, detes\u00adta\u00adtion, loathing, abhor\u00adrence, abomination<\/span><\/p>\n

unfit\u00adted<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8f\u026at\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Not meant or adapt\u00aded for a giv\u00aden pur\u00adpose: inap\u00adpro\u00adpri\u00adate<\/span><\/p>\n

ardent\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u0259ntli<\/span> adj<\/span> In an enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adtic and pas\u00adsion\u00adate manner.<\/p>\n

coop<\/span> ku\u02d0p<\/span> v <\/span>(Often used with up<\/span>) To con\u00adfine in a small or cramped space: cage, enclose<\/span><\/p>\n

sta\u00adtion<\/span> \u02c8ste\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Social posi\u00adtion: rank<\/span><\/p>\n

fol\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8f\u0252li<\/span> n <\/span>Fool\u00adish behav\u00adiour: absur\u00addi\u00adty, insan\u00adi\u00adty, fool\u00adish\u00adness, crazi\u00adness, pre\u00adpos\u00adter\u00adous\u00adness, sense\u00adless\u00adness, silliness<\/span><\/p>\n

repent<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8p\u025bnt<\/span> v <\/span>To feel regret\u00adful or con\u00adtrite for past con\u00adduct: regret, lament, rue, sorrow<\/span><\/p>\n

steeple<\/span> \u02c8sti\u02d0p\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>A tow\u00ader ris\u00ading above the roof of a build\u00ading, such as a church, and usu\u00adal\u00adly sur\u00admount\u00aded by a spire.<\/p>\n

alight<\/span> \u0259\u02c8la\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To get down, as from a vehi\u00adcle: dis\u00admount<\/span><\/p>\n

soli\u00adtary<\/span> \u02c8s\u0252l\u026at\u0259ri<\/span> adj<\/span> Being the only one; sin\u00adgle and iso\u00adlat\u00aded from oth\u00aders: lone, lone\u00adsome, only, sole<\/span><\/p>\n

to pay a vis\u00adit to some\u00adone<\/span> \u21d2 To vis\u00adit or meet with some\u00adone, espe\u00adcial\u00adly in a brief or infor\u00admal manner.<\/p>\n

omnipo\u00adtent<\/span> \u0252m\u02c8n\u026ap\u0259t\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading unlim\u00adit\u00aded or uni\u00adver\u00adsal pow\u00ader, author\u00adi\u00adty, or force: almighty, supreme, invin\u00adci\u00adble, all-powerful<\/span><\/p>\n

sway<\/span> swe\u026a<\/span> n <\/span>Influ\u00adence or con\u00adtrol: pow\u00ader, powerfulness <\/span><\/p>\n

nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> or <\/span>the phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy of nature<\/span> \u21d2 The philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal study of nature and the phys\u00adi\u00adcal uni\u00adverse that was dom\u00adi\u00adnant before the devel\u00adop\u00adment of mod\u00adern sci\u00adence. It is con\u00adsid\u00adered to be the pre\u00adcur\u00adsor of nat\u00adur\u00adal sci\u00adences such as physics.<\/p>\n

uncouth<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8ku\u02d0\u03b8<\/span> adj<\/span> Lack\u00ading refine\u00adment or cul\u00adti\u00adva\u00adtion or taste: rough-cut, vul\u00adgar, coarse<\/span><\/p>\n

imbue<\/span> \u026am\u02c8b\u00adju\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>To inspire or influ\u00adence thor\u00adough\u00adly: per\u00advade<\/span><\/p>\n

apper\u00adtain<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6p\u0259\u02c8te\u026an<\/span> v <\/span>To belong as a prop\u00ader func\u00adtion or part: per\u00adtain, belong<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adtempt<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8t\u025bmpt<\/span> n <\/span>Lack of respect accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by a feel\u00ading of intense dis\u00adlike: despite, dis\u00addain, scorn<\/span><\/p>\n

non\u00adsense<\/span> \u02c8n\u0252n\u00ads\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>Sub\u00adject mat\u00adter, behav\u00adior, or lan\u00adguage that is fool\u00adish or absurd.<\/p>\n

affir\u00adma\u00adtive<\/span> \u0259\u02c8f\u025c\u02d0m\u0259t\u026av<\/span> adj<\/span> Assert\u00ading that some\u00adthing is true or cor\u00adrect: pos\u00adi\u00adtive; optimistic<\/span><\/p>\n

utter\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8\u028ct\u0259li<\/span> adv<\/span> Com\u00adplete\u00adly and with\u00adout qual\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion: com\u00adplete\u00adly, absolute\u00adly, entire\u00adly, totally<\/span><\/p>\n

greed\u00adi\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8\u0261ri\u02d0d\u026ali<\/span> adv<\/span> In an extreme\u00adly eager or desirous for an activ\u00adi\u00adty or pur\u00adsuit manner.<\/p>\n

imbibe<\/span> \u026am\u02c8ba\u026ab<\/span> v <\/span>To receive and absorb into the mind: absorb<\/span><\/p>\n

musty<\/span> \u02c8m\u028csti<\/span> adj<\/span> Smelling or tast\u00ading old: stale, mouldy, stuffy, airless<\/span><\/p>\n

enlight\u00adened<\/span> \u026an\u02c8la\u026at\u00adnd<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading knowl\u00adedge and spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal insight: edu\u00adcat\u00aded, informed<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adci\u00adple<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8sa\u026ap\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adone who believes and helps to spread the doc\u00adtrine of anoth\u00ader: fol\u00adlow\u00ader, adherent<\/span><\/p>\n

Alber\u00adtus Mag\u00adnus OP,<\/span> also known as <\/span>Saint Albert the Great, Albert of Swabia<\/span> or <\/span>Albert of Cologne<\/span> \u21d2 A Ger\u00adman Domini\u00adcan fri\u00adar, philoso\u00adpher, sci\u00aden\u00adtist, and bish\u00adop, con\u00adsid\u00adered one of the great\u00adest medieval philoso\u00adphers and thinkers.<\/p>\n

Paracel\u00adsus <\/span>born<\/span> Theophras\u00adtus von Hohen\u00adheim<\/span> \u21d2 A Swiss physi\u00adcian, alchemist, lay the\u00adolo\u00adgian, and philoso\u00adpher of the Ger\u00adman Renaissance.<\/p>\n

anew<\/span> \u0259\u02c8n\u00adju\u02d0<\/span> adv<\/span> Again, once again.<\/p>\n

pro\u00adcure<\/span> pr\u0259\u02c8kj\u028a\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To come into pos\u00adses\u00adsion of: get, obtain, acquire, secure<\/span><\/p>\n

repro\u00adbate<\/span> \u02c8r\u025bpr\u0259be\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To dis\u00adap\u00adprove of: con\u00addemn, cen\u00adsure, denounce, deplore, reprehend<\/span><\/p>\n

at all<\/span> \u21d2 In any way; for any rea\u00adson; to any extent; whatever.<\/p>\n

inclined<\/span> \u026an\u02c8k\u00adla\u026and<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading a dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion: tend\u00ading recur<\/span><\/p>\n

recur<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8k\u025c\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>To hap\u00adpen or occur again or repeat\u00aded\u00adly: repeat <\/span><\/p>\n

squat<\/span> skw\u0252t<\/span> adj<\/span> Short, heavy, and solid\u00adly built: stub\u00adby, chunky, stumpy<\/span><\/p>\n

gruff<\/span> \u0261r\u028cf<\/span> adj<\/span> (of a voice, bark, etc<\/span>) Low and throaty: croak\u00ading, croaky, hoarse, husky<\/span><\/p>\n

repul\u00adsive<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8p\u028cl\u00ads\u026av<\/span> adj<\/span> So extreme\u00adly ugly as to be ter\u00adri\u00adfy\u00ading: hideous, ugly<\/span><\/p>\n

pre\u00adpos\u00adsess<\/span> \u02ccpri\u02d0p\u0259\u02c8z\u025bs<\/span> v <\/span>Engage or engross the inter\u00adest or atten\u00adtion of before\u00adhand or occu\u00adpy urgent\u00adly or obses\u00adsive\u00adly: pre\u00adoc\u00adcu\u00adpy<\/span><\/p>\n

in favor of some\u00adone or some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 In sup\u00adport of some\u00adone or something.<\/p>\n

to give an account of some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To recount something.<\/p>\n

retread<\/span> \u02ccri\u02d0\u02c8tr\u025bd<\/span> v pp<\/span>, pt<\/span> retread,<\/span> retrod<\/span> Use again in altered form: make over, rework<\/span><\/p>\n

inquir\u00ader<\/span> \u026an\u02c8k\u00adwa\u026a\u0259r\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adone who asks a ques\u00adtion: asker, enquir\u00ader, ques\u00adtion\u00ader, inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtor, querier, quester, researcher<\/span><\/p>\n

immor\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> \u02cc\u026am\u0254\u02d0\u02c8t\u00e6l\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>The qual\u00adi\u00adty or con\u00addi\u00adtion of being not sub\u00adject to death: death\u00adless\u00adness, eter\u00adni\u00adty, ever\u00adlast\u00ading life<\/span><\/p>\n

futile<\/span> \u02c8fju\u02d0\u00adta\u026al<\/span> adj<\/span> Inca\u00adpable of pro\u00adduc\u00ading any result: inef\u00adfec\u00adtu\u00adal, use\u00adless, not successful<\/span><\/p>\n

seemed to<\/span> \u21d2 To appear to one\u2019s own mind, sens\u00ades, etc.<\/p>\n

anni\u00adhi\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> \u0259\u02ccna\u026a\u0259\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Utter destruc\u00adtion: erad\u00adi\u00adca\u00adtion, exter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion, extinc\u00adtion, liq\u00adui\u00adda\u00adtion, obliteration<\/span><\/p>\n

chimera<\/span> ka\u026a\u02c8m\u026a\u0259r\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A grotesque prod\u00aduct of the imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion: noun illu\u00adsion, dream, fan\u00adta\u00adsy, delusion<\/span><\/p>\n

bound\u00adless<\/span> \u02c8ba\u028andl\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Being with\u00adout bound\u00adaries or lim\u00adits: unlim\u00adit\u00aded, end\u00adless, illim\u00aditable, infinite<\/span><\/p>\n

grandeur<\/span> \u02c8\u0261r\u00e6n\u02a4\u0259<\/span> adj n <\/span>The qual\u00adi\u00adty of being mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent or splen\u00addid or grand: splen\u00addour, glo\u00adry, majesty, nobil\u00adi\u00adty, magnificence<\/span><\/p>\n

local\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> l\u0259\u02c8k\u00e6l\u0259\u00adtiz<\/span> n <\/span>A par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar neigh\u00adbor\u00adhood, place, or dis\u00adtrict: area, neigh\u00adbor\u00adhood, vicinity<\/span><\/p>\n

abode<\/span> \u0259\u02c8b\u0259\u028ad<\/span> n <\/span>Hous\u00ading that some\u00adone is liv\u00ading in: home, house, lodg\u00ading, place, residence<\/span><\/p>\n

ensu\u00ading<\/span> \u026an\u02c8sju\u02d0\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Fol\u00adlow\u00ading imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly and as a result of what went before: suc\u00adceed\u00ading<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adceit\u00aded<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8si\u02d0t\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading a high or exag\u00adger\u00adat\u00aded opin\u00adion of one\u00adself or one\u2019s accom\u00adplish\u00adments: swollen, vain, ego\u00adtis\u00adtic, egotistical<\/span><\/p>\n

pul\u00adpit<\/span> \u02c8p\u028alp\u026at<\/span> n <\/span>A plat\u00adform raised above the sur\u00adround\u00ading lev\u00adel to give promi\u00adnence to the per\u00adson on it: podi\u00adum, ros\u00adtrum, plat\u00adform, stand, lectern<\/span><\/p>\n

rec\u00adol\u00adlect<\/span> \u02ccri\u02d0k\u0259\u02c8l\u025bkt<\/span> v <\/span>To renew an image or thought in the mind: recall, remem\u00adber, bethink, call to mind, think<\/span><\/p>\n

expres\u00adsive<\/span> \u026aks\u02c8pr\u025bs\u026av<\/span> Effec\u00adtive\u00adly con\u00advey\u00ading mean\u00ading, feel\u00ading, or mood: mean\u00ading\u00adful, indica\u00adtive, sug\u00adges\u00adtive, demon\u00adstra\u00adtive, reveal\u00ading, sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant, allusive<\/span><\/p>\n

benev\u00ado\u00adlence<\/span> b\u0259\u02c8n\u025bv\u1d4al\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>An incli\u00adna\u00adtion to per\u00adform kind, char\u00adi\u00adta\u00adble acts: kind\u00adness, under\u00adstand\u00ading, char\u00adi\u00adty, goodness<\/span><\/p>\n

tem\u00adples<\/span> \u02c8t\u025bm\u00adp\u1d4al<\/span> n pl<\/span> The pos\u00adtero\u00adlat\u00ader\u00adal angles of the head, in lice.<\/p>\n

erect<\/span> \u026a\u02c8r\u025bkt<\/span> adj<\/span> Upright in posi\u00adtion or pos\u00adture: upright, stand\u00ading, straight<\/span><\/p>\n

reca\u00adpit\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccri\u02d0k\u0259\u02ccp\u026a\u02a7\u0259\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A sum\u00adma\u00adry or con\u00adcise review: recap, review<\/span><\/p>\n

fer\u00advour<\/span> \u02c8f\u025c\u02d0v\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>Great warmth, earnest\u00adness and inten\u00adsi\u00adty of emo\u00adtion: ardour, pas\u00adsion, enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm, zeal, eagerness<\/span><\/p>\n

cur\u00adso\u00adry<\/span> \u02c8k\u025c\u02d0s\u1d4ari<\/span> adj<\/span> Per\u00adformed with haste and scant atten\u00adtion to detail: brief, rapid, casu\u00adal, hur\u00adried, care\u00adless, super\u00adfi\u00adcial, hasty<\/span><\/p>\n

prepara\u00adto\u00adry<\/span> pr\u026a\u02c8p\u00e6r\u0259t\u1d4ari<\/span> adj<\/span> Serv\u00ading to make ready or pre\u00adpare: intro\u00adduc\u00adto\u00adry, pre\u00adlim\u00adi\u00adnary, prefatory<\/span><\/p>\n

pan\u00ade\u00adgyric<\/span> \u02ccp\u00e6n\u0259\u02c8\u02a4\u026ar\u026ak<\/span> n <\/span>A lofty ora\u00adtion or writ\u00ading in praise of a per\u00adson or thing: eulo\u00adgy, praise <\/span><\/p>\n

trans\u00admute<\/span> tr\u00e6nz\u02c8mju\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>To change from one form, nature, sub\u00adstance, or state into anoth\u00ader: meta\u00admor\u00adphose, transform<\/span><\/p>\n

elixir<\/span> \u026a\u02c8l\u026ak\u00ads\u0259<\/span> n <\/span> A sub\u00adstance believed to main\u00adtain life indefinitely.<\/p>\n

dab\u00adble<\/span> \u02c8d\u00e6b\u1d4al<\/span> v <\/span>Dip a foot or hand briefly into a liq\u00aduid: dip, dunk, souse, douse, plunge<\/span><\/p>\n

pore<\/span> p\u0254\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>To read, study, or exam\u00adine some\u00adthing care\u00adful\u00adly and atten\u00adtive\u00adly: focus, cen\u00adter, concentrate<\/span><\/p>\n

cru\u00adcible<\/span> \u02c8kru\u02d0s\u026ab\u1d4al<\/span> v <\/span>A ves\u00adsel made of mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal that does not melt eas\u00adi\u00adly; used for high tem\u00adper\u00ada\u00adture chem\u00adi\u00adcal reac\u00adtions: melt\u00ading pot<\/span><\/p>\n

recess\u00ades<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8s\u025bs<\/span> n <\/span>often pl<\/span> A remote, secret, or seclud\u00aded place.<\/p>\n

ascend<\/span> \u0259\u02c8s\u025bnd<\/span> v <\/span>To go or move upward: rise, climb, mount<\/span><\/p>\n

cir\u00adcu\u00adlate<\/span> \u02c8s\u025c\u02d0kj\u0259le\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To move in or flow through a cir\u00adcle or cir\u00adcuit: flow<\/span><\/p>\n

acquire<\/span> \u0259\u02c8k\u00adwa\u026a\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To gain through expe\u00adri\u00adence of or expo\u00adsure to some\u00adthing: devel\u00adop, evolve, acquire<\/span><\/p>\n

mim\u00adic<\/span> \u02c8m\u026am\u026ak<\/span> v <\/span>To copy or imi\u00adtate close\u00adly: imi\u00adtate, sim\u00adu\u00adlate, copy<\/span><\/p>\n

mock<\/span> m\u0252k<\/span> v <\/span>To mim\u00adic or resem\u00adble close\u00adly: imi\u00adtate, sim\u00adu\u00adlate, copy<\/span><\/p>\n

enounce<\/span> \u026a\u02c8na\u028ans<\/span> v <\/span>Speak, pro\u00adnounce, or utter in a cer\u00adtain way: enun\u00adci\u00adate, pro\u00adnounce, sound out, artic\u00adu\u00adlate, say<\/span><\/p>\n

grap\u00adple<\/span> \u02c8gr\u00e6\u00adpl<\/span> v <\/span>To seize firm\u00adly: grip, clutch, clasp, clench, grab, grasp<\/span><\/p>\n

pal\u00adpa\u00adble<\/span> \u02c8p\u00e6lp\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Eas\u00adi\u00adly per\u00adceived by the sens\u00ades or the mind: tan\u00adgi\u00adble, obvious<\/span><\/p>\n

chord<\/span> k\u0254\u02d0d<\/span> n <\/span>A com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion of three or more notes that blend har\u00admo\u00adnious\u00adly when sound\u00aded together.<\/p>\n

exclaim<\/span> \u026aks\u02c8k\u00adle\u026am<\/span> v <\/span>To cry out or speak sud\u00adden\u00adly and vehe\u00adment\u00adly, as in sur\u00adprise, strong emo\u00adtion, or protest: call out, cry out, out\u00adcry, shout, cry<\/span><\/p>\n

2tread<\/span> tr\u025bd<\/span> v <\/span>To step, walk, or tram\u00adple so as to press, crush, or injure some\u00adthing: squashm, step on, trample<\/span><\/p>\n

insur\u00adrec\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u026an\u00ads\u1d4ar\u02c8\u025bk\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Orga\u00adnized oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion to author\u00adi\u00adty; a con\u00adflict in which one fac\u00adtion tries to wrest con\u00adtrol from anoth\u00ader: revolt, upris\u00ading, rebel\u00adlion, rising<\/span><\/p>\n

tur\u00admoil<\/span> \u02c8t\u025c\u02d0m\u0254\u026al<\/span> n <\/span>A state of great com\u00admo\u00adtion, con\u00adfu\u00adsion, or dis\u00adtur\u00adbance: tumult, agi\u00adta\u00adtion, upset<\/span><\/p>\n

thence<\/span> \u00f0\u025bns<\/span> n <\/span>(Archa\u00adic<\/span>) From that time: thence\u00adforth<\/span><\/p>\n

by degrees<\/span> \u21d2 Grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly, by suc\u00adces\u00adsive steps or stages.<\/p>\n

yestern\u00adight<\/span> \u02c8j\u025bst\u0259\u02c8\u00adna\u026at<\/span> n <\/span>(Archa\u00adic<\/span>) n <\/span>Last night.<\/p>\n

to pay a vis\u00adit to some\u00adone<\/span> \u21d2 To vis\u00adit or meet with some\u00adone, espe\u00adcial\u00adly in a brief or infor\u00admal manner.<\/p>\n

for<\/span> f\u0254\u02d0<\/span> cj<\/span> Because; since.<\/p>\n

mien<\/span> mi\u02d0n<\/span> n <\/span>Bear\u00ading or man\u00adner, espe\u00adcial\u00adly as it reveals an inner state of mind: bear\u00ading, pres\u00adence, manner<\/span><\/p>\n

affa\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6f\u0259\u02c8b\u026al\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>A dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion to be friend\u00adly and approach\u00adable: friend\u00adli\u00adness, warmth, good humour<\/span><\/p>\n

Hein\u00adrich Cor\u00adnelius Agrip\u00adpa<\/span> \u21d2 A Ger\u00adman Renais\u00adsance poly\u00admath, physi\u00adcian, legal schol\u00adar, sol\u00addier, knight, the\u00adolo\u00adgian, and occult writer. Agrippa\u2019s Three Books of Occult Phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> pub\u00adlished in 1533 drew heav\u00adi\u00adly upon Kab\u00adbal\u00adah, Her\u00admeti\u00adcism, and neo-Pla\u00adton\u00adism. His book was wide\u00adly influ\u00aden\u00adtial among eso\u00adteri\u00adcists of the ear\u00adly mod\u00adern peri\u00adod, and was con\u00addemned as hereti\u00adcal by the inquisi\u00adtor of Cologne.<\/p>\n

inde\u00adfati\u00adga\u00adble<\/span> \u02cc\u026and\u026a\u02c8f\u00e6t\u026a\u0261\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Show\u00ading sus\u00adtained enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adtic action with unflag\u00adging vital\u00adi\u00adty: tire\u00adless, inexhaustible<\/span><\/p>\n

to a great degree<\/span> \u21d2 To a con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable extent; immea\u00adsur\u00adably, exceedingly<\/p>\n

erro\u00adneous\u00adly<\/span> \u026a\u02c8r\u0259\u028ani\u0259s\u00adli<\/span> adv<\/span> In a mis\u00adtak\u00aden man\u00adner: mis\u00adtak\u00aden\u00adly<\/span><\/p>\n

scarce\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8ske\u0259s\u00adli<\/span> adv<\/span> Not quite, almost not: bare\u00adly, hardly<\/span><\/p>\n

pre\u00adsump\u00adtion<\/span> pr\u026a\u02c8z\u028cm\u00adp\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>An assump\u00adtion that is tak\u00aden for grant\u00aded: giv\u00aden, precondition<\/span><\/p>\n

affec\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> \u00e6f\u025bk\u02c8te\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A delib\u00ader\u00adate pre\u00adtence or exag\u00adger\u00adat\u00aded dis\u00adplay: pre\u00adten\u00adsion, pre\u00adten\u00adtious\u00adness, arti\u00adfi\u00adcial\u00adi\u00adty, insin\u00adcer\u00adi\u00adty, pos\u00adtur\u00ading, posing<\/span><\/p>\n

prej\u00adu\u00addice<\/span> \u02c8pr\u025b\u02a4\u0259d\u026as<\/span> n <\/span>An opin\u00adion formed before\u00adhand, esp an unfavourable one based on inad\u00ade\u00adquate facts: bias, pre\u00adcon\u00adcep\u00adtion<\/span><\/p>\n

def\u00ader\u00adence<\/span> \u02c8d\u025bf\u0259r\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>Cour\u00adte\u00adous regard for people\u2019s feel\u00adings: respect, respect\u00adful\u00adness<\/span><\/p>\n

on that account<\/span> \u21d2 Because of that.<\/p>\n

pecu\u00adliar<\/span> p\u026a\u02c8kju\u02d0li\u0259<\/span> adj<\/span> Not nor\u00admal, unusu\u00adal or eccen\u00adtric; dis\u00adtinct from all oth\u00aders: queer, curi\u00adous, fun\u00adny, weird, unusu\u00adal, quaint<\/span><\/p>\n

neglect<\/span> n\u026a\u02c8gl\u025bkt<\/span> v <\/span>To fail to care for or attend to prop\u00ader\u00adly: dis\u00adre\u00adgard<\/span><\/p>\n

but<\/span> b\u028ct<\/span> adv<\/span> (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) Mere\u00adly; just; only.<\/p>\n

pet\u00adty<\/span> \u02c8p\u025bti<\/span> n <\/span>Infe\u00adri\u00ador in rank or sta\u00adtus: junior-grade, low\u00ader-rank\u00ading, sub\u00adal\u00adtern, low\u00adly, secondary<\/span><\/p>\n

derange<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8re\u026an\u02a4<\/span> v <\/span>To put out of prop\u00ader order: dis\u00adarrange, dis\u00ador\u00adder, dis\u00adturb, mess up, upset<\/span><\/p>\n

to take leave<\/span> \u21d2 To depart. In this usage, a per\u00adson\u00adal pro\u00adnoun is used between take<\/span> and leave<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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From this day nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span>, and par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly chem\u00adistry, in the most com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsive sense of the term, became near\u00adly my sole occu\u00adpa\u00adtion. I read with ardour<\/span> those works, so full of genius and dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion, which mod\u00adern inquir\u00aders<\/span> have writ\u00adten on these sub\u00adjects. I attend\u00aded the lec\u00adtures and cul\u00adti\u00advat\u00aded the acquain\u00adtance of the men of sci\u00adence of the uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty, and I found even in M. Krempe a great deal<\/span> of sound sense and real infor\u00adma\u00adtion, com\u00adbined, it is true, with a repul\u00adsive<\/span> phys\u00adiog\u00adno\u00admy<\/span> and man\u00adners, but not on that account<\/span> the less valu\u00adable. In M. Wald\u00adman I found a true friend. His gen\u00adtle\u00adness was nev\u00ader tinged<\/span> by dog\u00adma\u00adtism<\/span>, and his instruc\u00adtions were giv\u00aden with an air<\/span> of frank\u00adness and good nature that ban\u00adished<\/span> every idea of pedantry<\/span>. In a thou\u00adsand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowl\u00adedge and made the most abstruse<\/span> inquiries clear and facile<\/span> to my appre\u00adhen\u00adsion<\/span>. My appli\u00adca\u00adtion was at first<\/span> fluc\u00adtu\u00adat\u00ading<\/span> and uncer\u00adtain; it gained strength as I pro\u00adceed\u00aded and soon became so ardent<\/span> and eager that the stars often dis\u00adap\u00adpeared in the light of morn\u00ading whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory.<\/p>\n

As I applied so close\u00adly, it may be eas\u00adi\u00adly con\u00adceived that my progress was rapid. My ardour<\/span> was indeed the aston\u00adish\u00adment of the stu\u00addents, and my pro\u00adfi\u00adcien\u00adcy<\/span> that of the mas\u00adters. Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor Krempe often asked me, with a sly<\/span> smile, how Cor\u00adnelius Agrip\u00adpa<\/span> went on, whilst M. Wald\u00adman expressed the most heart\u00adfelt<\/span> exul\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> in my progress. Two years passed in this man\u00adner, dur\u00ading which I paid no vis\u00adit to<\/span> Gene\u00adva, but was engaged, heart and soul, in the pur\u00adsuit of some dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies which I hoped to make. None but<\/span> those who have expe\u00adri\u00adenced them can con\u00adceive of the entice\u00adments<\/span> of sci\u00adence. In oth\u00ader stud\u00adies you go as far as oth\u00aders have gone before you, and there is noth\u00ading more to know; but in a sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic pur\u00adsuit there is con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal food for dis\u00adcov\u00adery and won\u00adder. A mind of mod\u00ader\u00adate capac\u00adi\u00adty which close\u00adly pur\u00adsues one study must infal\u00adli\u00adbly<\/span> arrive at great pro\u00adfi\u00adcien\u00adcy<\/span> in that study; and I, who con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly sought the attain\u00adment<\/span> of one object of pur\u00adsuit and was sole\u00adly<\/span> wrapped up in this, improved so rapid\u00adly that at the end of two years I made some dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies in the improve\u00adment of some chem\u00adi\u00adcal instru\u00adments, which pro\u00adcured<\/span> me great esteem<\/span> and admi\u00adra\u00adtion at the uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty. When I had arrived at this point and had become as well acquaint\u00aded with the the\u00ado\u00adry and prac\u00adtice of nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> as depend\u00aded on the lessons of any of the pro\u00adfes\u00adsors at Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span>, my res\u00adi\u00addence there being no longer con\u00adducive<\/span> to my improve\u00adments, I thought of return\u00ading to my friends and my native town, when an inci\u00addent hap\u00adpened that pro\u00adtract\u00aded<\/span> my stay.<\/p>\n

One of the phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adna<\/span> which had pecu\u00adliar\u00adly<\/span> attract\u00aded my atten\u00adtion was the struc\u00adture of the human frame<\/span>, and, indeed, any ani\u00admal endued<\/span> with life. Whence<\/span>, I often asked myself, did the prin\u00adci\u00adple of life pro\u00adceed? It was a bold ques\u00adtion, and one which has ever been con\u00adsid\u00adered as a mys\u00adtery; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of<\/span> becom\u00ading acquaint\u00aded, if cow\u00adardice<\/span> or care\u00adless\u00adness did not restrain<\/span> our inquiries. I revolved<\/span> these cir\u00adcum\u00adstances in my mind and deter\u00admined thence\u00adforth<\/span> to apply myself more par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly to those branch\u00ades of nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> which relate to phys\u00adi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy. Unless I had been ani\u00admat\u00aded by an almost super\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal<\/span> enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm, my appli\u00adca\u00adtion to this study would have been irk\u00adsome<\/span> and almost intol\u00ader\u00ada\u00adble. To exam\u00adine the caus\u00ades of life, we must first have endue<\/span> to death. I became acquaint\u00aded with the sci\u00adence of anato\u00admy, but this was not suf\u00adfi\u00adcient; I must also observe the nat\u00adur\u00adal decay<\/span> and cor\u00adrup\u00adtion of the human body. In my edu\u00adca\u00adtion my father had tak\u00aden the great\u00adest pre\u00adcau\u00adtions<\/span> that my mind should be impressed with no super\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal<\/span> hor\u00adrors. I do not ever remem\u00adber to have trem\u00adbled at a tale of super\u00adsti\u00adtion<\/span> or to have feared the appari\u00adtion<\/span> of a spir\u00adit. Dark\u00adness had no effect upon my fan\u00adcy, and a church\u00adyard was to me mere\u00adly the recep\u00adta\u00adcle<\/span> of bod\u00adies deprived<\/span> of life, which, from being the seat of beau\u00adty and strength, had become food for the worm. Now I was led to exam\u00adine the cause and progress of this decay<\/span> and forced to spend days and nights in vaults<\/span> and char\u00adnel<\/span>-hous\u00ades. My atten\u00adtion was fixed upon every object the most insup\u00adport\u00adable to the del\u00adi\u00adca\u00adcy of the human feel\u00adings. I saw how the fine form of man was degrad\u00aded<\/span> and wast\u00aded; I beheld<\/span> the cor\u00adrup\u00adtion of death suc\u00adceed to the bloom\u00ading cheek of life; I saw how the worm inher\u00adit\u00aded the won\u00adders of the eye and brain. I paused, exam\u00adin\u00ading and analysing all the minu\u00adti\u00adae<\/span> of cau\u00adsa\u00adtion<\/span>, as exem\u00adpli\u00adfied<\/span> in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this dark\u00adness a sud\u00adden light broke in upon me\u2014a light so bril\u00adliant and won\u00addrous<\/span>, yet so sim\u00adple, that while I became dizzy<\/span> with the immen\u00adsi\u00adty<\/span> of the prospect which it illus\u00adtrat\u00aded, I was sur\u00adprised that among so many men of genius who had direct\u00aded their inquiries towards the same sci\u00adence, that I alone should be reserved to dis\u00adcov\u00ader so aston\u00adish\u00ading a secret.<\/p>\n

Remem\u00adber, I am not record\u00ading the vision of a mad\u00adman. The sun does not more cer\u00adtain\u00adly shine in the heav\u00adens than that which I now affirm<\/span> is true. Some mir\u00ada\u00adcle might have pro\u00adduced it, yet the stages of the dis\u00adcov\u00adery were dis\u00adtinct and prob\u00ada\u00adble. After days and nights of incred\u00adi\u00adble labour and fatigue, I suc\u00adceed\u00aded in dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00ading the cause of gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion and life; nay<\/span>, more, I became myself capa\u00adble of bestow\u00ading<\/span> ani\u00adma\u00adtion upon life\u00adless matter.<\/p>\n

The aston\u00adish\u00adment which I had at first<\/span> expe\u00adri\u00adenced on this dis\u00adcov\u00adery soon gave place to<\/span> delight and rap\u00adture<\/span>. After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once<\/span> at the sum\u00admit of my desires was the most grat\u00adi\u00adfy\u00ading<\/span> con\u00adsum\u00adma\u00adtion<\/span> of my toils<\/span>. But this dis\u00adcov\u00adery was so great and over\u00adwhelm\u00ading that all the steps by which I had been pro\u00adgres\u00adsive\u00adly led to it were oblit\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded<\/span>, and I beheld<\/span> only the result. What had been the study and desire of the wis\u00adest men since the cre\u00adation of the world was now with\u00adin my grasp<\/span>. Not that, like a mag\u00adic scene, it all opened upon me at once<\/span>: the infor\u00adma\u00adtion I had obtained was of a nature rather to direct my endeav\u00adours<\/span> so soon as I should point them towards the object of my search than to exhib\u00adit that object already accom\u00adplished. I was like the Ara\u00adbi\u00adan who had been buried with the dead and found a pas\u00adsage to life, aid\u00aded only by one glim\u00admer\u00ading<\/span> and seem\u00ading\u00adly inef\u00adfec\u00adtu\u00adal<\/span> light.<\/p>\n

I see by your eager\u00adness and the won\u00adder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquaint\u00aded; that can\u00adnot be; lis\u00adten patient\u00adly until the end of my sto\u00adry, and you will eas\u00adi\u00adly per\u00adceive why I am reserved upon that sub\u00adject. I will not lead you on<\/span>, unguard\u00aded and ardent<\/span> as I then was, to your destruc\u00adtion and infal\u00adli\u00adble<\/span> mis\u00adery. Learn from me, if not by my pre\u00adcepts<\/span>, at least<\/span> by my exam\u00adple, how dan\u00adger\u00adous is the acquire\u00adment<\/span> of knowl\u00adedge and how much hap\u00adpi\u00ader that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires<\/span> to become greater than his nature will allow.<\/p>\n

When I found so aston\u00adish\u00ading a pow\u00ader placed with\u00adin my hands, I hes\u00adi\u00adtat\u00aded a long time con\u00adcern\u00ading the man\u00adner in which I should employ it. Although I pos\u00adsessed the capac\u00adi\u00adty of bestow\u00ading<\/span> ani\u00adma\u00adtion, yet to pre\u00adpare a frame for the recep\u00adtion of it, with all its intri\u00adca\u00adcies<\/span> of fibres, mus\u00adcles, and veins<\/span>, still remained a work of incon\u00adceiv\u00adable<\/span> dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty and labour. I doubt\u00aded at first<\/span> whether I should attempt the cre\u00adation of a being like myself, or one of sim\u00adpler orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion; but my imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion was too much exalt\u00aded<\/span> by my first suc\u00adcess to per\u00admit me to doubt of my abil\u00adi\u00adty to give life to an ani\u00admal as com\u00adplex and won\u00adder\u00adful as man. The mate\u00adri\u00adals at present<\/span> with\u00adin my com\u00admand hard\u00adly appeared ade\u00adquate to so ardu\u00adous<\/span> an under\u00adtak\u00ading, but I doubt\u00aded not that I should ulti\u00admate\u00adly suc\u00adceed. I pre\u00adpared myself for a mul\u00adti\u00adtude of revers\u00ades; my oper\u00ada\u00adtions might be inces\u00adsant\u00adly<\/span> baf\u00adfled<\/span>, and at last<\/span> my work be imper\u00adfect, yet when I con\u00adsid\u00adered the improve\u00adment which every day takes place<\/span> in sci\u00adence and mechan\u00adics, I was encour\u00adaged to hope my present attempts would at least<\/span> lay the foun\u00adda\u00adtions of future suc\u00adcess<\/span>. Nor could I con\u00adsid\u00ader the mag\u00adni\u00adtude and com\u00adplex\u00adi\u00adty of my plan as any argu\u00adment of its imprac\u00adti\u00adca\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty<\/span>. It was with these feel\u00adings that I began the cre\u00adation of a human being. As the minute\u00adness<\/span> of the parts formed a great hin\u00addrance<\/span> to my speed, I resolved, con\u00adtrary to my first inten\u00adtion, to make the being of a gigan\u00adtic<\/span> stature<\/span>, that is to say<\/span>, about eight feet in height, and pro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00adably large. After hav\u00ading formed this deter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion and hav\u00ading spent some months in suc\u00adcess\u00adful\u00adly col\u00adlect\u00ading and arrang\u00ading my mate\u00adri\u00adals, I began.<\/p>\n

No one can con\u00adceive the vari\u00adety of feel\u00adings which bore me onwards<\/span>, like a hur\u00adri\u00adcane, in the first enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm of suc\u00adcess. Life and death appeared to me ide\u00adal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a tor\u00adrent<\/span> of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its cre\u00adator and source; many hap\u00adpy and excel\u00adlent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the grat\u00adi\u00adtude of his child so com\u00adplete\u00adly as I should deserve theirs. Pur\u00adsu\u00ading these reflec\u00adtions, I thought that if I could bestow<\/span> ani\u00adma\u00adtion upon life\u00adless mat\u00adter, I might in process of time<\/span> (although I now found it impos\u00adsi\u00adble) renew life where death had appar\u00adent\u00adly devot\u00aded the body to corruption.<\/p>\n

These thoughts sup\u00adport\u00aded my spir\u00adits, while I pur\u00adsued my under\u00adtak\u00ading with unremit\u00adting<\/span> ardour<\/span>. My cheek had grown pale with study, and my per\u00adson had become ema\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded<\/span> with con\u00adfine\u00adment<\/span>. Some\u00adtimes, on the very brink<\/span> of cer\u00adtain\u00adty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realise. One secret which I alone pos\u00adsessed was the hope to which I had ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded myself; and the moon gazed<\/span> on my mid\u00adnight labours, while, with unre\u00adlaxed and breath\u00adless eager\u00adness, I pur\u00adsued nature to her hid\u00ading-places. Who shall con\u00adceive the hor\u00adrors of my secret toil<\/span> as I dab\u00adbled<\/span> among the unhal\u00adlowed<\/span> damps<\/span> of the grave or tor\u00adtured the liv\u00ading ani\u00admal to ani\u00admate the life\u00adless clay? My limbs now trem\u00adble, and my eyes swim<\/span> with the remem\u00adbrance; but then a resist\u00adless and almost fran\u00adtic<\/span> impulse urged me for\u00adward; I seemed to<\/span> have lost all soul or sen\u00adsa\u00adtion but<\/span> for this one pur\u00adsuit. It was indeed but<\/span> a pass\u00ading trance, that only made me feel with renewed acute\u00adness<\/span> so soon as, the unnat\u00adur\u00adal stim\u00adu\u00adlus ceas\u00ading to oper\u00adate, I had returned to my old habits. I col\u00adlect\u00aded bones from char\u00adnel<\/span>-hous\u00ades and dis\u00adturbed, with pro\u00adfane<\/span> fin\u00adgers, the tremen\u00addous secrets of the human frame<\/span>. In a soli\u00adtary<\/span> cham\u00adber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and sep\u00ada\u00adrat\u00aded from all the oth\u00ader apart\u00adments by a gallery and stair\u00adcase, I kept my work\u00adshop of filthy<\/span> cre\u00adation; my eye\u00adballs<\/span> were start\u00ading from their sock\u00adets in attend\u00ading to the details of my employ\u00adment. The dis\u00adsect\u00ading<\/span> room and the slaugh\u00adter<\/span>-house fur\u00adnished many of my mate\u00adri\u00adals; and often did my human nature turn with loathing<\/span> from my occu\u00adpa\u00adtion, whilst, still urged on by an eager\u00adness which per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly<\/span> increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion.<\/p>\n

The sum\u00admer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pur\u00adsuit. It was a most beau\u00adti\u00adful sea\u00adson; nev\u00ader did the fields bestow<\/span> a more plen\u00adti\u00adful<\/span> har\u00advest or the vines<\/span> yield a more lux\u00adu\u00adri\u00adant<\/span> vin\u00adtage<\/span>, but my eyes were insen\u00adsi\u00adble to the charms of nature. And the same feel\u00adings which made me neglect<\/span> the scenes around me caused me also to for\u00adget those friends who were so many miles absent, and whom I had not seen for so long a time. I knew my silence dis\u00adqui\u00adet\u00aded<\/span> them, and I well remem\u00adbered the words of my father: \u201cI know that while you are pleased with your\u00adself you will think of us with affec\u00adtion, and we shall hear reg\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly from you. You must par\u00addon<\/span> me if I regard any inter\u00adrup\u00adtion in your cor\u00adre\u00adspon\u00addence as a proof that your oth\u00ader duties are equal\u00adly neglect\u00aded<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

I knew well there\u00adfore what would be my father\u2019s feel\u00adings, but I could not tear my thoughts from my employ\u00adment, loath\u00adsome<\/span> in itself<\/span>, but which had tak\u00aden an irre\u00adsistible hold of my imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion. I wished, as it were, to pro\u00adcras\u00adti\u00adnate<\/span> all that relat\u00aded to my feel\u00adings of affec\u00adtion until the great object, which swal\u00adlowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.<\/p>\n

I then thought that my father would be unjust if he ascribed<\/span> my neglect<\/span> to vice or fault\u00adi\u00adness<\/span> on my part, but I am now con\u00advinced that he was jus\u00adti\u00adfied in con\u00adceiv\u00ading that I should not be alto\u00adgeth\u00ader free from blame. A human being in per\u00adfec\u00adtion ought always to pre\u00adserve a calm and peace\u00adful mind and nev\u00ader to allow pas\u00adsion or a tran\u00adsi\u00adto\u00adry<\/span> desire to dis\u00adturb his tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty<\/span>. I do not think that the pur\u00adsuit of knowl\u00adedge is an excep\u00adtion to this rule. If the study to which you apply your\u00adself has a ten\u00adden\u00adcy to weak\u00aden your affec\u00adtions and to destroy your taste for those sim\u00adple plea\u00adsures in which no alloy can pos\u00adsi\u00adbly mix, then that study is cer\u00adtain\u00adly unlaw\u00adful<\/span>, that is to say<\/span>, not befit\u00adting<\/span> the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pur\u00adsuit what\u00adso\u00adev\u00ader<\/span> to inter\u00adfere with the tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty<\/span> of his domes\u00adtic affec\u00adtions, Greece had not been enslaved<\/span>, C\u00e6sar<\/span> would have spared<\/span> his coun\u00adtry, Amer\u00adi\u00adca would have been dis\u00adcov\u00adered more grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly, and the empires of Mex\u00adi\u00adco and Peru had not been destroyed.<\/p>\n

But I for\u00adget that I am mor\u00adal\u00adiz\u00ading in the most inter\u00adest\u00ading part of my tale, and your looks remind me to proceed.<\/p>\n

My father made no reproach<\/span> in his let\u00adters and only took notice of my silence by inquir\u00ading into my occu\u00adpa\u00adtions more par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly than before. Win\u00adter, spring, and sum\u00admer passed away dur\u00ading my labours; but I did not watch the blos\u00adsom<\/span> or the expand\u00ading leaves\u2014sights which before always yield\u00aded me supreme delight\u2014so deeply was I engrossed<\/span> in my occu\u00adpa\u00adtion. The leaves of that year had with\u00adered<\/span> before my work drew near to a close, and now every day showed me more plain\u00adly how well I had suc\u00adceed\u00aded. But my enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm was checked by my anx\u00adi\u00adety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slav\u00adery to toil<\/span> in the mines, or any oth\u00ader unwhole\u00adsome<\/span> trade than an artist occu\u00adpied by his favourite employ\u00adment. Every night I was oppressed<\/span> by a slow fever, and I became ner\u00advous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf star\u00adtled<\/span> me, and I shunned<\/span> my fel\u00adlow crea\u00adtures as if I had been guilty of a crime. Some\u00adtimes I grew alarmed at the wreck<\/span> I per\u00adceived that I had become; the ener\u00adgy of my pur\u00adpose alone sus\u00adtained me: my labours would soon end, and I believed that exer\u00adcise and amuse\u00adment would then dri\u00adve away incip\u00adi\u00adent<\/span> dis\u00adease; and I promised myself both of these when my cre\u00adation should be complete.<\/p>\n

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nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> or <\/span>the phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy of nature<\/span> \u21d2 The philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal study of nature and the phys\u00adi\u00adcal uni\u00adverse that was dom\u00adi\u00adnant before the devel\u00adop\u00adment of mod\u00adern sci\u00adence. It is con\u00adsid\u00adered to be the pre\u00adcur\u00adsor of nat\u00adur\u00adal sci\u00adences such as physics.<\/p>\n

ardour<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading of strong ener\u00adgy or eager\u00adness: zeal<\/span><\/p>\n

inquir\u00ader<\/span> \u026an\u02c8k\u00adwa\u026a\u0259r\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adone who asks ques\u00adtions: enquir\u00ader, exam\u00adin\u00ader, inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtor, ques\u00adtion\u00ader, researcher <\/span><\/p>\n

great deal<\/span> \u21d2 A large amount or degree.<\/p>\n

repul\u00adsive<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8p\u028cl\u00ads\u026av<\/span> adj<\/span> So extreme\u00adly ugly as to be ter\u00adri\u00adfy\u00ading: hideous, ugly<\/span><\/p>\n

phys\u00adiog\u00adno\u00admy<\/span> \u02ccf\u026az\u00adi\u02c8\u0252n\u0259\u00admi<\/span> n <\/span>A person\u2019s fea\u00adtures or char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtic expres\u00adsion con\u00adsid\u00adered as an indi\u00adca\u00adtion of per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty: vis\u00adage, countenance<\/span><\/p>\n

on that account<\/span> \u21d2 Because of that.<\/p>\n

tinge<\/span> t\u026an\u02a4<\/span> v <\/span>To affect slight\u00adly, as with a con\u00adtrast\u00ading qual\u00adi\u00adty: affect, impact, touch<\/span><\/p>\n

dog\u00adma\u00adtism<\/span> \u02c8d\u0252\u0261m\u0259\u02c8t\u026az\u1d4am<\/span> n <\/span>Arro\u00adgant, stub\u00adborn asser\u00adtion of opin\u00adion or belief.<\/p>\n

air<\/span> e\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>Gen\u00ader\u00adal char\u00adac\u00adter or appear\u00adance: aura<\/span><\/p>\n

ban\u00adish<\/span> \u02c8b\u00e6n\u026a\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To dri\u00adve away: expel<\/span><\/p>\n

pedantry<\/span> \u02c8p\u025bd\u0259n\u00adtri<\/span> n <\/span>The osten\u00adta\u00adtious dis\u00adplay of aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic knowl\u00adedge, or undue atten\u00adtion paid to minor details or for\u00admal rules: hair\u00adsplit\u00adting, punc\u00adtil\u00adious\u00adness, pettifoggery<\/span><\/p>\n

abstruse<\/span> \u00e6b\u02c8stru\u02d0s<\/span> adj<\/span> Not easy to under\u00adstand: recon\u00addite, deep, esoteric<\/span><\/p>\n

facile<\/span> \u02c8f\u00e6sa\u026al<\/span> adj<\/span> Done or achieved with lit\u00adtle effort or dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty: easy, effort\u00adless, sim\u00adple, light<\/span><\/p>\n

appre\u00adhen\u00adsion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6pr\u026a\u02c8h\u025bn\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The abil\u00adi\u00adty to appre\u00adhend or under\u00adstand: under\u00adstand\u00ading<\/span><\/p>\n

at first<\/span> \u21d2 In the beggining.<\/p>\n

fluc\u00adtu\u00adate<\/span> \u02c8fl\u028ck\u00adtj\u028ae\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To vary irreg\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly: wave<\/span><\/p>\n

ardent<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Express\u00ading or char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by warmth of feel\u00ading: pas\u00adsion\u00adate<\/span><\/p>\n

pro\u00adfi\u00adcien\u00adcy<\/span> pr\u0259\u02c8f\u026a\u0283\u0259n\u00adsi<\/span> n <\/span>Nat\u00adur\u00adal or acquired facil\u00adi\u00adty in a spe\u00adcif\u00adic activ\u00adi\u00adty: abil\u00adi\u00adty, skill, com\u00admand, mas\u00adtery, expertness<\/span><\/p>\n

sly<\/span> sla\u026a<\/span> n <\/span>Marked by skill in decep\u00adtion: cun\u00adning, slick, tricky<\/span><\/p>\n

Hein\u00adrich Cor\u00adnelius Agrip\u00adpa<\/span> \u21d2 A Ger\u00adman Renais\u00adsance poly\u00admath, physi\u00adcian, legal schol\u00adar, sol\u00addier, knight, the\u00adolo\u00adgian, and occult writer. Agrippa\u2019s Three Books of Occult Phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> pub\u00adlished in 1533 drew heav\u00adi\u00adly upon Kab\u00adbal\u00adah, Her\u00admeti\u00adcism, and neo-Pla\u00adton\u00adism. His book was wide\u00adly influ\u00aden\u00adtial among eso\u00adteri\u00adcists of the ear\u00adly mod\u00adern peri\u00adod, and was con\u00addemned as hereti\u00adcal by the inquisi\u00adtor of Cologne.<\/p>\n

heart\u00adfelt<\/span> \u02c8h\u0251\u02d0t\u00adf\u025blt<\/span> adj<\/span> Deeply or sin\u00adcere\u00adly felt: earnest, devout, dear, sin\u00adcere, honest<\/span><\/p>\n

exul\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u025bgz\u028cl\u02c8te\u026a\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading of extreme joy over a suc\u00adcess or vic\u00adto\u00adry: exul\u00adtance, exul\u00adtan\u00adcy, jubi\u00adlance, jubi\u00adla\u00adtion, triumph<\/span><\/p>\n

to pay a vis\u00adit to some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To vis\u00adit some\u00adthing, espe\u00adcial\u00adly in a brief or infor\u00admal manner.<\/p>\n

none but<\/span> \u21d2 Only.<\/p>\n

entice\u00adment<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u00adta\u026as\u00adm\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adthing that seduces or has the qual\u00adi\u00adty to seduce: temp\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span><\/p>\n

infal\u00adli\u00adble<\/span> \u026an\u02c8f\u00e6l\u0259bl<\/span> adj<\/span> Inca\u00adpable of fail\u00adure or error: sure, cer\u00adtain, reli\u00adable, unerr\u00ading, unfailing<\/span><\/p>\n

attain\u00adment<\/span> \u0259\u02c8te\u026an\u00adm\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>The act of achiev\u00ading an aim: accom\u00adplish\u00adment, achievement<\/span><\/p>\n

sole\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8s\u0259\u028al\u00adli<\/span> n <\/span>With\u00adout any oth\u00aders being includ\u00aded or involved: only, alone, exclu\u00adsive\u00adly, entirely<\/span><\/p>\n

pro\u00adcure<\/span> pr\u0259\u02c8kj\u028a\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To come into pos\u00adses\u00adsion of: get, obtain, acquire, secure<\/span><\/p>\n

esteem<\/span> \u026a\u02c8sti\u02d0m<\/span> n <\/span>High regard or respect; good opin\u00adion: respect, regard, hon\u00adour, con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion, admi\u00adra\u00adtion, estimation,<\/span><\/p>\n

Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span> \u21d2 An inde\u00adpen\u00addent city on the Danube in Upper Bavaria, Germany.<\/p>\n

con\u00adducive<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8d\u00adju\u02d0s\u026av<\/span> adj<\/span> Con\u00adtribute to a result; tend\u00ading to bring about or cause: con\u00adtribu\u00adtive<\/span><\/p>\n

pro\u00adtract<\/span> pr\u0259\u02c8tr\u00e6kt<\/span> v <\/span>To draw out or length\u00aden in time: pro\u00adlong, draw out, extend, lengthen<\/span><\/p>\n

phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon<\/span> f\u0259\u02c8n\u0252m\u026an\u0259n<\/span> n pl<\/span> phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adna<\/span> (Physics<\/span>) An observ\u00adable event.<\/p>\n

pecu\u00adliar\u00adly<\/span> p\u026a\u02c8kju\u02d0li\u0259li<\/span> adv<\/span> In an usu\u00adal or strange man\u00adner: espe\u00adcial\u00adly, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly, specially<\/span><\/p>\n

frame<\/span> fre\u026am<\/span> v <\/span>(Obso\u00adlete<\/span>) The struc\u00adture or physique of a human or ani\u00admal body: shape; form<\/span><\/p>\n

endue<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u00adju\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>Give qual\u00adi\u00adties or abil\u00adi\u00adties to: endow, gift, indue, invest, empower<\/span><\/p>\n

whence<\/span> w\u025bns<\/span> conj<\/span> By rea\u00adson of which; from which.<\/p>\n

upon the brink of some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 On the verge of doing some\u00adthing or of hav\u00ading some immi\u00adnent event hap\u00adpen, espe\u00adcial\u00adly that which is bad or disastrous.<\/p>\n

cow\u00adardice<\/span> \u02c8ka\u028a\u0259d\u026as<\/span> n <\/span>Igno\u00adble fear in the face of dan\u00adger or pain: faint-heart\u00aded\u00adness, fearfulness, <\/span><\/p>\n

restrain<\/span> r\u026as\u02c8tre\u026an<\/span> v <\/span>To stop some\u00adone from doing some\u00adthing, often by using phys\u00adi\u00adcal force: con\u00adfine, hold<\/span><\/p>\n

revolve<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8v\u0252lv<\/span> v <\/span>To pon\u00adder or reflect on: <\/p>\n

thence\u00adforth<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8v\u0252lv<\/span> adv<\/span> From that time onward: there\u00adafter<\/span><\/p>\n

super\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal<\/span> \u02ccsu\u02d0p\u0259\u02c8n\u00e6\u02a7\u1d4ar\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Attrib\u00aduted to a pow\u00ader that seems to vio\u00adlate or go beyond nat\u00adur\u00adal force: para\u00adnor\u00admal, mys\u00adte\u00adri\u00adous, unnatural<\/span><\/p>\n

irk\u00adsome<\/span> \u02c8\u025c\u02d0k\u00ads\u0259m<\/span> adj<\/span> Caus\u00ading annoy\u00adance, weari\u00adness or vex\u00ada\u00adtion: tedious<\/span><\/p>\n

decay<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8ke\u026a<\/span> v <\/span>(Biol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/span>) To break down into com\u00adpo\u00adnent parts: rot, dis\u00adin\u00adte\u00adgrate, deteriorate<\/span><\/p>\n

pre\u00adcau\u00adtion<\/span> pr\u026a\u02c8k\u0254\u02d0\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>An action tak\u00aden in advance to pro\u00adtect against pos\u00adsi\u00adble dan\u00adger, fail\u00adure, or injury: care, fore\u00adthought, cau\u00adtion, measure<\/span><\/p>\n

super\u00adsti\u00adtion<\/span> \u02c8su\u02d0p\u0259\u02c8st\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>An irra\u00adtional belief aris\u00ading from igno\u00adrance or fear: belief<\/span><\/p>\n

appari\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6p\u0259\u02c8r\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A ghost\u00adly appear\u00ading fig\u00adure: ghost, phan\u00adtom, spirit<\/span><\/p>\n

recep\u00adta\u00adcle<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8s\u025bp\u00adt\u0259k\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>A con\u00adtain\u00ader that is used to put or keep things in: hold\u00ader, vessel<\/span><\/p>\n

deprive<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8pra\u026av<\/span> v <\/span>Pre\u00advent a per\u00adson from hav\u00ading or using some\u00adthing: rob of<\/span><\/p>\n

vault<\/span> v\u0254\u02d0lt<\/span> n <\/span>A bur\u00adial cham\u00adber, espe\u00adcial\u00adly when underground.<\/p>\n

char\u00adnel<\/span> \u02c8\u02a7\u0251\u02d0\u0259l<\/span> n <\/span>A repos\u00adi\u00adto\u00adry for the bones or bod\u00adies of the dead; a char\u00adnel house.<\/p>\n

degrade<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8\u00adgre\u026ad<\/span> v <\/span>To low\u00ader in qual\u00adi\u00adty or val\u00adue; make infe\u00adri\u00ador or less valu\u00adable: break down, decay, degen\u00ader\u00adate, atrophy<\/span><\/p>\n

behold<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u0259\u028ald<\/span> pp<\/span>, pt<\/span> beheld<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u025bld<\/span> v <\/span>To appre\u00adhend some\u00adthing by use of the eyes: see, per\u00adceive<\/span><\/p>\n

minu\u00adti\u00adae<\/span> ma\u026a\u02c8n\u00adju\u02d0\u0283i\u00ada\u026a<\/span> n <\/span>Small or triv\u00adial details: details, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlars, trifles<\/span><\/p>\n

cau\u00adsa\u00adtion<\/span> k\u0254\u02d0\u02c8ze\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The rela\u00adtion of cause to effect: causal\u00adi\u00adty<\/span><\/p>\n

exem\u00adpli\u00adfy<\/span> \u026a\u0261\u02c8z\u025bm\u00adpl\u026a\u00adfa\u026a<\/span> v <\/span>Clar\u00adi\u00adfy by giv\u00ading an exam\u00adple of: illus\u00adtrate, instance, show, rep\u00adre\u00adsent, dis\u00adplay, demonstrate<\/span><\/p>\n

won\u00addrous<\/span> \u02c8w\u028cn\u00addr\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnar\u00adi\u00adly good or great: won\u00adder\u00adful; remarkable<\/span><\/p>\n

dizzy<\/span> \u02c8d\u026azi<\/span> adj<\/span> Affect\u00aded with a whirling or reel\u00ading sen\u00adsa\u00adtion: gid\u00addy, ver\u00adtig\u00adi\u00adnous, woozy<\/span><\/p>\n

immen\u00adsi\u00adty<\/span> \u026a\u02c8m\u025bn\u00ads\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>Unusu\u00adal large\u00adness in size or extent or num\u00adber: vast\u00adness, enormousness<\/span><\/p>\n

affirm<\/span> \u0259\u02c8f\u025c\u02d0m<\/span> v <\/span>To declare pos\u00adi\u00adtive\u00adly; assert to be true: declare, state, main\u00adtain, assert, certify<\/span><\/p>\n

nay<\/span> ne\u026a<\/span> adv<\/span> Not so: no, nix<\/span><\/p>\n

bestow<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8st\u0259\u028a<\/span> v <\/span>To give for\u00admal\u00adly or offi\u00adcial\u00adly: present, grant<\/span><\/p>\n

to gave place to<\/span> \u21d2 (For\u00admal<\/span>) Be replaced by.<\/p>\n

rap\u00adture<\/span> \u02c8r\u00e6p\u02a7\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A state of being car\u00adried away by over\u00adwhelm\u00ading emo\u00adtion or elat\u00aded bliss: ecsta\u00adsy, delight, enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm, joy, spell<\/span><\/p>\n

at once<\/span> \u21d2 With\u00adout delay; at the same time; immediately.<\/p>\n

grat\u00adi\u00adfy\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8\u0261r\u00e6t\u026a\u00adfa\u026a\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Pleas\u00ading to the mind or feel\u00ading: pleas\u00adant, pleas\u00ading, plea\u00adsur\u00adable, satisfying<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adsum\u00adma\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cck\u0252n\u00ads\u0259\u02c8me\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The act of bring\u00ading to com\u00adple\u00adtion or fruition: achieve\u00adment, per\u00adfec\u00adtion, real\u00adiza\u00adtion, ful\u00adfil\u00adment, culmination<\/span><\/p>\n

toil<\/span> t\u0254\u026al<\/span> n <\/span>Work that is dif\u00adfi\u00adcult and unpleas\u00adant and that lasts for a long time: hard work, labor<\/span><\/p>\n

oblit\u00ader\u00adate<\/span> \u0259\u02c8bl\u026at\u0259re\u026at\u026ad<\/span> v <\/span>To remove or destroy com\u00adplete\u00adly so as to leave no trace: wipe out, kill, efface<\/span><\/p>\n

be with\u00adin grasp<\/span> \u21d2 To be very close to being apprehended.<\/p>\n

endeav\u00adour<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u025bv\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To attempt: essay, try, assay, seek<\/span><\/p>\n

glim\u00admer<\/span> \u02c8\u0261l\u026am\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>A dim or inter\u00admit\u00adtent flick\u00ader or flash of light: gleam, shine, glow, sparkle, glit\u00adter, blink<\/span><\/p>\n

inef\u00adfec\u00adtu\u00adal<\/span> \u02cc\u026an\u026a\u02c8f\u025bk\u00adtj\u028a\u0259l<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading no use\u00adful result: use\u00adless, vain, unsuc\u00adcess\u00adful, futile, fruitless<\/span><\/p>\n

lead some\u00adone on<\/span> \u21d2 To guide some\u00adone onward.<\/p>\n

ardent<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Express\u00ading or char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by warmth of feel\u00ading: pas\u00adsion\u00adate<\/span><\/p>\n

infal\u00adli\u00adble<\/span> \u026an\u02c8f\u00e6l\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Inca\u00adpable of fail\u00adure or error: fault\u00adless, unerr\u00ading, per\u00adfect, impeccable<\/span><\/p>\n

pre\u00adcepts<\/span> \u02c8pri\u02d0s\u025bpts<\/span> n <\/span>A rule or prin\u00adci\u00adple pre\u00adscrib\u00ading a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar course of action or con\u00adduct: rule, order, direc\u00adtion, doc\u00adtrine, principle<\/span><\/p>\n

at least<\/span> \u21d2 If noth\u00ading else. Not less than.<\/p>\n

acquire\u00adment<\/span> \u0259\u02c8k\u00adwa\u026a\u0259m\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>An attain\u00adment, such as a skill or social accom\u00adplish\u00adment: achieve\u00adment, acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion, attainment<\/span><\/p>\n

aspire<\/span> \u0259s\u02c8\u00adpa\u026a\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>To have a great ambi\u00adtion or ulti\u00admate goal; desire strong\u00adly: aim, seek dream<\/span><\/p>\n

intri\u00adca\u00adcy<\/span> \u02c8\u026an\u00adtr\u026ak\u0259si<\/span> n <\/span>Marked by elab\u00ado\u00adrate\u00adly com\u00adplex detail: elab\u00ado\u00adrate\u00adness, invo\u00adlu\u00adtion, elab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtion, com\u00adplex\u00adi\u00adty, complexness<\/span><\/p>\n

vein<\/span> ve\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>Any of the tubu\u00adlar ves\u00adsels that con\u00advey oxy\u00adgen-deplet\u00aded blood to the heart.<\/p>\n

incon\u00adceiv\u00adable<\/span> \u02cc\u026ank\u0259n\u02c8si\u02d0v\u0259bl<\/span> adj<\/span> Not able to be imag\u00adined or believed: incred\u00adi\u00adble, improb\u00ada\u00adble, unimaginable, <\/span><\/p>\n

exalt\u00aded<\/span> \u026a\u0261\u02c8z\u0254\u02d0lt\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Intense\u00adly excit\u00aded: elat\u00aded, excit\u00aded, inspired, stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded, ele\u00advat\u00aded, animated <\/span><\/p>\n

at present<\/span> \u21d2 At this time, now.<\/p>\n

ardu\u00adous<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0\u02a4u\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to accom\u00adplish; demand\u00ading con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable men\u00adtal effort and skil: dif\u00adfi\u00adcult, hard<\/span><\/p>\n

inces\u00adsant\u00adly<\/span> \u026an\u02c8s\u025bs\u00adntli<\/span> adv<\/span> With\u00adout inter\u00adrup\u00adtion: con\u00adstant\u00adly, con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adous\u00adly, end\u00adless\u00adly, ever\u00adlast\u00ading, perpetually<\/span><\/p>\n

baf\u00adfle<\/span> \u02c8b\u00e6f\u1d4ald<\/span> v <\/span>Hin\u00adder or pre\u00advent (the efforts, plans, or desires<\/span>) of: frus\u00adtrate, queer, scotch, thwart<\/span><\/p>\n

at last<\/span> \u21d2 After a long wait; finally.<\/p>\n

to take place<\/span> \u21d2 Hap\u00adpen, occur,<\/p>\n

to lay the foun\u00adda\u00adtions for some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To state, out\u00adline, or cre\u00adate the fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal basis for something.<\/p>\n

imprac\u00adti\u00adca\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> \u026am\u02ccpr\u00e6k\u00adt\u026ak\u0259\u02c8b\u026al\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>The qual\u00adi\u00adty of not being usable: inutil\u00adi\u00adty, unuse\u00adful\u00adness, uselessness<\/span><\/p>\n

minute\u00adness<\/span> ma\u026a\u02c8n\u00adju\u02d0t\u00adn\u0259s<\/span> n <\/span>The prop\u00ader\u00adty of being very small in size: diminu\u00adtive\u00adness, petiteness<\/span><\/p>\n

hin\u00addrance<\/span> \u02c8h\u026an\u00addr\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>Any\u00adthing that pre\u00advents entry or pas\u00adsage: obsta\u00adcle, imped\u00adi\u00adment, bar\u00adri\u00ader, obstruction<\/span><\/p>\n

gigan\u00adtic<\/span> \u02a4a\u026a\u02c8\u0261\u00e6n\u00adt\u026ak<\/span> adj<\/span> Exceed\u00ading\u00adly large in size, extent, or amount, espe\u00adcial\u00adly for its kind: colos\u00adsal, enor\u00admous, giant, huge<\/span><\/p>\n

stature<\/span> \u02c8st\u00e6\u02a7\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>The height of some\u00adthing, esp a per\u00adson or ani\u00admal when stand\u00ading: height, build, size, tallness<\/span><\/p>\n

that is to say<\/span> \u21d2 In oth\u00ader words.<\/p>\n

onwards<\/span> \u02c8\u0252n\u00adw\u0259dz<\/span> adv<\/span> In a direc\u00adtion or toward a posi\u00adtion that is ahead in space or time: for\u00adward, ahead<\/span><\/p>\n

tor\u00adrent<\/span> \u02c8t\u0252r\u1d4ant<\/span> n <\/span>A stream of water flow\u00ading with great rapid\u00adi\u00adty and vio\u00adlence: stream, flow, rush, flood, tide<\/span><\/p>\n

in process of time<\/span> \u21d2 As time pass\u00ades; at a lat\u00ader time.<\/p>\n

unremit\u00adting<\/span> \u02cc\u028cn\u00adr\u026a\u02c8m\u026at\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Unin\u00adter\u00adrupt\u00aded in time and indef\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly long con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading: inces\u00adsant, nev\u00ader-end\u00ading, cease\u00adless, per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal, unceas\u00ading, con\u00adstant, persistent<\/span><\/p>\n

ema\u00adci\u00adate<\/span> \u026a\u02c8me\u026asie\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To make or become extreme\u00adly thin, espe\u00adcial\u00adly as a result of star\u00adva\u00adtion: mac\u00ader\u00adate, waste<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adfine\u00adment<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8\u00adfa\u026an\u00adm\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>The act of lim\u00adit\u00ading or con\u00addi\u00adtion of being lim\u00adit\u00aded: lim\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion, restric\u00adtion, constraint<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>n <\/span><\/span>the brink of some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 On the verge of doing some\u00adthing or of hav\u00ading some immi\u00adnent event hap\u00adpen, espe\u00adcial\u00adly that which is bad or disastrous.<\/p>\n

gaze<\/span> gre\u026az<\/span> v <\/span>To look steadi\u00adly, intent\u00adly, and with fixed atten\u00adtion: stare, look<\/span><\/p>\n

dab\u00adble<\/span> \u02c8d\u00e6b\u1d4al<\/span> v <\/span>Dip a foot or hand briefly into a liq\u00aduid: dip, dunk, souse, douse, plunge<\/span><\/p>\n

unhal\u00adlowed<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8h\u00e6l\u0259\u028ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Not hal\u00adlowed or con\u00adse\u00adcrat\u00aded: unholy<\/span><\/p>\n

damp<\/span> d\u00e6mp<\/span> n <\/span>Mois\u00adture that lies or has con\u00addensed on some\u00adthing: mois\u00adture, humid\u00adi\u00adty, driz\u00adzle, dew<\/span><\/p>\n

swim before someone\u2019s eyes<\/span> \u21d2 To appear in one\u2019s field of vision.<\/p>\n

fran\u00adtic<\/span> \u02c8fr\u00e6n\u00adt\u026ak<\/span> adj<\/span> Char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by rapid and dis\u00ador\u00addered or ner\u00advous activ\u00adi\u00adty: mad<\/span><\/p>\n

seemed to<\/span> \u21d2 To appear to one\u2019s own mind, sens\u00ades, etc.<\/p>\n

but<\/span> b\u028ct<\/span> adv<\/span> (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) Mere\u00adly; just; only.<\/p>\n

acute\u00adness<\/span> \u0259\u02c8kju\u02d0t\u00adn\u0259s<\/span> n <\/span>A sen\u00adsi\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adty that is keen and high\u00adly devel\u00adoped: sen\u00adsi\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adty, sen\u00adsi\u00adtive\u00adness, sensibility<\/span><\/p>\n

pro\u00adfane<\/span> pr\u0259\u02c8fe\u026an<\/span> adj<\/span> Marked by con\u00adtempt or irrev\u00ader\u00adence for what is sacred: blas\u00adphe\u00admous<\/span><\/p>\n

frame<\/span> fre\u026am<\/span> v <\/span>(Obso\u00adlete<\/span>) The struc\u00adture or physique of a human or ani\u00admal body: shape; form<\/span><\/p>\n

soli\u00adtary<\/span> \u02c8s\u0252l\u026at\u0259ri<\/span> adj<\/span> Being the only one; sin\u00adgle and iso\u00adlat\u00aded from oth\u00aders: lone, lone\u00adsome, only, sole<\/span><\/p>\n

filthy<\/span> \u02c8f\u026al\u03b8i<\/span> adj<\/span> Very objec\u00adtion\u00adable: nasty, obnox\u00adious, dis\u00adgust\u00ading, loath\u00adsome, odi\u00adous, repugnant<\/span><\/p>\n

eye\u00adball<\/span> \u02c8a\u026ab\u0254\u02d0l<\/span> n <\/span>The whole round ball that forms an eye.<\/p>\n

dis\u00adsect<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8s\u025bkt<\/span> n <\/span>To cut apart (an ani\u00admal body, plant, etc.<\/span>) to exam\u00adine the struc\u00adture and rela\u00adtion of parts: ana\u00adlyze, anatomize<\/span><\/p>\n

slaugh\u00adter<\/span> \u02c8sl\u0254\u02d0t\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>The killing of a large num\u00adber of peo\u00adple: mas\u00adsacre<\/span><\/p>\n

loathing<\/span> \u02c8l\u0259\u028a\u00f0\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>Hate cou\u00adpled with dis\u00adgust: abhor\u00adrence, detes\u00adta\u00adtion, exe\u00adcra\u00adtion, odi\u00adum, abomination<\/span><\/p>\n

per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly<\/span> p\u0259\u02c8p\u025b\u02a7u\u0259li<\/span> adv<\/span> With\u00adout inter\u00adrup\u00adtion; for all time: ever\u00adlast\u00ading\u00adly, con\u00adstant\u00adly, inces\u00adsant\u00adly, always, for\u00adev\u00ader, non-stop<\/span><\/p>\n

plen\u00adti\u00adful<\/span> \u02c8pl\u025bn\u00adt\u026af\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Exist\u00ading in great quan\u00adti\u00adty or ample sup\u00adply: abun\u00addant<\/span><\/p>\n

vine<\/span> va\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>A type of climb\u00ading plant which bears grapes. <\/p>\n

lux\u00adu\u00adri\u00adant<\/span> l\u028c\u0261\u02c8\u0292\u028a\u0259ri\u0259nt<\/span> adj<\/span> Pro\u00adduced or grow\u00ading in extreme abun\u00addance: lush, pro\u00adfuse, riotous, exuberant<\/span><\/p>\n

vin\u00adtage<\/span> \u02c8v\u026an\u00adt\u026a\u02a4<\/span> n <\/span>The yield of wine or grapes from a vine\u00adyard or dis\u00adtrict dur\u00ading one season.<\/p>\n

neglect<\/span> n\u026a\u02c8gl\u025bkt<\/span> v <\/span>To fail to care for or attend to prop\u00ader\u00adly: dis\u00adre\u00adgard<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adqui\u00adet<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8skwa\u026a\u0259t<\/span> v <\/span>Dis\u00adturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be wor\u00adried or alarmed: cark, dis\u00ador\u00adder, per\u00adturb, unhinge, dis\u00adtract, trouble<\/span><\/p>\n

par\u00addon<\/span> \u02c8p\u0251\u02d0d\u1d4an<\/span> v <\/span>To make cour\u00adte\u00adous allowance for: excuse<\/span><\/p>\n

loath\u00adsome<\/span> \u02c8l\u0259\u028a\u00f0s\u0259m<\/span> adj<\/span> Caus\u00ading or able to cause nau\u00adsea: nau\u00adse\u00adat\u00ading, nau\u00adseous, noi\u00adsome, sick\u00aden\u00ading, vile<\/span><\/p>\n

in itself<\/span> \u21d2 With\u00adout the con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of any\u00adthing else.<\/p>\n

pro\u00adcras\u00adti\u00adnate<\/span> pr\u0259\u028a\u02c8kr\u00e6st\u026ane\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To put off doing some\u00adthing, espe\u00adcial\u00adly out of habit\u00adu\u00adal care\u00adless\u00adness or lazi\u00adness: delay<\/span><\/p>\n

ascribe<\/span> \u0259s\u02c8kra\u026ab<\/span> v <\/span>Attribute or cred\u00adit to: attribute, impute, assign<\/span><\/p>\n

fault\u00adi\u00adness<\/span> \u02c8f\u0254\u02d0lt\u026an\u0259s<\/span> n <\/span>The state of being defec\u00adtive: defec\u00adtive\u00adness, imper\u00adfec\u00adtion, imperfectness<\/span><\/p>\n

tran\u00adsi\u00adto\u00adry<\/span> \u02c8tr\u00e6n\u00ads\u026at\u0259ri<\/span> adj<\/span> Last\u00ading only for a short time: tempo\u00adrary, momen\u00adtary, ephemer\u00adal, short-lived, fleeting<\/span><\/p>\n

tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty<\/span> tr\u00e6\u014b\u02c8k\u00adw\u026al\u026ati<\/span> n <\/span>A state of peace and qui\u00adet: quiet\u00adness, relax\u00adation, repose, calmness<\/span><\/p>\n

unlaw\u00adful<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8l\u0254\u02d0f\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Not con\u00adform\u00ading to legal\u00adi\u00adty, moral law, or social con\u00adven\u00adtion: improp\u00ader, unconventional<\/span><\/p>\n

that is to say<\/span> \u21d2 In oth\u00ader words.<\/p>\n

befit<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8f\u026at<\/span> To be appro\u00adpri\u00adate to or suit\u00adable for to be appro\u00adpri\u00adate to or suit\u00adable for: beseem, suit<\/span><\/p>\n

what\u00adso\u00adev\u00ader<\/span> \u02ccw\u0252t\u00ads\u0259\u028a\u02c8\u025bv\u0259<\/span> adj<\/span> One or some or every or all with\u00adout spec\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion: any, what\u00adev\u00ader<\/span><\/p>\n

enslave<\/span> \u026an\u02c8sle\u026avd<\/span> v <\/span>Make a slave of; bring into servi\u00adtude: sub\u00adju\u00adgate, sup\u00adpress, enthral, yoke, tyrannize,<\/span><\/p>\n

Gaius Julius Cae\u00adsar<\/span> \u02c8si\u02d0z\u0259<\/span> \u21d2 A Roman gen\u00ader\u00adal and states\u00adman. A mem\u00adber of the First Tri\u00adumvi\u00adrate, Cae\u00adsar led the Roman armies in the Gal\u00adlic Wars before defeat\u00ading his polit\u00adi\u00adcal rival Pom\u00adpey in a civ\u00adil war, and sub\u00adse\u00adquent\u00adly became dic\u00adta\u00adtor from 49 BC until his assas\u00adsi\u00adna\u00adtion in 44 BC.<\/p>\n

spare<\/span> spe\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To refrain from harm\u00ading, injur\u00ading, destroy\u00ading, or killing: have mer\u00adcy on, par\u00addon, have pity on, release<\/span><\/p>\n

reproach<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8pr\u0259\u028a\u02a7<\/span> n <\/span>A mild rebuke or crit\u00adi\u00adcism: reproof, rep\u00adri\u00admand, rebuke, blame<\/span><\/p>\n

blos\u00adsom<\/span> \u02c8bl\u0252s\u0259m<\/span> n <\/span>A flower or a group of flowers.<\/p>\n

engross<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u00adgr\u0259\u028as<\/span> v <\/span>To make busy; occu\u00adpy the full atten\u00adtion of: engage, absorb, preoccupy<\/span><\/p>\n

with\u00ader<\/span> \u02c8w\u026a\u00f0\u0259d<\/span> v <\/span>To dry up or shriv\u00adel from loss of mois\u00adture: wilt, dry, shrink, decay, hriv\u00adel, desiccate<\/span><\/p>\n

unwhole\u00adsome<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8h\u0259\u028al\u00ads\u0259m<\/span> adj<\/span> Not con\u00adducive to moral\u00adi\u00adty; moral\u00adly harm\u00adful: harm\u00adful, unhealthy, noxious<\/span><\/p>\n

oppress<\/span> \u0259\u02c8pr\u025bs<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to feel wor\u00adried or depressed: depress, bur\u00adden, dis\u00adcour\u00adage, torment<\/span><\/p>\n

star\u00adtle<\/span> \u02c8st\u0251\u02d0t\u1d4ald<\/span> v <\/span>Move or jump sud\u00adden\u00adly, as if in sur\u00adprise or alarm: jump, start<\/span><\/p>\n

shun<\/span> \u0283\u028cn<\/span> v <\/span>Expel from a com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty or group: ban\u00adish, black\u00adball, cast out, ostracise, ostra\u00adcize, ban<\/span><\/p>\n

wreck<\/span> r\u025bk<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson of ruined health; some\u00adone in bad shape phys\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly or men\u00adtal\u00adly: derelict, ruins<\/span><\/p>\n

incip\u00adi\u00adent<\/span> \u026an\u02c8s\u026api\u0259nt<\/span> adj<\/span> Begin\u00adning to exist: begin\u00adning, start\u00ading, developing<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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It was on a drea\u00adry<\/span> night of Novem\u00adber that I beheld<\/span> the accom\u00adplish\u00adment of my toils<\/span>. With an anx\u00adi\u00adety that almost amount\u00aded to agony, I col\u00adlect\u00aded the instru\u00adments of life around me, that I might infuse<\/span> a spark of being into the life\u00adless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morn\u00ading; the rain pat\u00adtered<\/span> dis\u00admal\u00adly<\/span> against the panes<\/span>, and my can\u00addle was near\u00adly burnt out, when, by the glim\u00admer<\/span> of the half-extin\u00adguished<\/span> light, I saw the dull<\/span> yel\u00adlow eye of the crea\u00adture open; it breathed hard, and a con\u00advul\u00adsive<\/span> motion agi\u00adtat\u00aded<\/span> its limbs.<\/p>\n

How can I describe my emo\u00adtions at this cat\u00ada\u00adstro\u00adphe, or how delin\u00adeate<\/span> the wretch<\/span> whom with such infi\u00adnite pains and care I had endeav\u00adoured<\/span> to form? His limbs were in pro\u00adpor\u00adtion, and I had select\u00aded his fea\u00adtures as beau\u00adti\u00adful. Beau\u00adti\u00adful! Great God! His yel\u00adlow skin scarce\u00adly<\/span> cov\u00adered the work of mus\u00adcles and arter\u00adies<\/span> beneath; his hair was of a lus\u00adtrous<\/span> black, and flow\u00ading; his teeth of a pearly<\/span> white\u00adness; but these lux\u00adu\u00adri\u00adances<\/span> only formed a more hor\u00adrid<\/span> con\u00adtrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun<\/span>-white sock\u00adets in which they were set, his shriv\u00adelled<\/span> com\u00adplex\u00adion<\/span> and straight black lips.<\/p>\n

The dif\u00adfer\u00adent acci\u00addents of life are not so change\u00adable as the feel\u00adings of human nature. I had worked hard for near\u00adly two years, for the sole pur\u00adpose of infus\u00ading<\/span> life into an inan\u00adi\u00admate<\/span> body. For this I had deprived<\/span> myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour<\/span> that far exceed\u00aded mod\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion<\/span>; but now that I had fin\u00adished, the beau\u00adty of the dream van\u00adished, and breath\u00adless hor\u00adror and dis\u00adgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect<\/span> of the being I had cre\u00adat\u00aded, I rushed out of the room and con\u00adtin\u00adued a long time tra\u00advers\u00ading<\/span> my bed-cham\u00adber<\/span>, unable to com\u00adpose my mind to sleep. At length<\/span> las\u00adsi\u00adtude<\/span> suc\u00adceed\u00aded to the tumult<\/span> I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeav\u00adour\u00ading<\/span> to seek a few moments of for\u00adget\u00adful\u00adness. But it was in vain<\/span>; I slept, indeed, but I was dis\u00adturbed by the wildest dreams. I thought I saw Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, in the bloom of health, walk\u00ading in the streets of Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span>. Delight\u00aded and sur\u00adprised, I embraced her, but as I imprint\u00aded<\/span> the first kiss on her lips, they became livid<\/span> with the hue<\/span> of death; her fea\u00adtures appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse<\/span> of my dead moth\u00ader in my arms; a shroud<\/span> enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawl\u00ading in the folds of the flan\u00adnel<\/span>. I start\u00aded from my sleep with hor\u00adror; a cold dew<\/span> cov\u00adered my fore\u00adhead, my teeth chat\u00adtered<\/span>, and every limb became con\u00advulsed<\/span>; when, by the dim and yel\u00adlow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the win\u00addow shut\u00adters<\/span>, I beheld<\/span> the wretch<\/span>\u2014the mis\u00ader\u00adable mon\u00adster whom I had cre\u00adat\u00aded. He held up the cur\u00adtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he mut\u00adtered some inar\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlate<\/span> sounds, while a grin wrin\u00adkled<\/span> his cheeks. He might have spo\u00adken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seem\u00ading\u00adly to detain<\/span> me, but I escaped and rushed down\u00adstairs. I took refuge in the court\u00adyard belong\u00ading to the house which I inhab\u00adit\u00aded<\/span>, where I remained dur\u00ading the rest of the night, walk\u00ading up and down in the great\u00adest agi\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span>, lis\u00adten\u00ading atten\u00adtive\u00adly, catch\u00ading and fear\u00ading each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demo\u00adni\u00ada\u00adcal<\/span> corpse<\/span> to which I had so mis\u00ader\u00adably giv\u00aden life.<\/p>\n

Oh! No mor\u00adtal<\/span> could sup\u00adport the hor\u00adror of that coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span>. A mum\u00admy<\/span> again endued<\/span> with ani\u00adma\u00adtion could not be so hideous<\/span> as that wretch<\/span>. I had gazed<\/span> on him while unfin\u00adished; he was ugly then, but when those mus\u00adcles and joints were ren\u00addered capa\u00adble of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante<\/span> could not have conceived.<\/p>\n

I passed the night wretched\u00adly<\/span>. Some\u00adtimes my pulse beat so quick\u00adly and hard\u00adly that I felt the pal\u00adpi\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> of every artery<\/span>; at oth\u00aders, I near\u00adly sank to the ground through lan\u00adguor<\/span> and extreme weak\u00adness. Min\u00adgled<\/span> with this hor\u00adror, I felt the bit\u00adter\u00adness of dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment; dreams that had been my food and pleas\u00adant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the over\u00adthrow<\/span> so complete!<\/p>\n

Morn\u00ading, dis\u00admal<\/span> and wet, at length<\/span> dawned and dis\u00adcov\u00adered to my sleep\u00adless and aching eyes the church of Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span>, its white steeple<\/span> and clock, which indi\u00adcat\u00aded the sixth hour. The porter opened the gates of the court, which had that night been my asy\u00adlum<\/span>, and I issued into the streets, pac\u00ading them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch<\/span> whom I feared every turn\u00ading of the street would present to my view. I did not dare return to the apart\u00adment which I inhab\u00adit\u00aded<\/span>, but felt impelled<\/span> to hur\u00adry on, although drenched<\/span> by the rain which poured from a black and com\u00adfort\u00adless sky.<\/p>\n

I con\u00adtin\u00adued walk\u00ading in this man\u00adner for some time, endeav\u00adour\u00ading<\/span> by bod\u00adi\u00adly exer\u00adcise to ease the load that weighed upon my mind. I tra\u00adversed<\/span> the streets with\u00adout any clear con\u00adcep\u00adtion of where I was or what I was doing. My heart pal\u00adpi\u00adtat\u00aded<\/span> in the sick\u00adness of fear, and I hur\u00adried on with irreg\u00adu\u00adlar steps, not dar\u00ading to look about me:<\/p>\n

Like one who, on a lone\u00adly road,<\/p>\n

Doth<\/span> walk in fear and dread<\/span>,<\/p>\n

And, hav\u00ading once turned round, walks on,<\/p>\n

And turns no more his head;<\/p>\n

Because he knows a fright\u00adful fiend<\/p>\n

Doth<\/span> close behind him tread<\/span>.<\/p>\n

[Coleridge\u2019s \u201cAncient Mariner<\/span>\u201d]<\/p>\n

Con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading thus, I came at length<\/span> oppo\u00adsite to the inn at which the var\u00adi\u00adous dili\u00adgences<\/span> and car\u00adriages<\/span> usu\u00adal\u00adly stopped. Here I paused, I knew not why; but I remained some min\u00adutes with my eyes fixed on a coach that was com\u00ading towards me from the oth\u00ader end of the street. As it drew near\u00ader<\/span> I observed that it was the Swiss dili\u00adgence<\/span>; it stopped just where I was stand\u00ading, and on the door being opened, I per\u00adceived Hen\u00adry Cler\u00adval, who, on see\u00ading me, instant\u00adly sprung out. \u201cMy dear Franken\u00adstein,\u201d exclaimed<\/span> he, \u201chow glad I am to see you! How for\u00adtu\u00adnate that you should be here at the very<\/span> moment of my alight\u00ading<\/span>!\u201d<\/p>\n

Noth\u00ading could equal my delight on see\u00ading Cler\u00adval; his pres\u00adence brought back to my thoughts my father, Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, and all those scenes of home so dear to my rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion<\/span>. I grasped his hand, and in a moment for\u00adgot my hor\u00adror and mis\u00adfor\u00adtune; I felt sud\u00adden\u00adly, and for the first time dur\u00ading many months, calm and serene<\/span> joy. I wel\u00adcomed my friend, there\u00adfore, in the most cor\u00addial<\/span> man\u00adner, and we walked towards my col\u00adlege. Cler\u00adval con\u00adtin\u00adued talk\u00ading for some time about our mutu\u00adal friends and his own good for\u00adtune in being per\u00admit\u00adted to come to Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span>. \u201cYou may eas\u00adi\u00adly believe,\u201d said he, \u201chow great was the dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty to per\u00adsuade my father that all nec\u00ades\u00adsary knowl\u00adedge was not com\u00adprised in the noble art of book-keep\u00ading; and, indeed, I believe I left him incred\u00adu\u00adlous<\/span> to the last, for his con\u00adstant answer to my unwea\u00adried<\/span> entreaties<\/span> was the same as that of the Dutch school\u00admas\u00adter in The Vic\u00adar of Wake\u00adfield<\/span>: \u2018I have ten thou\u00adsand florins<\/span> a year with\u00adout Greek, I eat hearti\u00adly with\u00adout Greek.\u2019 But his affec\u00adtion for me at length<\/span> over\u00adcame his dis\u00adlike of learn\u00ading, and he has per\u00admit\u00adted me to under\u00adtake a voy\u00adage of dis\u00adcov\u00adery to the land of knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gives me the great\u00adest delight to see you; but tell me how you left my father, broth\u00aders, and Elizabeth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVery well, and very hap\u00adpy, only a lit\u00adtle uneasy that they hear from you so sel\u00addom. By the by<\/span>, I mean to lec\u00adture you a lit\u00adtle upon their account<\/span> myself. But, my dear Franken\u00adstein,\u201d con\u00adtin\u00adued he, stop\u00adping short and gaz\u00ading<\/span> full in my face, \u201cI did not before remark how very ill you appear; so thin and pale; you look as if you had been watch\u00ading<\/span> for sev\u00ader\u00adal nights.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have guessed right; I have late\u00adly been so deeply engaged in one occu\u00adpa\u00adtion that I have not allowed myself suf\u00adfi\u00adcient rest, as you see; but I hope, I sin\u00adcere\u00adly hope, that all these employ\u00adments are now at an end and that I am at length<\/span> free.\u201d<\/p>\n

I trem\u00adbled exces\u00adsive\u00adly<\/span>; I could not endure to think of, and far less to allude<\/span> to, the occur\u00adrences of the pre\u00adced\u00ading night. I walked with a quick pace, and we soon arrived at my col\u00adlege. I then reflect\u00aded, and the thought made me shiv\u00ader<\/span>, that the crea\u00adture whom I had left in my apart\u00adment might still be there, alive and walk\u00ading about. I dread\u00aded<\/span> to behold<\/span> this mon\u00adster, but I feared still more that Hen\u00adry should see him. Entreat\u00ading<\/span> him, there\u00adfore, to remain a few min\u00adutes at the bot\u00adtom of the stairs, I dart\u00aded<\/span> up towards my own room. My hand was already on the lock of the door before I rec\u00adol\u00adlect\u00aded<\/span> myself. I then paused, and a cold shiv\u00ader\u00ading<\/span> came over me. I threw the door forcibly open, as chil\u00addren are accus\u00adtomed to do when they expect a spec\u00adtre<\/span> to stand in wait\u00ading for them on the oth\u00ader side; but noth\u00ading appeared. I stepped fear\u00adful\u00adly in: the apart\u00adment was emp\u00adty, and my bed\u00adroom was also freed from its hideous<\/span> guest. I could hard\u00adly believe that so great a good for\u00adtune could have befall\u00aden<\/span> me, but when I became assured that my ene\u00admy had indeed fled, I clapped<\/span> my hands for joy and ran down to Clerval.<\/p>\n

We ascend\u00aded<\/span> into my room, and the ser\u00advant present\u00adly brought break\u00adfast; but I was unable to con\u00adtain myself. It was not joy only that pos\u00adsessed me; I felt my flesh tin\u00adgle<\/span> with excess<\/span> of sen\u00adsi\u00adtive\u00adness, and my pulse beat rapid\u00adly. I was unable to remain for a sin\u00adgle instant in the same place; I jumped over the chairs, clapped<\/span> my hands, and laughed aloud. Cler\u00adval at first<\/span> attrib\u00aduted<\/span> my unusu\u00adal spir\u00adits to joy on his arrival, but when he observed me more atten\u00adtive\u00adly, he saw a wild\u00adness in my eyes for which he could not account<\/span>, and my loud, unre\u00adstrained<\/span>, heart\u00adless laugh\u00adter fright\u00adened and aston\u00adished him.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dear Vic\u00adtor,\u201d cried he, \u201cwhat, for God\u2019s sake<\/span>, is the mat\u00adter? Do not laugh in that man\u00adner. How ill you are! What is the cause of all this?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not ask me,\u201d cried I, putting my hands before my eyes, for<\/span> I thought I saw the dread\u00aded<\/span> spec\u00adtre<\/span> glide<\/span> into the room; \u201che<\/span> can tell. Oh, save me! Save me!\u201d I imag\u00adined that the mon\u00adster seized me; I strug\u00adgled furi\u00adous\u00adly<\/span> and fell down in a fit<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Poor Cler\u00adval! What must have been his feel\u00adings? A meet\u00ading, which he antic\u00adi\u00adpat\u00aded with such joy, so strange\u00adly turned to bit\u00adter\u00adness. But I was not the wit\u00adness of his grief, for<\/span> I was life\u00adless and did not recov\u00ader my sens\u00ades for a long, long time.<\/p>\n

This was the com\u00admence\u00adment of a ner\u00advous fever which con\u00adfined<\/span> me for sev\u00ader\u00adal months. Dur\u00ading all that time Hen\u00adry was my only nurse. I after\u00adwards learned that, know\u00ading my father\u2019s advanced age and unfit\u00adness<\/span> for so long a jour\u00adney, and how wretched<\/span> my sick\u00adness would make Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, he spared<\/span> them this grief by con\u00adceal\u00ading<\/span> the extent of my dis\u00ador\u00adder. He knew that I could not have a more kind and atten\u00adtive nurse than him\u00adself; and, firm in the hope he felt of my recov\u00adery, he did not doubt that, instead of doing harm, he per\u00adformed the kind\u00adest action that he could towards them.<\/p>\n

But I was in real\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> very ill, and sure\u00adly noth\u00ading but the unbound\u00aded<\/span> and unremit\u00adting<\/span> atten\u00adtions of my friend could have restored me to life. The form of the mon\u00adster on whom I had bestowed<\/span> exis\u00adtence was for ever before my eyes, and I raved<\/span> inces\u00adsant\u00adly<\/span> con\u00adcern\u00ading him. Doubt\u00adless my words sur\u00adprised Hen\u00adry; he at first<\/span> believed them to be the wan\u00adder\u00adings<\/span> of my dis\u00adturbed imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion, but the per\u00adti\u00adnac\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> with which I con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly recurred<\/span> to the same sub\u00adject per\u00adsuad\u00aded him that my dis\u00ador\u00adder indeed owed its ori\u00adgin to some uncom\u00admon and ter\u00adri\u00adble event.<\/p>\n

By very slow degrees<\/span>, and with fre\u00adquent relaps\u00ades<\/span> that alarmed and griev\u00aded my friend, I recov\u00adered. I remem\u00adber the first time I became capa\u00adble of observ\u00ading out\u00adward objects with any kind of plea\u00adsure, I per\u00adceived that the fall\u00aden leaves had dis\u00adap\u00adpeared and that the young buds<\/span> were shoot\u00ading forth from the trees that shad\u00aded my win\u00addow. It was a divine spring, and the sea\u00adson con\u00adtributed great\u00adly to my con\u00adva\u00adles\u00adcence<\/span>. I felt also sen\u00adti\u00adments of joy and affec\u00adtion revive<\/span> in my bosom<\/span>; my gloom<\/span> dis\u00adap\u00adpeared, and in a short time I became as cheer\u00adful as before I was attacked by the fatal passion.<\/p>\n

\u201cDear\u00adest Cler\u00adval,\u201d exclaimed<\/span> I, \u201chow kind, how very good you are to me. This whole win\u00adter, instead of being spent in study, as you promised your\u00adself, has been con\u00adsumed in my sick room. How shall I ever repay<\/span> you? I feel the great\u00adest remorse<\/span> for the dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment of which I have been the occa\u00adsion, but you will for\u00adgive me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will repay<\/span> me entire\u00adly if you do not dis\u00adcom\u00adpose<\/span> your\u00adself, but get well as fast as you can; and since you appear in such good spir\u00adits, I may speak to you on one sub\u00adject, may I not?\u201d<\/p>\n

I trem\u00adbled. One sub\u00adject! What could it be? Could he allude<\/span> to an object on whom I dared not even think?<\/p>\n

\u201cCom\u00adpose your\u00adself<\/span>,\u201d said Cler\u00adval, who observed my change of colour, \u201cI will not men\u00adtion it if it agi\u00adtates<\/span> you; but your father and cousin would be very hap\u00adpy if they received a let\u00adter from you in your own hand\u00adwrit\u00ading. They hard\u00adly know how ill you have been and are uneasy at your long silence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs that all, my dear Hen\u00adry? How could you sup\u00adpose that my first thought would not fly towards those dear, dear friends whom I love and who are so deserv\u00ading of my love?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this is your present tem\u00adper<\/span>, my friend, you will per\u00adhaps be glad to see a let\u00adter that has been lying here some days for you; it is from your cousin, I believe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

drea\u00adry<\/span> \u02c8dr\u026a\u0259ri<\/span> adj<\/span> Caus\u00ading dejec\u00adtion: dis\u00admal, drear, dis\u00adcon\u00adso\u00adlate, dingy, gloomy, drab, sor\u00adry, grim, dark<\/span><\/p>\n

behold<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u0259\u028ald<\/span> pp<\/span>, pt<\/span> beheld<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u025bld<\/span> v <\/span>To appre\u00adhend some\u00adthing by use of the eyes: see, per\u00adceive<\/span><\/p>\n

toil<\/span> t\u0254\u026al<\/span> n <\/span>Work that is dif\u00adfi\u00adcult and unpleas\u00adant and that lasts for a long time: hard work, labor<\/span><\/p>\n

infuse<\/span> \u026an\u02c8fju\u02d0z<\/span> v <\/span>To imbue or inspire: fill, charge, inspire, per\u00advade, inun\u00addate, imbue, suffuse<\/span><\/p>\n

pat\u00adter<\/span> \u02c8p\u00e6t\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To make a quick suc\u00adces\u00adsion of light soft tap\u00adping sounds: tap, beat, pat, pelt, spatter<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00admal\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8d\u026azm\u0259li<\/span> adj<\/span> In a cheer\u00adless or a dread\u00adful man\u00adner: drea\u00adri\u00adly, dreadfully<\/span><\/p>\n

pane<\/span> pe\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>A sheet of glass or oth\u00ader trans\u00adpar\u00adent mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal set into a win\u00addow or door.<\/p>\n

glim\u00admer<\/span> \u02c8\u0261l\u026am\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>A dim or inter\u00admit\u00adtent flick\u00ader or flash of light: gleam, shine, glow, sparkle, glit\u00adter, blink<\/span><\/p>\n

extin\u00adguish<\/span> \u026aks\u02c8t\u026a\u014bg\u00adw\u026a\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to stop burn\u00ading or giv\u00ading light: put out, douse, quench, snuff<\/span><\/p>\n

dull<\/span> d\u028cl<\/span> adj<\/span> Not shiny.<\/p>\n

con\u00advul\u00adsive<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8v\u028cl\u00ads\u026av<\/span> adv<\/span> Affect\u00aded by invol\u00adun\u00adtary jerky mus\u00adcu\u00adlar con\u00adtrac\u00adtions; resem\u00adbling a spasm: spas\u00admod\u00adic, spastic<\/span><\/p>\n

agi\u00adtate<\/span> \u02c8\u00e6\u02a4\u026ate\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to move with vio\u00adlence or sud\u00adden force: stir, beat, shake, toss, rouse<\/span><\/p>\n

delin\u00adeate<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8l\u026anie\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To describe or char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adize in words: out\u00adline, describe, draw, pic\u00adture, paint, por\u00adtray, sketch, depict, characterize,<\/span><\/p>\n

wretch<\/span> r\u025b\u02a7<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adone that you feel sor\u00adry for or annoyed with.<\/p>\n

endeav\u00adour<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u025bv\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To attempt: essay, try, assay, seek<\/span><\/p>\n

scarce\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8ske\u0259s\u00adli<\/span> adv<\/span> Not quite, almost not: bare\u00adly, hardly<\/span><\/p>\n

artery<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0t\u1d4ari<\/span> n <\/span>Any of the mus\u00adcu\u00adlar elas\u00adtic tubes that form a branch\u00ading sys\u00adtem and that car\u00adry blood away from the heart to the cells, tis\u00adsues, and organs of the body.<\/p>\n

lus\u00adtrous<\/span> \u02c8l\u028cstr\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading a sheen or glow: gleam\u00ading<\/span><\/p>\n

pearly<\/span> \u02c8p\u025c\u02d0li<\/span> adj<\/span> (Colour<\/span>) Of the colour pearl: pale bluish-grey<\/span><\/p>\n

lux\u00adu\u00adri\u00adance<\/span> l\u028c\u0261\u02c8\u0292\u028a\u0259ri\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>The prop\u00ader\u00adty of being lush and abun\u00addant and a plea\u00adsure to the sens\u00ades: lush\u00adness, volup\u00adtuous\u00adness, abun\u00addance, copi\u00adous\u00adness, teemingness<\/span><\/p>\n

hor\u00adrid<\/span> \u02c8h\u0252r\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Dis\u00adagree\u00adable or unpleas\u00adant: ter\u00adri\u00adble, awful, nasty, dis\u00adgust\u00ading, horrible<\/span><\/p>\n

dun<\/span> d\u028cn<\/span> n <\/span>An almost neu\u00adtral brown\u00adish gray to dull gray\u00adish brown.<\/p>\n

shriv\u00adel<\/span> \u02c8\u0283r\u026avl<\/span> v <\/span>Decrease in size, as with a loss of mois\u00adture: shriv\u00adel up, shrink, with\u00ader, sear, wizen<\/span><\/p>\n

com\u00adplex\u00adion<\/span> k\u0259m\u02c8\u00adpl\u025bk\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>The colour\u00ading of a person\u2019s skin.<\/p>\n

inan\u00adi\u00admate<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u00e6n\u026am\u026at<\/span> adj<\/span> Not ani\u00admat\u00aded or ener\u00adgetic: dull<\/span><\/p>\n

deprive<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8pra\u026av<\/span> v <\/span>Pre\u00advent a per\u00adson from hav\u00ading or using some\u00adthing: rob of<\/span><\/p>\n

ardour<\/span> \u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading of strong ener\u00adgy or eager\u00adness: zeal<\/span><\/p>\n

mod\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccm\u0252d\u0259\u02c8re\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The trait of avoid\u00ading excess\u00ades: tem\u00adper\u00adance, restraint, control<\/span><\/p>\n

aspect<\/span> \u02c8\u00e6sp\u025bkt<\/span> n <\/span>The way some\u00adthing or some\u00adone looks: appear\u00adance, look, mien<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

tra\u00adverse<\/span> \u02c8tr\u00e6v\u0259(\u02d0)s<\/span> v <\/span>To move over, along, through, or across.<\/p>\n

cham\u00adber<\/span> \u02c8\u02a7e\u026am\u00adb\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A room in a house, espe\u00adcial\u00adly a bed\u00adroom: room<\/span><\/p>\n

at length<\/span> \u21d2 After some time; even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly. final\u00adly, at last.<\/p>\n

las\u00adsi\u00adtude<\/span> \u02c8l\u00e6s\u026atju\u02d0d<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading of lack of inter\u00adest or ener\u00adgy: list\u00adless\u00adness, languor<\/span><\/p>\n

tumult<\/span> \u02c8tju\u02d0m\u028clt<\/span> n <\/span>An inter\u00adrup\u00adtion of pub\u00adlic peace: dis\u00adtur\u00adbance, com\u00admo\u00adtion, tur\u00adbu\u00adlence, fuss, uproar, stir<\/span><\/p>\n

in vain<\/span> \u21d2 To no avail; with\u00adout success.<\/p>\n

Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span> \u21d2 An inde\u00adpen\u00addent city on the Danube in Upper Bavaria, Germany.<\/p>\n

imprint<\/span> \u026am\u02c8pr\u026ant<\/span> v <\/span>To pro\u00adduce (a mark or pat\u00adtern<\/span>) on a sur\u00adface by pres\u00adsure: stamp<\/span><\/p>\n

livid<\/span> \u02c8l\u026av\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Dis\u00adcoloured: pale, colour\u00adless, lurid<\/span><\/p>\n

hue<\/span> hju\u02d0<\/span> n <\/span>Gra\u00adda\u00adtion of a col\u00ador: tint<\/span><\/p>\n

corpse<\/span> k\u0254\u02d0ps<\/span> n <\/span>A dead body, espe\u00adcial\u00adly of a human being: cadav\u00ader<\/span><\/p>\n

shroud<\/span> \u0283ra\u028ad<\/span> n <\/span>A cloth used to wrap a body for bur\u00adial: cere\u00adment, wind\u00ading-clothes, wind\u00ading-sheet, pall<\/span><\/p>\n

flan\u00adnel<\/span> \u02c8fl\u00e6n\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>A soft light woolen fab\u00adric; used for clothing.<\/p>\n

dew<\/span> \u02c8dju\u02d0<\/span> n <\/span>Water droplets con\u00addensed from the air, usu\u00adal\u00adly at night, onto cool sur\u00adfaces: con\u00adden\u00adsate, con\u00adden\u00adsa\u00adtion {dew_drop}<\/span><\/p>\n

chat\u00adter<\/span> \u02c8\u02a7\u00e6t\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To click quick\u00adly and repeat\u00aded\u00adly: brat\u00adtle, clack, clat\u00adter, rattle<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00advulse <\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8v\u028cls<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to suf\u00adfer vio\u00adlent, spas\u00admod\u00adic con\u00adtrac\u00adtions of the mus\u00adcles: shake, agi\u00adtate<\/span><\/p>\n

shut\u00adter<\/span> \u02c8\u0283\u028ct\u0259z<\/span> n <\/span>A hinged cov\u00ader or screen for a win\u00addow, usu\u00adal\u00adly fit\u00adted with louvers.<\/p>\n

inar\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlate<\/span> \u02cc\u026an\u0251\u02d0\u02c8t\u026akj\u028al\u026at<\/span> adj<\/span> Not able to express ideas clear\u00adly and effec\u00adtive\u00adly in speech or writ\u00ading: not artic\u00adu\u00adlate<\/span><\/p>\n

wrin\u00adkle<\/span> \u02c8r\u026a\u014bk\u1d4al<\/span> v <\/span>To draw up into wrin\u00adkles: puck\u00ader<\/span><\/p>\n

detain<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8te\u026an<\/span> v <\/span>To main\u00adtain restrain\u00ading con\u00adtrol and pos\u00adses\u00adsion of: hold, hold up<\/span><\/p>\n

inhab\u00adit<\/span> \u026an\u02c8h\u00e6b\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To live or dwell in (a place<\/span>), as peo\u00adple or ani\u00admals: occu\u00adpy, pop\u00adu\u00adlate, reside in<\/span><\/p>\n

42agi\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6\u02a4\u026a\u02c8te\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Extreme emo\u00adtion\u00adal dis\u00adtur\u00adbance: tur\u00admoil, commotion<\/span><\/p>\n

demo\u00adni\u00ada\u00adcal<\/span> \u02ccdi\u02d0m\u0259\u02c8\u00adna\u026a\u0259k\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Fren\u00adzied as if pos\u00adsessed by a demon: amok, amuck, berserk, demo\u00adni\u00adac, possessed<\/span><\/p>\n

mor\u00adtal<\/span> \u02c8m\u0254\u02d0tl<\/span> n <\/span>A human being: indi\u00advid\u00adual, per\u00adson, some\u00adbody, some\u00adone, soul<\/span><\/p>\n

coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> \u02c8ka\u028an\u00adt\u1d4an\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>The appear\u00adance con\u00adveyed by a person\u2019s face: vis\u00adage<\/span><\/p>\n

mum\u00admy<\/span> \u02c8m\u028c\u00admi<\/span> n <\/span>A body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial.{mummy}<\/p>\n

endue<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u00adju\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>Give qual\u00adi\u00adties or abil\u00adi\u00adties to: endow, gift, indue, invest, empower<\/span><\/p>\n

hideous<\/span> \u02c8h\u026adi\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Repul\u00adsive, espe\u00adcial\u00adly to the sight: revolt\u00ading, ugly, repul\u00adsive, mon\u00adstrous, grotesque, grue\u00adsome, unsightly<\/span><\/p>\n

gaze<\/span> gre\u026az<\/span> v <\/span>To look steadi\u00adly, intent\u00adly, and with fixed atten\u00adtion: stare, look<\/span><\/p>\n

Dante Alighieri<\/span> \u21d2 An Ital\u00adian poet, writer, and philoso\u00adpher. His Divine Com\u00ade\u00addy<\/span>, is wide\u00adly con\u00adsid\u00adered one of the most impor\u00adtant poems of the Mid\u00addle Ages and the great\u00adest lit\u00ader\u00adary work in the Ital\u00adian lan\u00adguage. It is divid\u00aded into three parts, one of which is Infer\u00adno<\/span><\/p>\n

wretched\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8r\u025b\u02a7\u026adli<\/span> adj<\/span> In a deplorable or despi\u00adca\u00adble man\u00adner: mis\u00ader\u00adably<\/span><\/p>\n

pal\u00adpi\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccp\u00e6lp\u026a\u02c8te\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Irreg\u00adu\u00adlar, rapid beat\u00ading or pul\u00adsa\u00adtion of the heart: beat, pul\u00adsa\u00adtion, pulse, throb<\/span><\/p>\n

lan\u00adguor<\/span> \u02c8l\u00e6\u014bg\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>Defi\u00adcien\u00adcy in men\u00adtal and phys\u00adi\u00adcal activ\u00adi\u00adty: lethar\u00adgy, stu\u00adpor, tor\u00adpor, languidness<\/span><\/p>\n

min\u00adgle<\/span> \u02c8m\u026a\u014bgl<\/span> v <\/span>To mix togeth\u00ader but still stay rec\u00adog\u00adniz\u00adable: mix, com\u00admix, uni\u00adfy, amal\u00adga\u00admate blend, inter\u00admin\u00adgle, com\u00admin\u00adgle, inter\u00admix, inter\u00adweave, inter\u00adlace, com\u00adbine, merge, fuse, unite<\/span><\/p>\n

over\u00adthrow<\/span> \u02cc\u0259\u028av\u0259\u02c8\u03b8r\u0259\u028a<\/span> n <\/span>The act of dis\u00adturb\u00ading the mind or body: derange\u00adment, upset <\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00admal<\/span> \u02c8d\u026azm\u0259l<\/span> Dark and depress\u00ading, marked by lit\u00adtle hope\u00adful\u00adness: dis\u00adcon\u00adso\u00adlate, gloomy, dingy, drab, grim<\/span><\/p>\n

steeple<\/span> \u02c8sti\u02d0p\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>A tow\u00ader ris\u00ading above the roof of a build\u00ading, such as a church, and usu\u00adal\u00adly sur\u00admount\u00aded by a spire.<\/p>\n

asy\u00adlum<\/span> \u0259\u02c8sa\u026al\u0259m<\/span> n <\/span>A place offer\u00ading pro\u00adtec\u00adtion and safe\u00adty: shel\u00adter, refuge, haven, retreat<\/span><\/p>\n

impel<\/span> \u026am\u02c8p\u025bl<\/span> v <\/span>To urge to action through moral pres\u00adsure: dri\u00adve, prompt<\/span><\/p>\n

drench<\/span> dr\u025bn\u02a7<\/span> v <\/span>To wet through and through: soak, wet, drown<\/span><\/p>\n

tra\u00adverse<\/span> \u02c8tr\u00e6v\u0259(\u02d0)s<\/span> v <\/span>To move over, along, through, or across: cross<\/span><\/p>\n

pal\u00adpi\u00adtate<\/span> \u02c8p\u00e6lp\u026ate\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To beat with exces\u00adsive rapid\u00adi\u00adty: throb, beat, pound, pul\u00adsate, pulse<\/span><\/p>\n

doth<\/span> d\u028c\u03b8<\/span> v <\/span>(Archa\u00adic<\/span>) A third per\u00adson sin\u00adgu\u00adlar present tense of do<\/span>.<\/p>\n

dread<\/span> dr\u025bd<\/span> n <\/span>Fear\u00adful expec\u00adta\u00adtion or antic\u00adi\u00adpa\u00adtion: fore\u00adbod\u00ading, pre\u00adsen\u00adti\u00adment, pre\u00admo\u00adni\u00adtion, fear<\/span><\/p>\n

tread<\/span> tr\u025bd<\/span> v <\/span>To step, walk, or tram\u00adple so as to press, crush, or injure some\u00adthing: squash, step on, trample<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner\u201d<\/span> \u21d2 A rime by Samuel Tay\u00adlor Coleridge about a wan\u00adder\u00ading sailor, who was cursed by the crew because his slay\u00ading of the alba\u00adtross is caus\u00ading their deaths, when he and his crew near\u00adly die of thirst; mariner<\/span> \u02c8m\u00e6r\u026an\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson who directs or assists in the nav\u00adi\u00adga\u00adtion of a ship: sailor<\/span><\/p>\n

dili\u00adgence<\/span> \u02c8d\u026al\u026a\u02a4\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>A large stagecoach.<\/p>\n

car\u00adriage<\/span> \u02c8k\u00e6r\u026a\u02a4<\/span> n <\/span>A com\u00adfort\u00adable wheeled vehi\u00adcle for con\u00advey\u00ading per\u00adsons, usu\u00adal\u00adly drawn by hors\u00ades: freight<\/span><\/p>\n

draw near<\/span> \u21d2 To get close to some\u00adone or some\u00adthing, either lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly or figuratively.<\/p>\n

exclaim<\/span> \u026aks\u02c8k\u00adle\u026am<\/span> v <\/span>To cry out or speak sud\u00adden\u00adly and vehe\u00adment\u00adly, as in sur\u00adprise, strong emo\u00adtion, or protest: call out, cry out, out\u00adcry, shout, cry<\/span><\/p>\n

very<\/span> \u02c8v\u025bri<\/span> adj<\/span> Pre\u00adcise; particular.<\/p>\n

alight<\/span> \u0259\u02c8la\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To get down, as from a vehi\u00adcle: dis\u00admount<\/span><\/p>\n

rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccr\u025bk\u0259\u02c8l\u025bk\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>The abil\u00adi\u00adty to recall past occur\u00adrences: reten\u00adtion, remembrance<\/span><\/p>\n

serene<\/span> s\u026a\u02c8ri\u02d0n<\/span> adj<\/span> Con\u00adtent or com\u00adposed: untrou\u00adbled, calm, peace\u00adful, tran\u00adquil, com\u00adposed, sedate, placid, undisturbed<\/span><\/p>\n

cor\u00addial<\/span> \u02c8k\u0254\u02d0di\u0259l<\/span> adj<\/span> Pleas\u00adant and friend\u00adly: good-natured, ami\u00adable<\/span><\/p>\n

incred\u00adu\u00adlous<\/span> \u026an\u02c8kr\u025bd\u00adj\u028al\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Refus\u00ading or reluc\u00adtant to believe: skep\u00adti\u00adcal, unbe\u00adliev\u00ading, dis\u00adbe\u00adliev\u00ading, questioning<\/span><\/p>\n

unwea\u00adried<\/span> \u02cc\u028cn\u02c8w\u026a\u0259rid<\/span> adj<\/span> With unre\u00adduced ener\u00adgy: inex\u00adhaustible, tire\u00adless, untir\u00ading, weariless<\/span><\/p>\n

entreaty<\/span> \u026an\u02c8tri\u02d0ti<\/span> n <\/span>Earnest or urgent request: appeal, prayer, plea, suit, request<\/span><\/p>\n

The Vic\u00adar of Wake\u00adfield<\/span> \u21d2 A nov\u00adel by Anglo-Irish writer Oliv\u00ader Gold\u00adsmith (1728\u20131774<\/span>), pub\u00adlished in 1766. It was one of the most pop\u00adu\u00adlar and wide\u00adly read 18th-cen\u00adtu\u00adry nov\u00adels among Vic\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans; vic\u00adar<\/span> \u02c8v\u026ak\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>An Angli\u00adcan parish priest in a parish where his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly some\u00adone oth\u00ader than the priest was enti\u00adtled to the tithes.<\/p>\n

florin<\/span> \u02c8fl\u0252r\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>Any of sev\u00ader\u00adal gold coins sim\u00adi\u00adlar to the Flo\u00adren\u00adtine florin, for\u00admer\u00adly used in Europe.<\/p>\n

by the by<\/span> \u21d2 Inci\u00adden\u00adtal\u00adly; on a side note; by the way. An inter\u00adjec\u00adtion meant to casu\u00adal\u00adly intro\u00adduce or empha\u00adsize addi\u00adtion\u00adal infor\u00adma\u00adtion in the conversation.<\/p>\n

on one\u2019s account<\/span> \u21d2 Because of or for the ben\u00ade\u00adfit of some\u00adone else.<\/p>\n

watch<\/span> w\u0252\u02a7<\/span> v <\/span>To stay awake at night while serv\u00ading as a guard, sen\u00adtinel, or watcher.<\/p>\n

exces\u00adsive\u00adly<\/span> \u026ak\u02c8s\u025bs\u026av<\/span> adj<\/span> To a degree exceed\u00ading nor\u00admal or prop\u00ader lim\u00adits: over\u00adly, to a fault, too<\/span><\/p>\n

allude<\/span> \u0259\u02c8lu\u02d0d<\/span> v <\/span>To make an indi\u00adrect ref\u00ader\u00adence: hint, inti\u00admate, suggest<\/span><\/p>\n

shiv\u00ader<\/span> \u02c8\u0283\u026av\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To shake slight\u00adly because of cold, fear, etc: trem\u00adble, shud\u00adder, vibrate, shake, quake<\/span><\/p>\n

dread<\/span> dr\u025bd<\/span> v <\/span>To fear some\u00adthing that will or might happen.<\/p>\n

entreat<\/span> \u026an\u02c8tri\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>To make an earnest request: beg, pray, appeal, implore, plead with<\/span><\/p>\n

dart<\/span> d\u0251\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>To thrust or move sud\u00adden\u00adly or rapid\u00adly: dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot, whip<\/span><\/p>\n

rec\u00adol\u00adlect<\/span> \u02ccri\u02d0k\u0259\u02c8l\u025bkt<\/span> v <\/span>To renew an image or thought in the mind: recall, remem\u00adber, bethink, call to mind, think<\/span><\/p>\n

spec\u00adtre<\/span> \u02c8sp\u025bk\u00adt\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A ghost\u00adly appear\u00ading fig\u00adure: appari\u00adtion, fan\u00adtasm, phan\u00adtasm, phan\u00adtas\u00adma, phan\u00adtom, specter<\/span><\/p>\n

befall<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8f\u0254\u02d0l<\/span> pp<\/span> befell,<\/span> pt<\/span> befall\u00aden<\/span> n <\/span>Occur or be the case in the course of events or by chance: hap\u00adpen<\/span><\/p>\n

clap<\/span> kl\u00e6p<\/span> v <\/span>To strike the palms of the hands against one anoth\u00ader to make a sound, usu\u00adal\u00adly repeat\u00aded\u00adly and to express approval: applaud<\/span><\/p>\n

ascend<\/span> \u0259\u02c8s\u025bnd<\/span> v <\/span>To go or move upward: rise, climb, mount<\/span><\/p>\n

tin\u00adgle<\/span> \u02c8t\u026a\u014b\u0261\u1d4al<\/span> v <\/span>To have the sen\u00adsa\u00adtion of being tapped or poked light\u00adly with many nee\u00addles in a cer\u00adtain area of the body, often caused by the cold, a sharp slap, or excitement<\/p>\n

excess<\/span> \u026ak\u02c8s\u025bs<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adthing in a larg\u00ader amount than is need\u00aded, allowed, or usu\u00adal: sur\u00adfeit, sur\u00adplus, over\u00addose, over\u00adflow, over\u00adload, plethora<\/span><\/p>\n

at first<\/span> \u21d2 In the beggining.<\/p>\n

attribute<\/span> \u0259\u02c8tr\u026ab\u00adju\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>To regard as result\u00ading from a spec\u00adi\u00adfied cause: ascribe, cred\u00adit, refer, trace, assign<\/span><\/p>\n

account for some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To give an expla\u00adna\u00adtion of some\u00adthing, typ\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly at the request of some\u00adone who wants to fill a gap in information.<\/p>\n

unre\u00adstrained<\/span> \u02cc\u028cn\u00adr\u026a\u02c8stre\u026and<\/span> adj<\/span> Not con\u00adtrolled or held in check; immod\u00ader\u00adate: uncon\u00adstrained, uncontrolled,<\/span><\/p>\n

for God\u2019s sake<\/span> \u21d2 An oath of exas\u00adper\u00ada\u00adtion, annoy\u00adance, frus\u00adtra\u00adtion, anger, or surprise.<\/p>\n

for<\/span> f\u0254\u02d0<\/span> cj<\/span> Because; since.<\/p>\n

glide<\/span> gla\u026ad<\/span> v <\/span>To move gen\u00adtly and slow\u00adly into place: slip, slide, ease<\/span><\/p>\n

furi\u00adous\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8fj\u028a\u0259r\u026a\u0259s\u00adli<\/span> adv<\/span> In a man\u00adner marked by extreme or vio\u00adlent ener\u00adgy: fierce\u00adly, fran\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly, fren\u00adzied\u00adly, hard, strenuously<\/span><\/p>\n

fit<\/span> f\u026at<\/span> n <\/span>A seizure or con\u00advul\u00adsion, espe\u00adcial\u00adly one caused by epilep\u00adsy: seizure, attack, bout, spasm, con\u00advul\u00adsion, paroxysm<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adfine<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8\u00adfa\u026an<\/span> v <\/span>Place lim\u00adits on extent or access: con\u00adstrain, restrict, lim\u00adit, bound<\/span><\/p>\n

unfit\u00adness<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8f\u026at\u00adn\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Not in good phys\u00adi\u00adcal or men\u00adtal health.<\/p>\n

wretched<\/span> \u02c8r\u025b\u02a7\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> In a deplorable state of dis\u00adtress or mis\u00adfor\u00adtune: mis\u00ader\u00adable<\/span><\/p>\n

spare<\/span> spe\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To refrain from harm\u00ading, injur\u00ading, destroy\u00ading, or killing: have mer\u00adcy on, par\u00addon, have pity on, release<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adceal<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8si\u02d0l<\/span> n <\/span>To hide some\u00adthing or pre\u00advent\u00ading it from being known: hide<\/span><\/p>\n

in real\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> \u21d2 Actu\u00adal\u00adly; real\u00adly; in fact.<\/p>\n

unbound\u00aded<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8ba\u028and\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Seem\u00ading\u00adly bound\u00adless in amount, num\u00adber, degree, or espe\u00adcial\u00adly extent: bound\u00adless, lim\u00adit\u00adless, infinite<\/span><\/p>\n

unremit\u00adting<\/span> \u02cc\u028cn\u00adr\u026a\u02c8m\u026at\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Unin\u00adter\u00adrupt\u00aded in time and indef\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly long con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading: inces\u00adsant, nev\u00ader-end\u00ading, cease\u00adless, per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal, unceas\u00ading, con\u00adstant, persistent<\/span><\/p>\n

bestow<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8st\u0259\u028a<\/span> v <\/span>To give for\u00admal\u00adly or offi\u00adcial\u00adly: present, grant<\/span><\/p>\n

rave<\/span> re\u026av<\/span> v <\/span>To speak wild\u00adly, irra\u00adtional\u00adly, or inco\u00adher\u00adent\u00adly: rant, rage, roar<\/span><\/p>\n

inces\u00adsant\u00adly<\/span> \u026an\u02c8s\u025bs\u00adntli<\/span> adv<\/span> With\u00adout inter\u00adrup\u00adtion: con\u00adstant\u00adly, con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adous\u00adly, end\u00adless\u00adly, ever\u00adlast\u00ading, perpetually<\/span><\/p>\n

wan\u00adder\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8w\u0252nd\u1d4ar\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>Dis\u00ador\u00addered thoughts or utter\u00adances; incoherencies<\/p>\n

per\u00adti\u00adnac\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> \u02ccp\u025c\u02d0t\u026a\u02c8n\u00e6s\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>The qual\u00adi\u00adty or state of being stub\u00adborn\u00adly unyield\u00ading: dogged\u00adness, per\u00adse\u00adver\u00adance, per\u00adsis\u00adten\u00adcy, tena\u00adcious\u00adness, persistence<\/span><\/p>\n

recur<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8k\u025c\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>To hap\u00adpen or occur again or repeat\u00aded\u00adly: repeat, relapse<\/span><\/p>\n

by degrees<\/span> \u21d2 Grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly, by suc\u00adces\u00adsive steps or stages.<\/p>\n

relapse<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8l\u00e6ps<\/span> n <\/span>A return to a for\u00admer state, espe\u00adcial\u00adly after appar\u00adent improve\u00adment: regres\u00adsion, rever\u00adsion, back\u00adslid\u00ading, lapse<\/span><\/p>\n

bud<\/span> b\u028cd<\/span> n <\/span>A small pro\u00adtu\u00adber\u00adance on a stem or branch, some\u00adtimes enclosed in pro\u00adtec\u00adtive scales and con\u00adtain\u00ading an unde\u00advel\u00adoped leaf, flower, or leafy shoot.<\/p>\n

con\u00adva\u00adles\u00adcence<\/span> \u02cck\u0252n\u00adv\u0259\u02c8l\u025bsns<\/span> n <\/span>Grad\u00adual return to health and strength after ill\u00adness: recov\u00adery, reha\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion, recuperation,<\/span><\/p>\n

revive<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8\u00adva\u026av<\/span> v <\/span>Give new life or ener\u00adgy to or restore from a depressed, inac\u00adtive, or unused state.<\/p>\n

bosom<\/span> \u02c8b\u028az\u0259m<\/span> n <\/span>A person\u2019s breast or chest: chest, breast<\/span><\/p>\n

gloom<\/span> \u0261lu\u02d0m<\/span> n <\/span>An atmos\u00adphere of melan\u00adcholy or depres\u00adsion: depres\u00adsion, despair, mis\u00adery, sad\u00adness, sor\u00adrow, blues, woe, melan\u00adcholy, unhap\u00adpi\u00adness, des\u00ado\u00adla\u00adtion, despon\u00adden\u00adcy, dejection<\/span><\/p>\n

repay<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8pe\u026a<\/span> v <\/span>To give back, either in return or in com\u00adpen\u00adsa\u00adtion: restore, com\u00adpen\u00adsate, reim\u00adburse, recompense<\/span><\/p>\n

remorse<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8m\u0254\u02d0s<\/span> n <\/span>Moral anguish aris\u00ading from repen\u00adtance for past mis\u00addeeds; bit\u00adter regret: repen\u00adtance, rue<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adcom\u00adpose<\/span> \u02ccd\u026ask\u0259m\u02c8p\u0259\u028az<\/span> v <\/span>To put into a state of dis\u00ador\u00adder: agi\u00adtate, both\u00ader, dis\u00adqui\u00adet, dis\u00adturb, per\u00adturb, upset<\/span><\/p>\n

com\u00adpose your\u00adself<\/span> \u21d2 Calm you\u00adself; stay still; pull your\u00adself together.<\/p>\n

tem\u00adper<\/span> \u02c8t\u025bm\u00adp\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtic state of feel\u00ading: mood, humour, atti\u00adtude, disposition<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Cler\u00adval then put the fol\u00adlow\u00ading let\u00adter into my hands. It was from my own Elizabeth:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dear\u00adest Cousin,<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have been ill, very ill, and even the con\u00adstant let\u00adters of dear kind Hen\u00adry are not suf\u00adfi\u00adcient to reas\u00adsure me on your account<\/span>. You are for\u00adbid\u00adden to write\u2014to hold a pen; yet one word from you, dear Vic\u00adtor, is nec\u00ades\u00adsary to calm our appre\u00adhen\u00adsions<\/span>. For a long time I have thought that each post would bring this line, and my per\u00adsua\u00adsions<\/span> have restrained<\/span> my uncle from under\u00adtak\u00ading a jour\u00adney to Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span>. I have pre\u00advent\u00aded his encoun\u00adter\u00ading the incon\u00adve\u00adniences and per\u00adhaps dan\u00adgers of so long a jour\u00adney, yet how often have I regret\u00adted not being able to per\u00adform it myself! I fig\u00adure to myself that the task of attend\u00ading on your sickbed has devolved<\/span> on some mer\u00adce\u00adnary<\/span> old nurse, who could nev\u00ader guess your wish\u00ades nor min\u00adis\u00adter<\/span> to them with the care and affec\u00adtion of your poor cousin. Yet that is over now: Cler\u00adval writes that indeed you are get\u00adting bet\u00adter. I eager\u00adly hope that you will con\u00adfirm this intel\u00adli\u00adgence<\/span> soon in your own handwriting.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet well\u2014and return to us. You will find a hap\u00adpy, cheer\u00adful home and friends who love you dear\u00adly. Your father\u2019s health is vig\u00ador\u00adous<\/span>, and he asks but<\/span> to see you, but<\/span> to be assured that you are well; and not a care will ever cloud his benev\u00ado\u00adlent<\/span> coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span>. How pleased you would be to remark the improve\u00adment of our Ernest! He is now six\u00adteen and full of activ\u00adi\u00adty and spir\u00adit. He is desirous to be a true Swiss and to enter into for\u00adeign ser\u00advice, but we can\u00adnot part with him, at least<\/span> until his elder broth\u00ader returns to us. My uncle is not pleased with the idea of a mil\u00adi\u00adtary career in a dis\u00adtant coun\u00adtry, but Ernest nev\u00ader had your pow\u00aders of appli\u00adca\u00adtion. He looks upon study as an odi\u00adous<\/span> fet\u00adter<\/span>; his time is spent in the open air, climb\u00ading the hills or row\u00ading on the lake. I fear that he will become an idler<\/span> unless we yield the point and per\u00admit him to enter on the pro\u00adfes\u00adsion which he has selected.<\/p>\n

\u201cLit\u00adtle alter\u00adation<\/span>, except the growth of our dear chil\u00addren, has tak\u00aden place<\/span> since you left us. The blue lake and snow-clad<\/span> mountains\u2014they nev\u00ader change; and I think our placid<\/span> home and our con\u00adtent\u00aded hearts are reg\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded by the same immutable<\/span> laws. My tri\u00adfling<\/span> occu\u00adpa\u00adtions take up my time and amuse me, and I am reward\u00aded for any exer\u00adtions<\/span> by see\u00ading none but<\/span> hap\u00adpy, kind faces around me. Since you left us, but<\/span> one change has tak\u00aden place<\/span> in our lit\u00adtle house\u00adhold. Do you remem\u00adber on what occa\u00adsion Jus\u00adtine Moritz entered our fam\u00adi\u00adly? Prob\u00ada\u00adbly you do not; I will relate<\/span> her his\u00adto\u00adry, there\u00adfore in a few words. Madame Moritz, her moth\u00ader, was a wid\u00adow with four chil\u00addren, of whom Jus\u00adtine was the third. This girl had always been the favourite of her father, but through a strange per\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty<\/span>, her moth\u00ader could not endure her, and after the death of M. Moritz, treat\u00aded her very ill. My aunt observed this, and when Jus\u00adtine was twelve years of age, pre\u00advailed on her moth\u00ader to allow her to live at our house. The repub\u00adli\u00adcan insti\u00adtu\u00adtions of our coun\u00adtry have pro\u00adduced sim\u00adpler and hap\u00adpi\u00ader man\u00adners than those which pre\u00advail in the great monar\u00adchies<\/span> that sur\u00adround it. Hence there is less dis\u00adtinc\u00adtion between the sev\u00ader\u00adal class\u00ades of its inhab\u00adi\u00adtants<\/span>; and the low\u00ader orders<\/span>, being nei\u00adther so poor nor so despised<\/span>, their man\u00adners are more refined and moral. A ser\u00advant in Gene\u00adva does not mean the same thing as a ser\u00advant in France and Eng\u00adland. Jus\u00adtine, thus received in our fam\u00adi\u00adly, learned the duties of a ser\u00advant, a con\u00addi\u00adtion which, in our for\u00adtu\u00adnate coun\u00adtry, does not include the idea of igno\u00adrance and a sac\u00adri\u00adfice of the dig\u00adni\u00adty of a human being.<\/p>\n

\u201cJus\u00adtine, you may remem\u00adber, was a great favourite of yours; and I rec\u00adol\u00adlect<\/span> you once remarked that if you were in an ill humour, one glance from Jus\u00adtine could dis\u00adsi\u00adpate<\/span> it, for the same rea\u00adson that Arios\u00adto gives con\u00adcern\u00ading the beau\u00adty of Angel\u00adi\u00adca<\/span>\u2014she looked so frank-heart\u00aded and hap\u00adpy. My aunt con\u00adceived a great attach\u00adment<\/span> for her, by which she was induced to give her an edu\u00adca\u00adtion supe\u00adri\u00ador to that which she had at first<\/span> intend\u00aded. This ben\u00ade\u00adfit was ful\u00adly repaid; Jus\u00adtine was the most grate\u00adful lit\u00adtle crea\u00adture in the world: I do not mean that she made any pro\u00adfes\u00adsions I nev\u00ader heard one pass her lips, but you could see by her eyes that she almost adored<\/span> her pro\u00adtec\u00adtress<\/span>. Although her dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion was gay and in many respects incon\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adate<\/span>, yet she paid the great\u00adest atten\u00adtion to every ges\u00adture of my aunt. She thought her the mod\u00adel of all excel\u00adlence and endeav\u00adoured<\/span> to imi\u00adtate her phrase\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/span> and man\u00adners, so that even now she often reminds me of her.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my dear\u00adest aunt died every one was too much occu\u00adpied in their own grief to notice poor Jus\u00adtine, who had attend\u00aded her dur\u00ading her ill\u00adness with the most anx\u00adious affec\u00adtion. Poor Jus\u00adtine was very ill; but oth\u00ader tri\u00adals were reserved for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne by one, her broth\u00aders and sis\u00adter died; and her moth\u00ader, with the excep\u00adtion of her neglect\u00aded<\/span> daugh\u00adter, was left child\u00adless. The con\u00adscience of the woman was trou\u00adbled; she began to think that the deaths of her favourites was a judge\u00adment from heav\u00aden to chas\u00adtise<\/span> her par\u00adtial\u00adi\u00adty<\/span>. She was a Roman Catholic; and I believe her con\u00adfes\u00adsor<\/span> con\u00adfirmed the idea which she had con\u00adceived. Accord\u00ading\u00adly, a few months after your depar\u00adture for Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span>, Jus\u00adtine was called home by her repen\u00adtant<\/span> moth\u00ader. Poor girl! She wept<\/span> when she quit\u00adted our house; she was much altered since the death of my aunt; grief had giv\u00aden soft\u00adness and a win\u00adning mild\u00adness to her man\u00adners, which had before been remark\u00adable for vivac\u00adi\u00adty<\/span>. Nor was her res\u00adi\u00addence at her mother\u2019s house of a nature to restore her gai\u00adety<\/span>. The poor woman was very vac\u00adil\u00adlat\u00ading<\/span> in her repen\u00adtance<\/span>. She some\u00adtimes begged Jus\u00adtine to for\u00adgive her unkind\u00adness, but much often\u00ader accused her of hav\u00ading caused the deaths of her broth\u00aders and sis\u00adter. Per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal<\/span> fret\u00adting<\/span> at length<\/span> threw Madame Moritz into a decline, which at first<\/span> increased her irri\u00adtabil\u00adi\u00adty<\/span>, but she is now at peace for ever. She died on the first approach of cold weath\u00ader, at the begin\u00adning of this last win\u00adter. Jus\u00adtine has just returned to us; and I assure you I love her ten\u00adder\u00adly. She is very clever and gen\u00adtle, and extreme\u00adly pret\u00adty; as I men\u00adtioned before, her mien<\/span> and her expres\u00adsion con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly remind me of my dear aunt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI must say also a few words to you, my dear cousin, of lit\u00adtle dar\u00adling William. I wish you could see him; he is very tall of his age, with sweet laugh\u00ading blue eyes, dark eye\u00adlash\u00ades<\/span>, and curl\u00ading<\/span> hair. When he smiles, two lit\u00adtle dim\u00adples<\/span> appear on each cheek, which are rosy<\/span> with health. He has already had one or two lit\u00adtle wives,<\/span> but Louisa Biron is his favourite, a pret\u00adty lit\u00adtle girl of five years of age.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, dear Vic\u00adtor, I dare say you wish to be indulged<\/span> in a lit\u00adtle gos\u00adsip<\/span> con\u00adcern\u00ading the good peo\u00adple of Gene\u00adva. The pret\u00adty Miss Mans\u00adfield has already received the con\u00adgrat\u00adu\u00adla\u00adto\u00adry<\/span> vis\u00adits on her approach\u00ading mar\u00adriage with a young Eng\u00adlish\u00adman, John Mel\u00adbourne, Esq.<\/span> Her ugly sis\u00adter, Manon, mar\u00adried M. Duvil\u00adlard, the rich banker, last autumn. Your favourite schoolfel\u00adlow<\/span>, Louis Manoir, has suf\u00adfered sev\u00ader\u00adal mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes since the depar\u00adture of Cler\u00adval from Gene\u00adva. But he has already recov\u00adered his spir\u00adits, and is report\u00aded to be on the point of mar\u00adry\u00ading<\/span> a live\u00adly pret\u00adty French\u00adwoman, Madame Tav\u00adernier. She is a wid\u00adow, and much old\u00ader than Manoir; but she is very much admired, and a favourite with everybody.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have writ\u00adten myself into bet\u00adter spir\u00adits, dear cousin; but my anx\u00adi\u00adety returns upon me as I con\u00adclude. Write, dear\u00adest Victor,\u2014one line\u2014one word will be a bless\u00ading to us. Ten thou\u00adsand thanks to Hen\u00adry for his kind\u00adness, his affec\u00adtion, and his many let\u00adters; we are sin\u00adcere\u00adly grate\u00adful. Adieu<\/span>! my cousin; take care of your\u00adself; and, I entreat<\/span> you, write!<\/p>\n

\u201cEliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Lavenza.<\/p>\n

\u201cGene\u00adva, March 18th, 17\u2014.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDear, dear Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth!\u201d I exclaimed<\/span>, when I had read her let\u00adter: \u201cI will write instant\u00adly and relieve them from the anx\u00adi\u00adety they must feel.\u201d I wrote, and this exer\u00adtion<\/span> great\u00adly fatigued me; but my con\u00adva\u00adles\u00adcence<\/span> had com\u00admenced, and pro\u00adceed\u00aded reg\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly. In anoth\u00ader fort\u00adnight<\/span> I was able to leave my cham\u00adber<\/span>.<\/p>\n

One of my first duties on my recov\u00adery was to intro\u00adduce Cler\u00adval to the sev\u00ader\u00adal pro\u00adfes\u00adsors of the uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty. In doing this, I under\u00adwent a kind of rough usage, ill befit\u00adting<\/span> the wounds that my mind had sus\u00adtained. Ever since the fatal night, the end of my labours, and the begin\u00adning of my mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes, I had con\u00adceived a vio\u00adlent antipa\u00adthy<\/span> even to the name of nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span>. When I was oth\u00ader\u00adwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chem\u00adi\u00adcal instru\u00adment would renew all the agony of my ner\u00advous symp\u00adtoms. Hen\u00adry saw this, and had removed all my appa\u00adra\u00adtus from my view. He had also changed my apart\u00adment; for<\/span> he per\u00adceived that I had acquired<\/span> a dis\u00adlike for the room which had pre\u00advi\u00adous\u00adly been my lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry. But these cares of Cler\u00adval were made of no avail<\/span> when I vis\u00adit\u00aded the pro\u00adfes\u00adsors. M. Wald\u00adman inflict\u00aded<\/span> tor\u00adture when he praised, with kind\u00adness and warmth, the aston\u00adish\u00ading progress I had made in the sci\u00adences. He soon per\u00adceived that I dis\u00adliked the sub\u00adject; but not guess\u00ading the real cause, he attrib\u00aduted<\/span> my feel\u00adings to mod\u00adesty, and changed the sub\u00adject from my improve\u00adment, to the sci\u00adence itself, with a desire, as I evi\u00addent\u00adly saw, of draw\u00ading me out<\/span>. What could I do? He meant to please, and he tor\u00adment\u00aded<\/span> me. I felt as if he had placed care\u00adful\u00adly, one by one, in my view those instru\u00adments which were to be after\u00adwards used in putting me to a slow and cru\u00adel death. I writhed<\/span> under his words, yet dared not exhib\u00adit the pain I felt. Cler\u00adval, whose eyes and feel\u00adings were always quick in dis\u00adcern\u00ading<\/span> the sen\u00adsa\u00adtions of oth\u00aders, declined the sub\u00adject, alleg\u00ading, in excuse, his total igno\u00adrance; and the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion took a more gen\u00ader\u00adal turn. I thanked my friend from my heart, but I did not speak. I saw plain\u00adly that he was sur\u00adprised, but he nev\u00ader attempt\u00aded to draw my secret from me; and although I loved him with a mix\u00adture of affec\u00adtion and rev\u00ader\u00adence<\/span> that knew no bounds, yet I could nev\u00ader per\u00adsuade myself to con\u00adfide in him<\/span> that event which was so often present to my rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion<\/span>, but which I feared the detail to anoth\u00ader would only impress more deeply.<\/p>\n

M. Krempe was not equal\u00adly docile<\/span>; and in my con\u00addi\u00adtion at that time, of almost insup\u00adport\u00adable sen\u00adsi\u00adtive\u00adness, his harsh blunt<\/span> encomi\u00adums<\/span> gave me even more pain than the benev\u00ado\u00adlent<\/span> appro\u00adba\u00adtion<\/span> of M. Wald\u00adman. \u201cD\u2014n<\/span> the fel\u00adlow!\u201d cried he; \u201cwhy, M. Cler\u00adval, I assure you he has out\u00adstript<\/span> us all. Ay<\/span>, stare if you please; but it is nev\u00ader\u00adthe\u00adless true. A young\u00adster who, but<\/span> a few years ago, believed in Cor\u00adnelius Agrip\u00adpa<\/span> as firm\u00adly as in the gospel<\/span>, has now set him\u00adself at the head of the uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty; and if he is not soon pulled down, we shall all be out of coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span>.\u2014Ay<\/span>, ay<\/span>,\u201d con\u00adtin\u00adued he, observ\u00ading my face expres\u00adsive<\/span> of suf\u00adfer\u00ading, \u201cM. Franken\u00adstein is mod\u00adest<\/span>; an excel\u00adlent qual\u00adi\u00adty in a young man. Young men should be dif\u00adfi\u00addent<\/span> of them\u00adselves, you know, M. Cler\u00adval: I was myself when young; but that wears out in a very short time.\u201d<\/p>\n

M. Krempe had now com\u00admenced an eulo\u00adgy<\/span> on him\u00adself, which hap\u00adpi\u00adly turned the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion from a sub\u00adject that was so annoy\u00ading to me.<\/p>\n

Cler\u00adval had nev\u00ader sym\u00adpa\u00adthised in my tastes for nat\u00adur\u00adal sci\u00adence; and his lit\u00ader\u00adary pur\u00adsuits dif\u00adfered whol\u00adly from those which had occu\u00adpied me. He came to the uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty with the design<\/span> of mak\u00ading him\u00adself com\u00adplete mas\u00adter of the ori\u00aden\u00adtal lan\u00adguages, and thus he should open a field for the plan of life he had marked out for him\u00adself. Resolved to pur\u00adsue no inglo\u00adri\u00adous<\/span> career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as afford\u00ading scope for his spir\u00adit of enter\u00adprise<\/span>. The Per\u00adsian, Ara\u00adbic, and San\u00adskrit<\/span> lan\u00adguages engaged his atten\u00adtion, and I was eas\u00adi\u00adly induced to enter on the same stud\u00adies. Idle\u00adness had ever been irk\u00adsome<\/span> to me, and now that I wished to fly from reflec\u00adtion, and hat\u00aded my for\u00admer stud\u00adies, I felt great relief in being the fel\u00adlow-pupil with my friend, and found not only instruc\u00adtion but con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> in the works of the ori\u00aden\u00adtal\u00adists<\/span>. I did not, like him, attempt a crit\u00adi\u00adcal knowl\u00adedge of their dialects<\/span>, for<\/span> I did not con\u00adtem\u00adplate mak\u00ading any oth\u00ader use of them than tem\u00adpo\u00adrary amuse\u00adment. I read mere\u00adly to under\u00adstand their mean\u00ading, and they well repaid my labours. Their melan\u00adcholy<\/span> is sooth\u00ading<\/span>, and their joy ele\u00advat\u00ading<\/span>, to a degree I nev\u00ader expe\u00adri\u00adenced in study\u00ading the authors of any oth\u00ader coun\u00adtry. When you read their writ\u00adings, life appears to con\u00adsist in a warm sun and a gar\u00adden of roses,\u2014in the smiles and frowns of a fair ene\u00admy, and the fire that con\u00adsumes your own heart. How dif\u00adfer\u00adent from the man\u00adly<\/span> and hero\u00adical<\/span> poet\u00adry of Greece and Rome!<\/p>\n

Sum\u00admer passed away in these occu\u00adpa\u00adtions, and my return to Gene\u00adva was fixed for the lat\u00adter end of autumn; but being delayed by sev\u00ader\u00adal acci\u00addents, win\u00adter and snow arrived, the roads were deemed<\/span> impass\u00adable<\/span>, and my jour\u00adney was retard\u00aded<\/span> until the ensu\u00ading<\/span> spring. I felt this delay very bit\u00adter\u00adly; for<\/span> I longed to see my native town and my beloved friends. My return had only been delayed so long, from an unwill\u00ading\u00adness to leave Cler\u00adval in a strange place, before he had become acquaint\u00aded with any of its inhab\u00adi\u00adtants<\/span>. The win\u00adter, how\u00adev\u00ader, was spent cheer\u00adful\u00adly; and although the spring was uncom\u00admon\u00adly late, when it came its beau\u00adty com\u00adpen\u00adsat\u00aded for its dila\u00adtori\u00adness<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The month of May had already com\u00admenced, and I expect\u00aded the let\u00adter dai\u00adly which was to fix the date of my depar\u00adture, when Hen\u00adry pro\u00adposed a pedes\u00adtri\u00adan<\/span> tour in the envi\u00adrons<\/span> of Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span>, that I might bid a per\u00adson\u00adal farewell<\/span> to the coun\u00adtry I had so long inhab\u00adit\u00aded<\/span>. I acced\u00aded<\/span> with plea\u00adsure to this propo\u00adsi\u00adtion<\/span>: I was fond<\/span> of exer\u00adcise, and Cler\u00adval had always been my favourite com\u00adpan\u00adion in the ram\u00adble<\/span> of this nature that I had tak\u00aden among the scenes of my native country.<\/p>\n

We passed a fort\u00adnight<\/span> in these per\u00adam\u00adbu\u00adla\u00adtions<\/span>: my health and spir\u00adits had long been restored, and they gained addi\u00adtion\u00adal strength from the salu\u00adbri\u00adous<\/span> air I breathed, the nat\u00adur\u00adal inci\u00addents of our progress, and the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion of my friend. Study had before seclud\u00aded<\/span> me from the inter\u00adcourse<\/span> of my fel\u00adlow-crea\u00adtures, and ren\u00addered me unso\u00adcial; but Cler\u00adval called forth<\/span> the bet\u00adter feel\u00adings of my heart; he again taught me to love the aspect<\/span> of nature, and the cheer\u00adful faces of chil\u00addren. Excel\u00adlent friend! how sin\u00adcere\u00adly you did love me, and endeav\u00adour<\/span> to ele\u00advate<\/span> my mind until it was on a lev\u00adel with your own. A self\u00adish pur\u00adsuit had cramped<\/span> and nar\u00adrowed me, until your gen\u00adtle\u00adness and affec\u00adtion warmed and opened my sens\u00ades; I became the same hap\u00adpy crea\u00adture who, a few years ago, loved and beloved by all, had no sor\u00adrow or care. When hap\u00adpy, inan\u00adi\u00admate<\/span> nature had the pow\u00ader of bestow\u00ading<\/span> on me the most delight\u00adful sen\u00adsa\u00adtions. A serene<\/span> sky and ver\u00addant<\/span> fields filled me with ecsta\u00adsy<\/span>. The present sea\u00adson was indeed divine; the flow\u00aders of spring bloomed in the hedges<\/span>, while those of sum\u00admer were already in bud<\/span>. I was undis\u00adturbed by thoughts which dur\u00ading the pre\u00adced\u00ading year had pressed upon me, notwith\u00adstand\u00ading<\/span> my endeav\u00adours<\/span> to throw them off, with an invin\u00adci\u00adble<\/span> burden.<\/p>\n

Hen\u00adry rejoiced<\/span> in my gai\u00adety<\/span>, and sin\u00adcere\u00adly sym\u00adpa\u00adthised in my feel\u00adings: he exert\u00aded<\/span> him\u00adself to amuse me, while he expressed the sen\u00adsa\u00adtions that filled his soul. The resources of his mind on this occa\u00adsion were tru\u00adly aston\u00adish\u00ading: his con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion was full of imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion; and very often, in imi\u00adta\u00adtion of the Per\u00adsian and Ara\u00adbic writ\u00aders, he invent\u00aded tales of won\u00adder\u00adful fan\u00adcy and pas\u00adsion. At oth\u00ader times he repeat\u00aded my favourite poems, or drew me out into argu\u00adments, which he sup\u00adport\u00aded with great inge\u00adnu\u00adity<\/span>.<\/p>\n

We returned to our col\u00adlege on a Sun\u00adday after\u00adnoon: the peas\u00adants<\/span> were danc\u00ading, and every one we met appeared gay and hap\u00adpy. My own spir\u00adits were high, and I bound\u00aded<\/span> along with feel\u00adings of unbri\u00addled<\/span> joy and hilar\u00adi\u00adty<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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account<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6pr\u026a\u02c8h\u025bn\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A descrip\u00adtion or expla\u00adna\u00adtion of some\u00adthing that has happened.<\/p>\n

appre\u00adhen\u00adsion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6pr\u026a\u02c8h\u025bn\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Fear\u00adful or uneasy antic\u00adi\u00adpa\u00adtion of the future: anx\u00adi\u00adety, con\u00adcern, fear, wor\u00adry, alarm, dread<\/span><\/p>\n

per\u00adsua\u00adsion<\/span> p\u0259\u02c8swe\u026a\u0292\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A strong\u00adly held opin\u00adion: belief, con\u00advic\u00adtion, views, opin\u00adion, faith<\/span><\/p>\n

restrain<\/span> r\u026as\u02c8tre\u026an<\/span> v <\/span>To stop some\u00adone from doing some\u00adthing, often by using phys\u00adi\u00adcal force: con\u00adfine, hold<\/span><\/p>\n

Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span> \u21d2 An inde\u00adpen\u00addent city on the Danube in Upper Bavaria, Germany.<\/p>\n

devolve<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8v\u0252lv<\/span> v <\/span>To pass on or del\u00ade\u00adgate to anoth\u00ader: relin\u00adquish, entrust, hand down, trans\u00adfer, sur\u00adren\u00adder, pass on, transmit<\/span><\/p>\n

mer\u00adce\u00adnary<\/span> \u02c8m\u025c\u02d0s\u1d4an\u1d4ari<\/span> adj<\/span> Moti\u00advat\u00aded sole\u00adly by a desire for mon\u00ade\u00adtary or mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal gain: hired, paid, bought, venal<\/span><\/p>\n

min\u00adis\u00adter<\/span> \u02c8m\u026an\u026ast\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To attend to the wants and needs of oth\u00aders: attend, care for, look after, mind<\/span><\/p>\n

intel\u00adli\u00adgence<\/span> \u026an\u02c8t\u025bl\u026a\u02a4\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>Infor\u00adma\u00adtion received or impart\u00aded: news<\/span><\/p>\n

vig\u00ador\u00adous<\/span> \u02c8v\u026a\u0261\u1d4ar\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Pos\u00adsess\u00ading, exert\u00ading, or dis\u00adplay\u00ading ener\u00adgy: active, brisk, dynam\u00adic, dynam\u00adi\u00adcal, ener\u00adgetic, force\u00adful, lively<\/span><\/p>\n

but<\/span> b\u028ct<\/span> adv<\/span> (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) Mere\u00adly; just; only.<\/p>\n

benev\u00ado\u00adlent<\/span> b\u0259\u02c8n\u025bv\u1d4al\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by or express\u00ading good\u00adwill or kind\u00adly feel\u00adings: good-heart\u00aded, kind\u00adly, charitable<\/span><\/p>\n

coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> \u02c8ka\u028an\u00adt\u1d4an\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>The appear\u00adance con\u00adveyed by a person\u2019s face: vis\u00adage<\/span><\/p>\n

at least<\/span> \u21d2 If noth\u00ading else. Not less than.<\/p>\n

odi\u00adous<\/span> \u02c8\u0259\u028adi\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Arous\u00ading strong dis\u00adlike, aver\u00adsion, or intense dis\u00adplea\u00adsure: hor\u00adrid, abominable<\/span><\/p>\n

fet\u00adter<\/span> \u02c8f\u025bt\u0259<\/span> adj<\/span> A restric\u00adtion on someone\u2019s free\u00addom: restraints, checks, chain, con\u00adstraints, obstruc\u00adtions, bondage, hindrances<\/span><\/p>\n

idler<\/span> \u02c8a\u026adl\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>Per\u00adson who does no work: do-noth\u00ading, layabout, loafer, bum<\/span><\/p>\n

alter\u00adation<\/span> \u02cc\u0252lt\u0259\u02c8re\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> adj<\/span> An event that occurs when some\u00adthing pass\u00ades from one state or phase to anoth\u00ader: change, adjust\u00adment, shift, modification<\/span><\/p>\n

to take place<\/span> \u21d2 Hap\u00adpen, occur.<\/p>\n

clad<\/span> kl\u00e6d<\/span> adj<\/span> Wear\u00ading or pro\u00advid\u00aded with cloth\u00ading: dressed, clothed<\/span><\/p>\n

placid<\/span> \u02c8pl\u00e6s\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Not agi\u00adtat\u00aded phys\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly; not dis\u00adturbed: still, qui\u00adet, calm, peace\u00adful, serene, tranquil<\/span><\/p>\n

immutable<\/span> \u026a\u02c8mju\u02d0t\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Not sub\u00adject or sus\u00adcep\u00adti\u00adble to change or vari\u00ada\u00adtion in form or qual\u00adi\u00adty or nature: inal\u00adter\u00adable, invari\u00adable, rigid, unal\u00adter\u00adable, unchangeable<\/span><\/p>\n

tri\u00adfling<\/span> \u02c8tra\u026afl\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Of slight worth or impor\u00adtance: neg\u00adli\u00adgi\u00adble, paltry<\/span><\/p>\n

exer\u00adtion<\/span> \u026ag\u02c8z\u025c\u02d0\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>Ener\u00adgetic phys\u00adi\u00adcal action: activ\u00adi\u00adty, exercise<\/span><\/p>\n

none but<\/span> \u21d2 Only.<\/p>\n

relate<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8le\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To give an account of (an occur\u00adrence, for exam\u00adple<\/span>): nar\u00adrate<\/span><\/p>\n

per\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty<\/span> p\u0259\u02c8v\u025c\u02d0s\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>Delib\u00ader\u00adate\u00adly devi\u00adat\u00ading from what is good: con\u00adtrari\u00adness<\/span><\/p>\n

monar\u00adchy<\/span> \u02c8m\u0252n\u0259\u00adki<\/span> n <\/span>An autoc\u00adra\u00adcy gov\u00aderned by a monarch who usu\u00adal\u00adly inher\u00adits the author\u00adi\u00adty: autoc\u00adra\u00adcy, king\u00adship, abso\u00adlutism, royalism<\/span><\/p>\n

inhab\u00adi\u00adtant<\/span> \u026an\u02c8h\u00e6b\u026at\u1d4ant<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson or ani\u00admal that lives in or occu\u00adpies a place: res\u00adi\u00addent, dweller<\/span><\/p>\n

order<\/span> \u02c8\u0254\u02d0d\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>often<\/span> orders<\/span> n <\/span>A social class.<\/p>\n

despise<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8s\u00adpa\u026az<\/span> v <\/span>To look upon with scorn and con\u00adtempt: dis\u00addain<\/span><\/p>\n

rec\u00adol\u00adlect<\/span> \u02ccri\u02d0k\u0259\u02c8l\u025bkt<\/span> v <\/span>To renew an image or thought in the mind: recall, remem\u00adber, bethink, call to mind, think<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adsi\u00adpate<\/span> \u02c8d\u026as\u026ape\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To scat\u00adter in var\u00adi\u00adous direc\u00adtions: dis\u00adperse, dispel<\/span><\/p>\n

Arios\u00adto gives con\u00adcern\u00ading the beau\u00adty of Angel\u00adi\u00adca<\/span> \u21d2 Angel\u00adi\u00adca is the hero\u00adine of the Ital\u00adian poet Lodovi\u00adco Ariosto\u2019s epic romance Orlan\u00addo Furioso (1516\u201332<\/span>).<\/p>\n

attach\u00adment<\/span> \u0259\u02c8t\u00e6\u02a7m\u0259nt<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading that binds one to a per\u00adson, thing, cause, ide\u00adal, or the like: affec\u00adtion, love, devotion<\/span><\/p>\n

at first<\/span> \u21d2 In the beggining.<\/p>\n

adore<\/span> \u0259\u02c8d\u0254\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>To regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect: love, wor\u00adship<\/span><\/p>\n

pro\u00adtec\u00adtress<\/span> pr\u0259\u02c8t\u025bk\u00adtr\u0259s<\/span> n <\/span>A woman who guards or defends some\u00adone or some\u00adthing: pro\u00adtec\u00adtor<\/span><\/p>\n

incon\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adate<\/span> \u02cc\u026ank\u0259n\u02c8s\u026ad\u1d4ar\u0259t<\/span> adj<\/span> Lack\u00ading in care or thought for oth\u00aders: heed\u00adless, self\u00adish, rude, insen\u00adsi\u00adtive, self-cen\u00adtred, care\u00adless, unkind, intolerant<\/span><\/p>\n

endeav\u00adour<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u025bv\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To attempt: essay, try, assay, seek<\/span><\/p>\n

phrase\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/span> \u02ccfre\u026az\u00adi\u02c8\u0252l\u0259\u02a4i<\/span> n <\/span>The way in which words and phras\u00ades are used in speech or writ\u00ading: style<\/span><\/p>\n

neglect<\/span> n\u026a\u02c8gl\u025bkt<\/span> v <\/span>To fail to care for or attend to prop\u00ader\u00adly: dis\u00adre\u00adgard<\/span><\/p>\n

chas\u00adtise<\/span> \u02a7\u00e6s\u02c8\u00adta\u026az<\/span> v <\/span>To pun\u00adish, as for wrong\u00addo\u00ading: scold, blame, lec\u00adture, rep\u00adri\u00admand, reproach<\/span><\/p>\n

par\u00adtial\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> \u02ccp\u0251\u02d0\u0283i\u02c8\u00e6l\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>An incli\u00adna\u00adtion to favor one group or view or opin\u00adion over alter\u00adna\u00adtives: incli\u00adna\u00adtion, ten\u00adden\u00adcy, disposition<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adfes\u00adsor<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8f\u025bs\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A priest autho\u00adrized to hear confessions.<\/p>\n

repen\u00adtant<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8p\u025bn\u00adt\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Feel\u00ading or express\u00ading remorse for mis\u00addeeds: regret\u00adful, sor\u00adry, remorse\u00adful, pen\u00adi\u00adtent, self-reproachful<\/span><\/p>\n

weep<\/span> wi\u02d0p<\/span> v pp<\/span> wept<\/span> pt<\/span> wept<\/span> To shed tears as an expres\u00adsion of grief or unhappiness.<\/p>\n

vivac\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> v\u026a\u02c8v\u00e6s\u026ati<\/span> n <\/span>Char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by high spir\u00adits and ani\u00adma\u00adtion: ani\u00adma\u00adtion, bounce, live\u00adli\u00adness, spirit<\/span><\/p>\n

gai\u00adety<\/span> \u02c8ge\u026a\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>A joy\u00adful feel\u00ading: hilar\u00adi\u00adty, good humor<\/span><\/p>\n

vac\u00adil\u00adlat\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8v\u00e6s\u026ale\u026at\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) To sway from one side to the other.<\/p>\n

repen\u00adtance<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8p\u025bn\u00adt\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>Remorse for your past con\u00adduct: regret, penance, penitence<\/span><\/p>\n

per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal<\/span> p\u0259\u02c8p\u025b\u02a7\u028a\u0259l<\/span> adj<\/span> Endur\u00ading for all time: eter\u00adnal, end\u00adless, ever\u00adlast\u00ading, cease\u00adless, never-ending<\/span><\/p>\n

fret<\/span> \u02c8fr\u025bt\u026a\u014b<\/span> v <\/span>To be vexed or trou\u00adbled: wor\u00adry<\/span><\/p>\n

at length<\/span> \u21d2 After some time; even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly. final\u00adly, at last.<\/p>\n

irri\u00adtabil\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> \u02cc\u026ar\u026at\u0259\u02c8b\u026al\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>A dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion to exhib\u00adit uncon\u00adtrolled anger: pet\u00adtish\u00adness, snap\u00adpish\u00adness, surli\u00adness, bil\u00adious\u00adness, peev\u00adish\u00adness, bad temper<\/span><\/p>\n

mien<\/span> mi\u02d0n<\/span> n <\/span>Bear\u00ading or man\u00adner, espe\u00adcial\u00adly as it reveals an inner state of mind: bear\u00ading, pres\u00adence, manner<\/span><\/p>\n

eye\u00adlash<\/span> \u02c8a\u026al\u00e6\u0283<\/span> n <\/span>Any of the short hairs fring\u00ading the edge of the eyelid.<\/p>\n

curl<\/span> \u02c8k\u025c\u02d0l<\/span> v <\/span>To form into coils or ringlets, as the hair: coil, curve, twirl<\/span><\/p>\n

dim\u00adples<\/span> \u02c8d\u026am\u00adp\u1d4alz<\/span> n <\/span>A small nat\u00adur\u00adal inden\u00adta\u00adtion in the flesh on a part of the human body, espe\u00adcial\u00adly in the cheek or on the chin.<\/p>\n

rosy<\/span> \u02c8r\u0259\u028azi<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading the char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtic pink or red col\u00ador of a rose.<\/p>\n

indulge<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u028cl\u02a4<\/span> v <\/span>To allow to fol\u00adlow one\u2019s will or incli\u00adna\u00adtion: wal\u00adlow<\/span><\/p>\n

gos\u00adsip<\/span> \u02c8\u0261\u0252s\u026ap<\/span> n <\/span>Rumor or talk of a per\u00adson\u00adal, sen\u00adsa\u00adtion\u00adal, or inti\u00admate nature: roumor, idle talk, scan\u00addal, hearsay<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adgrat\u00adu\u00adla\u00adto\u00adry<\/span> k\u0259n\u02cc\u0261r\u00e6\u02a7\u0259\u02c8le\u026at\u1d4ari<\/span> n <\/span>Expres\u00adsive of sym\u00adpa\u00adthet\u00adic plea\u00adsure or joy on account of someone\u2019s suc\u00adcess or good for\u00adtune: gratulatory,felicitous<\/span><\/p>\n

Esq.<\/span> \u21d2 Abbravi\u00ada\u00adtion from esqure<\/span>, a man or boy who is a mem\u00adber of the gen\u00adtry in Eng\u00adland rank\u00ading direct\u00adly below a knight.<\/p>\n

schoolfel\u00adlow<\/span> \u02c8sku\u02d0l\u02ccf\u025bl\u0259\u028a<\/span> n <\/span>A school\u00admate.<\/p>\n

be on the point of doing some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To be ready or about to do something.<\/p>\n

adieu<\/span> \u0259\u02c8d\u00adju\u02d0<\/span> int<\/span> Said to wish a final farewell: good\u00adbye, farewell,au revoir<\/span><\/p>\n

entreat<\/span> \u026an\u02c8tri\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>To make an earnest request: beg, pray, appeal, implore, plead with<\/span><\/p>\n

exclaim<\/span> \u026aks\u02c8k\u00adle\u026am<\/span> v <\/span>To cry out or speak sud\u00adden\u00adly and vehe\u00adment\u00adly, as in sur\u00adprise, strong emo\u00adtion, or protest: call out, cry out, out\u00adcry, shout, cry<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adva\u00adles\u00adcence<\/span> \u02cck\u0252n\u00adv\u0259\u02c8l\u025bsns<\/span> n <\/span>Grad\u00adual return to health and strength after ill\u00adness: recov\u00adery, reha\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion, recuperation,<\/span><\/p>\n

fort\u00adnight<\/span> \u02c8f\u0254\u02d0t\u00adna\u026at<\/span> n <\/span>A peri\u00adod of four\u00adteen con\u00adsec\u00adu\u00adtive days: two weeks<\/span><\/p>\n

cham\u00adber<\/span> \u02c8\u02a7e\u026am\u00adb\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A room in a house, espe\u00adcial\u00adly a bed\u00adroom: room<\/span><\/p>\n

befit<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8f\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To be appro\u00adpri\u00adate to or suit\u00adable for: beseem, suit<\/span><\/p>\n

antipa\u00adthy<\/span> \u00e6n\u02c8t\u026ap\u0259\u03b8i<\/span> n <\/span>. Extreme dis\u00adlike; aver\u00adsion or repug\u00adnance: aver\u00adsion, dis\u00adtaste, disgust<\/span><\/p>\n

nat\u00adur\u00adal phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> or <\/span>the phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy of nature<\/span> \u21d2 The philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal study of nature and the phys\u00adi\u00adcal uni\u00adverse that was dom\u00adi\u00adnant before the devel\u00adop\u00adment of mod\u00adern sci\u00adence. It is con\u00adsid\u00adered to be the pre\u00adcur\u00adsor of nat\u00adur\u00adal sci\u00adences such as physics.<\/p>\n

for<\/span> f\u0254\u02d0<\/span> cj<\/span> Because; since.<\/p>\n

acquire<\/span> \u0259\u02c8k\u00adwa\u026a\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To gain through expe\u00adri\u00adence of or expo\u00adsure to some\u00adthing: devel\u00adop, evolve, acquire<\/span><\/p>\n

of no avail<\/span> \u21d2 Of or hav\u00ading very lit\u00adtle or no ben\u00ade\u00adfit, effi\u00adca\u00adcy, or effect.<\/p>\n

inflict<\/span> \u026an\u02c8fl\u026akt<\/span> v <\/span>To cause harm or dam\u00adage on some\u00adone or some\u00adthing in order to make them suf\u00adfer it: impose<\/span><\/p>\n

attribute<\/span> \u0259\u02c8tr\u026ab\u00adju\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>To regard as result\u00ading from a spec\u00adi\u00adfied cause: ascribe, cred\u00adit, refer, trace, assign<\/span><\/p>\n

to draw out<\/span> \u21d2 To make more sociable.<\/p>\n

tor\u00adment<\/span> t\u0254\u02d0\u02c8m\u025bnt<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to under\u00adgo great phys\u00adi\u00adcal pain or men\u00adtal anguish: tor\u00adture<\/span><\/p>\n

writhe<\/span> ra\u026a\u00f0<\/span> v <\/span>To make twist\u00ading bod\u00adi\u00adly move\u00adments, as in pain or strug\u00adgle: squirm, twist, worm, wrig\u00adgle, wrestle<\/span><\/p>\n

dis\u00adcern<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8s\u025c\u02d0n<\/span> adj<\/span> To per\u00adceive with a spe\u00adcial effort of the sens\u00ades or the mind: detect, dis\u00adtin\u00adguish, mark, mind, note, notice, observe, remark, see<\/span><\/p>\n

rev\u00ader\u00adence<\/span> \u02c8r\u025bv\u1d4ar\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>A feel\u00ading of pro\u00adfound awe and respect and often love: respect, hon\u00adour, wor\u00adship, admi\u00adra\u00adtion, awe<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adfide in some\u00adone<\/span> \u21d2 To trust some\u00adone with one\u2019s secrets or per\u00adson\u00adal matters.<\/p>\n

rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccr\u025bk\u0259\u02c8l\u025bk\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>The abil\u00adi\u00adty to recall past occur\u00adrences: reten\u00adtion, remembrance<\/span><\/p>\n

docile<\/span> \u02c8d\u0259\u028asa\u026al<\/span> adj<\/span> Will\u00ading to be taught or led or super\u00advised or direct\u00aded: obe\u00addi\u00adent, manip\u00adu\u00adla\u00adble, tractable, teachable<\/span><\/p>\n

blunt<\/span> bl\u028cnt<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading a dull edge or end; not sharp: edge\u00adless, unsharpened<\/span><\/p>\n

encomi\u00adum<\/span> \u026an\u02c8k\u0259\u028ami\u0259m<\/span> n <\/span>A for\u00admal expres\u00adsion of praise: paean, pan\u00ade\u00adgyric, pean, eulogy<\/span><\/p>\n

appro\u00adba\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6pr\u0259\u02c8be\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>An expres\u00adsion of warm approval: praise<\/span>. accep\u00adtance, favor<\/span><\/p>\n

D\u2014n<\/span> \u21d2 Damn.<\/p>\n

out\u00adstrip<\/span> a\u028at\u02c8str\u026ap<\/span> v <\/span>Be or do some\u00adthing to a greater degree: out\u00addo, out\u00adgo, out\u00admatch, out\u00adper\u00adform, sur\u00adpass, exceed, surmount<\/span><\/p>\n

ay<\/span> a\u026a<\/span> or aye<\/span> interj<\/span> (Archa\u00adic poet\u00adic<\/span>) An expres\u00adsion of mis\u00adery or surprise<\/p>\n

Hein\u00adrich Cor\u00adnelius Agrip\u00adpa<\/span> \u21d2 A Ger\u00adman Renais\u00adsance poly\u00admath, physi\u00adcian, legal schol\u00adar, sol\u00addier, knight, the\u00adolo\u00adgian, and occult writer. Agrippa\u2019s Three Books of Occult Phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy<\/span> pub\u00adlished in 1533 drew heav\u00adi\u00adly upon Kab\u00adbal\u00adah, Her\u00admeti\u00adcism, and neo-Pla\u00adton\u00adism. His book was wide\u00adly influ\u00aden\u00adtial among eso\u00adteri\u00adcists of the ear\u00adly mod\u00adern peri\u00adod, and was con\u00addemned as hereti\u00adcal by the inquisi\u00adtor of Cologne.<\/p>\n

gospel<\/span> \u02c8\u0261\u0252sp\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>(Bible<\/span>) One of the first four New Tes\u00adta\u00adment books, describ\u00ading the life, death, and res\u00adur\u00adrec\u00adtion of Jesus and record\u00ading his teaching.<\/p>\n

expres\u00adsive<\/span> \u026aks\u02c8pr\u025bs\u026av<\/span> Effec\u00adtive\u00adly con\u00advey\u00ading mean\u00ading, feel\u00ading, or mood: mean\u00ading\u00adful, indica\u00adtive, sug\u00adges\u00adtive, demon\u00adstra\u00adtive, reveal\u00ading, sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant, allusive<\/span><\/p>\n

mod\u00adest<\/span> \u02c8m\u0252d\u026ast<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading or show\u00ading a mod\u00ader\u00adate esti\u00adma\u00adtion of one\u2019s own abil\u00adi\u00adties, accom\u00adplish\u00adments, or val\u00adue: unpre\u00adten\u00adtious, sim\u00adple, reserved, retir\u00ading, qui\u00adet, shy, humble<\/span><\/p>\n

dif\u00adfi\u00addent<\/span> \u02c8d\u026af\u026ad\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Hes\u00adi\u00adtant to assert one\u00adself: timid, mod\u00adest<\/span><\/p>\n

eulo\u00adgy<\/span> \u02c8ju\u02d0l\u0259\u02a4i<\/span> n <\/span>An oral or writ\u00adten lauda\u00adto\u00adry trib\u00adute; a set ora\u00adtion in hon\u00ador of a deceased per\u00adson; high praise or com\u00admen\u00adda\u00adtion: praise, trib\u00adute, acclaim<\/span><\/p>\n

design<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8za\u00ad\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>Delib\u00ader\u00adate intention.<\/p>\n

inglo\u00adri\u00adous<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u0261l\u0254\u02d0ri\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> With\u00adout courage or glo\u00adry: dis\u00adhon\u00adourable, shame\u00adful, disgraceful<\/span><\/p>\n

enter\u00adprise<\/span> \u02c8\u025bn\u00adt\u0259pra\u026az<\/span> n <\/span>A project or under\u00adtak\u00ading, espe\u00adcial\u00adly one that requires bold\u00adness or effort: project, task, undertaking<\/span><\/p>\n

San\u00adskrit<\/span> \u21d2 The sacred lan\u00adguage of Hin\u00adduism, the lan\u00adguage of clas\u00adsi\u00adcal Hin\u00addu phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy, and of his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal texts of Bud\u00addhism and Jainism.<\/p>\n

irk\u00adsome<\/span> \u02c8\u025c\u02d0k\u00ads\u0259m<\/span> adj<\/span> Caus\u00ading annoy\u00adance, weari\u00adness or vex\u00ada\u00adtion: tedious<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cck\u0252n\u00ads\u0259\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The com\u00adfort you feel when con\u00adsoled in times of dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment: com\u00adfort, help, sup\u00adport, relief, ease, cheer<\/span><\/p>\n

ori\u00aden\u00adtal\u00adist<\/span> \u02cc\u0254\u02d0ri\u02c8\u025bn\u00adt\u1d4al\u026ast<\/span> n <\/span>A spe\u00adcial\u00adist in ori\u00aden\u00adtal lan\u00adguages and subjects.<\/p>\n

dialect<\/span> \u02c8da\u026a\u0259l\u025bkt<\/span> n <\/span>A vari\u00adety of a lan\u00adguage pecu\u00adliar to a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar region or group with\u00adin a larg\u00ader community.<\/p>\n

melan\u00adcholy<\/span> \u02c8m\u025bl\u0259nk\u0259li<\/span> n <\/span>Sad\u00adness or depres\u00adsion of the spir\u00adits: depres\u00adsion, mis\u00adery, gloom, sorrow<\/span><\/p>\n

soothe<\/span> \u02c8su\u02d0\u00f0<\/span> v <\/span>Afford\u00ading phys\u00adi\u00adcal relief: allay\u00ading, comforting<\/span>\u00ad<\/p>\n

ele\u00advate<\/span> \u02c8\u025bl\u026ave\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To move some\u00adthing to a high\u00ader place or posi\u00adtion from a low\u00ader one: lift, heave, hoist, raise<\/span><\/p>\n

man\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8m\u00e6n\u00adli<\/span> adj<\/span> Of, relat\u00ading to, or resem\u00adbling the heroes of lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture, leg\u00adend, or myth: male, man\u00adful, man\u00adlike, virile<\/span><\/p>\n

hero\u00adical<\/span> h\u026a\u02c8r\u0259\u028a\u026ak\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Of, relat\u00ading to, or resem\u00adbling the heroes of lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture, leg\u00adend, or myth: hero\u00adic<\/span><\/p>\n

deem<\/span> di\u02d0m<\/span> v <\/span>To regard as: con\u00adsid\u00ader:<\/span><\/p>\n

impass\u00adable<\/span> \u026am\u02c8p\u0251\u02d0s\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Impos\u00adsi\u00adble to trav\u00adel over or across: blocked, closed, obstruct\u00aded, impen\u00ade\u00adtra\u00adble, unnavigable<\/span><\/p>\n

retard<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8t\u0251\u02d0d\u026ad<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to move or pro\u00adceed slow\u00adly; delay or impede: slow down, check, arrest, delay<\/span><\/p>\n

ensu\u00ading<\/span> \u026an\u02c8sju\u02d0\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Fol\u00adlow\u00ading imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly and as a result of what went before: suc\u00adceed\u00ading<\/span><\/p>\n

dila\u00adtori\u00adness<\/span> \u02c8d\u026al\u0259t\u1d4ar\u026an\u0259s<\/span> n <\/span>Slow\u00adness as a con\u00adse\u00adquence of not get\u00adting around to it: pro\u00adcras\u00adti\u00adna\u00adtion<\/span><\/p>\n

pedes\u00adtri\u00adan<\/span> p\u026a\u02c8d\u025bstri\u0259n<\/span> adj<\/span> Going or per\u00adformed on foot: walk\u00ading<\/span><\/p>\n

envi\u00adrons<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u00adva\u026a\u0259r\u0259nz<\/span> v pl<\/span> Dis\u00adtricts, sur\u00adround\u00ading a town: sur\u00adround\u00adings, environment<\/span><\/p>\n

farewell<\/span> \u02ccfe\u0259\u02c8w\u025bl<\/span> n <\/span>An acknowl\u00adedg\u00adment or expres\u00adsion of good\u00adwill at part\u00ading: good\u00adby, adieu<\/span><\/p>\n

inhab\u00adit<\/span> \u026an\u02c8h\u00e6b\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To live or dwell in (a place<\/span>), as peo\u00adple or ani\u00admals: occu\u00adpy, pop\u00adu\u00adlate, reside in<\/span><\/p>\n

accede<\/span> \u00e6k\u02c8si\u02d0d<\/span> v <\/span>Assent or yield; give con\u00adsent: agree:<\/span><\/p>\n

propo\u00adsi\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccpr\u0252p\u0259\u02c8z\u026a\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>A state\u00adment that affirms or denies some\u00adthing and is either true or false<\/p>\n

fond<\/span> f\u0252nd<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading or dis\u00adplay\u00ading warmth or affec\u00adtion: lov\u00ading, ten\u00adder, affec\u00adtion\u00adate, love\u00adsome, warm<\/span><\/p>\n

ram\u00adble<\/span> \u02c8r\u00e6m\u00adb\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>A leisure\u00adly, some\u00adtimes lengthy walk.<\/p>\n

per\u00adam\u00adbu\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> p\u0259\u02ccr\u00e6m\u00adb\u00adj\u0259\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A leisure\u00adly walk (usu\u00adal\u00adly in some pub\u00adlic place<\/span>): amble, stroll, saunter, promenade<\/span><\/p>\n

salu\u00adbri\u00adous<\/span> s\u0259\u02c8lu\u02d0bri\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Pro\u00admot\u00ading good health: health\u00adful, health\u00adsome, healthy, hygien\u00adic, salu\u00adtary, wholesome<\/span><\/p>\n

seclud\u00aded<\/span> s\u026a\u02c8k\u00adlu\u02d0d\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Con\u00adfined to par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar per\u00adsons or groups or pro\u00advid\u00ading pri\u00adva\u00adcy: pri\u00advate, shel\u00adtered, iso\u00adlat\u00aded, lone\u00adly, solitary<\/span><\/p>\n

inter\u00adcourse<\/span> gr\u0259\u02c8de\u026a\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion and actions between peo\u00adple: deal\u00adings, rela\u00adtions, rela\u00adtion\u00adships, asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion, con\u00adnec\u00adtions, con\u00adtact, interchange<\/span><\/p>\n

to call forth<\/span> \u21d2 To evoke or elic\u00adit some result or reaction.<\/p>\n

aspect<\/span> \u02c8\u00e6sp\u025bkt<\/span> n <\/span>The way some\u00adthing or some\u00adone looks: appear\u00adance, look, mien<\/span><\/p>\n

cramp<\/span> kr\u00e6mp<\/span> v <\/span>Pre\u00advent the progress or free move\u00adment of: ham\u00adper, hal\u00adter, strangle<\/span><\/p>\n

inan\u00adi\u00admate<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u00e6n\u026am\u026at<\/span> adj<\/span> Not ani\u00admat\u00aded or ener\u00adgetic: dull<\/span><\/p>\n

bestow<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8st\u0259\u028a<\/span> v <\/span>To give for\u00admal\u00adly or offi\u00adcial\u00adly: present, grant<\/span><\/p>\n

serene<\/span> s\u026a\u02c8ri\u02d0n<\/span> adj<\/span> Uncloud\u00aded: fair:<\/span><\/p>\n

ver\u00addant<\/span> \u02c8v\u025c\u02d0d\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Green with veg\u00ade\u00adta\u00adtion; cov\u00adered with green growth: green, lush, leafy, grassy, fresh, flourishing<\/span><\/p>\n

ecsta\u00adsy<\/span> \u02c8\u025bk\u00adst\u0259si<\/span> n <\/span>Intense joy or delight.<\/p>\n

hedge<\/span> h\u025b\u02a4<\/span> n <\/span>A row of close\u00adly plant\u00aded shrubs or low-grow\u00ading trees form\u00ading a fence or boundary.<\/p>\n

bud<\/span> b\u028cd<\/span> n <\/span>A small pro\u00adtu\u00adber\u00adance on a stem or branch, some\u00adtimes enclosed in pro\u00adtec\u00adtive scales and con\u00adtain\u00ading an unde\u00advel\u00adoped leaf, flower, or leafy shoot.<\/p>\n

notwith\u00adstand\u00ading<\/span> \u02ccn\u0252tw\u026a\u03b8\u02c8st\u00e6nd\u026a\u014b<\/span> prep<\/span> In spite of.<\/p>\n

invin\u00adci\u00adble<\/span> \u026an\u02c8v\u026an\u00ads\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Inca\u00adpable of being over\u00adcome or defeat\u00aded: uncon\u00adquer\u00adable, unbeatable<\/span><\/p>\n

rejoice<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8\u02a4\u0254\u026as<\/span> v <\/span>To feel joy\u00adful; be delight\u00aded: cheer<\/span><\/p>\n

exert<\/span> \u026a\u0261\u02c8z\u025c\u02d0t<\/span> v <\/span>Make a great effort at a men\u00adtal or phys\u00adi\u00adcal task: act, move<\/span><\/p>\n

inge\u00adnu\u00adity<\/span> \u02cc\u026an\u02a4\u026a\u02c8nju(\u02d0)\u026ati<\/span> n <\/span>The qual\u00adi\u00adty of being clever, orig\u00adi\u00adnal, and inven\u00adtive: cre\u00adative\u00adness, cre\u00adativ\u00adi\u00adty, inge\u00adnious\u00adness, inven\u00adtion, inven\u00adtive\u00adness, originality<\/span><\/p>\n

peas\u00adant<\/span> \u02c8p\u025bz\u1d4ant<\/span> n <\/span>A mem\u00adber of a class of small farm\u00aders or farm labor\u00aders of low social rank.<\/p>\n

bound<\/span> ba\u028and<\/span> v <\/span>To leap for\u00adward or upward: jump, spring<\/span><\/p>\n

unbri\u00addled<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8bra\u026adld<\/span> adj<\/span> Not restrained or con\u00adtrolled: unchecked, uncurbed, ungoverned, unre\u00adstrained, uncon\u00adtrolled, vio\u00adlent, exces\u00adsive, ram\u00adpant, unruly,wanton, riotous, intem\u00adper\u00adate, uncon\u00adstrained, licentious<\/span><\/p>\n

hilar\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> h\u026a\u02c8l\u00e6r\u0259ti<\/span> adj<\/span> Exu\u00adber\u00adant mer\u00adri\u00adment some\u00adtimes verg\u00ading on becom\u00ading ram\u00adbunc\u00adtious: glee, glee\u00adful\u00adness, mirth, mirthfulness<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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On my return, I found the fol\u00adlow\u00ading let\u00adter from my father:\u2014<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dear Victor,<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have prob\u00ada\u00adbly wait\u00aded impa\u00adtient\u00adly for a let\u00adter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first<\/span> tempt\u00aded<\/span> to write only a few lines, mere\u00adly men\u00adtion\u00ading the day on which I should expect you. But that would be a cru\u00adel kind\u00adness, and I dare not do it. What would be your sur\u00adprise, my son, when you expect\u00aded a hap\u00adpy and glad wel\u00adcome, to behold<\/span>, on the con\u00adtrary, tears and wretched\u00adness<\/span>? And how, Vic\u00adtor, can I relate<\/span> our mis\u00adfor\u00adtune? Absence can\u00adnot have ren\u00addered you cal\u00adlous<\/span> to our joys and griefs; and how shall I inflict<\/span> pain on my long absent son? I wish to pre\u00adpare you for the woe\u00adful<\/span> news, but I know it is impos\u00adsi\u00adble; even now your eye skims<\/span> over the page to seek the words which are to con\u00advey to you the hor\u00adri\u00adble tid\u00adings<\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWilliam is dead!\u2014that sweet child, whose smiles delight\u00aded and warmed my heart, who was so gen\u00adtle, yet so gay! Vic\u00adtor, he is murdered!<\/p>\n

\u201cI will not attempt to con\u00adsole you; but will sim\u00adply relate<\/span> the cir\u00adcum\u00adstances of the trans\u00adac\u00adtion<\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast Thurs\u00adday (May 7th), I, my niece<\/span>, and your two broth\u00aders, went to walk in Plain\u00adpalais<\/span>. The evening was warm and serene<\/span>, and we pro\u00adlonged our walk far\u00adther<\/span> than usu\u00adal. It was already dusk<\/span> before we thought of return\u00ading; and then we dis\u00adcov\u00adered that William and Ernest, who had gone on before, were not to be found. We accord\u00ading\u00adly rest\u00aded on a seat until they should return. Present\u00adly Ernest came, and enquired<\/span> if we had seen his broth\u00ader; he said, that he had been play\u00ading with him, that William had run away to hide him\u00adself, and that he vain\u00adly<\/span> sought for him, and after\u00adwards wait\u00aded for a long time, but that he did not return.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis account<\/span> rather alarmed us, and we con\u00adtin\u00adued to search for him until night fell, when Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth con\u00adjec\u00adtured<\/span> that he might have returned to the house. He was not there. We returned again, with torch\u00ades<\/span>; for<\/span> I could not rest, when I thought that my sweet boy had lost him\u00adself, and was exposed to all the damps<\/span> and dews<\/span> of night; Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth also suf\u00adfered extreme anguish<\/span>. About five in the morn\u00ading I dis\u00adcov\u00adered my love\u00adly boy, whom the night before I had seen bloom\u00ading and active in health, stretched on the grass livid<\/span> and motion\u00adless; the print of the murder\u2019s fin\u00adger was on his neck.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was con\u00adveyed home, and the anguish<\/span> that was vis\u00adi\u00adble in my coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> betrayed<\/span> the secret to Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth. She was very earnest<\/span> to see the corpse<\/span>. At first<\/span> I attempt\u00aded to pre\u00advent her but she per\u00adsist\u00aded, and enter\u00ading the room where it lay, hasti\u00adly exam\u00adined the neck of the vic\u00adtim, and clasp\u00ading<\/span> her hands exclaimed<\/span>, \u2018O God! I have mur\u00addered my dar\u00adling child!\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cShe faint\u00aded, and was restored with extreme dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty. When she again lived, it was only to weep<\/span> and sigh. She told me, that that same evening William had teased<\/span> her to let him wear a very valu\u00adable minia\u00adture that she pos\u00adsessed of your moth\u00ader. This pic\u00adture is gone, and was doubt\u00adless the temp\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> which urged the mur\u00adder\u00ader to the deed<\/span>. We have no trace of him at present<\/span>, although our exer\u00adtions<\/span> to dis\u00adcov\u00ader him are unremit\u00adted<\/span>; but they will not restore my beloved William!<\/p>\n

\u201cCome, dear\u00adest Vic\u00adtor; you alone can con\u00adsole Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth. She weeps<\/span> con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly, and accus\u00ades her\u00adself unjust\u00adly as the cause of his death; her words pierce my heart. We are all unhap\u00adpy; but will not that be an addi\u00adtion\u00adal motive for you, my son, to return and be our com\u00adforter<\/span>? Your dear moth\u00ader! Alas<\/span>, Vic\u00adtor! I now say, Thank God she did not live to wit\u00adness the cru\u00adel, mis\u00ader\u00adable death of her youngest darling!<\/p>\n

\u201cCome, Vic\u00adtor; not brood\u00ading<\/span> thoughts of vengeance<\/span> against the assas\u00adsin<\/span>, but with feel\u00adings of peace and gen\u00adtle\u00adness, that will heal, instead of fes\u00adter\u00ading<\/span>, the wounds of our minds. Enter the house of mourn\u00ading<\/span>, my friend, but with kind\u00adness and affec\u00adtion for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour affec\u00adtion\u00adate and afflict\u00aded father,\u201cAlphonse Frankenstein.<\/p>\n

\u201cGene\u00adva, May 12th, 17\u2014.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cler\u00adval, who had watched my coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> as I read this let\u00adter, was sur\u00adprised to observe the despair that suc\u00adceed\u00aded the joy I at first<\/span> expressed on receiv\u00ading new from my friends. I threw the let\u00adter on the table, and cov\u00adered my face with my hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dear Franken\u00adstein,\u201d exclaimed<\/span> Hen\u00adry, when he per\u00adceived me weep<\/span> with bit\u00adter\u00adness, \u201care you always to be unhap\u00adpy? My dear friend, what has happened?\u201d<\/p>\n

I motioned him to take up the let\u00adter, while I walked up and down the room in the extremest agi\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span>. Tears also gushed<\/span> from the eyes of Cler\u00adval, as he read the account<\/span> of my misfortune.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can offer you no con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span>, my friend,\u201d said he; \u201cyour dis\u00adas\u00adter is irrepara\u00adble<\/span>. What do you intend to do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo go instant\u00adly to Gene\u00adva: come with me, Hen\u00adry, to order the horses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dur\u00ading our walk, Cler\u00adval endeav\u00adoured<\/span> to say a few words of con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span>; he could only express his heart\u00adfelt<\/span> sym\u00adpa\u00adthy. \u201cPoor William!\u201d said he, \u201cdear love\u00adly child, he now sleeps with his angel moth\u00ader! Who that had seen him bright and joy\u00adous in his young beau\u00adty, but must weep<\/span> over his untime\u00adly<\/span> loss! To die so mis\u00ader\u00adably; to feel the murderer\u2019s grasp! How much more a mur\u00addered that could destroy radi\u00adant<\/span> inno\u00adcence! Poor lit\u00adtle fel\u00adlow! one only con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> have we; his friends mourn<\/span> and weep<\/span>, but he is at rest<\/span>. The pang<\/span> is over, his suf\u00adfer\u00adings are at an end for ever. A sod<\/span> cov\u00aders his gen\u00adtle form, and he knows no pain. He can no longer be a sub\u00adject for pity; we must reserve that for his mis\u00ader\u00adable survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cler\u00adval spoke thus as we hur\u00adried through the streets; the words impressed them\u00adselves on my mind and I remem\u00adbered them after\u00adwards in soli\u00adtude<\/span>. But now, as soon as<\/span> the hors\u00ades arrived, I hur\u00adried into a cabri\u00ado\u00adlet<\/span>, and bade farewell<\/span> to my friend.<\/p>\n

My jour\u00adney was very melan\u00adcholy<\/span>. At first<\/span> I wished to hur\u00adry on, for I longed to con\u00adsole and sym\u00adpa\u00adthise with my loved and sor\u00adrow\u00ading friends; but when I drew near<\/span> my native town, I slack\u00adened<\/span> my progress. I could hard\u00adly sus\u00adtain the mul\u00adti\u00adtude of feel\u00adings that crowd\u00aded into my mind. I passed through scenes famil\u00adiar to my youth, but which I had not seen for near\u00adly six years. How altered every thing might be dur\u00ading that time! One sud\u00adden and des\u00ado\u00adlat\u00ading<\/span> change had tak\u00aden place<\/span>; but a thou\u00adsand lit\u00adtle cir\u00adcum\u00adstances might have by degrees<\/span> worked oth\u00ader alter\u00adations<\/span>, which, although they were done more tran\u00adquil\u00adly<\/span>, might not be the less deci\u00adsive<\/span>. Fear over\u00adcame me; I dared no advance, dread\u00ading<\/span> a thou\u00adsand name\u00adless evils that made me trem\u00adble, although I was unable to define them.<\/p>\n

I remained two days at Lau\u00adsanne<\/span>, in this painful state of mind. I con\u00adtem\u00adplat\u00aded the lake: the waters were placid<\/span>; all around was calm; and the snowy moun\u00adtains, \u201cthe palaces of nature,\u201d were not changed. By degrees<\/span> the calm and heav\u00aden\u00adly scene restored me, and I con\u00adtin\u00adued my jour\u00adney towards Geneva.<\/p>\n

The road ran by the side of the lake, which became nar\u00adrow\u00ader as I approached my native town. I dis\u00adcov\u00adered more dis\u00adtinct\u00adly the black sides of Jura<\/span>, and the bright sum\u00admit of Mont Blanc<\/span>. I wept<\/span> like a child. \u201cDear moun\u00adtains! my own beau\u00adti\u00adful lake! how do you wel\u00adcome your wan\u00adder\u00ader? Your sum\u00admits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid<\/span>. Is this to prog\u00adnos\u00adti\u00adcate<\/span> peace, or to mock<\/span> at my unhappiness?\u201d<\/p>\n

I fear, my friend, that I shall ren\u00adder myself tedious<\/span> by dwelling on these pre\u00adlim\u00adi\u00adnary cir\u00adcum\u00adstances<\/span>; but they were days of com\u00adpar\u00ada\u00adtive<\/span> hap\u00adpi\u00adness, and I think of them with plea\u00adsure. My coun\u00adtry, my beloved coun\u00adtry! who but a native can tell the delight I took in again behold\u00ading<\/span> thy<\/span> streams, thy<\/span> moun\u00adtains, and, more than all, thy<\/span> love\u00adly lake!<\/p>\n

Yet, as I drew near\u00ader<\/span> home, grief and fear again over\u00adcame me. Night also closed around; and when I could hard\u00adly see the dark moun\u00adtains, I felt still more gloomi\u00adly<\/span>. The pic\u00adture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I fore\u00adsaw<\/span> obscure\u00adly<\/span> that I was des\u00adtined<\/span> to become the most wretched<\/span> of human beings. Alas<\/span>! I proph\u00ade\u00adsied<\/span> tru\u00adly, and failed only in one sin\u00adgle cir\u00adcum\u00adstance, that in all the mis\u00adery I imag\u00adined and dread\u00aded<\/span>, I did not con\u00adceive the hun\u00addredth part of the anguish<\/span> I was des\u00adtined<\/span> to endure.<\/p>\n

It was com\u00adplete\u00adly dark when I arrived in the envi\u00adrons<\/span> of Gene\u00adva; the gates of the town were already shut; and I was oblig\u00aded to pass the night at Secheron, a vil\u00adlage at the dis\u00adtance of half a league<\/span> from the city. The sky was serene<\/span>; and, as I was unable to rest, I resolved to vis\u00adit the spot where my poor William had been mur\u00addered. As I could not pass through the town, I was oblig\u00aded to cross the lake in a boat to arrive at Plain\u00adpalais<\/span>. Dur\u00ading this short voy\u00adage I saw the light\u00adning play\u00ading on the sum\u00admit of Mont Blanc<\/span> in the most beau\u00adti\u00adful fig\u00adures. The storm appeared to approach rapid\u00adly, and, on land\u00ading, I ascend\u00aded<\/span> a low hill, that I might observe its progress. It advanced; the heav\u00adens were cloud\u00aded, and I soon felt the rain com\u00ading slow\u00adly in large drops, but its vio\u00adlence quick\u00adly increased.<\/p>\n

I quit\u00adted my seat, and walked on, although the dark\u00adness and storm increased every minute, and the thun\u00adder burst with a ter\u00adrif\u00adic crash over my head. It was echoed from Sal\u00eave<\/span>, the Juras<\/span>, and the Alps<\/span> of Savoy<\/span>; vivid<\/span> flash\u00ades of light\u00adning daz\u00adzled<\/span> my eyes, illu\u00admi\u00adnat\u00ading<\/span> the lake, mak\u00ading it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy<\/span> dark\u00adness, until the eye recov\u00adered itself from the pre\u00adced\u00ading flash. The storm, as is often the case in Switzer\u00adland, appeared at once<\/span> in var\u00adi\u00adous parts of the heav\u00adens. The most vio\u00adlent storm hung exact\u00adly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the promon\u00adto\u00adry<\/span> of Bel\u00adrive<\/span> and the vil\u00adlage of Cop\u00eat. Anoth\u00ader storm enlight\u00adened<\/span> Jura<\/span> with faint flash\u00ades; and anoth\u00ader dark\u00adened and some\u00adtimes dis\u00adclosed the M\u00f4le, a peaked moun\u00adtain to the east of the lake.<\/p>\n

While I watched the tem\u00adpest<\/span>, so beau\u00adti\u00adful yet ter\u00adrif\u00adic, I wan\u00addered on with a hasty step. This noble war in the sky ele\u00advat\u00aded<\/span> my spir\u00adits; I clasped<\/span> my hands, and exclaimed<\/span> aloud, \u201cWilliam, dear angel! this is thy<\/span> funer\u00adal, this thy<\/span> dirge<\/span>!\u201d As I said these words, I per\u00adceived in the gloom<\/span> a fig\u00adure which stole<\/span> from behind a clump<\/span> of trees near me; I stood fixed, gaz\u00ading<\/span> intent\u00adly<\/span>: I could not be mis\u00adtak\u00aden. A flash of light\u00adning illu\u00admi\u00adnat\u00aded<\/span> the object, and dis\u00adcov\u00adered its shape plain\u00adly to me; its gigan\u00adtic<\/span> stature<\/span>, and the defor\u00admi\u00adty<\/span> of its aspect<\/span> more hideous<\/span> than belongs to human\u00adi\u00adty, instant\u00adly informed me that it was the wretch<\/span> , the filthy<\/span> d\u00e6mon<\/span>, to whom I had giv\u00aden life. What did he there? Could he be (I shud\u00addered<\/span> at the con\u00adcep\u00adtion) the mur\u00adder\u00ader of my broth\u00ader? No soon\u00ader did that idea cross my imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion, than I became con\u00advinced of its truth; my teeth chat\u00adtered<\/span>, and I was forced to lean against a tree for sup\u00adport. The fig\u00adure passed me quick\u00adly, and I lost it in the gloom<\/span>. Noth\u00ading in human shape could have destroyed the fair child. He<\/span> was the mur\u00adder\u00ader! I could not doubt it. The mere pres\u00adence of the idea was an irre\u00adsistible proof of the fact. I thought of pur\u00adsu\u00ading the dev\u00adil; but it would have been in vain<\/span>, for<\/span> anoth\u00ader flash dis\u00adcov\u00adered him to me hang\u00ading among the rocks of the near\u00adly per\u00adpen\u00addic\u00adu\u00adlar ascent<\/span> of Mont Sal\u00eave<\/span>, a hill that bounds Plain\u00adpalais<\/span> on the south. He soon reached the sum\u00admit, and disappeared.<\/p>\n

I remained motion\u00adless. The thun\u00adder ceased; but the rain still con\u00adtin\u00adued, and the scene was enveloped in an impen\u00ade\u00adtra\u00adble<\/span> dark\u00adness. I revolved<\/span> in my mind the events which I had until now sought to for\u00adget: the whole train<\/span> of my progress toward the cre\u00adation; the appear\u00adance of the works of my own hands at my bed\u00adside; its depar\u00adture. Two years had now near\u00adly elapsed<\/span> since the night on which he first received life; and was this his first crime? Alas<\/span>! I had turned loose<\/span> into the world a depraved<\/span> wretch<\/span>, whose delight was in car\u00adnage<\/span> and mis\u00adery; had he not mur\u00addered my brother?<\/p>\n

No one can con\u00adceive the anguish<\/span> I suf\u00adfered dur\u00ading the remain\u00adder of the night, which I spent, cold and wet, in the open air. But I did not feel the incon\u00adve\u00adnience of the weath\u00ader; my imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion was busy in scenes of evil and despair. I con\u00adsid\u00adered the being whom I had cast among mankind, and endowed<\/span> with the will and pow\u00ader to effect pur\u00adpos\u00ades<\/span> of hor\u00adror, such as the deed<\/span> which he had now done, near\u00adly in the light of my own vam\u00adpire, my own spir\u00adit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me.<\/p>\n

Day dawned; and I direct\u00aded my steps towards the town. The gates were open, and I has\u00adtened to my father\u2019s house. My first thought was to dis\u00adcov\u00ader what I knew of the mur\u00adder\u00ader, and cause instant pur\u00adsuit to be made. But I paused when I reflect\u00aded on the sto\u00adry that I had to tell. A being whom I myself had formed, and endued<\/span> with life, had met me at mid\u00adnight among the precipices<\/span> of an inac\u00adces\u00adsi\u00adble moun\u00adtain. I remem\u00adbered also the ner\u00advous fever with which I had been seized just at the time that I dat\u00aded my cre\u00adation, and which would give an air of delir\u00adi\u00adum<\/span> to a tale oth\u00ader\u00adwise so utter\u00adly<\/span> improb\u00ada\u00adble. I well knew that if any oth\u00ader had com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00aded such a rela\u00adtion<\/span> to me, I should have looked upon it as the rav\u00adings<\/span> of insan\u00adi\u00adty<\/span>. Besides, the strange nature of the ani\u00admal would elude<\/span> all pur\u00adsuit, even if I were so far cred\u00adit\u00aded as to per\u00adsuade my rel\u00ada\u00adtives to com\u00admence it. And then of what use would be pur\u00adsuit? Who could arrest a crea\u00adture capa\u00adble of scal\u00ading<\/span> the over\u00adhang\u00ading<\/span> sides of Mont Sal\u00eave<\/span>? These reflec\u00adtions deter\u00admined me, and I resolved to remain silent.<\/p>\n

It was about five in the morn\u00ading when I entered my father\u2019s house. I told the ser\u00advants not to dis\u00adturb the fam\u00adi\u00adly, and went into the library to attend<\/span> their usu\u00adal hour of rising.<\/p>\n

Six years had elapsed<\/span>, passed in a dream but for one indeli\u00adble<\/span> trace, and I stood in the same place where I had last embraced my father before my depar\u00adture for Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span>. Beloved and ven\u00ader\u00ada\u00adble<\/span> par\u00adent! He still remained to me. I gazed<\/span> on the pic\u00adture of my moth\u00ader, which stood over the man\u00adtel<\/span>-piece. It was an his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal sub\u00adject, paint\u00aded at my father\u2019s desire, and rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00aded Car\u00ado\u00adline Beau\u00adfort in an agony of despair, kneel\u00ading by the cof\u00adfin<\/span> of her dead father. Her garb<\/span> was rus\u00adtic<\/span>, and her cheek pale; but there was an air of dig\u00adni\u00adty and beau\u00adty, that hard\u00adly per\u00admit\u00adted the sen\u00adti\u00adment of pity. Below this pic\u00adture was a minia\u00adture of William; and my tears flowed when I looked upon it. While I was thus engaged, Ernest entered: he had heard me arrive, and has\u00adtened to wel\u00adcome me: \u201cWel\u00adcome, my dear\u00adest Vic\u00adtor,\u201d said he. \u201cAh! I wish you had come three months ago, and then you would have found us all joy\u00adous and delight\u00aded. You come to us now to share a mis\u00adery which noth\u00ading can alle\u00advi\u00adate<\/span>; yet your pres\u00adence will, I hope, revive<\/span> our father, who seems sink\u00ading under his mis\u00adfor\u00adtune; and your per\u00adsua\u00adsions<\/span> will induce poor Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth to cease her vain<\/span> and tor\u00adment\u00ading<\/span> self-accusations.\u2014Poor William! he was our dar\u00adling and our pride!\u201d<\/p>\n

Tears, unre\u00adstrained<\/span>, fell from my brother\u2019s eyes; a sense of mor\u00adtal<\/span> agony crept over my frame<\/span>. Before, I had only imag\u00adined the wretched\u00adness<\/span> of my des\u00ado\u00adlat\u00aded<\/span> home; the real\u00adi\u00adty came on me as a new, and a not less ter\u00adri\u00adble, dis\u00adas\u00adter. I tried to calm Ernest; I enquired<\/span> more minute\u00adly<\/span> con\u00adcern\u00ading my father, and here I named my cousin.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe most of all,\u201d said Ernest, \u201crequires con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span>; she accused her\u00adself of hav\u00ading caused the death of my broth\u00ader, and that made her very wretched<\/span>. But since the mur\u00adder\u00ader has been discovered\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mur\u00adder\u00ader dis\u00adcov\u00adered! Good God! how can that be? who could attempt to pur\u00adsue him? It is impos\u00adsi\u00adble; one might as well try to over\u00adtake<\/span> the winds, or con\u00adfine<\/span> a moun\u00adtain-stream with a straw. I saw him too; he was free last night!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not know what you mean,\u201d replied my broth\u00ader, in accents of won\u00adder, \u201cbut to us the dis\u00adcov\u00adery we have made com\u00adpletes our mis\u00adery. No one would believe it at first<\/span>; and even now Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth will not be con\u00advinced, notwith\u00adstand\u00ading<\/span> all the evi\u00addence. Indeed, who would cred\u00adit that Jus\u00adtine Moritz, who was so ami\u00adable<\/span>, and fond<\/span> of all the fam\u00adi\u00adly, could sud\u00adden\u00adly become so capa\u00adble of so fright\u00adful, so appalling<\/span> a crime?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJus\u00adtine Moritz! Poor, poor girl, is she the accused? But it is wrong\u00adful\u00adly; every one knows that; no one believes it, sure\u00adly, Ernest?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one did at first<\/span>; but sev\u00ader\u00adal cir\u00adcum\u00adstances came out, that have almost forced con\u00advic\u00adtion upon us; and her own behav\u00adiour has been so con\u00adfused, as to add to the evi\u00addence of facts a weight that, I fear, leaves no hope for doubt. But she will be tried today, and you will then hear all.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then relat\u00aded<\/span> that, the morn\u00ading on which the mur\u00adder of poor William had been dis\u00adcov\u00adered, Jus\u00adtine had been tak\u00aden ill, and con\u00adfined<\/span> to her bed for sev\u00ader\u00adal days. Dur\u00ading this inter\u00adval, one of the ser\u00advants, hap\u00adpen\u00ading to exam\u00adine the appar\u00adel<\/span> she had worn on the night of the mur\u00adder, had dis\u00adcov\u00adered in her pock\u00adet the pic\u00adture of my moth\u00ader, which had been judged to be the temp\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> of the mur\u00adder\u00ader. The ser\u00advant instant\u00adly showed it to one of the oth\u00aders, who, with\u00adout say\u00ading a word to any of the fam\u00adi\u00adly, went to a mag\u00adis\u00adtrate<\/span>; and, upon their depo\u00adsi\u00adtion<\/span>, Jus\u00adtine was appre\u00adhend\u00aded<\/span>. On being charged with the fact, the poor girl con\u00adfirmed the sus\u00adpi\u00adcion in a great mea\u00adsure by her extreme con\u00adfu\u00adsion of manner.<\/p>\n

This was a strange tale, but it did not shake my faith; and I replied earnest\u00adly<\/span>, \u201cYou are all mis\u00adtak\u00aden; I know the mur\u00adder\u00ader. Jus\u00adtine, poor, good Jus\u00adtine, is innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n

At that instant my father entered. I saw unhap\u00adpi\u00adness deeply impressed on his coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span>, but he endeav\u00adoured<\/span> to wel\u00adcome me cheer\u00adful\u00adly; and, after we had exchanged our mourn\u00adful<\/span> greet\u00ading, would have intro\u00adduced some oth\u00ader top\u00adic than that of our dis\u00adas\u00adter, had not Ernest exclaimed<\/span>, \u201cGood God, papa<\/span>! Vic\u00adtor says that he knows who was the mur\u00adder\u00ader of poor William.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do also, unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly,\u201d replied my father, \u201cfor indeed I had rather have been for ever igno\u00adrant than have dis\u00adcov\u00adered so much deprav\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> and ungrat\u00adi\u00adtude in one I val\u00adued so highly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dear father, you are mis\u00adtak\u00aden; Jus\u00adtine is innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf she is, God for\u00adbid that she should suf\u00adfer as guilty. She is to be tried today, and I hope, I sin\u00adcere\u00adly hope, that she will be acquit\u00adted<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This speech calmed me. I was firm\u00adly con\u00advinced in my own mind that Jus\u00adtine, and indeed every human being, was guilt\u00adless of this mur\u00adder. I had no fear, there\u00adfore, that any cir\u00adcum\u00adstan\u00adtial<\/span> evi\u00addence could be brought for\u00adward strong enough to con\u00advict her. My tale was not one to announce pub\u00adlicly; its astound\u00ading<\/span> hor\u00adror would be looked upon as mad\u00adness by the vul\u00adgar<\/span>. Did any one indeed exist, except I, the cre\u00adator, who would believe, unless his sens\u00ades con\u00advinced him, in the exis\u00adtence of the liv\u00ading mon\u00adu\u00adment of pre\u00adsump\u00adtion<\/span> and rash<\/span> igno\u00adrance which I had let loose upon the world?<\/p>\n

We were soon joined by Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth. Time had altered her since I last beheld<\/span> her; it had endowed<\/span> her with love\u00adli\u00adness sur\u00adpass\u00ading<\/span> the beau\u00adty of her child\u00adish years. There was the same can\u00addour<\/span>, the same vivac\u00adi\u00adty<\/span>, but it was allied to an expres\u00adsion more full of sen\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty and intel\u00adlect. She wel\u00adcomed me with the great\u00adest affec\u00adtion. \u201cYour arrival, my dear cousin,\u201d said she, \u201cfills me with hope. You per\u00adhaps will find some means to jus\u00adti\u00adfy my poor guilt\u00adless Jus\u00adtine. Alas<\/span>! who is safe, if she be con\u00advict\u00aded of crime? I rely on her inno\u00adcence as cer\u00adtain\u00adly as I do upon my own. Our mis\u00adfor\u00adtune is dou\u00adbly hard to us; we have not only lost that love\u00adly dar\u00adling boy, but this poor girl, whom I sin\u00adcere\u00adly love, is to be torn away by even a worse fate. If she is con\u00addemned, I nev\u00ader shall know joy more. But she will not, I am sure she will not; and then I shall be hap\u00adpy again, even after the sad death of my lit\u00adtle William.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is inno\u00adcent, my Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth,\u201d said I, \u201cand that shall be proved; fear noth\u00ading, but let your spir\u00adits be cheered by the assur\u00adance of her acquit\u00adtal<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow kind and gen\u00ader\u00adous you are! every one else believes in her guilt, and that made me wretched<\/span>, for I knew that it was impos\u00adsi\u00adble: and to see every one else prej\u00adu\u00addiced<\/span> in so dead\u00adly a man\u00adner ren\u00addered me hope\u00adless and despair\u00ading.\u201d She wept<\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cDear\u00adest niece<\/span>,\u201d said my father, \u201cdry your tears. If she is, as you believe, inno\u00adcent, rely on the jus\u00adtice of our laws, and the activ\u00adi\u00adty with which I shall pre\u00advent the slight\u00adest shad\u00adow of par\u00adtial\u00adi\u00adty<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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at first<\/span> \u21d2 In the beggining.<\/p>\n

tempt<\/span> t\u025bmpt<\/span> v <\/span>To entice or allure to do some\u00adthing often regard\u00aded as unwise, wrong, or immoral: allure, entice, invei\u00adgle, lure, seduce<\/span><\/p>\n

behold<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u0259\u028ald<\/span> pp<\/span>, pt<\/span> beheld<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u025bld<\/span> v <\/span>To appre\u00adhend some\u00adthing by use of the eyes: see, per\u00adceive<\/span><\/p>\n

wretched\u00adness<\/span> \u02c8r\u025b\u02a7\u026ad\u00adn\u0259s<\/span> n <\/span>A state of ill-being due to afflic\u00adtion or mis\u00adfor\u00adtune: mis\u00adery, unhappiness<\/span><\/p>\n

relate<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8le\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To give an account of (an occur\u00adrence, for exam\u00adple<\/span>): nar\u00adrate<\/span><\/p>\n

cal\u00adlous<\/span> \u02c8k\u00e6l\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Insen\u00adsi\u00adtive, indif\u00adfer\u00adent or unsym\u00adpa\u00adthet\u00adic: heart\u00adless, cold, harsh, hard\u00adened, indif\u00adfer\u00adent, insensitive<\/span><\/p>\n

inflict<\/span> \u026an\u02c8fl\u026akt<\/span> v <\/span>To cause harm or dam\u00adage on some\u00adone or some\u00adthing in order to make them suf\u00adfer it: impose<\/span><\/p>\n

woe\u00adful<\/span> \u02c8w\u0259\u028af\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Affect\u00aded by or full of woe: heart\u00adbreak\u00ading, griev\u00adous, mourn\u00adful, sor\u00adrow\u00adful, doleful<\/span><\/p>\n

skim<\/span> sk\u026am<\/span> v <\/span>Exam\u00adine hasti\u00adly: glance over, scan, rake, run down<\/span><\/p>\n

tid\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8ta\u026ad\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>New infor\u00adma\u00adtion, espe\u00adcial\u00adly about recent events and hap\u00adpen\u00adings (Often used in plur\u00adal<\/span>): advice, intel\u00adli\u00adgence, news, word<\/span><\/p>\n

trans\u00adac\u00adtion<\/span> tr\u00e6n\u02c8z\u00e6k\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>(Psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/span>) An inter\u00adac\u00adtion of an indi\u00advid\u00adual with one or more oth\u00ader per\u00adsons, espe\u00adcial\u00adly as influ\u00adenced by their assumed rela\u00adtion\u00adal roles of par\u00adent, child, or adult.<\/p>\n

niece<\/span> ni\u02d0s<\/span> n <\/span>A daugh\u00adter of one\u2019s broth\u00ader or sis\u00adter, or a daugh\u00adter of one\u2019s spouse\u2019s broth\u00ader or sister.<\/p>\n

Plain\u00adpalais<\/span> \u21d2 A neigh\u00adbour\u00adhood in Gene\u00adva, Switzer\u00adland, and a for\u00admer munic\u00adi\u00adpal\u00adi\u00adty of the Can\u00adton of Geneva.<\/p>\n

serene<\/span> s\u026a\u02c8ri\u02d0n<\/span> adj<\/span> Con\u00adtent or com\u00adposed: untrou\u00adbled, calm, peace\u00adful, tran\u00adquil, com\u00adposed, sedate, placid, undisturbed<\/span><\/p>\n

far\u00adther<\/span> \u02c8f\u0251\u02d0\u00f0\u0259<\/span> adv<\/span> To or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage: fur\u00adther<\/span><\/p>\n

dusk<\/span> d\u028csk<\/span> n <\/span>The time of day imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly fol\u00adlow\u00ading sunset.<\/p>\n

enquire<\/span> \u026an\u02c8k\u00adwa\u026a\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To seek infor\u00adma\u00adtion by ques\u00adtion\u00ading: ask:<\/span><\/p>\n

vain\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8ve\u026an\u00adli<\/span> adj<\/span> Unsuccessfully.<\/p>\n

account<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6pr\u026a\u02c8h\u025bn\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A descrip\u00adtion or expla\u00adna\u00adtion of some\u00adthing that has happened.<\/p>\n

con\u00adjec\u00adture<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8\u02a4\u025bk\u02a7\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To con\u00adclude or sup\u00adpose from evi\u00addence insuf\u00adfi\u00adcient to ensure reli\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty: guess<\/span><\/p>\n

torch<\/span> t\u0254\u02d0\u02a7<\/span> n <\/span>Portable light pro\u00adduced by the flame of a flam\u00adma\u00adble mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal wound about the end of a stick of wood.<\/p>\n

for<\/span> f\u0254\u02d0<\/span> cj<\/span> Because; since.<\/p>\n

damp<\/span> d\u00e6mp<\/span> n <\/span>Mois\u00adture that lies or has con\u00addensed on some\u00adthing: mois\u00adture, humid\u00adi\u00adty, driz\u00adzle, dew<\/span><\/p>\n

dew<\/span> \u02c8dju\u02d0<\/span> n <\/span>Water droplets con\u00addensed from the air, usu\u00adal\u00adly at night, onto cool sur\u00adfaces: con\u00adden\u00adsate, con\u00adden\u00adsa\u00adtion {dew_drop}<\/span><\/p>\n

anguish<\/span> \u02c8\u00e6\u014bg\u00adw\u026a\u0283<\/span> n <\/span>State of men\u00adtal suf\u00adfer\u00ading: pain, mis\u00adery, dis\u00adtress, agony, affliction<\/span><\/p>\n

livid<\/span> \u02c8l\u026av\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Dis\u00adcoloured: pale, colour\u00adless, lurid<\/span><\/p>\n

coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> \u02c8ka\u028an\u00adt\u1d4an\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>The appear\u00adance con\u00adveyed by a person\u2019s face: vis\u00adage<\/span><\/p>\n

betray<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8tre\u026a<\/span> v <\/span>To give aid or infor\u00adma\u00adtion to an ene\u00admy of; com\u00admit trea\u00adson against: give away, tell, show, reveal, expose, dis\u00adclose, uncov\u00ader, man\u00adi\u00adfest, divulge, unmask<\/span><\/p>\n

earnest<\/span> \u02c8\u025c\u02d0n\u026ast<\/span> adv<\/span> Show\u00ading or express\u00ading sin\u00adcer\u00adi\u00adty or seri\u00adous\u00adness: seri\u00adous, keen, grave, intense, steady, ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded, eager <\/span><\/p>\n

corpse<\/span> k\u0254\u02d0ps<\/span> n <\/span>A dead body, espe\u00adcial\u00adly of a human being: cadav\u00ader<\/span><\/p>\n

clasp<\/span> kl\u0251\u02d0sp<\/span> n <\/span>To grasp firm\u00adly with the hand: grasp, hold, press, grip, seize, squeeze, embrace, clutch, hug, enfold<\/span><\/p>\n

exclaim<\/span> \u026aks\u02c8k\u00adle\u026am<\/span> v <\/span>To cry out or speak sud\u00adden\u00adly and vehe\u00adment\u00adly, as in sur\u00adprise, strong emo\u00adtion, or protest: call out, cry out, out\u00adcry, shout, cry<\/span><\/p>\n

weep<\/span> wi\u02d0p<\/span> v <\/span>To shed tears as an expres\u00adsion of grief or unhap\u00adpi\u00adness: cry<\/span><\/p>\n

tease<\/span> ti\u02d0z<\/span> v <\/span>To urge per\u00adsis\u00adtent\u00adly: coax, annoy, harass, har\u00adry, pester, plague, tor\u00adment, worry<\/span><\/p>\n

temp\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> t\u025bm\u00adp\u02c8te\u026a\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adthing that seduces or has the qual\u00adi\u00adty to seduce: lure, attrac\u00adtion, fascination,<\/span><\/p>\n

deed<\/span> di\u02d0d<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adthing that is done or per\u00adformed: act, action, doing<\/span><\/p>\n

at present<\/span> \u21d2 At this time, now.<\/p>\n

exer\u00adtion<\/span> \u026ag\u02c8z\u025c\u02d0\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>Ener\u00adgetic phys\u00adi\u00adcal action: activ\u00adi\u00adty, exercise<\/span><\/p>\n

unremit\u00adted<\/span> \u02cc\u028cn\u00adr\u026a\u02c8m\u026at\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Not relaxed or slack\u00adened: con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adous, inces\u00adsant, nev\u00ader-end\u00ading, cease\u00adless, per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal, unceas\u00ading, con\u00adstant, persistent<\/span><\/p>\n

com\u00adforter<\/span> \u02c8k\u028cm\u00adf\u0259t\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson who reduces the inten\u00adsi\u00adty (e.g., of fears<\/span>) and calms and paci\u00adfies: allay\u00ader, reliever<\/span><\/p>\n

alas<\/span> \u0259\u02c8l\u00e6s<\/span> interj<\/span> Used to express grief, pity, or con\u00adcern: sad\u00adly, unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, inopportunely<\/span><\/p>\n

brood<\/span> \u02c8bru\u02d0d\u026a\u014b<\/span> v <\/span>To think about (some\u00adthing<\/span>) per\u00adsis\u00adtent\u00adly or mood\u00adi\u00adly: think, obsess, muse, pon\u00adder, fret, meditate<\/span><\/p>\n

vengeance<\/span> \u02c8v\u025bn\u02a4\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>Inflic\u00adtion of pun\u00adish\u00adment in return for a wrong com\u00admit\u00adted: retal\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion, revenge, ret\u00adri\u00adbu\u00adtion, coun\u00adter\u00adac\u00adtion, coun\u00adter\u00adat\u00adtack, coun\u00adterblow, rec\u00adi\u00adp\u00adro\u00adca\u00adtion, reprisal, requital, <\/span><\/p>\n

assas\u00adsin<\/span> \u0259\u02c8s\u00e6s\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>A mur\u00adder\u00ader who kills by a sur\u00adprise attack and often is hired to do the deed: mur\u00adder\u00ader, killer, slay\u00ader, liq\u00aduida\u00adtor, executioner<\/span><\/p>\n

fes\u00adter<\/span> \u02c8f\u025bst\u0259r<\/span> v <\/span>To gen\u00ader\u00adate pus or form an ulcer: ulcer\u00adate, decay, become infect\u00aded, become inflamed, sup\u00adpu\u00adrate, putrefy<\/span><\/p>\n

mourn\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8m\u0254\u02d0n\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>State of sor\u00adrow over the death or depar\u00adture of a loved one: bereave\u00adment<\/span><\/p>\n

agi\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6\u02a4\u026a\u02c8te\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Extreme emo\u00adtion\u00adal dis\u00adtur\u00adbance: tur\u00admoil, commotion<\/span><\/p>\n

gush<\/span> \u0261\u028c\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To flow forth sud\u00adden\u00adly in great vol\u00adume: flow, run, rush, flood, pour<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cck\u0252n\u00ads\u0259\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The com\u00adfort you feel when con\u00adsoled in times of dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment: com\u00adfort, help, sup\u00adport, relief, ease, cheer<\/span><\/p>\n

irrepara\u00adble<\/span> \u026a\u02c8r\u025bp\u0259r\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Impos\u00adsi\u00adble to repair, rec\u00adti\u00adfy, or amend: irre\u00adversible, irrecov\u00ader\u00adable, incur\u00adable, irretrievable<\/span><\/p>\n

endeav\u00adour<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u025bv\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To attempt: essay, try, assay, seek<\/span><\/p>\n

heart\u00adfelt<\/span> \u02c8h\u0251\u02d0t\u00adf\u025blt<\/span> adj<\/span> Deeply or sin\u00adcere\u00adly felt: earnest, devout, dear, sin\u00adcere, honest<\/span><\/p>\n

untime\u00adly<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8\u00adta\u026am\u00adli<\/span> adj<\/span> Occur\u00adring too soon: pre\u00adma\u00adture, ear\u00adly, precocious<\/span><\/p>\n

radi\u00adant<\/span> \u02c8re\u026adi\u0259nt<\/span> adj<\/span> Char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by health, intense joy, hap\u00adpi\u00adness, etc: hap\u00adpy, glow\u00ading, joy\u00adful, gay, delighted<\/span><\/p>\n

mourn<\/span> \u02c8m\u0254\u02d0n<\/span> v <\/span>To feel or express grief or sor\u00adrow: grieve, lament, sor\u00adrow, suffer<\/span><\/p>\n

at rest<\/span> \u21d2 Said of one who has died.<\/p>\n

pang<\/span> p\u00e6\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>A sud\u00adden sharp feel\u00ading of pain or emo\u00adtion\u00adal dis\u00adtress: agony, anguish, spasm<\/span><\/p>\n

sod<\/span> s\u0252d<\/span> n <\/span>A sec\u00adtion of grass-cov\u00adered sur\u00adface soil held togeth\u00ader by mat\u00adted roots: turf<\/span><\/p>\n

soli\u00adtude<\/span> \u02c8s\u0252l\u026atju\u02d0d<\/span> n <\/span>The state or qual\u00adi\u00adty of being alone or remote from oth\u00aders: iso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span><\/p>\n

as soon as<\/span> \u21d2 Imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly, right after.<\/p>\n

cabri\u00ado\u00adlet<\/span> \u02c8k\u00e6bri\u0259le\u026a<\/span> n <\/span>A two-wheeled, one-horse car\u00adriage hav\u00ading a sin\u00adgle bench seat and a fold\u00ading top.<\/p>\n

farewell<\/span> \u02ccfe\u0259\u02c8w\u025bl<\/span> n <\/span>An acknowl\u00adedg\u00adment or expres\u00adsion of good\u00adwill at part\u00ading: good\u00adby, adieu<\/span><\/p>\n

melan\u00adcholy<\/span> \u02c8m\u025bl\u0259nk\u0259li<\/span> n <\/span>Sad\u00adness or depres\u00adsion of the spir\u00adits: depres\u00adsion, mis\u00adery, gloom, sorrow<\/span><\/p>\n

draw near<\/span> \u21d2 To get close to some\u00adone or some\u00adthing, either lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly or figuratively.<\/p>\n

slack\u00aden<\/span> \u02c8sl\u00e6k\u1d4an<\/span> v <\/span>To make or become slow\u00ader: slow down<\/span><\/p>\n

des\u00ado\u00adlate<\/span> \u02c8d\u025bs\u0259le\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>Cause exten\u00adsive destruc\u00adtion or ruin utter\u00adly: dev\u00adas\u00adtate, lay waste to, rav\u00adage, scourge, waste<\/span><\/p>\n

to take place<\/span> \u21d2 Hap\u00adpen, occur,<\/p>\n

by degrees<\/span> \u21d2 Grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly, by suc\u00adces\u00adsive steps or stages.<\/p>\n

alter\u00adation<\/span> \u02cc\u0252lt\u0259\u02c8re\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>An event that occurs when some\u00adthing pass\u00ades from one state or phase to anoth\u00ader: change, mod\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion<\/span><\/p>\n

tran\u00adquil\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8tr\u00e6\u014bk\u00adw\u026ali<\/span> adj<\/span> Free from anx\u00adi\u00adety, ten\u00adsion, or rest\u00adless\u00adness: com\u00adposed<\/span><\/p>\n

deci\u00adsive<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8sa\u026as\u026av<\/span> adj<\/span> Deter\u00admin\u00ading or hav\u00ading the pow\u00ader to deter\u00admine an out\u00adcome: con\u00adclu\u00adsive, fate\u00adful, determining<\/span><\/p>\n

dread<\/span> dr\u025bd<\/span> v <\/span>To fear some\u00adthing that will or might hap\u00adpen: fear<\/span><\/p>\n

Lau\u00adsanne<\/span> \u21d2 It is a hilly city sit\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded on the shores of Lake Gene\u00adva, about halfway between the Jura Moun\u00adtains and the Alps, and fac\u00ading the French town of \u00c9vian-les-Bains across the lake.<\/p>\n

placid<\/span> \u02c8pl\u00e6s\u026adli<\/span> adj<\/span> Calm or peace\u00adful and not excit\u00aded man\u00adner: tran\u00adquil<\/span><\/p>\n

Jura<\/span> \u21d2 Sub-alpine moun\u00adtain range sit\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded north of the West\u00adern Alps.The Jura moun\u00adtain range is main\u00adly locat\u00aded in France and Switzer\u00adland, the range con\u00adtin\u00adues north\u00adeast\u00adwards through north\u00adern Switzer\u00adland and Germany.<\/p>\n

Mont Blanc<\/span> \u21d2 The high\u00adest moun\u00adtain in the Alps and West\u00adern Europe.<\/p>\n

weep<\/span> wi\u02d0p<\/span> v pp<\/span>, pt<\/span> wept<\/span> To shed tears as an expres\u00adsion of grief or unhappiness.<\/p>\n

prog\u00adnos\u00adti\u00adcate<\/span> pr\u0259\u0261\u02c8n\u0252st\u026ake\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>Make a pre\u00addic\u00adtion about: fore\u00adcast, fore\u00adrun, fore\u00adshad\u00adow, fore\u00adtell, foretoken<\/span><\/p>\n

mock<\/span> m\u0252k<\/span> v <\/span>To treat with ridicule or con\u00adtempt: deride<\/span><\/p>\n

tedious<\/span> \u02c8ti\u02d0di\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> So lack\u00ading in inter\u00adest as to cause men\u00adtal weari\u00adness: bor\u00ading, dead\u00aden\u00ading, tire\u00adsome, weari\u00adsome, dull, slow<\/span><\/p>\n

dwell up\/on some\u00adone or some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To obses\u00adsive\u00adly think or wor\u00adry about something.<\/p>\n

com\u00adpar\u00ada\u00adtive<\/span> k\u0259m\u02c8p\u00e6r\u0259t\u026av<\/span> n <\/span>Esti\u00admat\u00aded by com\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adson; not absolute or com\u00adplete: rel\u00ada\u00adtive<\/span><\/p>\n

behold<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u0259\u028ald<\/span> pp<\/span>, pt<\/span> beheld<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u025bld<\/span> v <\/span>To appre\u00adhend some\u00adthing by use of the eyes: see, per\u00adceive<\/span><\/p>\n

thy<\/span> \u00f0a\u026a<\/span> pron<\/span> (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) The pos\u00adses\u00adsive case of thou (used as an attribu\u00adtive adjec\u00adtive before a noun begin\u00adning with a con\u00adso\u00adnant sound<\/span>): your<\/span><\/p>\n

draw near<\/span> \u21d2 To get close to some\u00adone or some\u00adthing, either lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly or figuratively.<\/p>\n

gloomi\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8\u0261lu\u02d0m\u026ali<\/span> adj<\/span> Caus\u00ading or pro\u00adduc\u00ading an atmos\u00adphere of melan\u00adcholy: depressin<\/span><\/p>\n

fore\u00adsee<\/span> f\u0254\u02d0\u02c8si\u02d0<\/span> v pt<\/span> fore\u00adsaw,<\/span> pp<\/span> forseen<\/span> To imag\u00adine or know as a prob\u00ada\u00adble occur\u00adrence: antic\u00adi\u00adpate, pre\u00addict, envi\u00adsion, foreknow<\/span><\/p>\n

obscure\u00adly<\/span> \u0259b\u02c8skj\u028a\u0259li<\/span> adj<\/span> In a not clear man\u00adner: vague\u00adly<\/span><\/p>\n

des\u00adtined<\/span> \u02c8d\u025bst\u026and<\/span> adj<\/span> Seem\u00ading cer\u00adtain to hap\u00adpen at some time in the future.<\/p>\n

wretched<\/span> \u02c8r\u025b\u02a7\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> In a deplorable state of dis\u00adtress or mis\u00adfor\u00adtune: mis\u00ader\u00adable<\/span><\/p>\n

proph\u00adesy<\/span> \u02c8pr\u0252f\u026asa\u026a<\/span> v <\/span>To fore\u00adtell future events: fore\u00adbode, pre\u00addict, prognosticate<\/span><\/p>\n

envi\u00adrons<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u00adva\u026a\u0259r\u0259nz<\/span> v pl<\/span> Dis\u00adtricts, sur\u00adround\u00ading a town: sur\u00adround\u00adings, environment<\/span><\/p>\n

league<\/span> li\u02d0\u0261<\/span> A unit of dis\u00adtance equal to 3.0 statute miles (4.8 kilo\u00adme\u00adters<\/span>).<\/p>\n

ascend<\/span> \u0259\u02c8s\u025bnd<\/span> v <\/span>To go or move upward: rise, climb, mount<\/span><\/p>\n

Mont Sal\u00eave<\/span> \u21d2 A moun\u00adtain of the French Pre\u00adalps locat\u00aded in the depart\u00adment of Haute-Savoie in Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes.<\/p>\n

Alps<\/span> \u21d2 One of the high\u00adest and most exten\u00adsive moun\u00adtain ranges in Europe.<\/p>\n

Savoy<\/span> \u21d2 A cul\u00adtur\u00adal-his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal region in the West\u00adern Alps.<\/p>\n

vivid<\/span> \u02c8v\u026av\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Very clear, pow\u00ader\u00adful, and detailed in your mind: clear, bright, intense<\/span><\/p>\n

daz\u00adzle<\/span> \u02c8d\u00e6z\u1d4al<\/span> v <\/span>To dim the vision of, espe\u00adcial\u00adly to blind with intense light: blind<\/span><\/p>\n

illu\u00admi\u00adnate<\/span> \u026a\u02c8lju\u02d0m\u026ane\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To make lighter or brighter; to sup\u00adply or bright\u00aden with light; light up.<\/p>\n

pitchy<\/span> \u02c8p\u026a\u02a7i<\/span> adj<\/span> Of the black\u00adest black; sim\u00adi\u00adlar to the col\u00ador of jet or coal: coal-black, jet, jet-black, sooty<\/span><\/p>\n

at once<\/span> \u21d2 With\u00adout delay; at the same time; immediately.<\/p>\n

promon\u00adto\u00adry<\/span> \u02c8pr\u0252m\u0259n\u00adtri<\/span> n <\/span>High ridge of land or rock jut\u00adting out into a body of water: fore\u00adland, headland<\/span><\/p>\n

Bel\u00adrive<\/span> \u21d2 A town itu\u00adat\u00aded with\u00adin the can\u00adton of Gene\u00adva, Switzer\u00adland. Now known as \u201cCol\u00adlonge-Bel\u00adlerive\u201d. The munic\u00adi\u00adpal\u00adi\u00adty derives its name from the French words \u201cbelle\u201d (beau\u00adti\u00adful<\/span>) and \u201crive\u201d (riv\u00ader<\/span>). <\/p>\n

enlight\u00adened<\/span> \u026an\u02c8la\u026at\u00adnd<\/span> adj<\/span> (Poet\u00adic<\/span>) To shed light on: illume, illu\u00admi\u00adnate, illu\u00admine, light<\/span><\/p>\n

tem\u00adpest<\/span> \u02c8t\u025bm\u00adp\u026ast<\/span> n <\/span>A vio\u00adlent wind\u00adstorm, fre\u00adquent\u00adly accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by rain, snow, or hail: storm, hur\u00adri\u00adcane, gale, tor\u00adna\u00addo, cyclone, typhoon<\/span><\/p>\n

ele\u00advate<\/span> \u02c8\u025bl\u026ave\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To move some\u00adthing to a high\u00ader place or posi\u00adtion from a low\u00ader one: lift, heave, hoist, raise<\/span><\/p>\n

dirge<\/span> d\u025c\u02d0\u02a4<\/span> n <\/span>A song or hymn of mourn\u00ading com\u00adposed or per\u00adformed as a memo\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal to a dead per\u00adson: coro\u00adnach, requiem, thren\u00adody, lament<\/span><\/p>\n

gloom<\/span> \u0261lu\u02d0m<\/span> n <\/span>Par\u00adtial or total dark\u00adness: dusk, dim\u00adness<\/span><\/p>\n

steal<\/span> sti\u02d0l<\/span> v pp<\/span> stole,<\/span> pt<\/span> stolen<\/span> To move, hap\u00adpen, or elapse stealth\u00adily or unob\u00adtru\u00adsive\u00adly: sneak, slip, creep, flit, tip\u00adtoe, slink,<\/span><\/p>\n

clump<\/span> kl\u028cmp<\/span> n <\/span>A thick group\u00ading, as of trees or bush\u00ades: bunch, clus\u00adter, clustering<\/span><\/p>\n

gaze<\/span> gre\u026az<\/span> v <\/span>To look steadi\u00adly, intent\u00adly, and with fixed atten\u00adtion: stare, look<\/span><\/p>\n

intent\u00adly<\/span> \u026an\u02c8t\u025bntli<\/span> adv<\/span> With strained or eager atten\u00adtion: atten\u00adtive\u00adly, close\u00adly, fixed\u00adly, steadi\u00adly, watchful<\/span><\/p>\n

gigan\u00adtic<\/span> \u02a4a\u026a\u02c8\u0261\u00e6n\u00adt\u026ak<\/span> adj<\/span> Exceed\u00ading\u00adly large in size, extent, or amount, espe\u00adcial\u00adly for its kind: colos\u00adsal, enor\u00admous, giant, huge<\/span><\/p>\n

stature<\/span> \u02c8st\u00e6\u02a7\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>The height of some\u00adthing, esp a per\u00adson or ani\u00admal when stand\u00ading: height, build, size, tallness<\/span><\/p>\n

defor\u00admi\u00adty<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8f\u0254\u02d0m\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>Gross ugli\u00adness or dis\u00adtor\u00adtion: dis\u00adfig\u00adure\u00adment, malformation<\/span><\/p>\n

aspect<\/span> \u02c8\u00e6sp\u025bkt<\/span> n <\/span>The way some\u00adthing or some\u00adone looks: appear\u00adance, look, mien<\/span><\/p>\n

hideous<\/span> \u02c8h\u026adi\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Repul\u00adsive, espe\u00adcial\u00adly to the sight: revolt\u00ading, ugly, repul\u00adsive, mon\u00adstrous, grotesque, grue\u00adsome, unsightly<\/span><\/p>\n

wretch<\/span> r\u025b\u02a7<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adone that you feel sor\u00adry for or annoyed with.<\/p>\n

filthy<\/span> \u02c8f\u026al\u03b8i<\/span> adj<\/span> Very objec\u00adtion\u00adable: nasty, obnox\u00adious, dis\u00adgust\u00ading, loath\u00adsome, odi\u00adous, repugnant<\/span><\/p>\n

d\u00e6mon<\/span> vari\u00adant of<\/span><\/span> demon<\/span> \u02c8di\u02d0m\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>An evil super\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal being: dev\u00adil<\/span><\/p>\n

shud\u00adder<\/span> \u02c8\u0283\u028cd\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To shiv\u00ader con\u00advul\u00adsive\u00adly: shake, trem\u00adble, quiver, quaver<\/span><\/p>\n

chat\u00adter<\/span> \u02c8\u02a7\u00e6t\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To click quick\u00adly and repeat\u00aded\u00adly: brat\u00adtle, clack, clat\u00adter, rattle<\/span><\/p>\n

in vain<\/span> \u21d2 To no avail; with\u00adout success.<\/p>\n

ascent<\/span> \u0259\u02c8s\u025bnt<\/span> n <\/span>An upward slope or incline: raise, rise, accliv\u00adi\u00adty, climb, upgrade<\/span><\/p>\n

impen\u00ade\u00adtra\u00adble<\/span> \u026am\u02c8p\u025bn\u026atr\u0259bl<\/span> adj<\/span> Inca\u00adpable of being pierced through or passed into: impass\u00adable, sol\u00adid, imper\u00advi\u00adous, thick, dense, her\u00admet\u00adic, imper\u00adme\u00adable, inviolable,<\/span><\/p>\n

revolve<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8v\u0252lv<\/span> v <\/span>To pon\u00adder or reflect on: con\u00adsid\u00ader, study, reflect, think about, delib\u00ader\u00adate, ponder,<\/span><\/p>\n

train<\/span> tre\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>A sequence or series, as of events, thoughts, etc: sequence, series, chain, succession<\/span><\/p>\n

elapse<\/span> \u026a\u02c8l\u00e6ps<\/span> v <\/span>(of time<\/span>) To slip or pass by: pass, go, go by, lapse, pass by, slip away<\/span><\/p>\n

to turn some\u00adone or some\u00adthing loose<\/span> \u21d2 To release or dis\u00adcharge some\u00adone or some\u00adthing, as from confinement.<\/p>\n

depraved<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8pre\u026avd<\/span> adj<\/span> Devi\u00adat\u00ading from what is con\u00adsid\u00adered moral or right or prop\u00ader or good: repro\u00adbate, per\u00adverse, per\u00advert\u00aded, corrupt<\/span><\/p>\n

car\u00adnage<\/span> \u02c8k\u0251\u02d0n\u026a\u02a4<\/span> n <\/span>Exten\u00adsive slaugh\u00adter, espe\u00adcial\u00adly of human beings in bat\u00adtle: mass mur\u00adder, mas\u00adsacre, slaugh\u00adter, butchery<\/span><\/p>\n

endow<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u00adda\u028a<\/span> v <\/span>To pro\u00advide with prop\u00ader\u00adty, income, gift or a source of income.<\/p>\n

pur\u00adpos\u00ades<\/span> \u02c8p\u025c\u02d0p\u0259s<\/span> n <\/span>Fixed inten\u00adtion in doing some\u00adthing: deter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion<\/span><\/p>\n

endue<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u00adju\u02d0<\/span> v <\/span>Give qual\u00adi\u00adties or abil\u00adi\u00adties to: endow, gift, indue, invest, empower<\/span><\/p>\n

precipice<\/span> \u02c8pr\u025bs\u026ap\u026as<\/span> n <\/span>An over\u00adhang\u00ading or extreme\u00adly steep mass of rock, such as a crag or the face of a cliff: cliff, crag, rock face<\/span><\/p>\n

delir\u00adi\u00adum<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8l\u026ari\u0259m<\/span> n <\/span>A state of mani\u00ada\u00adcal excite\u00adment char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by rest\u00adless behav\u00adior, con\u00adfused speech, and some\u00adtimes hal\u00adlu\u00adci\u00adna\u00adtions: fren\u00adzy, hys\u00adte\u00adria, craze, fury<\/span><\/p>\n

utter\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8\u028ct\u0259li<\/span> adv<\/span> Com\u00adplete\u00adly and with\u00adout qual\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion: com\u00adplete\u00adly, absolute\u00adly, entire\u00adly, totally<\/span><\/p>\n

rela\u00adtion<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>An act of nar\u00adra\u00adtion: recount\u00ading, telling<\/span><\/p>\n

rav\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8re\u026av\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>Deliri\u00adous, irra\u00adtional speech.<\/p>\n

insan\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> \u026an\u02c8s\u00e6n\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>Severe men\u00adtal ill\u00adness or derange\u00adment: men\u00adtal dis\u00adease, men\u00adtal ill\u00adness, psychopathy<\/span><\/p>\n

elude<\/span> \u026a\u02c8lu\u02d0d<\/span> v <\/span>To escape from some\u00adone or some\u00adthing, espe\u00adcial\u00adly by trick\u00ading them: escape, get away, break loose<\/span><\/p>\n

scale<\/span> \u02c8ske\u026al<\/span> v <\/span>To climb up or over: ascend<\/span><\/p>\n

over\u00adhang<\/span> \u0259\u028av\u0259\u02c8h\u00e6\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Hang\u00ading, sus\u00adpend\u00aded over, or extend\u00aded beyond.<\/p>\n

attend<\/span> \u0259\u02c8t\u025bnd<\/span> (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) To wait for; expect.<\/p>\n

indeli\u00adble<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u025bl\u026ab\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Impos\u00adsi\u00adble to remove, erase, or wash away: per\u00adma\u00adnent, last\u00ading, endur\u00ading, inde\u00adstruc\u00adtible, inerad\u00adi\u00adca\u00adble, inef\u00adface\u00adable, inex\u00adpun\u00adgi\u00adble, inextirpable <\/span><\/p>\n

Ingol\u00adstadt<\/span> \u21d2 An inde\u00adpen\u00addent city on the Danube in Upper Bavaria, Germany.<\/p>\n

ven\u00ader\u00ada\u00adble<\/span> \u02c8v\u025bn\u0259r\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Com\u00admand\u00ading respect by virtue of age, dig\u00adni\u00adty, char\u00adac\u00adter, or posi\u00adtion: revered, august, honourable,<\/span><\/p>\n

man\u00adtel<\/span> \u02c8m\u00e6ntl<\/span> n <\/span>The pro\u00adtrud\u00ading shelf over a fire\u00adplace: fire\u00adboard, man\u00adtel\u00adpiece, mantelshelf{mantel}<\/span><\/p>\n

cof\u00adfin<\/span> \u02c8k\u0252f\u026an<\/span> n <\/span>An oblong box in which a corpse is buried: cas\u00adket<\/span><\/p>\n

garb<\/span> \u0261\u0251\u02d0b<\/span> n <\/span>A dis\u00adtinc\u00adtive style or form of cloth\u00ading: dress<\/span><\/p>\n

rus\u00adtic<\/span> \u02c8r\u028cst\u026ak<\/span> adv<\/span> Of, relat\u00ading to, or typ\u00adi\u00adcal of coun\u00adtry life or coun\u00adtry peo\u00adple: rur\u00adal, coun\u00adtry, pas\u00adtoral, bucolic <\/span><\/p>\n

alle\u00advi\u00adate<\/span> \u0259\u02c8li\u02d0vie\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To make (pain, for exam\u00adple<\/span>) less intense or more bear\u00adable: com\u00adfort, ease, reduce, relieve, mod\u00ader\u00adate, smooth, dull, dimin\u00adish, soften<\/span><\/p>\n

revive<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8\u00adva\u026av<\/span> v <\/span>Give new life or ener\u00adgy to or restore from a depressed, inac\u00adtive, or unused state.<\/p>\n

per\u00adsua\u00adsion<\/span> p\u0259\u02c8swe\u026a\u0292\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A strong\u00adly held opin\u00adion: belief, con\u00advic\u00adtion, views, opin\u00adion, faith<\/span><\/p>\n

vain<\/span> ve\u026an<\/span> adj<\/span> Lack\u00ading sub\u00adstance or worth: futile, use\u00adless, point\u00adless, boot\u00adless, fruit\u00adless, futile, sleeveless<\/span><\/p>\n

tor\u00adment<\/span> t\u0254\u02d0\u02c8m\u025bnt<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to under\u00adgo great phys\u00adi\u00adcal pain or men\u00adtal anguish: tor\u00adture<\/span><\/p>\n

unre\u00adstrained<\/span> \u02cc\u028cn\u00adr\u026a\u02c8stre\u026and<\/span> adj<\/span> Not con\u00adtrolled or held in check; immod\u00ader\u00adate: uncon\u00adstrained, uncontrolled,<\/span><\/p>\n

mor\u00adtal<\/span> \u02c8m\u0254\u02d0tl<\/span> adj<\/span> Sub\u00adject to death; hav\u00ading a tran\u00adsi\u00adto\u00adry life: fatal<\/span><\/p>\n

frame<\/span> fre\u026am<\/span> v <\/span>(Obso\u00adlete<\/span>) The struc\u00adture or physique of a human or ani\u00admal body: shape; form<\/span><\/p>\n

des\u00ado\u00adlat\u00aded<\/span> \u02c8d\u025bs\u0259le\u026at\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Devoid of inhab\u00adi\u00adtants: desert\u00aded, for\u00adlorn, lonely<\/span><\/p>\n

minute\u00adly<\/span> ma\u026a\u02c8n\u00adju\u02d0tli<\/span> adv<\/span> In great detail.<\/p>\n

over\u00adtake<\/span> \u02cc\u0259\u028av\u0259\u02c8te\u026ak<\/span> v <\/span>To pass or do bet\u00adter than, after catch\u00ading up with: out\u00addo, exceed, surpass<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adfine<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8\u00adfa\u026an<\/span> v <\/span>Place lim\u00adits on extent or access: con\u00adstrain, restrict, lim\u00adit, bound<\/span><\/p>\n

notwith\u00adstand\u00ading<\/span> \u02ccn\u0252tw\u026a\u03b8\u02c8st\u00e6nd\u026a\u014b<\/span> prep<\/span> In spite of.<\/p>\n

ami\u00adable<\/span> \u02c8e\u026ami\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Pleas\u00adant and friend\u00adly: cor\u00addial, good-natured<\/span><\/p>\n

fond<\/span> f\u0252nd<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading or dis\u00adplay\u00ading warmth or affec\u00adtion: lov\u00ading, ten\u00adder, affec\u00adtion\u00adate, love\u00adsome, warm<\/span><\/p>\n

appalling<\/span> \u0259\u02c8p\u0254\u02d0l\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Caus\u00ading con\u00adster\u00adna\u00adtion or dis\u00admay: awful, ter\u00adri\u00adfy\u00ading, hor\u00adri\u00adble, fright\u00adful, hor\u00adri\u00adfy\u00ading, shock\u00ading, ter\u00adri\u00adble, alarm\u00ading, fright\u00aden\u00ading, scaring<\/span><\/p>\n

appar\u00adel<\/span> \u0259\u02c8p\u00e6r\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>Cloth\u00ading, espe\u00adcial\u00adly out\u00ader gar\u00adments: clothes, attire, cloth\u00ading, dress, garment<\/span><\/p>\n

mag\u00adis\u00adtrate<\/span> \u02c8m\u00e6\u02a4\u026astre\u026at<\/span> n <\/span>A judge or jus\u00adtice of a local or infe\u00adri\u00ador court: judge, jurispru\u00addent, jurist<\/span><\/p>\n

depo\u00adsi\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccd\u025bp\u0259\u02c8z\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>(Law<\/span>) The sworn state\u00adment of a wit\u00adness used in court in his or her absence: evi\u00addence, tes\u00adti\u00admo\u00adny, declaration<\/span><\/p>\n

appre\u00adhend<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6pr\u026a\u02c8h\u025bnd<\/span> v <\/span>To take into cus\u00adtody: arrest<\/span><\/p>\n

earnest\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8\u025c\u02d0n\u026astli<\/span> adv<\/span> In a seri\u00adous man\u00adner: seri\u00adous\u00adly<\/span><\/p>\n

mourn\u00adful<\/span> \u02c8m\u0254\u02d0n\u00adf\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Feel\u00ading or express\u00ading sor\u00adrow or grief: sor\u00adrow\u00adful<\/span><\/p>\n

papa<\/span> p\u0259\u02c8p\u0251\u02d0<\/span> n <\/span>An infor\u00admal term for a father.<\/p>\n

deprav\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8pr\u00e6v\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>Moral per\u00adver\u00adsion; impair\u00adment of virtue and moral prin\u00adci\u00adples: depra\u00adva\u00adtion, degen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adcy, putre\u00adfac\u00adtion, cor\u00adrup\u00adtion, immorality<\/span><\/p>\n

acquit<\/span> \u0259\u02c8k\u00adw\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To find not guilty of a crim\u00adi\u00adnal offense.<\/p>\n

cir\u00adcum\u00adstan\u00adtial<\/span> \u02ccs\u025c\u02d0k\u0259m\u02c8st\u00e6n\u0283\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Found\u00aded on con\u00addi\u00adtions or facts attend\u00ading an event and hav\u00ading some bear\u00ading on it: indi\u00adrect, con\u00adtin\u00adgent, inci\u00adden\u00adtal, infer\u00aden\u00adtial, pre\u00adsump\u00adtive, conjectural<\/span><\/p>\n

astound\u00ading<\/span> \u0259\u02c8s\u00adta\u028and\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> So sur\u00adpris\u00ading\u00adly impres\u00adsive as to stun or over\u00adwhelm: stag\u00adger\u00ading, stu\u00adpe\u00adfy\u00ading, astonishing<\/span><\/p>\n

vul\u00adgar<\/span> \u02c8v\u028cl\u0261\u0259<\/span> adj<\/span> Of bad taste (crude, offen\u00adsive, or unso\u00adphis\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded<\/span>)<\/p>\n

pre\u00adsump\u00adtion<\/span> pr\u026a\u02c8z\u028cm\u00adp\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>An assump\u00adtion that is tak\u00aden for grant\u00aded: giv\u00aden, precondition<\/span><\/p>\n

rash<\/span> \u02c8r\u00e6\u0283li<\/span> adj<\/span> Result\u00ading from or act\u00ading with ill-con\u00adsid\u00adered haste or bold\u00adness: reck\u00adless, hasty, impul\u00adsive, imprudent<\/span><\/p>\n

sur\u00adpass<\/span> s\u025c\u02d0\u02c8p\u0251\u02d0s<\/span> v <\/span>To go beyond in amount, extent, or degree; be greater than: exceed<\/span><\/p>\n

can\u00addour<\/span> \u02c8k\u00e6nd\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>The qual\u00adi\u00adty of being open and hon\u00adest: frank\u00adness, hon\u00adesty, sim\u00adplic\u00adi\u00adty, fair\u00adness, sin\u00adcer\u00adi\u00adty, impartiality<\/span><\/p>\n

vivac\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> v\u026a\u02c8v\u00e6s\u026ati<\/span> n <\/span>Char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by high spir\u00adits and ani\u00adma\u00adtion: ani\u00adma\u00adtion, bounce, live\u00adli\u00adness, spirit<\/span><\/p>\n

alas<\/span> \u0259\u02c8l\u00e6s<\/span> interj<\/span> Used to express grief, pity, or con\u00adcern: sad\u00adly, unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, inopportunely<\/span><\/p>\n

acquit\u00adtal<\/span> \u0259\u02c8k\u00adw\u026at\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>A judg\u00adment of not guilty.<\/p>\n

prej\u00adu\u00addiced<\/span> \u02c8pr\u025b\u02a4\u0259d\u026ast<\/span> adj<\/span> Hav\u00ading an opin\u00adion formed before\u00adhand, esp an unfavourable one based on inad\u00ade\u00adquate factsin\u00adtol\u00ader\u00adant of or dis\u00adlik\u00ading peo\u00adple of a spe\u00adcif\u00adic race, reli\u00adgion, etc: par\u00adtial, partisan<\/span><\/p>\n

par\u00adtial\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> \u02ccp\u0251\u02d0\u0283i\u02c8\u00e6l\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>An incli\u00adna\u00adtion to favor one group or view or opin\u00adion over alter\u00adna\u00adtives: incli\u00adna\u00adtion, ten\u00adden\u00adcy, disposition<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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We passed a few sad hours until eleven o\u2019clock, when the tri\u00adal was to com\u00admence. My father and the rest of the fam\u00adi\u00adly being oblig\u00aded to attend as wit\u00adness\u00ades, I accom\u00adpa\u00adnied them to the court. Dur\u00ading the whole of this wretched<\/span> mock\u00adery<\/span> of jus\u00adtice I suf\u00adfered liv\u00ading tor\u00adture. It was to be decid\u00aded whether the result of my curios\u00adi\u00adty and law\u00adless devices would cause the death of two of my fel\u00adlow beings: one a smil\u00ading babe full of inno\u00adcence and joy, the oth\u00ader far more dread\u00adful\u00adly<\/span> mur\u00addered, with every aggra\u00adva\u00adtion<\/span> of infamy<\/span> that could make the mur\u00adder mem\u00ado\u00adrable in hor\u00adror. Jus\u00adtine also was a girl of mer\u00adit and pos\u00adsessed qual\u00adi\u00adties which promised to ren\u00adder her life hap\u00adpy; now all was to be oblit\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded<\/span> in an igno\u00admin\u00adious<\/span> grave, and I the cause! A thou\u00adsand times rather would I have con\u00adfessed myself guilty of the crime ascribe<\/span> to Jus\u00adtine, but I was absent when it was com\u00admit\u00adted, and such a dec\u00adla\u00adra\u00adtion would have been con\u00adsid\u00adered as the rav\u00adings<\/span> of a mad\u00adman and would not have excul\u00adpat\u00aded<\/span> her who suf\u00adfered through me.<\/p>\n

The appear\u00adance of Jus\u00adtine was calm. She was dressed in mourn\u00ading<\/span>, and her coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span>, always engag\u00ading, was ren\u00addered, by the solem\u00adni\u00adty<\/span> of her feel\u00adings, exquis\u00adite\u00adly<\/span> beau\u00adti\u00adful. Yet she appeared con\u00adfi\u00addent in inno\u00adcence and did not trem\u00adble, although gazed<\/span> on and exe\u00adcrat\u00aded<\/span> by thou\u00adsands, for<\/span> all the kind\u00adness which her beau\u00adty might oth\u00ader\u00adwise have excit\u00aded was oblit\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded<\/span> in the minds of the spec\u00adta\u00adtors<\/span> by the imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion of the enor\u00admi\u00adty<\/span> she was sup\u00adposed to have com\u00admit\u00adted. She was tran\u00adquil<\/span>, yet her tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty<\/span> was evi\u00addent\u00adly con\u00adstrained; and as her con\u00adfu\u00adsion had before been adduced<\/span> as a proof of her guilt, she worked up her mind to an appear\u00adance of courage. When she entered the court she threw her eyes round it and quick\u00adly dis\u00adcov\u00adered where we were seat\u00aded. A tear seemed to<\/span> dim her eye when she saw us, but she quick\u00adly recov\u00adered her\u00adself, and a look of sor\u00adrow\u00adful affec\u00adtion seemed to<\/span> attest<\/span> her utter<\/span> guiltlessness.<\/p>\n

The tri\u00adal began, and after the advo\u00adcate against her had stat\u00aded the charge, sev\u00ader\u00adal wit\u00adness\u00ades were called. Sev\u00ader\u00adal strange facts com\u00adbined against her, which might have stag\u00adgered<\/span> any\u00adone who had not such proof of her inno\u00adcence as I had. She had been out the whole of the night on which the mur\u00adder had been com\u00admit\u00adted and towards morn\u00ading had been per\u00adceived by a mar\u00adket-woman not far from the spot where the body of the mur\u00addered child had been after\u00adwards found. The woman asked her what she did there, but she looked very strange\u00adly and only returned a con\u00adfused and unin\u00adtel\u00adli\u00adgi\u00adble<\/span> answer. She returned to the house about eight o\u2019clock, and when one inquired where she had passed the night, she replied that she had been look\u00ading for the child and demand\u00aded earnest\u00adly<\/span> if any\u00adthing had been heard con\u00adcern\u00ading him. When shown the body, she fell into vio\u00adlent hys\u00adter\u00adics<\/span> and kept her bed for sev\u00ader\u00adal days. The pic\u00adture was then pro\u00adduced which the ser\u00advant had found in her pock\u00adet; and when Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, in a fal\u00adter\u00ading<\/span> voice, proved that it was the same which, an hour before the child had been missed, she had placed round his neck, a mur\u00admur<\/span> of hor\u00adror and indig\u00adna\u00adtion<\/span> filled the court.<\/p>\n

Jus\u00adtine was called on<\/span> for her defence. As the tri\u00adal had pro\u00adceed\u00aded, her coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> had altered. Sur\u00adprise, hor\u00adror, and mis\u00adery were strong\u00adly expressed. Some\u00adtimes she strug\u00adgled with her tears, but when she was desired to plead<\/span>, she col\u00adlect\u00aded her pow\u00aders and spoke in an audi\u00adble<\/span> although vari\u00adable voice.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod knows,\u201d she said, \u201chow entire\u00adly I am inno\u00adcent. But I do not pre\u00adtend that my protes\u00adta\u00adtions<\/span> should acquit<\/span> me; I rest my inno\u00adcence on a plain and sim\u00adple expla\u00adna\u00adtion of the facts which have been adduced<\/span> against me, and I hope the char\u00adac\u00adter I have always borne will incline<\/span> my judges to a favourable inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion where any cir\u00adcum\u00adstance appears doubt\u00adful or suspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n

She then relat\u00aded<\/span> that, by the per\u00admis\u00adsion of Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, she had passed the evening of the night on which the mur\u00adder had been com\u00admit\u00adted at the house of an aunt at Ch\u00eane, a vil\u00adlage sit\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded at about a league<\/span> from Gene\u00adva. On her return, at about nine o\u2019clock, she met a man who asked her if she had seen any\u00adthing of the child who was lost. She was alarmed by this account<\/span> and passed sev\u00ader\u00adal hours in look\u00ading for him, when the gates of Gene\u00adva were shut, and she was forced to remain sev\u00ader\u00adal hours of the night in a barn belong\u00ading to a cot\u00adtage, being unwill\u00ading to call up the inhab\u00adi\u00adtants<\/span>, to whom she was well known. Most of the night she spent here watch\u00ading; towards morn\u00ading she believed that she slept for a few min\u00adutes; some steps dis\u00adturbed her, and she awoke. It was dawn, and she quit\u00adted her asy\u00adlum<\/span>, that she might again endeav\u00adour<\/span> to find my broth\u00ader. If she had gone near the spot where his body lay, it was with\u00adout her knowl\u00adedge. That she had been bewil\u00addered<\/span> when ques\u00adtioned by the mar\u00adket-woman was not sur\u00adpris\u00ading, since she had passed a sleep\u00adless night and the fate of poor William was yet uncer\u00adtain. Con\u00adcern\u00ading the pic\u00adture she could give no account<\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know,\u201d con\u00adtin\u00adued the unhap\u00adpy vic\u00adtim, \u201chow heav\u00adi\u00adly and fatal\u00adly this one cir\u00adcum\u00adstance weighs against me, but I have no pow\u00ader of explain\u00ading it; and when I have expressed my utter<\/span> igno\u00adrance, I am only left to con\u00adjec\u00adture<\/span> con\u00adcern\u00ading the prob\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adties by which it might have been placed in my pock\u00adet. But here also I am checked<\/span>. I believe that I have no ene\u00admy on earth, and none sure\u00adly would have been so wicked as to destroy me wan\u00adton\u00adly<\/span>. Did the mur\u00adder\u00ader place it there? I know of no oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty afford\u00aded him for so doing; or, if I had, why should he have stolen the jew\u00adel, to part with it again so soon?<\/p>\n

\u201cI com\u00admit my cause to the jus\u00adtice of my judges, yet I see no room for hope. I beg per\u00admis\u00adsion to have a few wit\u00adness\u00ades exam\u00adined con\u00adcern\u00ading my char\u00adac\u00adter, and if their tes\u00adti\u00admo\u00adny shall not over\u00adweigh my sup\u00adposed guilt, I must be con\u00addemned, although I would pledge<\/span> my sal\u00adva\u00adtion on my innocence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sev\u00ader\u00adal wit\u00adness\u00ades were called who had known her for many years, and they spoke well of her; but fear and hatred of the crime of which they sup\u00adposed her guilty ren\u00addered them tim\u00ado\u00adrous<\/span> and unwill\u00ading to come for\u00adward. Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth saw even this last resource, her excel\u00adlent dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions and irre\u00adproach\u00adable<\/span> con\u00adduct, about to<\/span> fail the accused, when, although vio\u00adlent\u00adly agi\u00adtat\u00aded<\/span>, she desired per\u00admis\u00adsion to address the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am,\u201d said she, \u201cthe cousin of the unhap\u00adpy child who was mur\u00addered, or rather his sis\u00adter, for I was edu\u00adcat\u00aded by and have lived with his par\u00adents ever since and even long before his birth. It may there\u00adfore be judged inde\u00adcent<\/span> in me to come for\u00adward on this occa\u00adsion, but when I see a fel\u00adlow crea\u00adture about to<\/span> per\u00adish<\/span> through the cow\u00adardice<\/span> of her pre\u00adtend\u00aded friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her char\u00adac\u00adter. I am well acquaint\u00aded with the accused. I have lived in the same house with her, at one time for five and at anoth\u00ader for near\u00adly two years. Dur\u00ading all that peri\u00adod she appeared to me the most ami\u00adable<\/span> and benev\u00ado\u00adlent<\/span> of human crea\u00adtures. She nursed Madame Franken\u00adstein, my aunt, in her last ill\u00adness, with the great\u00adest affec\u00adtion and care and after\u00adwards attend\u00aded her own moth\u00ader dur\u00ading a tedious<\/span> ill\u00adness, in a man\u00adner that excit\u00aded the admi\u00adra\u00adtion of all who knew her, after which she again lived in my uncle\u2019s house, where she was beloved by all the fam\u00adi\u00adly. She was warm\u00adly attached<\/span> to the child who is now dead and act\u00aded towards him like a most affec\u00adtion\u00adate moth\u00ader. For my own part, I do not hes\u00adi\u00adtate to say that, notwith\u00adstand\u00ading<\/span> all the evi\u00addence pro\u00adduced against her, I believe and rely on her per\u00adfect inno\u00adcence. She had no temp\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> for such an action; as to the bauble<\/span> on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnest\u00adly<\/span> desired it, I should have will\u00ading\u00adly giv\u00aden it to her, so much do I esteem<\/span> and val\u00adue her.\u201d<\/p>\n

A mur\u00admur<\/span> of appro\u00adba\u00adtion<\/span> fol\u00adlowed Elizabeth\u2019s sim\u00adple and pow\u00ader\u00adful appeal, but it was excit\u00aded by her gen\u00ader\u00adous inter\u00adfer\u00adence, and not in <\/span>favour of<\/span> poor Jus\u00adtine, on whom the pub\u00adlic indig\u00adna\u00adtion<\/span> was turned with renewed vio\u00adlence, charg\u00ading her with the black\u00adest ingrat\u00adi\u00adtude. She her\u00adself wept<\/span> as Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth spoke, but she did not answer. My own agi\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> and anguish<\/span> was extreme dur\u00ading the whole tri\u00adal. I believed in her inno\u00adcence; I knew it. Could the d\u00e6mon<\/span> who had (I did not for a minute doubt) mur\u00addered my broth\u00ader also in his hell\u00adish<\/span> sport have betrayed<\/span> the inno\u00adcent to death and ignominy<\/span>? I could not sus\u00adtain the hor\u00adror of my sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion, and when I per\u00adceived that the pop\u00adu\u00adlar voice and the coun\u00adte\u00adnances<\/span> of the judges had already con\u00addemned my unhap\u00adpy vic\u00adtim, I rushed out of the court in agony. The tor\u00adtures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sus\u00adtained by inno\u00adcence, but the fangs<\/span> of remorse<\/span> tore my bosom<\/span> and would not for\u00adgo<\/span> their hold.<\/p>\n

I passed a night of unmin\u00adgled<\/span> wretched\u00adness<\/span>. In the morn\u00ading I went to the court; my lips and throat were parched<\/span>. I dared not ask the fatal ques\u00adtion, but I was known, and the offi\u00adcer guessed the cause of my vis\u00adit. The bal\u00adlots<\/span> had been thrown; they were all black, and Jus\u00adtine was condemned.<\/p>\n

I can\u00adnot pre\u00adtend to describe what I then felt. I had before expe\u00adri\u00adenced sen\u00adsa\u00adtions of hor\u00adror, and I have endeav\u00adoured<\/span> to bestow<\/span> upon them ade\u00adquate expres\u00adsions, but words can\u00adnot con\u00advey an idea of the heart-sick\u00aden\u00ading<\/span> despair that I then endured. The per\u00adson to whom I addressed myself added that Jus\u00adtine had already con\u00adfessed her guilt. \u201cThat evi\u00addence,\u201d he observed, \u201cwas hard\u00adly required in so glar\u00ading<\/span> a case, but I am glad of it, and, indeed, none of our judges like to con\u00addemn a crim\u00adi\u00adnal upon cir\u00adcum\u00adstan\u00adtial<\/span> evi\u00addence, be it ever so deci\u00adsive<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was strange and unex\u00adpect\u00aded intel\u00adli\u00adgence<\/span>; what could it mean? Had my eyes deceived<\/span> me? And was I real\u00adly as mad as the whole world would believe me to be if I dis\u00adclosed the object of my sus\u00adpi\u00adcions? I has\u00adtened to return home, and Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth eager\u00adly demand\u00aded the result.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy cousin,\u201d replied I, \u201cit is decid\u00aded as you may have expect\u00aded; all judges had rather that ten inno\u00adcent should suf\u00adfer than that one guilty should escape. But she has confessed.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was a dire<\/span> blow to poor Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, who had relied with firm\u00adness upon Justine\u2019s inno\u00adcence. \u201cAlas<\/span>!\u201d said she. \u201cHow shall I ever again believe in human good\u00adness? Jus\u00adtine, whom I loved and esteemed<\/span> as my sis\u00adter, how could she put on those smiles of inno\u00adcence only to betray<\/span>? Her mild eyes seemed inca\u00adpable of any sever\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> or guile<\/span>, and yet she has com\u00admit\u00adted a murder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon after we heard that the poor vic\u00adtim had expressed a desire to see my cousin. My father wished her not to go but said that he left it to her own judg\u00adment and feel\u00adings to decide. \u201cYes,\u201d said Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, \u201cI will go, although she is guilty; and you, Vic\u00adtor, shall accom\u00adpa\u00adny me; I can\u00adnot go alone.\u201d The idea of this vis\u00adit was tor\u00adture to me, yet I could not refuse.<\/p>\n

We entered the gloomy<\/span> prison cham\u00adber and beheld<\/span> Jus\u00adtine sit\u00adting on some straw at the far\u00adther<\/span> end; her hands were man\u00ada\u00adcled<\/span>, and her head rest\u00aded on her knees. She rose on see\u00ading us enter, and when we were left alone with her, she threw her\u00adself at the feet of Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, weep\u00ading<\/span> bit\u00adter\u00adly. My cousin wept<\/span> also.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, Jus\u00adtine!\u201d said she. \u201cWhy did you rob me of my last con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span>? I relied on your inno\u00adcence, and although I was then very wretched<\/span>, I was not so mis\u00ader\u00adable as I am now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd do you also believe that I am so very, very wicked? Do you also join with my ene\u00admies to crush me, to con\u00addemn me as a mur\u00adder\u00ader?\u201d Her voice was suf\u00adfo\u00adcat\u00aded<\/span> with sobs<\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201cRise, my poor girl,\u201d said Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth; \u201cwhy do you kneel<\/span>, if you are inno\u00adcent? I am not one of your ene\u00admies, I believed you guilt\u00adless, notwith\u00adstand\u00ading<\/span> every evi\u00addence, until I heard that you had your\u00adself declared your guilt. That report, you say, is false; and be assured, dear Jus\u00adtine, that noth\u00ading can shake my con\u00adfi\u00addence in you for a moment, but<\/span> your own confession.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI did con\u00adfess, but I con\u00adfessed a lie. I con\u00adfessed, that I might obtain abso\u00adlu\u00adtion<\/span>; but now that false\u00adhood lies heav\u00adier at my heart than all my oth\u00ader sins. The God of heav\u00aden for\u00adgive me! Ever since I was con\u00addemned, my con\u00adfes\u00adsor<\/span> has besieged<\/span> me; he threat\u00adened and men\u00adaced<\/span>, until I almost began to think that I was the mon\u00adster that he said I was. He threat\u00adened excom\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion<\/span> and hell fire in my last moments if I con\u00adtin\u00adued obdu\u00adrate<\/span>. Dear lady, I had none to sup\u00adport me; all looked on me as a wretch<\/span> doomed to ignominy<\/span> and perdi\u00adtion<\/span>. What could I do? In an evil hour I sub\u00adscribed to a lie; and now only am I tru\u00adly miserable.\u201d<\/p>\n

She paused, weep\u00ading<\/span>, and then con\u00adtin\u00adued, \u201cI thought with hor\u00adror, my sweet lady, that you should believe your Jus\u00adtine, whom your blessed aunt had so high\u00adly hon\u00adoured, and whom you loved, was a crea\u00adture capa\u00adble of a crime which none but<\/span> the dev\u00adil him\u00adself could have per\u00adpe\u00adtrat\u00aded<\/span>. Dear William! dear\u00adest blessed child! I soon shall see you again in heav\u00aden, where we shall all be hap\u00adpy; and that con\u00adsoles me, going as I am to suf\u00adfer ignominy<\/span> and death.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, Jus\u00adtine! For\u00adgive me for hav\u00ading for one moment dis\u00adtrust\u00aded you. Why did you con\u00adfess? But do not mourn<\/span>, dear girl. Do not fear. I will pro\u00adclaim, I will prove your inno\u00adcence. I will melt the stony hearts of your ene\u00admies by my tears and prayers. You shall not die! You, my playfel\u00adlow<\/span>, my com\u00adpan\u00adion, my sis\u00adter, per\u00adish<\/span> on the scaf\u00adfold<\/span>! No! No! I nev\u00ader could sur\u00advive so hor\u00adri\u00adble a misfortune.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jus\u00adtine shook her head mourn\u00adful\u00adly<\/span>. \u201cI do not fear to die,\u201d she said; \u201cthat pang<\/span> is past. God rais\u00ades my weak\u00adness and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bit\u00adter world; and if you remem\u00adber me and think of me as of one unjust\u00adly con\u00addemned, I am resigned to the fate await\u00ading me. Learn from me, dear lady, to sub\u00admit in patience to the will of heaven!\u201d<\/p>\n

Dur\u00ading this con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion I had retired to a cor\u00adner of the prison room, where I could con\u00adceal<\/span> the hor\u00adrid<\/span> anguish<\/span> that pos\u00adsessed me. Despair! Who dared talk of that? The poor vic\u00adtim, who on the mor\u00adrow<\/span> was to pass the awful bound\u00adary between life and death, felt not, as I did, such deep and bit\u00adter agony. I gnashed<\/span> my teeth and ground them togeth\u00ader, utter\u00ading<\/span> a groan<\/span> that came from my inmost<\/span> soul. Jus\u00adtine start\u00aded. When she saw who it was, she approached me and said, \u201cDear sir, you are very kind to vis\u00adit me; you, I hope, do not believe that I am guilty?\u201d<\/p>\n

I could not answer. \u201cNo, Jus\u00adtine,\u201d said Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth; \u201che is more con\u00advinced of your inno\u00adcence than I was, for even when he heard that you had con\u00adfessed, he did not cred\u00adit it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI tru\u00adly thank him. In these last moments I feel the sin\u00adcer\u00adest grat\u00adi\u00adtude towards those who think of me with kind\u00adness. How sweet is the affec\u00adtion of oth\u00aders to such a wretch<\/span> as I am! It removes more than half my mis\u00adfor\u00adtune, and I feel as if I could die in peace now that my inno\u00adcence is acknowl\u00adedged by you, dear lady, and your cousin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus the poor suf\u00adfer\u00ader tried to com\u00adfort oth\u00aders and her\u00adself. She indeed gained the res\u00adig\u00adna\u00adtion<\/span> she desired. But I, the true mur\u00adder\u00ader, felt the nev\u00ader-dying worm alive in my bosom<\/span>, which allowed of no hope or con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span>. Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth also wept<\/span> and was unhap\u00adpy, but hers also was the mis\u00adery of inno\u00adcence, which, like a cloud that pass\u00ades over the fair moon, for a while hides but can\u00adnot tar\u00adnish<\/span> its bright\u00adness. Anguish<\/span> and despair had pen\u00ade\u00adtrat\u00aded into the core of my heart; I bore a hell with\u00adin me which noth\u00ading could extin\u00adguish<\/span>. We stayed sev\u00ader\u00adal hours with Jus\u00adtine, and it was with great dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty that Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth could tear her\u00adself away. \u201cI wish,\u201d cried she, \u201cthat I were to die with you; I can\u00adnot live in this world of misery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jus\u00adtine assumed an air of cheer\u00adful\u00adness, while she with dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty repressed<\/span> her bit\u00adter tears. She embraced Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth and said in a voice of half-sup\u00adpressed emo\u00adtion, \u201cFarewell<\/span>, sweet lady, dear\u00adest Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, my beloved and only friend; may heav\u00aden, in its boun\u00adty<\/span>, bless and pre\u00adserve you; may this be the last mis\u00adfor\u00adtune that you will ever suf\u00adfer! Live, and be hap\u00adpy, and make oth\u00aders so.\u201d<\/p>\n

And on the mor\u00adrow<\/span> Jus\u00adtine died. Elizabeth\u2019s heart-rend\u00ading<\/span> elo\u00adquence<\/span> failed to move the judges from their set\u00adtled con\u00advic\u00adtion in the crim\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adi\u00adty of the saint\u00adly suf\u00adfer\u00ader. My pas\u00adsion\u00adate and indig\u00adnant<\/span> appeals were lost upon them. And when I received their cold answers and heard the harsh, unfeel\u00ading rea\u00adson\u00ading of these men, my pur\u00adposed avow\u00adal<\/span> died away on my lips. Thus I might pro\u00adclaim myself a mad\u00adman, but not revoke<\/span> the sen\u00adtence passed upon my wretched<\/span> vic\u00adtim. She per\u00adished<\/span> on the scaf\u00adfold<\/span> as a mur\u00adder\u00adess<\/span>!<\/p>\n

From the tor\u00adtures of my own heart, I turned to con\u00adtem\u00adplate the deep and voice\u00adless grief of my Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth. This also was my doing! And my father\u2019s woe<\/span>, and the des\u00ado\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> of that late so smil\u00ading home all was the work of my thrice<\/span>-accursed<\/span> hands! Ye<\/span> weep<\/span>, unhap\u00adpy ones, but these are not your last tears! Again shall you raise the funer\u00adal wail<\/span>, and the sound of your lamen\u00adta\u00adtions<\/span> shall again and again be heard! Franken\u00adstein, your son, your kins\u00adman<\/span>, your ear\u00adly, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mir\u00adrored also in your dear coun\u00adte\u00adnances<\/span>, who would fill the air with bless\u00adings and spend his life in serv\u00ading you\u2014he bids you weep<\/span>, to shed count\u00adless tears; hap\u00adpy beyond his hopes, if thus inex\u00adorable<\/span> fate be sat\u00adis\u00adfied, and if the destruc\u00adtion pause before the peace of the grave have suc\u00adceed\u00aded to your sad tor\u00adments<\/span>!<\/p>\n

Thus spoke my prophet\u00adic<\/span> soul, as, torn by remorse<\/span>, hor\u00adror, and despair, I beheld<\/span> those I loved spend vain<\/span> sor\u00adrow upon the graves of William and Jus\u00adtine, the first hap\u00adless<\/span> vic\u00adtims to my unhal\u00adlowed<\/span> arts.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Chap\u00adter 9<\/p>\n

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wretched<\/span> \u02c8r\u025b\u02a7\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> In a deplorable state of dis\u00adtress or mis\u00adfor\u00adtune: mis\u00ader\u00adable<\/span><\/p>\n

mock\u00adery<\/span> \u02c8m\u0252k\u0259ri<\/span> n <\/span>A spe\u00adcif\u00adic act of ridicule: taunt, deri\u00adsion, ridicule<\/span><\/p>\n

dread\u00adful\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8dr\u025bd\u00adf\u1d4ali<\/span> adv<\/span> In an extreme\u00adly bad, unpleas\u00adant, or dis\u00adtaste\u00adful way: ter\u00adri\u00adbly, bad\u00adly, hor\u00adri\u00adbly, awfully<\/span><\/p>\n

aggra\u00adva\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6\u0261r\u0259\u02c8ve\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Unfriend\u00adly behav\u00adior that caus\u00ades anger or resent\u00adment: provo\u00adca\u00adtion, irritation<\/span><\/p>\n

infamy<\/span> \u02c8\u026an\u00adf\u0259\u00admi<\/span> n <\/span>A state of extreme dis\u00adhon\u00ador: dis\u00adre\u00adpute, shame<\/span><\/p>\n

oblit\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded<\/span> \u0259\u02c8bl\u026at\u0259re\u026at\u026ad<\/span> v <\/span>To remove or destroy com\u00adplete\u00adly so as to leave no trace: wipe out, kill, efface<\/span><\/p>\n

igno\u00admin\u00adious<\/span> \u02cc\u026a\u0261n\u0259\u02c8m\u026ani\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by or deserv\u00ading shame or dis\u00adgrace: dis\u00adcred\u00aditable, dis\u00adgrace\u00adful, dis\u00adhon\u00ador\u00adable, dis\u00adrep\u00adutable, oppro\u00adbri\u00adous, shameful<\/span><\/p>\n

ascribe<\/span> \u0259s\u02c8kra\u026ab<\/span> v <\/span>Attribute or cred\u00adit to: attribute, impute, assign<\/span><\/p>\n

rav\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8re\u026av\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>Deliri\u00adous, irra\u00adtional speech.<\/p>\n

excul\u00adpate<\/span> \u02c8\u025bk\u00adsk\u028clpe\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>Pro\u00adnounce not guilty of crim\u00adi\u00adnal charges: acquit, assoil, exon\u00ader\u00adate, dis\u00adcharge, clear<\/span><\/p>\n

mourn\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8m\u0254\u02d0n\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>State of sor\u00adrow over the death or depar\u00adture of a loved one: bereave\u00adment<\/span><\/p>\n

coun\u00adte\u00adnance<\/span> \u02c8ka\u028an\u00adt\u1d4an\u0259ns<\/span> n <\/span>The appear\u00adance con\u00adveyed by a person\u2019s face: vis\u00adage<\/span><\/p>\n

solem\u00adni\u00adty<\/span> s\u0259\u02c8l\u025bm\u00adn\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>A trait of dig\u00adni\u00adfied seri\u00adous\u00adness: sedate\u00adness, solem\u00adness, staidness<\/span><\/p>\n

exquis\u00adite\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8\u025bk\u00adskw\u026az\u026atli<\/span> adv<\/span> In a del\u00adi\u00adcate man\u00adner: del\u00adi\u00adcate\u00adly, fine, finely<\/span><\/p>\n

gaze<\/span> gre\u026az<\/span> v <\/span>To look steadi\u00adly, intent\u00adly, and with fixed atten\u00adtion: stare, look<\/span><\/p>\n

exe\u00adcrat\u00aded<\/span> \u02c8\u025bk\u00ads\u026akre\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To regard with extreme dis\u00adlike and hos\u00adtil\u00adi\u00adty: abhor, abom\u00adi\u00adnate, despise, detest, hate, loathe<\/span><\/p>\n

for<\/span> f\u0254\u02d0<\/span> cj<\/span> Because; since.<\/p>\n

spec\u00adta\u00adtor<\/span> sp\u025bk\u02c8te\u026at\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A close observ\u00ader; some\u00adone who looks at some\u00adthing: look\u00ader, view\u00ader, watch\u00ader, witness<\/span><\/p>\n

enor\u00admi\u00adty<\/span> \u026a\u02c8n\u0254\u02d0m\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>A mon\u00adstrous offense or evil: out\u00adra\u00adgeous\u00adness<\/span><\/p>\n

tran\u00adquil<\/span> \u02c8tr\u00e6\u014bk\u00adw\u026al<\/span> adj<\/span> Calm, peace\u00adful or qui\u00adet: placid, unruf\u00adfled, still, qui\u00adet, smooth<\/span><\/p>\n

tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty<\/span> tr\u00e6\u014b\u02c8k\u00adw\u026al\u026ati<\/span> n <\/span>A state of peace and qui\u00adet: quiet\u00adness, relax\u00adation, repose, calmness<\/span><\/p>\n

adduce<\/span> \u0259\u02c8d\u00adju\u02d0s<\/span> v <\/span>Advance evi\u00addence for: abduce, men\u00adtion, offer, name, present, advance, quote, allege, cite, designate<\/span><\/p>\n

seemed to<\/span> \u21d2 To appear to one\u2019s own mind, sens\u00ades, etc.<\/p>\n

attest<\/span> \u0259\u02c8t\u025bst<\/span> v <\/span>Pro\u00advide evi\u00addence for; stand as proof of: cer\u00adti\u00adfy, evi\u00addence, man\u00adi\u00adfest, demonstrate<\/span><\/p>\n

utter<\/span> \u02c8\u028ct\u0259<\/span> adj<\/span> Com\u00adplete and absolute.<\/p>\n

stag\u00adger<\/span> \u02c8st\u00e6\u0261\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To aston\u00adish or shock: over\u00adwhelm, sweep over, whelm, over\u00adpow\u00ader, over\u00adtake, overcome <\/span><\/p>\n

unin\u00adtel\u00adli\u00adgi\u00adble<\/span> \u02cc\u028cn\u026an\u02c8t\u025bl\u026a\u02a4\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Not able to be under\u00adstood: uncom\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsi\u00adble, incomprehensibl<\/span><\/p>\n

earnest\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8\u025c\u02d0n\u026astli<\/span> adv<\/span> In a seri\u00adous man\u00adner: seri\u00adous\u00adly, truly<\/span><\/p>\n

alas<\/span> \u0259\u02c8l\u00e6s<\/span> interj<\/span> Used to express grief, pity, or con\u00adcern: sad\u00adly, unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, inopportunely<\/span><\/p>\n

hys\u00adter\u00adics<\/span> h\u026a\u02c8st\u025br\u026aks<\/span> n pl<\/span> A fit of uncon\u00adtrol\u00adlable laugh\u00ading or crying.<\/p>\n

fal\u00adter\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8f\u0254\u02d0lt\u0259r\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Hes\u00adi\u00adtat\u00ading, uncer\u00adtain, staggering.<\/p>\n

mur\u00admur<\/span> \u02c8m\u025c\u02d0m\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>A low, indis\u00adtinct, con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adous sound: mut\u00adter, muttering<\/span><\/p>\n

indig\u00adna\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u026and\u026a\u0261\u02c8ne\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Anger aroused by some\u00adthing per\u00adceived as unjust, mean, or unwor\u00adthy: resent\u00adment, anger, rage, fury, wrath, ire<\/span><\/p>\n

to call on<\/span> \u21d2 To order or request to under\u00adtake a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar activity.<\/p>\n

plead<\/span> pli\u02d0d<\/span> v <\/span>To declare one\u00adself to be guilty or not guilty in answer to the charge: allege, claim, argue, main\u00adtain, assert<\/span><\/p>\n

audi\u00adble<\/span> \u02c8\u0254\u02d0d\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Capa\u00adble of being heard; loud enough to be heard: hear\u00adable<\/span><\/p>\n

protes\u00adta\u00adtions<\/span> \u02ccpr\u0252t\u025bs\u02c8te\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A for\u00admal and solemn dec\u00adla\u00adra\u00adtion of objec\u00adtion: protest, objec\u00adtion<\/span><\/p>\n

acquit<\/span> \u0259\u02c8k\u00adw\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To find not guilty of a crim\u00adi\u00adnal offense.<\/p>\n

incline<\/span> \u026an\u02c8k\u00adla\u026an<\/span> v <\/span>To have a men\u00adtal ten\u00adden\u00adcy, pref\u00ader\u00adence, etc.: be dis\u00adposed<\/span><\/p>\n

relate<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8le\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To give an account of (an occur\u00adrence, for exam\u00adple<\/span>): nar\u00adrate<\/span><\/p>\n

league<\/span> li\u02d0\u0261<\/span> A unit of dis\u00adtance equal to 3.0 statute miles (4.8 kilo\u00adme\u00adters<\/span>).<\/p>\n

account<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6pr\u026a\u02c8h\u025bn\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A descrip\u00adtion or expla\u00adna\u00adtion of some\u00adthing that has happened.<\/p>\n

inhab\u00adi\u00adtant<\/span> \u026an\u02c8h\u00e6b\u026at\u1d4ant<\/span> n <\/span>A per\u00adson or ani\u00admal that lives in or occu\u00adpies a place: res\u00adi\u00addent, dweller<\/span><\/p>\n

asy\u00adlum<\/span> \u0259\u02c8sa\u026al\u0259m<\/span> n <\/span>A place offer\u00ading pro\u00adtec\u00adtion and safe\u00adty: shel\u00adter, refuge, haven, retreat<\/span><\/p>\n

endeav\u00adour<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u025bv\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To attempt: essay, try, assay, seek<\/span><\/p>\n

bewil\u00addered<\/span> \u02c8b\u026a\u02c8w\u026ald\u0259<\/span> adj<\/span> Per\u00adplexed by many con\u00adflict\u00ading sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions or state\u00adments: baf\u00adfled, con\u00adfound\u00aded, con\u00adfused, mazed<\/span><\/p>\n

to give an account of some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To recount something.<\/p>\n

con\u00adjec\u00adture<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8\u02a4\u025bk\u02a7\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>To con\u00adclude or sup\u00adpose from evi\u00addence insuf\u00adfi\u00adcient to ensure reli\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty: guess<\/span><\/p>\n

checked<\/span> \u02a7\u025bkt<\/span> adj<\/span> Held in check: restrained<\/span>.<\/p>\n

wan\u00adton\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8w\u0252n\u00adt\u0259n\u00adli<\/span> adv<\/span> In unpro\u00advoked, gra\u00adtu\u00aditous mali\u00adcious\u00adness. capri\u00adcious and unjust manner.<\/p>\n

pledge<\/span> pl\u025b\u02a4<\/span> v <\/span>To make a solemn bind\u00ading promise: swear<\/span><\/p>\n

tim\u00ado\u00adrous<\/span> \u02c8t\u026am\u1d4ar\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Full of or sub\u00adject to fear: trepid, fear\u00adful, timid<\/span><\/p>\n

irre\u00adproach\u00adable<\/span> \u02cc\u026ar\u026a\u02c8pr\u0259\u028a\u02a7\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Per\u00adfect or blame\u00adless in every respect: fault\u00adless, blameless<\/span><\/p>\n

to be about to do some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 To be going to do some\u00adthing very soon.<\/p>\n

agi\u00adtate<\/span> \u02c8\u00e6\u02a4\u026ate\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to move with vio\u00adlence or sud\u00adden force: stir, beat, shake, toss, rouse<\/span><\/p>\n

inde\u00adcent<\/span> \u026an\u02c8di\u02d0s\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Not in keep\u00ading with accept\u00aded stan\u00addards of what is right or prop\u00ader in polite soci\u00adety: unbe\u00adcom\u00ading, uncome\u00adly, unseem\u00adly, unto\u00adward, indecorous<\/span><\/p>\n

per\u00adish<\/span> \u02c8p\u025br\u026a\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To cease liv\u00ading: die, pass away, expire<\/span><\/p>\n

cow\u00adardice<\/span> \u02c8ka\u028a\u0259d\u026as<\/span> n <\/span>Igno\u00adble fear in the face of dan\u00adger or pain: faint-heart\u00aded\u00adness, fearfulness, <\/span><\/p>\n

ami\u00adable<\/span> \u02c8e\u026ami\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Pleas\u00adant and friend\u00adly: cor\u00addial, good-natured<\/span><\/p>\n

benev\u00ado\u00adlent<\/span> b\u0259\u02c8n\u025bv\u1d4al\u1d4ant<\/span> adj<\/span> Char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized by or express\u00ading good\u00adwill or kind\u00adly feel\u00adings: good-heart\u00aded, kind\u00adly, charitable<\/span><\/p>\n

tedious<\/span> \u02c8ti\u02d0di\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Marked by the qual\u00adi\u00adty of being bor\u00ading and tire\u00adsome for a long time: weari\u00adsome, tire\u00adsome, dead\u00aden\u00ading, irksome<\/span><\/p>\n

attach<\/span> \u0259\u02c8t\u00e6\u02a7<\/span> n <\/span>To bind by emo\u00adtion\u00adal ties, as of affec\u00adtion or loy\u00adal\u00adty: affec\u00adtion, love, devotion<\/span><\/p>\n

notwith\u00adstand\u00ading<\/span> \u02ccn\u0252tw\u026a\u03b8\u02c8st\u00e6nd\u026a\u014b<\/span> prep<\/span> In spite of.<\/p>\n

temp\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> t\u025bm\u00adp\u02c8te\u026a\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adthing that seduces or has the qual\u00adi\u00adty to seduce: lure, attrac\u00adtion, fascination,<\/span><\/p>\n

bauble<\/span> \u02c8b\u0254\u02d0b\u1d4al<\/span> n <\/span>A showy toy or orna\u00adment of lit\u00adtle val\u00adue: trin\u00adket, orna\u00adment, trifle<\/span><\/p>\n

esteem<\/span> \u026a\u02c8sti\u02d0m<\/span> v <\/span>To regard high\u00adly or favor\u00adably; regard with respect or admi\u00adra\u00adtion: respect, admire, con\u00adsid\u00ader, hon\u00ador, regard, respect, val\u00adue, appre\u00adci\u00adate, cher\u00adish, prize<\/span><\/p>\n

appro\u00adba\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6pr\u0259\u02c8be\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>An expres\u00adsion of warm approval: praise, accep\u00adtance, favor<\/span><\/p>\n

in favor of some\u00adone or some\u00adthing<\/span> \u21d2 In sup\u00adport of some\u00adone or something.<\/p>\n

weep<\/span> wi\u02d0p<\/span> v pp<\/span>, pt<\/span> wept<\/span> To shed tears as an expres\u00adsion of grief or unhappiness.<\/p>\n

agi\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6\u02a4\u026a\u02c8te\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Extreme emo\u00adtion\u00adal dis\u00adtur\u00adbance: tur\u00admoil, commotion<\/span><\/p>\n

anguish<\/span> \u02c8\u00e6\u014bg\u00adw\u026a\u0283<\/span> n <\/span>State of men\u00adtal suf\u00adfer\u00ading: pain, mis\u00adery, dis\u00adtress, agony, affliction<\/span><\/p>\n

d\u00e6mon<\/span> vari\u00adant of<\/span><\/span> demon<\/span> \u02c8di\u02d0m\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>An evil super\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal being: dev\u00adil<\/span><\/p>\n

hell\u00adish<\/span> \u02c8h\u025bl\u026a\u0283<\/span> adj<\/span> Of, resem\u00adbling, or wor\u00adthy of hell: fiendish<\/span><\/p>\n

betray<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8tre\u026a<\/span> v <\/span>To give aid or infor\u00adma\u00adtion to an ene\u00admy of; com\u00admit trea\u00adson against: give away, tell, show, reveal, expose, dis\u00adclose, uncov\u00ader, man\u00adi\u00adfest, divulge, unmask<\/span><\/p>\n

ignominy<\/span> \u02c8\u026a\u0261n\u0259m\u026ani<\/span> n <\/span>Great per\u00adson\u00adal dis\u00adhon\u00ador or humil\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion: dis\u00adgrace, shame, humiliation<\/span><\/p>\n

fang<\/span> f\u00e6\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>A long sharp pro\u00adject\u00ading tooth.<\/p>\n

remorse<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8m\u0254\u02d0s<\/span> n <\/span>Moral anguish aris\u00ading from repen\u00adtance for past mis\u00addeeds; bit\u00adter regret: repen\u00adtance, rue<\/span><\/p>\n

bosom<\/span> \u02c8b\u028az\u0259m<\/span> n <\/span>A person\u2019s breast or chest: chest, breast<\/span><\/p>\n

for\u00adgo<\/span> f\u0254\u02d0\u02c8\u0261\u0259\u028a<\/span> v <\/span>To abstain or refrain from: aban\u00addon, cede, lay down, relin\u00adquish, sur\u00adren\u00adder, yield.<\/span><\/p>\n

unmin\u00adgled<\/span> \u02cc\u028cn\u02c8m\u026a\u014b\u0261\u1d4ald<\/span> adj<\/span> Not mixed with extra\u00adne\u00adous ele\u00adments: unmixed, sheer, plain<\/span><\/p>\n

wretched\u00adness<\/span> \u02c8r\u025b\u02a7\u026ad\u00adn\u0259s<\/span> n <\/span>A state of ill-being due to afflic\u00adtion or mis\u00adfor\u00adtune: mis\u00adery, unhappiness<\/span><\/p>\n

parch<\/span> p\u0251\u02d0\u02a7<\/span> v <\/span>Dry out by heat or exces\u00adsive expo\u00adsure to sun\u00adlight: adust, baked, scorched, sunbaked<\/span><\/p>\n

bal\u00adlot<\/span> \u02c8b\u00e6l\u0259t<\/span> v <\/span>A sheet of paper or a card used to cast or reg\u00adis\u00adter a vote, espe\u00adcial\u00adly a secret one.<\/p>\n

bestow<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8st\u0259\u028a<\/span> v <\/span>To give for\u00admal\u00adly or offi\u00adcial\u00adly: present, grant<\/span><\/p>\n

sick\u00aden\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8s\u026akn\u026a\u014b<\/span> adj<\/span> Caus\u00ading sick\u00adness, espe\u00adcial\u00adly nau\u00adsea, dis\u00adgust, or loathing.<\/p>\n

glar\u00ading<\/span> \u02c8\u0261le\u0259r\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>Con\u00adspic\u00adu\u00adous\u00adly and out\u00adra\u00adgeous\u00adly bad or rep\u00adre\u00adhen\u00adsi\u00adble: obvi\u00adous, open, out\u00adstand\u00ading, vis\u00adi\u00adble, con\u00adspic\u00adu\u00adous unconcealed<\/span><\/p>\n

cir\u00adcum\u00adstan\u00adtial<\/span> \u02ccs\u025c\u02d0k\u0259m\u02c8st\u00e6n\u0283\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Found\u00aded on con\u00addi\u00adtions or facts attend\u00ading an event and hav\u00ading some bear\u00ading on it: indi\u00adrect, con\u00adtin\u00adgent, inci\u00adden\u00adtal, infer\u00aden\u00adtial, pre\u00adsump\u00adtive, conjectural<\/span><\/p>\n

deci\u00adsive<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8sa\u026as\u026av<\/span> adj<\/span> Deter\u00admin\u00ading or hav\u00ading the pow\u00ader to deter\u00admine an out\u00adcome: con\u00adclu\u00adsive, fate\u00adful, determining<\/span><\/p>\n

intel\u00adli\u00adgence<\/span> \u026an\u02c8t\u025bl\u026a\u02a4\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>Infor\u00adma\u00adtion received or impart\u00aded: news<\/span><\/p>\n

deceive<\/span> d\u026a\u02c8si\u02d0v<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to believe what is not true: mis\u00adlead, fool, delude, dupe<\/span><\/p>\n

dire<\/span> \u02c8da\u026a\u0259<\/span> v <\/span>Indi\u00adcat\u00ading trou\u00adble, dis\u00adas\u00adter, or the like: appalling, dire\u00adful, dread\u00adful, fear\u00adful, fearsome<\/span><\/p>\n

sever\u00adi\u00adty<\/span> s\u026a\u02c8v\u025br\u0259ti<\/span> n <\/span>The fact or con\u00addi\u00adtion of being rig\u00ador\u00adous and unspar\u00ading: aus\u00adter\u00adi\u00adty, hard\u00adness, harsh\u00adness, rigor<\/span><\/p>\n

guile<\/span> \u0261a\u026al<\/span> n <\/span>The use of tricks to deceive some\u00adone (usu\u00adal\u00adly to extract mon\u00adey from them<\/span>): chi\u00adcanery, wile, shenani\u00adgan, trick\u00adery, chicane<\/span><\/p>\n

gloomy<\/span> \u02c8\u0261lu\u02d0\u00admi<\/span> adj<\/span> Par\u00adtial\u00adly or total\u00adly dark, espe\u00adcial\u00adly dis\u00admal and drea\u00adry: black, dark, drea\u00adry, somber<\/span><\/p>\n

behold<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u0259\u028ald<\/span> pp<\/span>, pt<\/span> beheld<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8h\u025bld<\/span> v <\/span>To appre\u00adhend some\u00adthing by use of the eyes: see, per\u00adceive<\/span><\/p>\n

far\u00adther<\/span> \u02c8f\u0251\u02d0\u00f0\u0259<\/span> adv<\/span> To or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage: fur\u00adther<\/span><\/p>\n

man\u00ada\u00adcle<\/span> \u02c8m\u00e6n\u0259k\u1d4al<\/span> v <\/span>Con\u00adfine or restrain with or as if with hand\u00adcuffs: hand\u00adcuff, bind, con\u00adfine, restrain, check<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cck\u0252n\u00ads\u0259\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The com\u00adfort you feel when con\u00adsoled in times of dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment: com\u00adfort, help, sup\u00adport, relief, ease, cheer<\/span><\/p>\n

suf\u00adfo\u00adcate<\/span> \u02c8s\u028cf\u0259ke\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>To smoth\u00ader or sti\u00adfle: sup\u00adpress<\/span><\/p>\n

sob<\/span> s\u0252b<\/span> n <\/span>Con\u00advul\u00adsive gasp made while weep\u00ading: lament, wail, weep con\u00advul\u00adsive\u00adly, cry, whimper<\/span><\/p>\n

kneel<\/span> ni\u02d0l<\/span> pp<\/span> knelt<\/span> n\u025blt<\/span> v <\/span>Rest one\u2019s weight on one\u2019s knees.<\/p>\n

none but<\/span> \u21d2 Only.<\/p>\n

abso\u00adlu\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u00e6b\u00ads\u0259\u02c8lu\u02d0\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>The con\u00addi\u00adtion of being for\u00admal\u00adly for\u00adgiv\u00aden by a priest in the sacra\u00adment of penance: for\u00adgive\u00adness, release, free\u00addom, lib\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion, dis\u00adcharge, amnesty, mer\u00adcy, pardon,<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adfes\u00adsor<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8f\u025bs\u0259<\/span> n <\/span>A priest autho\u00adrized to hear confessions.<\/p>\n

besiege<\/span> b\u026a\u02c8si\u02d0\u02a4<\/span> v <\/span>To harass or over\u00adwhelm, as with requests: dis\u00adtress<\/span><\/p>\n

men\u00adace<\/span> \u02c8m\u025bn\u0259s<\/span> v <\/span>To threat\u00aden with vio\u00adlence, dan\u00adger, etc: intim\u00adi\u00addate, endan\u00adger, imper\u00adil, jeop\u00adar\u00addize, peril<\/span><\/p>\n

excom\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion<\/span> \u02cc\u025bk\u00adsk\u0259\u02ccmju\u02d0n\u026a\u02c8ke\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A for\u00admal eccle\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adti\u00adcal cen\u00adsure that deprives a per\u00adson of the right to belong to a church.<\/p>\n

obdu\u00adrate<\/span> \u02c8\u0252b\u00add\u00adj\u0259r\u0259t<\/span> adj<\/span> Not chang\u00ading in response to argu\u00adment or oth\u00ader influ\u00adence: firm, deter\u00admined, obsti\u00adnate, stub\u00adborn, intractable<\/span><\/p>\n

wretch<\/span> r\u025b\u02a7<\/span> n <\/span>Some\u00adone that you feel sor\u00adry for or annoyed with.<\/p>\n

perdi\u00adtion<\/span> p\u025c\u02d0\u02c8d\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A state of final spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal ruin; loss of the soul: damna\u00adtion<\/span><\/p>\n

none but<\/span> \u21d2 Only.<\/p>\n

per\u00adpe\u00adtrate<\/span> \u02c8p\u025c\u02d0p\u026atre\u026at<\/span> v <\/span>Per\u00adform an act, usu\u00adal\u00adly with a neg\u00ada\u00adtive con\u00adno\u00adta\u00adtion: com\u00admit<\/span><\/p>\n

mourn<\/span> \u02c8m\u0254\u02d0n<\/span> v <\/span>To feel or express grief or sor\u00adrow: grieve, lament, sor\u00adrow, suffer<\/span><\/p>\n

playfel\u00adlow<\/span> \u02c8ple\u026a\u02ccf\u025bl\u0259\u028a<\/span> n <\/span>A com\u00adpan\u00adion at play: play\u00admate<\/span><\/p>\n

scaf\u00adfold<\/span> \u02c8sk\u00e6f\u0259ld\u026a\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>A plat\u00adform used in the exe\u00adcu\u00adtion of con\u00addemned pris\u00adon\u00aders, as by hang\u00ading or beheading.<\/p>\n

mourn\u00adful\u00adly<\/span> \u02c8m\u0254\u02d0n\u00adf\u1d4ali<\/span> adj<\/span> In an evok\u00ading grief and sor\u00adrow man\u00adner: dis\u00admal\u00adly, sad\u00adly, unhap\u00adpy\u00adly, mis\u00ader\u00adably, gloomyly<\/span><\/p>\n

pang<\/span> p\u00e6\u014b<\/span> n <\/span>A sud\u00adden sharp feel\u00ading of pain or emo\u00adtion\u00adal dis\u00adtress: agony, anguish, spasm<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adceal<\/span> k\u0259n\u02c8si\u02d0l<\/span> n <\/span>To hide some\u00adthing or pre\u00advent\u00ading it from being known: hide<\/span><\/p>\n

hor\u00adrid<\/span> \u02c8h\u0252r\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Dis\u00adagree\u00adable or unpleas\u00adant: ter\u00adri\u00adble, awful, nasty, dis\u00adgust\u00ading, horrible<\/span><\/p>\n

mor\u00adrow<\/span> \u02c8m\u0252r\u0259\u028a<\/span> n <\/span>The fol\u00adlow\u00ading day.<\/p>\n

gnash<\/span> n\u00e6\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To grind or strike (the teeth, for exam\u00adple<\/span>) togeth\u00ader: crunch, grind<\/span><\/p>\n

groan<\/span> gr\u0259\u028an<\/span> n <\/span>An utter\u00adance express\u00ading pain or dis\u00adap\u00adproval: moan, mur\u00admur, whine, howl, sob, cry<\/span><\/p>\n

inmost<\/span> \u02c8\u026an\u00adm\u0259\u028ast<\/span> adj<\/span> Being deep\u00adest with\u00adin the self or most inti\u00admate: inner\u00admost<\/span><\/p>\n

res\u00adig\u00adna\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccr\u025bz\u026a\u0261\u02c8ne\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>Unre\u00adsist\u00ading accep\u00adtance of some\u00adthing as inescapable: sub\u00admis\u00adsion<\/span><\/p>\n

tar\u00adnish<\/span> \u02c8t\u0251\u02d0n\u026a\u0283<\/span> To lose or cause to lose the shine, espe\u00adcial\u00adly by expo\u00adsure to air or mois\u00adture result\u00ading in sur\u00adface: dis\u00adcol\u00adoration, dis\u00adcoloura\u00adtion, stain <\/span><\/p>\n

extin\u00adguish<\/span> \u026aks\u02c8t\u026a\u014bg\u00adw\u026a\u0283<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to stop burn\u00ading or giv\u00ading light: put out, douse, quench, snuff<\/span><\/p>\n

repress<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8pr\u025bs<\/span> v <\/span>(Psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/span>) To exclude (painful or dis\u00adturb\u00ading mem\u00ado\u00adries, for exam\u00adple<\/span>) auto\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly or uncon\u00adscious\u00adly from the con\u00adscious mind.<\/p>\n

farewell<\/span> \u02ccfe\u0259\u02c8w\u025bl<\/span> n <\/span>An acknowl\u00adedg\u00adment or expres\u00adsion of good\u00adwill at part\u00ading: good\u00adby, adieu<\/span><\/p>\n

boun\u00adty<\/span> \u02c8ba\u028an\u00adti<\/span> n <\/span>The prop\u00ader\u00adty of copi\u00adous abun\u00addance: abun\u00addance, copi\u00adous\u00adness, teemingness <\/span><\/p>\n

rend<\/span> \u02c8r\u025bnd<\/span> v <\/span> To tear or split apart or into pieces vio\u00adlent\u00adly: rip\u00adping, splitting <\/span><\/p>\n

elo\u00adquence<\/span> \u02c8\u025bl\u0259k\u00adw\u1d4ans<\/span> n <\/span>Ease in using lan\u00adguage to best effect: flu\u00aden\u00adcy<\/span><\/p>\n

indig\u00adnant<\/span> \u026an\u02c8d\u026a\u0261n\u0259nt<\/span> adj<\/span> Angered at some\u00adthing unjust or wrong: incensed, out\u00adraged, resent\u00adful, angry, mad<\/span><\/p>\n

avow\u00adal<\/span> \u0259\u02c8va\u028a\u0259l<\/span> n <\/span>A state\u00adment assert\u00ading the exis\u00adtence or the truth of some\u00adthing: affir\u00adma\u00adtion, avouchment<\/span><\/p>\n

revoke<\/span> r\u026a\u02c8v\u0259\u028ak<\/span> v <\/span>To inval\u00adi\u00addate or cause to no longer be in effect, as by void\u00ading or can\u00adcel\u00ading: can\u00adcel, recall, with\u00addraw, reverse, abolish<\/span><\/p>\n

mur\u00adder\u00adess<\/span> \u02c8m\u025c\u02d0d\u0259r\u026as<\/span> n <\/span>A woman who com\u00admits murder.<\/p>\n

woe<\/span> w\u0259\u028a<\/span> n <\/span>Intense mourn\u00adful\u00adness: sor\u00adrow, grief, dis\u00adtress, trouble<\/span><\/p>\n

13des\u00ado\u00adla\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccd\u025bs\u0259\u02c8le\u026a\u0283\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>The state of being decayed, destroyed, for\u00adsak\u00aden or aban\u00addoned: iso\u00adla\u00adtion, lone\u00adli\u00adness, soli\u00adtude, wild\u00adness, bar\u00adren\u00adness, solitariness<\/span><\/p>\n

thrice<\/span> \u03b8ra\u026as<\/span> adv<\/span> Three times.<\/p>\n

accursed<\/span> \u0259\u02c8k\u025c\u02d0s\u026ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Under a curse: damned, con\u00addemned, accurst, maledict, <\/span><\/p>\n

Ye<\/span> ji\u02d0<\/span> pron<\/span> (Archa\u00adic<\/span>) You. Used as the nom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtive sec\u00adond per\u00adson pronoun.<\/p>\n

wail<\/span> we\u026al<\/span> n <\/span>Moan or lament; to cry loud\u00adly: lament, lamen\u00adta\u00adtion, plaint<\/span><\/p>\n

lamen\u00adta\u00adtion<\/span> \u02ccl\u00e6m\u025bn\u02c8te\u026a\u0283\u1d4an<\/span> n <\/span>A cry of sor\u00adrow and grief: lament, wail, plaint<\/span><\/p>\n

kins\u00adman<\/span> \u02c8k\u026anzm\u0259n<\/span> n <\/span>A rel\u00ada\u00adtive, espe\u00adcial\u00adly a male.<\/p>\n

inex\u00adorable<\/span> \u026an\u02c8\u025bk\u00ads\u0259r\u0259b\u1d4al<\/span> adj<\/span> Not able to be moved by entreaty or per\u00adsua\u00adsion: unre\u00adlent\u00ading, relent\u00adless, implaca\u00adble, hard, severe<\/span><\/p>\n

tor\u00adment<\/span> t\u0254\u02d0\u02c8m\u025bnt<\/span> v <\/span>To cause to under\u00adgo great phys\u00adi\u00adcal pain or men\u00adtal anguish: tor\u00adture<\/span><\/p>\n

prophet\u00adic<\/span> pr\u0259\u02c8f\u025bt\u026ak<\/span> adj<\/span> Fore\u00adtelling events as if by divine inspi\u00adra\u00adtion: pre\u00addic\u00adtive, fore\u00adshad\u00adow\u00ading, pre\u00adsag\u00ading, prognostic<\/span><\/p>\n

vain<\/span> ve\u026an<\/span> adj<\/span> Char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtic of false pride; hav\u00ading an exag\u00adger\u00adat\u00aded sense of self-impor\u00adtance: ego\u00adtis\u00adtic, proud, con\u00adceit\u00aded, ego\u00adtis\u00adti\u00adcal, swollen-head\u00aded, self-conceited<\/span><\/p>\n

hap\u00adless<\/span> \u02c8h\u00e6\u00adpl\u0259s<\/span> adj<\/span> Deserv\u00ading or incit\u00ading pity: mis\u00adfor\u00adtu\u00adnate, piteous, poor, mis\u00ader\u00adable, pitiable, piti\u00adful, wretched, unfortunate<\/span><\/p>\n

unhal\u00adlowed<\/span> \u028cn\u02c8h\u00e6l\u0259\u028ad<\/span> adj<\/span> Not hal\u00adlowed or con\u00adse\u00adcrat\u00aded: unholy<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Noth\u00ading is more painful to the human mind than, after the feel\u00adings have been worked up by a quick suc\u00adces\u00adsion of events, the dead calm\u00adness of inac\u00adtion and cer\u00adtain\u00adty which fol\u00adlows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear. Jus\u00adtine died, she rest\u00aded, and I was alive. The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart which noth\u00ading could remove. Sleep fled from my eyes; I wan\u00addered like an evil spir\u00adit, for I had com\u00admit\u00adted deeds of mis\u00adchief beyond descrip\u00adtion hor\u00adri\u00adble, and more, much more (I per\u00adsuad\u00aded myself) was yet behind. Yet my heart over\u00adflowed with kind\u00adness and the love of virtue. I had begun life with benev\u00ado\u00adlent inten\u00adtions and thirst\u00aded for the moment when I should put them in prac\u00adtice and make myself use\u00adful to my fel\u00adlow beings. Now all was blast\u00aded; instead of that seren\u00adi\u00adty of con\u00adscience which allowed me to look back upon the past with self-sat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adtion, and from thence to gath\u00ader promise of new hopes, I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hur\u00adried me away to a hell of intense tor\u00adtures such as no lan\u00adguage can describe. <\/p>\n

This state of mind preyed upon my health, which had per\u00adhaps nev\u00ader entire\u00adly recov\u00adered from the first shock it had sus\u00adtained. I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or com\u00adpla\u00adcen\u00adcy was tor\u00adture to me; soli\u00adtude was my only consolation\u2014deep, dark, death\u00adlike solitude. <\/p>\n

My father observed with pain the alter\u00adation per\u00adcep\u00adti\u00adble in my dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion and habits and endeav\u00adoured by argu\u00adments deduced from the feel\u00adings of his serene con\u00adscience and guilt\u00adless life to inspire me with for\u00adti\u00adtude and awak\u00aden in me the courage to dis\u00adpel the dark cloud which brood\u00aded over me. \u201cDo you think, Vic\u00adtor,\u201d said he, \u201cthat I do not suf\u00adfer also? No one could love a child more than I loved your brother\u201d\u2014tears came into his eyes as he spoke\u2014\u201cbut is it not a duty to the sur\u00advivors that we should refrain from aug\u00adment\u00ading their unhap\u00adpi\u00adness by an appear\u00adance of immod\u00ader\u00adate grief? It is also a duty owed to your\u00adself, for exces\u00adsive sor\u00adrow pre\u00advents improve\u00adment or enjoy\u00adment, or even the dis\u00adcharge of dai\u00adly use\u00adful\u00adness, with\u00adout which no man is fit for society.\u201d <\/p>\n

This advice, although good, was total\u00adly inap\u00adplic\u00ada\u00adble to my case; I should have been the first to hide my grief and con\u00adsole my friends if remorse had not min\u00adgled its bit\u00adter\u00adness, and ter\u00adror its alarm, with my oth\u00ader sen\u00adsa\u00adtions. Now I could only answer my father with a look of despair and endeav\u00adour to hide myself from his view. <\/p>\n

About this time we retired to our house at Bel\u00adrive. This change was par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly agree\u00adable to me. The shut\u00adting of the gates reg\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly at ten o\u2019clock and the impos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of remain\u00ading on the lake after that hour had ren\u00addered our res\u00adi\u00addence with\u00adin the walls of Gene\u00adva very irk\u00adsome to me. I was now free. Often, after the rest of the fam\u00adi\u00adly had retired for the night, I took the boat and passed many hours upon the water. Some\u00adtimes, with my sails set, I was car\u00adried by the wind; and some\u00adtimes, after row\u00ading into the mid\u00addle of the lake, I left the boat to pur\u00adsue its own course and gave way to my own mis\u00ader\u00adable reflec\u00adtions. I was often tempt\u00aded, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unqui\u00adet thing that wan\u00addered rest\u00adless in a scene so beau\u00adti\u00adful and heavenly\u2014if I except some bat, or the frogs, whose harsh and inter\u00adrupt\u00aded croak\u00ading was heard only when I approached the shore\u2014often, I say, I was tempt\u00aded to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calami\u00adties for ever. But I was restrained, when I thought of the hero\u00adic and suf\u00adfer\u00ading Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, whom I ten\u00adder\u00adly loved, and whose exis\u00adtence was bound up in mine. I thought also of my father and sur\u00adviv\u00ading broth\u00ader; should I by my base deser\u00adtion leave them exposed and unpro\u00adtect\u00aded to the mal\u00adice of the fiend whom I had let loose among them? <\/p>\n

At these moments I wept bit\u00adter\u00adly and wished that peace would revis\u00adit my mind only that I might afford them con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion and hap\u00adpi\u00adness. But that could not be. Remorse extin\u00adguished every hope. I had been the author of unal\u00adter\u00adable evils, and I lived in dai\u00adly fear lest the mon\u00adster whom I had cre\u00adat\u00aded should per\u00adpe\u00adtrate some new wicked\u00adness. I had an obscure feel\u00ading that all was not over and that he would still com\u00admit some sig\u00adnal crime, which by its enor\u00admi\u00adty should almost efface the rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion of the past. There was always scope for fear so long as any\u00adthing I loved remained behind. My abhor\u00adrence of this fiend can\u00adnot be con\u00adceived. When I thought of him I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed, and I ardent\u00adly wished to extin\u00adguish that life which I had so thought\u00adless\u00adly bestowed. When I reflect\u00aded on his crimes and mal\u00adice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of mod\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. I would have made a pil\u00adgrim\u00adage to the high\u00adest peak of the Andes, could I, when there, have pre\u00adcip\u00adi\u00adtat\u00aded him to their base. I wished to see him again, that I might wreak the utmost extent of abhor\u00adrence on his head and avenge the deaths of William and Justine. <\/p>\n

Our house was the house of mourn\u00ading. My father\u2019s health was deeply shak\u00aden by the hor\u00adror of the recent events. Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth was sad and despond\u00ading; she no longer took delight in her ordi\u00adnary occu\u00adpa\u00adtions; all plea\u00adsure seemed to her sac\u00adri\u00adlege toward the dead; eter\u00adnal woe and tears she then thought was the just trib\u00adute she should pay to inno\u00adcence so blast\u00aded and destroyed. She was no longer that hap\u00adpy crea\u00adture who in ear\u00adli\u00ader youth wan\u00addered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecsta\u00adsy of our future prospects. The first of those sor\u00adrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had vis\u00adit\u00aded her, and its dim\u00adming influ\u00adence quenched her dear\u00adest smiles. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I reflect, my dear cousin,\u201d said she, \u201con the mis\u00ader\u00adable death of Jus\u00adtine Moritz, I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me. Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injus\u00adtice that I read in books or heard from oth\u00aders as tales of ancient days or imag\u00adi\u00adnary evils; at least they were remote and more famil\u00adiar to rea\u00adson than to the imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion; but now mis\u00adery has come home, and men appear to me as mon\u00adsters thirst\u00ading for each other\u2019s blood. Yet I am cer\u00adtain\u00adly unjust. Every\u00adbody believed that poor girl to be guilty; and if she could have com\u00admit\u00adted the crime for which she suf\u00adfered, assured\u00adly she would have been the most depraved of human crea\u00adtures. For the sake of a few jew\u00adels, to have mur\u00addered the son of her bene\u00adfac\u00adtor and friend, a child whom she had nursed from its birth, and appeared to love as if it had been her own! I could not con\u00adsent to the death of any human being, but cer\u00adtain\u00adly I should have thought such a crea\u00adture unfit to remain in the soci\u00adety of men. But she was inno\u00adcent. I know, I feel she was inno\u00adcent; you are of the same opin\u00adion, and that con\u00adfirms me. Alas! Vic\u00adtor, when false\u00adhood can look so like the truth, who can assure them\u00adselves of cer\u00adtain hap\u00adpi\u00adness? I feel as if I were walk\u00ading on the edge of a precipice, towards which thou\u00adsands are crowd\u00ading and endeav\u00adour\u00ading to plunge me into the abyss. William and Jus\u00adtine were assas\u00adsi\u00adnat\u00aded, and the mur\u00adder\u00ader escapes; he walks about the world free, and per\u00adhaps respect\u00aded. But even if I were con\u00addemned to suf\u00adfer on the scaf\u00adfold for the same crimes, I would not change places with such a wretch.\u201d <\/p>\n

I lis\u00adtened to this dis\u00adcourse with the extremest agony. I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true mur\u00adder\u00ader. Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth read my anguish in my coun\u00adte\u00adnance, and kind\u00adly tak\u00ading my hand, said, \u201cMy dear\u00adest friend, you must calm your\u00adself. These events have affect\u00aded me, God knows how deeply; but I am not so wretched as you are. There is an expres\u00adsion of despair, and some\u00adtimes of revenge, in your coun\u00adte\u00adnance that makes me trem\u00adble. Dear Vic\u00adtor, ban\u00adish these dark pas\u00adsions. Remem\u00adber the friends around you, who cen\u00adtre all their hopes in you. Have we lost the pow\u00ader of ren\u00adder\u00ading you hap\u00adpy? Ah! While we love, while we are true to each oth\u00ader, here in this land of peace and beau\u00adty, your native coun\u00adtry, we may reap every tran\u00adquil blessing\u2014what can dis\u00adturb our peace?\u201d <\/p>\n

And could not such words from her whom I fond\u00adly prized before every oth\u00ader gift of for\u00adtune suf\u00adfice to chase away the fiend that lurked in my heart? Even as she spoke I drew near to her, as if in ter\u00adror, lest at that very moment the destroy\u00ader had been near to rob me of her. <\/p>\n

Thus not the ten\u00adder\u00adness of friend\u00adship, nor the beau\u00adty of earth, nor of heav\u00aden, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were inef\u00adfec\u00adtu\u00adal. I was encom\u00adpassed by a cloud which no ben\u00ade\u00adfi\u00adcial influ\u00adence could pen\u00ade\u00adtrate. The wound\u00aded deer drag\u00adging its faint\u00ading limbs to some untrod\u00adden brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die, was but a type of me. <\/p>\n

Some\u00adtimes I could cope with the sullen despair that over\u00adwhelmed me, but some\u00adtimes the whirl\u00adwind pas\u00adsions of my soul drove me to seek, by bod\u00adi\u00adly exer\u00adcise and by change of place, some relief from my intol\u00ader\u00ada\u00adble sen\u00adsa\u00adtions. It was dur\u00ading an access of this kind that I sud\u00adden\u00adly left my home, and bend\u00ading my steps towards the near Alpine val\u00adleys, sought in the mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcence, the eter\u00adni\u00adty of such scenes, to for\u00adget myself and my ephemer\u00adal, because human, sor\u00adrows. My wan\u00adder\u00adings were direct\u00aded towards the val\u00adley of Chamounix. I had vis\u00adit\u00aded it fre\u00adquent\u00adly dur\u00ading my boy\u00adhood. Six years had passed since then: I<\/span> was a wreck, but nought had changed in those sav\u00adage and endur\u00ading scenes. <\/p>\n

I per\u00adformed the first part of my jour\u00adney on horse\u00adback. I after\u00adwards hired a mule, as the more sure-foot\u00aded and least liable to receive injury on these rugged roads. The weath\u00ader was fine; it was about the mid\u00addle of the month of August, near\u00adly two months after the death of Jus\u00adtine, that mis\u00ader\u00adable epoch from which I dat\u00aded all my woe. The weight upon my spir\u00adit was sen\u00adsi\u00adbly light\u00adened as I plunged yet deep\u00ader in the ravine of Arve. The immense moun\u00adtains and precipices that over\u00adhung me on every side, the sound of the riv\u00ader rag\u00ading among the rocks, and the dash\u00ading of the water\u00adfalls around spoke of a pow\u00ader mighty as Omnipotence\u2014and I ceased to fear or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had cre\u00adat\u00aded and ruled the ele\u00adments, here dis\u00adplayed in their most ter\u00adrif\u00adic guise. Still, as I ascend\u00aded high\u00ader, the val\u00adley assumed a more mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent and aston\u00adish\u00ading char\u00adac\u00adter. Ruined cas\u00adtles hang\u00ading on the precipices of piny moun\u00adtains, the impetu\u00adous Arve, and cot\u00adtages every here and there peep\u00ading forth from among the trees formed a scene of sin\u00adgu\u00adlar beau\u00adty. But it was aug\u00adment\u00aded and ren\u00addered sub\u00adlime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shin\u00ading pyra\u00admids and domes tow\u00adered above all, as belong\u00ading to anoth\u00ader earth, the habi\u00adta\u00adtions of anoth\u00ader race of beings. <\/p>\n

I passed the bridge of P\u00e9lissier, where the ravine, which the riv\u00ader forms, opened before me, and I began to ascend the moun\u00adtain that over\u00adhangs it. Soon after, I entered the val\u00adley of Chamounix. This val\u00adley is more won\u00adder\u00adful and sub\u00adlime, but not so beau\u00adti\u00adful and pic\u00adturesque as that of Ser\u00advox, through which I had just passed. The high and snowy moun\u00adtains were its imme\u00addi\u00adate bound\u00adaries, but I saw no more ruined cas\u00adtles and fer\u00adtile fields. Immense glac\u00adi\u00aders approached the road; I heard the rum\u00adbling thun\u00adder of the falling avalanche and marked the smoke of its pas\u00adsage. Mont Blanc, the supreme and mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent Mont Blanc, raised itself from the sur\u00adround\u00ading aigu\u00adilles, and its tremen\u00addous d\u00f4me over\u00adlooked the valley. <\/p>\n

A tin\u00adgling long-lost sense of plea\u00adsure often came across me dur\u00ading this jour\u00adney. Some turn in the road, some new object sud\u00adden\u00adly per\u00adceived and recog\u00adnised, remind\u00aded me of days gone by, and were asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with the light\u00adheart\u00aded gai\u00adety of boy\u00adhood. The very winds whis\u00adpered in sooth\u00ading accents, and mater\u00adnal Nature bade me weep no more. Then again the kind\u00adly influ\u00adence ceased to act\u2014I found myself fet\u00adtered again to grief and indulging in all the mis\u00adery of reflec\u00adtion. Then I spurred on my ani\u00admal, striv\u00ading so to for\u00adget the world, my fears, and more than all, myself\u2014or, in a more des\u00adper\u00adate fash\u00adion, I alight\u00aded and threw myself on the grass, weighed down by hor\u00adror and despair. <\/p>\n

At length I arrived at the vil\u00adlage of Chamounix. Exhaus\u00adtion suc\u00adceed\u00aded to the extreme fatigue both of body and of mind which I had endured. For a short space of time I remained at the win\u00addow watch\u00ading the pal\u00adlid light\u00adnings that played above Mont Blanc and lis\u00adten\u00ading to the rush\u00ading of the Arve, which pur\u00adsued its noisy way beneath. The same lulling sounds act\u00aded as a lul\u00adla\u00adby to my too keen sen\u00adsa\u00adtions; when I placed my head upon my pil\u00adlow, sleep crept over me; I felt it as it came and blessed the giv\u00ader of oblivion. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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I spent the fol\u00adlow\u00ading day roam\u00ading through the val\u00adley. I stood beside the sources of the Arve\u00adiron, which take their rise in a glac\u00adi\u00ader, that with slow pace is advanc\u00ading down from the sum\u00admit of the hills to bar\u00adri\u00adcade the val\u00adley. The abrupt sides of vast moun\u00adtains were before me; the icy wall of the glac\u00adi\u00ader over\u00adhung me; a few shat\u00adtered pines were scat\u00adtered around; and the solemn silence of this glo\u00adri\u00adous pres\u00adence-cham\u00adber of impe\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal Nature was bro\u00adken only by the brawl\u00ading waves or the fall of some vast frag\u00adment, the thun\u00adder sound of the avalanche or the crack\u00ading, rever\u00adber\u00adat\u00aded along the moun\u00adtains, of the accu\u00admu\u00adlat\u00aded ice, which, through the silent work\u00ading of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a play\u00adthing in their hands. These sub\u00adlime and mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent scenes afford\u00aded me the great\u00adest con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion that I was capa\u00adble of receiv\u00ading. They ele\u00advat\u00aded me from all lit\u00adtle\u00adness of feel\u00ading, and although they did not remove my grief, they sub\u00addued and tran\u00adquil\u00adlised it. In some degree, also, they divert\u00aded my mind from the thoughts over which it had brood\u00aded for the last month. I retired to rest at night; my slum\u00adbers, as it were, wait\u00aded on and min\u00adis\u00adtered to by the assem\u00adblance of grand shapes which I had con\u00adtem\u00adplat\u00aded dur\u00ading the day. They con\u00adgre\u00adgat\u00aded round me; the unstained snowy moun\u00adtain-top, the glit\u00adter\u00ading pin\u00adna\u00adcle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine, the eagle, soar\u00ading amidst the clouds\u2014they all gath\u00adered round me and bade me be at peace. <\/p>\n

Where had they fled when the next morn\u00ading I awoke? All of soul-inspir\u00adit\u00ading fled with sleep, and dark melan\u00adcholy cloud\u00aded every thought. The rain was pour\u00ading in tor\u00adrents, and thick mists hid the sum\u00admits of the moun\u00adtains, so that I even saw not the faces of those mighty friends. Still I would pen\u00ade\u00adtrate their misty veil and seek them in their cloudy retreats. What were rain and storm to me? My mule was brought to the door, and I resolved to ascend to the sum\u00admit of Mon\u00adtan\u00advert. I remem\u00adbered the effect that the view of the tremen\u00addous and ever-mov\u00ading glac\u00adi\u00ader had pro\u00adduced upon my mind when I first saw it. It had then filled me with a sub\u00adlime ecsta\u00adsy that gave wings to the soul and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy. The sight of the awful and majes\u00adtic in nature had indeed always the effect of solem\u00adnis\u00ading my mind and caus\u00ading me to for\u00adget the pass\u00ading cares of life. I deter\u00admined to go with\u00adout a guide, for I was well acquaint\u00aded with the path, and the pres\u00adence of anoth\u00ader would destroy the soli\u00adtary grandeur of the scene. <\/p>\n

The ascent is pre\u00adcip\u00adi\u00adtous, but the path is cut into con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal and short wind\u00adings, which enable you to sur\u00admount the per\u00adpen\u00addic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty of the moun\u00adtain. It is a scene ter\u00adrif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly des\u00ado\u00adlate. In a thou\u00adsand spots the traces of the win\u00adter avalanche may be per\u00adceived, where trees lie bro\u00adken and strewed on the ground, some entire\u00adly destroyed, oth\u00aders bent, lean\u00ading upon the jut\u00adting rocks of the moun\u00adtain or trans\u00adverse\u00adly upon oth\u00ader trees. The path, as you ascend high\u00ader, is inter\u00adsect\u00aded by ravines of snow, down which stones con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly roll from above; one of them is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly dan\u00adger\u00adous, as the slight\u00adest sound, such as even speak\u00ading in a loud voice, pro\u00adduces a con\u00adcus\u00adsion of air suf\u00adfi\u00adcient to draw destruc\u00adtion upon the head of the speak\u00ader. The pines are not tall or lux\u00adu\u00adri\u00adant, but they are som\u00adbre and add an air of sever\u00adi\u00adty to the scene. I looked on the val\u00adley beneath; vast mists were ris\u00ading from the rivers which ran through it and curl\u00ading in thick wreaths around the oppo\u00adsite moun\u00adtains, whose sum\u00admits were hid in the uni\u00adform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melan\u00adcholy impres\u00adsion I received from the objects around me. Alas! Why does man boast of sen\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adties supe\u00adri\u00ador to those appar\u00adent in the brute; it only ren\u00adders them more nec\u00ades\u00adsary beings. If our impuls\u00ades were con\u00adfined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be near\u00adly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may con\u00advey to us. <\/p>\n

We rest; a dream has pow\u00ader to poi\u00adson sleep. We rise; one wand\u2019ring thought pol\u00adlutes the day.<\/span>We feel, con\u00adceive, or rea\u00adson; laugh or weep, Embrace <\/span>fond woe, or cast our cares away;It is the same: for, be it joy or sor\u00adrow, The path of its <\/span>depar\u00adture still is free.<\/span>Man\u2019s yes\u00adter\u00adday may ne\u2019er be like his mor\u00adrow; Nought may endure <\/span>but muta\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty! <\/span><\/p>\n

It was near\u00adly noon when I arrived at the top of the ascent. For some time I sat upon the rock that over\u00adlooks the sea of ice. A mist cov\u00adered both that and the sur\u00adround\u00ading moun\u00adtains. Present\u00adly a breeze dis\u00adsi\u00adpat\u00aded the cloud, and I descend\u00aded upon the glac\u00adi\u00ader. The sur\u00adface is very uneven, ris\u00ading like the waves of a trou\u00adbled sea, descend\u00ading low, and inter\u00adspersed by rifts that sink deep. The field of ice is almost a league in width, but I spent near\u00adly two hours in cross\u00ading it. The oppo\u00adsite moun\u00adtain is a bare per\u00adpen\u00addic\u00adu\u00adlar rock. From the side where I now stood Mon\u00adtan\u00advert was exact\u00adly oppo\u00adsite, at the dis\u00adtance of a league; and above it rose Mont Blanc, in awful majesty. I remained in a recess of the rock, gaz\u00ading on this won\u00adder\u00adful and stu\u00adpen\u00addous scene. The sea, or rather the vast riv\u00ader of ice, wound among its depen\u00addent moun\u00adtains, whose aer\u00adi\u00adal sum\u00admits hung over its recess\u00ades. Their icy and glit\u00adter\u00ading peaks shone in the sun\u00adlight over the clouds. My heart, which was before sor\u00adrow\u00adful, now swelled with some\u00adthing like joy; I exclaimed, \u201cWan\u00adder\u00ading spir\u00adits, if indeed ye wan\u00adder, and do not rest in your nar\u00adrow beds, allow me this faint hap\u00adpi\u00adness, or take me, as your com\u00adpan\u00adion, away from the joys of life.\u201d <\/p>\n

As I said this I sud\u00adden\u00adly beheld the fig\u00adure of a man, at some dis\u00adtance, advanc\u00ading towards me with super\u00adhu\u00adman speed. He bound\u00aded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with cau\u00adtion; his stature, also, as he approached, seemed to exceed that of man. I was trou\u00adbled; a mist came over my eyes, and I felt a faint\u00adness seize me, but I was quick\u00adly restored by the cold gale of the moun\u00adtains. I per\u00adceived, as the shape came near\u00ader (sight tremen\u00addous and abhorred!) that it was the wretch whom I had cre\u00adat\u00aded. I trem\u00adbled with rage and hor\u00adror, resolv\u00ading to wait his approach and then close with him in mor\u00adtal com\u00adbat. He approached; his coun\u00adte\u00adnance bespoke bit\u00adter anguish, com\u00adbined with dis\u00addain and malig\u00adni\u00adty, while its unearth\u00adly ugli\u00adness ren\u00addered it almost too hor\u00adri\u00adble for human eyes. But I scarce\u00adly observed this; rage and hatred had at first deprived me of utter\u00adance, and I recov\u00adered only to over\u00adwhelm him with words expres\u00adsive of furi\u00adous detes\u00adta\u00adtion and contempt. <\/p>\n

\u201cDev\u00adil,\u201d I exclaimed, \u201cdo you dare approach me? And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your mis\u00ader\u00adable head? Begone, vile insect! Or rather, stay, that I may tram\u00adple you to dust! And, oh! That I could, with the extinc\u00adtion of your mis\u00ader\u00adable exis\u00adtence, restore those vic\u00adtims whom you have so dia\u00adbol\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly murdered!\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI expect\u00aded this recep\u00adtion,\u201d said the d\u00e6mon. \u201cAll men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hat\u00aded, who am mis\u00ader\u00adable beyond all liv\u00ading things! Yet you, my cre\u00adator, detest and spurn me, thy crea\u00adture, to whom thou art bound by ties only dis\u00adsol\u00adu\u00adble by the anni\u00adhi\u00adla\u00adtion of one of us. You pur\u00adpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will com\u00adply with my con\u00addi\u00adtions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be sati\u00adat\u00aded with the blood of your remain\u00ading friends.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAbhorred mon\u00adster! Fiend that thou art! The tor\u00adtures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes. Wretched dev\u00adil! You reproach me with your cre\u00adation, come on, then, that I may extin\u00adguish the spark which I so neg\u00adli\u00adgent\u00adly bestowed.\u201d <\/p>\n

My rage was with\u00adout bounds; I sprang on him, impelled by all the feel\u00adings which can arm one being against the exis\u00adtence of another. <\/p>\n

He eas\u00adi\u00adly elud\u00aded me and said, <\/p>\n

\u201cBe calm! I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devot\u00aded head. Have I not suf\u00adfered enough, that you seek to increase my mis\u00adery? Life, although it may only be an accu\u00admu\u00adla\u00adtion of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. Remem\u00adber, thou hast made me more pow\u00ader\u00adful than thy\u00adself; my height is supe\u00adri\u00ador to thine, my joints more sup\u00adple. But I will not be tempt\u00aded to set myself in oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion to thee. I am thy crea\u00adture, and I will be even mild and docile to my nat\u00adur\u00adal lord and king if thou wilt also per\u00adform thy part, the which thou owest me. Oh, Franken\u00adstein, be not equi\u00adtable to every oth\u00ader and tram\u00adple upon me alone, to whom thy jus\u00adtice, and even thy clemen\u00adcy and affec\u00adtion, is most due. Remem\u00adber that I am thy crea\u00adture; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fall\u00aden angel, whom thou dri\u00advest from joy for no mis\u00addeed. Every\u00adwhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrev\u00ado\u00adca\u00adbly exclud\u00aded. I was benev\u00ado\u00adlent and good; mis\u00adery made me a fiend. Make me hap\u00adpy, and I shall again be virtuous.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBegone! I will not hear you. There can be no com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty between you and me; we are ene\u00admies. Begone, or let us try our strength in a fight, in which one must fall.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cHow can I move thee? Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy crea\u00adture, who implores thy good\u00adness and com\u00adpas\u00adsion? Believe me, Franken\u00adstein, I was benev\u00ado\u00adlent; my soul glowed with love and human\u00adi\u00adty; but am I not alone, mis\u00ader\u00adably alone? You, my cre\u00adator, abhor me; what hope can I gath\u00ader from your fel\u00adlow crea\u00adtures, who owe me noth\u00ading? They spurn and hate me. The desert moun\u00adtains and drea\u00adry glac\u00adi\u00aders are my refuge. I have wan\u00addered here many days; the caves of ice, which I only do not fear, are a dwelling to me, and the only one which man does not grudge. These bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than your fel\u00adlow beings. If the mul\u00adti\u00adtude of mankind knew of my exis\u00adtence, they would do as you do, and arm them\u00adselves for my destruc\u00adtion. Shall I not then hate them who abhor me? I will keep no terms with my ene\u00admies. I am mis\u00ader\u00adable, and they shall share my wretched\u00adness. Yet it is in your pow\u00ader to rec\u00adom\u00adpense me, and deliv\u00ader them from an evil which it only remains for you to make so great, that not only you and your fam\u00adi\u00adly, but thou\u00adsands of oth\u00aders, shall be swal\u00adlowed up in the whirl\u00adwinds of its rage. Let your com\u00adpas\u00adsion be moved, and do not dis\u00addain me. Lis\u00adten to my tale; when you have heard that, aban\u00addon or com\u00admis\u00ader\u00adate me, as you shall judge that I deserve. But hear me. The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are con\u00addemned. Lis\u00adten to me, Franken\u00adstein. You accuse me of mur\u00adder, and yet you would, with a sat\u00adis\u00adfied con\u00adscience, destroy your own crea\u00adture. Oh, praise the eter\u00adnal jus\u00adtice of man! Yet I ask you not to spare me; lis\u00adten to me, and then, if you can, and if you will, destroy the work of your hands.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do you call to my remem\u00adbrance,\u201d I rejoined, \u201ccir\u00adcum\u00adstances of which I shud\u00adder to reflect, that I have been the mis\u00ader\u00adable ori\u00adgin and author? Cursed be the day, abhorred dev\u00adil, in which you first saw light! Cursed (although I curse myself) be the hands that formed you! You have made me wretched beyond expres\u00adsion. You have left me no pow\u00ader to con\u00adsid\u00ader whether I am just to you or not. Begone! Relieve me from the sight of your detest\u00aded form.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThus I relieve thee, my cre\u00adator,\u201d he said, and placed his hat\u00aded hands before my eyes, which I flung from me with vio\u00adlence; \u201cthus I take from thee a sight which you abhor. Still thou canst lis\u00adten to me and grant me thy com\u00adpas\u00adsion. By the virtues that I once pos\u00adsessed, I demand this from you. Hear my tale; it is long and strange, and the tem\u00adper\u00ada\u00adture of this place is not fit\u00adting to your fine sen\u00adsa\u00adtions; come to the hut upon the moun\u00adtain. The sun is yet high in the heav\u00adens; before it descends to hide itself behind your snowy precipices and illu\u00admi\u00adnate anoth\u00ader world, you will have heard my sto\u00adry and can decide. On you it rests, whether I quit for ever the neigh\u00adbour\u00adhood of man and lead a harm\u00adless life, or become the scourge of your fel\u00adlow crea\u00adtures and the author of your own speedy ruin.\u201d <\/p>\n

As he said this he led the way across the ice; I fol\u00adlowed. My heart was full, and I did not answer him, but as I pro\u00adceed\u00aded, I weighed the var\u00adi\u00adous argu\u00adments that he had used and deter\u00admined at least to lis\u00adten to his tale. I was part\u00adly urged by curios\u00adi\u00adty, and com\u00adpas\u00adsion con\u00adfirmed my res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion. I had hith\u00ader\u00adto sup\u00adposed him to be the mur\u00adder\u00ader of my broth\u00ader, and I eager\u00adly sought a con\u00adfir\u00adma\u00adtion or denial of this opin\u00adion. For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a cre\u00adator towards his crea\u00adture were, and that I ought to ren\u00adder him hap\u00adpy before I com\u00adplained of his wicked\u00adness. These motives urged me to com\u00adply with his demand. We crossed the ice, there\u00adfore, and ascend\u00aded the oppo\u00adsite rock. The air was cold, and the rain again began to descend; we entered the hut, the fiend with an air of exul\u00adta\u00adtion, I with a heavy heart and depressed spir\u00adits. But I con\u00adsent\u00aded to lis\u00adten, and seat\u00ading myself by the fire which my odi\u00adous com\u00adpan\u00adion had light\u00aded, he thus began his tale. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cIt is with con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty that I remem\u00adber the orig\u00adi\u00adnal era of my being; all the events of that peri\u00adod appear con\u00adfused and indis\u00adtinct. A strange mul\u00adti\u00adplic\u00adi\u00adty of sen\u00adsa\u00adtions seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to dis\u00adtin\u00adguish between the oper\u00ada\u00adtions of my var\u00adi\u00adous sens\u00ades. By degrees, I remem\u00adber, a stronger light pressed upon my nerves, so that I was oblig\u00aded to shut my eyes. Dark\u00adness then came over me and trou\u00adbled me, but hard\u00adly had I felt this when, by open\u00ading my eyes, as I now sup\u00adpose, the light poured in upon me again. I walked and, I believe, descend\u00aded, but I present\u00adly found a great alter\u00adation in my sen\u00adsa\u00adtions. Before, dark and opaque bod\u00adies had sur\u00adround\u00aded me, imper\u00advi\u00adous to my touch or sight; but I now found that I could wan\u00adder on at lib\u00ader\u00adty, with no obsta\u00adcles which I could not either sur\u00admount or avoid. The light became more and more oppres\u00adsive to me, and the heat weary\u00ading me as I walked, I sought a place where I could receive shade. This was the for\u00adest near Ingol\u00adstadt; and here I lay by the side of a brook rest\u00ading from my fatigue, until I felt tor\u00adment\u00aded by hunger and thirst. This roused me from my near\u00adly dor\u00admant state, and I ate some berries which I found hang\u00ading on the trees or lying on the ground. I slaked my thirst at the brook, and then lying down, was over\u00adcome by sleep. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half fright\u00adened, as it were, instinc\u00adtive\u00adly, find\u00ading myself so des\u00ado\u00adlate. Before I had quit\u00adted your apart\u00adment, on a sen\u00adsa\u00adtion of cold, I had cov\u00adered myself with some clothes, but these were insuf\u00adfi\u00adcient to secure me from the dews of night. I was a poor, help\u00adless, mis\u00ader\u00adable wretch; I knew, and could dis\u00adtin\u00adguish, noth\u00ading; but feel\u00ading pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept. <\/p>\n

\u201cSoon a gen\u00adtle light stole over the heav\u00adens and gave me a sen\u00adsa\u00adtion of plea\u00adsure. I start\u00aded up and beheld a radi\u00adant form rise from among the trees. [The moon] I gazed with a kind of won\u00adder. It moved slow\u00adly, but it enlight\u00adened my path, and I again went out in search of berries. I was still cold when under one of the trees I found a huge cloak, with which I cov\u00adered myself, and sat down upon the ground. No dis\u00adtinct ideas occu\u00adpied my mind; all was con\u00adfused. I felt light, and hunger, and thirst, and dark\u00adness; innu\u00admer\u00adable sounds rang in my ears, and on all sides var\u00adi\u00adous scents salut\u00aded me; the only object that I could dis\u00adtin\u00adguish was the bright moon, and I fixed my eyes on that with pleasure. <\/p>\n

\u201cSev\u00ader\u00adal changes of day and night passed, and the orb of night had great\u00adly less\u00adened, when I began to dis\u00adtin\u00adguish my sen\u00adsa\u00adtions from each oth\u00ader. I grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly saw plain\u00adly the clear stream that sup\u00adplied me with drink and the trees that shad\u00aded me with their foliage. I was delight\u00aded when I first dis\u00adcov\u00adered that a pleas\u00adant sound, which often salut\u00aded my ears, pro\u00adceed\u00aded from the throats of the lit\u00adtle winged ani\u00admals who had often inter\u00adcept\u00aded the light from my eyes. I began also to observe, with greater accu\u00adra\u00adcy, the forms that sur\u00adround\u00aded me and to per\u00adceive the bound\u00adaries of the radi\u00adant roof of light which canopied me. Some\u00adtimes I tried to imi\u00adtate the pleas\u00adant songs of the birds but was unable. Some\u00adtimes I wished to express my sen\u00adsa\u00adtions in my own mode, but the uncouth and inar\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlate sounds which broke from me fright\u00adened me into silence again. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe moon had dis\u00adap\u00adpeared from the night, and again, with a less\u00adened form, showed itself, while I still remained in the for\u00adest. My sen\u00adsa\u00adtions had by this time become dis\u00adtinct, and my mind received every day addi\u00adtion\u00adal ideas. My eyes became accus\u00adtomed to the light and to per\u00adceive objects in their right forms; I dis\u00adtin\u00adguished the insect from the herb, and by degrees, one herb from anoth\u00ader. I found that the spar\u00adrow uttered none but harsh notes, whilst those of the black\u00adbird and thrush were sweet and enticing. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne day, when I was oppressed by cold, I found a fire which had been left by some wan\u00adder\u00ading beg\u00adgars, and was over\u00adcome with delight at the warmth I expe\u00adri\u00adenced from it. In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quick\u00adly drew it out again with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought, that the same cause should pro\u00adduce such oppo\u00adsite effects! I exam\u00adined the mate\u00adri\u00adals of the fire, and to my joy found it to be com\u00adposed of wood. I quick\u00adly col\u00adlect\u00aded some branch\u00ades, but they were wet and would not burn. I was pained at this and sat still watch\u00ading the oper\u00ada\u00adtion of the fire. The wet wood which I had placed near the heat dried and itself became inflamed. I reflect\u00aded on this, and by touch\u00ading the var\u00adi\u00adous branch\u00ades, I dis\u00adcov\u00adered the cause and bus\u00adied myself in col\u00adlect\u00ading a great quan\u00adti\u00adty of wood, that I might dry it and have a plen\u00adti\u00adful sup\u00adply of fire. When night came on and brought sleep with it, I was in the great\u00adest fear lest my fire should be extin\u00adguished. I cov\u00adered it care\u00adful\u00adly with dry wood and leaves and placed wet branch\u00ades upon it; and then, spread\u00ading my cloak, I lay on the ground and sank into sleep. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was morn\u00ading when I awoke, and my first care was to vis\u00adit the fire. I uncov\u00adered it, and a gen\u00adtle breeze quick\u00adly fanned it into a flame. I observed this also and con\u00adtrived a fan of branch\u00ades, which roused the embers when they were near\u00adly extin\u00adguished. When night came again I found, with plea\u00adsure, that the fire gave light as well as heat and that the dis\u00adcov\u00adery of this ele\u00adment was use\u00adful to me in my food, for I found some of the offals that the trav\u00adellers had left had been roast\u00aded, and tast\u00aded much more savoury than the berries I gath\u00adered from the trees. I tried, there\u00adfore, to dress my food in the same man\u00adner, plac\u00ading it on the live embers. I found that the berries were spoiled by this oper\u00ada\u00adtion, and the nuts and roots much improved. <\/p>\n

\u201cFood, how\u00adev\u00ader, became scarce, and I often spent the whole day search\u00ading in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger. When I found this, I resolved to quit the place that I had hith\u00ader\u00adto inhab\u00adit\u00aded, to seek for one where the few wants I expe\u00adri\u00adenced would be more eas\u00adi\u00adly sat\u00adis\u00adfied. In this emi\u00adgra\u00adtion I exceed\u00ading\u00adly lament\u00aded the loss of the fire which I had obtained through acci\u00addent and knew not how to repro\u00adduce it. I gave sev\u00ader\u00adal hours to the seri\u00adous con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of this dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty, but I was oblig\u00aded to relin\u00adquish all attempt to sup\u00adply it, and wrap\u00adping myself up in my cloak, I struck across the wood towards the set\u00adting sun. I passed three days in these ram\u00adbles and at length dis\u00adcov\u00adered the open coun\u00adtry. A great fall of snow had tak\u00aden place the night before, and the fields were of one uni\u00adform white; the appear\u00adance was dis\u00adcon\u00adso\u00adlate, and I found my feet chilled by the cold damp sub\u00adstance that cov\u00adered the ground. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was about sev\u00aden in the morn\u00ading, and I longed to obtain food and shel\u00adter; at length I per\u00adceived a small hut, on a ris\u00ading ground, which had doubt\u00adless been built for the con\u00adve\u00adnience of some shep\u00adherd. This was a new sight to me, and I exam\u00adined the struc\u00adture with great curios\u00adi\u00adty. Find\u00ading the door open, I entered. An old man sat in it, near a fire, over which he was prepar\u00ading his break\u00adfast. He turned on hear\u00ading a noise, and per\u00adceiv\u00ading me, shrieked loud\u00adly, and quit\u00adting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debil\u00adi\u00adtat\u00aded form hard\u00adly appeared capa\u00adble. His appear\u00adance, dif\u00adfer\u00adent from any I had ever before seen, and his flight some\u00adwhat sur\u00adprised me. But I was enchant\u00aded by the appear\u00adance of the hut; here the snow and rain could not pen\u00ade\u00adtrate; the ground was dry; and it pre\u00adsent\u00aded to me then as exquis\u00adite and divine a retreat as Pand\u00e6\u00admo\u00adni\u00adum appeared to the d\u00e6mons of hell after their suf\u00adfer\u00adings in the lake of fire. I greed\u00adi\u00adly devoured the rem\u00adnants of the shepherd\u2019s break\u00adfast, which con\u00adsist\u00aded of bread, cheese, milk, and wine; the lat\u00adter, how\u00adev\u00ader, I did not like. Then, over\u00adcome by fatigue, I lay down among some straw and fell asleep. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was noon when I awoke, and allured by the warmth of the sun, which shone bright\u00adly on the white ground, I deter\u00admined to recom\u00admence my trav\u00adels; and, deposit\u00ading the remains of the peasant\u2019s break\u00adfast in a wal\u00adlet I found, I pro\u00adceed\u00aded across the fields for sev\u00ader\u00adal hours, until at sun\u00adset I arrived at a vil\u00adlage. How mirac\u00adu\u00adlous did this appear! The huts, the neater cot\u00adtages, and state\u00adly hous\u00ades engaged my admi\u00adra\u00adtion by turns. The veg\u00adeta\u00adbles in the gar\u00addens, the milk and cheese that I saw placed at the win\u00addows of some of the cot\u00adtages, allured my appetite. One of the best of these I entered, but I had hard\u00adly placed my foot with\u00adin the door before the chil\u00addren shrieked, and one of the women faint\u00aded. The whole vil\u00adlage was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, griev\u00adous\u00adly bruised by stones and many oth\u00ader kinds of mis\u00adsile weapons, I escaped to the open coun\u00adtry and fear\u00adful\u00adly took refuge in a low hov\u00adel, quite bare, and mak\u00ading a wretched appear\u00adance after the palaces I had beheld in the vil\u00adlage. This hov\u00adel how\u00adev\u00ader, joined a cot\u00adtage of a neat and pleas\u00adant appear\u00adance, but after my late dear\u00adly bought expe\u00adri\u00adence, I dared not enter it. My place of refuge was con\u00adstruct\u00aded of wood, but so low that I could with dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty sit upright in it. No wood, how\u00adev\u00ader, was placed on the earth, which formed the floor, but it was dry; and although the wind entered it by innu\u00admer\u00adable chinks, I found it an agree\u00adable asy\u00adlum from the snow and rain. <\/p>\n

\u201cHere, then, I retreat\u00aded and lay down hap\u00adpy to have found a shel\u00adter, how\u00adev\u00ader mis\u00ader\u00adable, from the inclemen\u00adcy of the sea\u00adson, and still more from the bar\u00adbar\u00adi\u00adty of man. As soon as morn\u00ading dawned I crept from my ken\u00adnel, that I might view the adja\u00adcent cot\u00adtage and dis\u00adcov\u00ader if I could remain in the habi\u00adta\u00adtion I had found. It was sit\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded against the back of the cot\u00adtage and sur\u00adround\u00aded on the sides which were exposed by a pig sty and a clear pool of water. One part was open, and by that I had crept in; but now I cov\u00adered every crevice by which I might be per\u00adceived with stones and wood, yet in such a man\u00adner that I might move them on occa\u00adsion to pass out; all the light I enjoyed came through the sty, and that was suf\u00adfi\u00adcient for me. <\/p>\n

\u201cHav\u00ading thus arranged my dwelling and car\u00adpet\u00aded it with clean straw, I retired, for I saw the fig\u00adure of a man at a dis\u00adtance, and I remem\u00adbered too well my treat\u00adment the night before to trust myself in his pow\u00ader. I had first, how\u00adev\u00ader, pro\u00advid\u00aded for my sus\u00adte\u00adnance for that day by a loaf of coarse bread, which I pur\u00adloined, and a cup with which I could drink more con\u00adve\u00adnient\u00adly than from my hand of the pure water which flowed by my retreat. The floor was a lit\u00adtle raised, so that it was kept per\u00adfect\u00adly dry, and by its vicin\u00adi\u00adty to the chim\u00adney of the cot\u00adtage it was tol\u00ader\u00ada\u00adbly warm. <\/p>\n

\u201cBeing thus pro\u00advid\u00aded, I resolved to reside in this hov\u00adel until some\u00adthing should occur which might alter my deter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion. It was indeed a par\u00adadise com\u00adpared to the bleak for\u00adest, my for\u00admer res\u00adi\u00addence, the rain-drop\u00adping branch\u00ades, and dank earth. I ate my break\u00adfast with plea\u00adsure and was about to remove a plank to pro\u00adcure myself a lit\u00adtle water when I heard a step, and look\u00ading through a small chink, I beheld a young crea\u00adture, with a pail on her head, pass\u00ading before my hov\u00adel. The girl was young and of gen\u00adtle demeanour, unlike what I have since found cot\u00adtagers and farm\u00adhouse ser\u00advants to be. Yet she was mean\u00adly dressed, a coarse blue pet\u00adti\u00adcoat and a linen jack\u00adet being her only garb; her fair hair was plait\u00aded but not adorned: she looked patient yet sad. I lost sight of her, and in about a quar\u00adter of an hour she returned bear\u00ading the pail, which was now part\u00adly filled with milk. As she walked along, seem\u00ading\u00adly incom\u00admod\u00aded by the bur\u00adden, a young man met her, whose coun\u00adte\u00adnance expressed a deep\u00ader despon\u00addence. Utter\u00ading a few sounds with an air of melan\u00adcholy, he took the pail from her head and bore it to the cot\u00adtage him\u00adself. She fol\u00adlowed, and they dis\u00adap\u00adpeared. Present\u00adly I saw the young man again, with some tools in his hand, cross the field behind the cot\u00adtage; and the girl was also bus\u00adied, some\u00adtimes in the house and some\u00adtimes in the yard. <\/p>\n

\u201cOn exam\u00adin\u00ading my dwelling, I found that one of the win\u00addows of the cot\u00adtage had for\u00admer\u00adly occu\u00adpied a part of it, but the panes had been filled up with wood. In one of these was a small and almost imper\u00adcep\u00adti\u00adble chink through which the eye could just pen\u00ade\u00adtrate. Through this crevice a small room was vis\u00adi\u00adble, white\u00adwashed and clean but very bare of fur\u00adni\u00adture. In one cor\u00adner, near a small fire, sat an old man, lean\u00ading his head on his hands in a dis\u00adcon\u00adso\u00adlate atti\u00adtude. The young girl was occu\u00adpied in arrang\u00ading the cot\u00adtage; but present\u00adly she took some\u00adthing out of a draw\u00ader, which employed her hands, and she sat down beside the old man, who, tak\u00ading up an instru\u00adment, began to play and to pro\u00adduce sounds sweet\u00ader than the voice of the thrush or the nightin\u00adgale. It was a love\u00adly sight, even to me, poor wretch who had nev\u00ader beheld aught beau\u00adti\u00adful before. The sil\u00adver hair and benev\u00ado\u00adlent coun\u00adte\u00adnance of the aged cot\u00adtager won my rev\u00ader\u00adence, while the gen\u00adtle man\u00adners of the girl enticed my love. He played a sweet mourn\u00adful air which I per\u00adceived drew tears from the eyes of his ami\u00adable com\u00adpan\u00adion, of which the old man took no notice, until she sobbed audi\u00adbly; he then pro\u00adnounced a few sounds, and the fair crea\u00adture, leav\u00ading her work, knelt at his feet. He raised her and smiled with such kind\u00adness and affec\u00adtion that I felt sen\u00adsa\u00adtions of a pecu\u00adliar and over\u00adpow\u00ader\u00ading nature; they were a mix\u00adture of pain and plea\u00adsure, such as I had nev\u00ader before expe\u00adri\u00adenced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and I with\u00addrew from the win\u00addow, unable to bear these emotions. <\/p>\n

\u201cSoon after this the young man returned, bear\u00ading on his shoul\u00adders a load of wood. The girl met him at the door, helped to relieve him of his bur\u00adden, and tak\u00ading some of the fuel into the cot\u00adtage, placed it on the fire; then she and the youth went apart into a nook of the cot\u00adtage, and he showed her a large loaf and a piece of cheese. She seemed pleased and went into the gar\u00adden for some roots and plants, which she placed in water, and then upon the fire. She after\u00adwards con\u00adtin\u00adued her work, whilst the young man went into the gar\u00adden and appeared busi\u00adly employed in dig\u00adging and pulling up roots. After he had been employed thus about an hour, the young woman joined him and they entered the cot\u00adtage together. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe old man had, in the mean\u00adtime, been pen\u00adsive, but on the appear\u00adance of his com\u00adpan\u00adions he assumed a more cheer\u00adful air, and they sat down to eat. The meal was quick\u00adly dis\u00adpatched. The young woman was again occu\u00adpied in arrang\u00ading the cot\u00adtage, the old man walked before the cot\u00adtage in the sun for a few min\u00adutes, lean\u00ading on the arm of the youth. Noth\u00ading could exceed in beau\u00adty the con\u00adtrast between these two excel\u00adlent crea\u00adtures. One was old, with sil\u00adver hairs and a coun\u00adte\u00adnance beam\u00ading with benev\u00ado\u00adlence and love; the younger was slight and grace\u00adful in his fig\u00adure, and his fea\u00adtures were mould\u00aded with the finest sym\u00adme\u00adtry, yet his eyes and atti\u00adtude expressed the utmost sad\u00adness and despon\u00adden\u00adcy. The old man returned to the cot\u00adtage, and the youth, with tools dif\u00adfer\u00adent from those he had used in the morn\u00ading, direct\u00aded his steps across the fields. <\/p>\n

\u201cNight quick\u00adly shut in, but to my extreme won\u00adder, I found that the cot\u00adtagers had a means of pro\u00adlong\u00ading light by the use of tapers, and was delight\u00aded to find that the set\u00adting of the sun did not put an end to the plea\u00adsure I expe\u00adri\u00adenced in watch\u00ading my human neigh\u00adbours. In the evening the young girl and her com\u00adpan\u00adion were employed in var\u00adi\u00adous occu\u00adpa\u00adtions which I did not under\u00adstand; and the old man again took up the instru\u00adment which pro\u00adduced the divine sounds that had enchant\u00aded me in the morn\u00ading. So soon as he had fin\u00adished, the youth began, not to play, but to utter sounds that were monot\u00ado\u00adnous, and nei\u00adther resem\u00adbling the har\u00admo\u00adny of the old man\u2019s instru\u00adment nor the songs of the birds; I since found that he read aloud, but at that time I knew noth\u00ading of the sci\u00adence of words or letters. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe fam\u00adi\u00adly, after hav\u00ading been thus occu\u00adpied for a short time, extin\u00adguished their lights and retired, as I con\u00adjec\u00adtured, to rest.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cI lay on my straw, but I could not sleep. I thought of the occur\u00adrences of the day. What chiefly struck me was the gen\u00adtle man\u00adners of these peo\u00adple, and I longed to join them, but dared not. I remem\u00adbered too well the treat\u00adment I had suf\u00adfered the night before from the bar\u00adbarous vil\u00adlagers, and resolved, what\u00adev\u00ader course of con\u00adduct I might here\u00adafter think it right to pur\u00adsue, that for the present I would remain qui\u00adet\u00adly in my hov\u00adel, watch\u00ading and endeav\u00adour\u00ading to dis\u00adcov\u00ader the motives which influ\u00adenced their actions. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe cot\u00adtagers arose the next morn\u00ading before the sun. The young woman arranged the cot\u00adtage and pre\u00adpared the food, and the youth depart\u00aded after the first meal. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis day was passed in the same rou\u00adtine as that which pre\u00adced\u00aded it. The young man was con\u00adstant\u00adly employed out of doors, and the girl in var\u00adi\u00adous labo\u00adri\u00adous occu\u00adpa\u00adtions with\u00adin. The old man, whom I soon per\u00adceived to be blind, employed his leisure hours on his instru\u00adment or in con\u00adtem\u00adpla\u00adtion. Noth\u00ading could exceed the love and respect which the younger cot\u00adtagers exhib\u00adit\u00aded towards their ven\u00ader\u00ada\u00adble com\u00adpan\u00adion. They per\u00adformed towards him every lit\u00adtle office of affec\u00adtion and duty with gen\u00adtle\u00adness, and he reward\u00aded them by his benev\u00ado\u00adlent smiles. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey were not entire\u00adly hap\u00adpy. The young man and his com\u00adpan\u00adion often went apart and appeared to weep. I saw no cause for their unhap\u00adpi\u00adness, but I was deeply affect\u00aded by it. If such love\u00adly crea\u00adtures were mis\u00ader\u00adable, it was less strange that I, an imper\u00adfect and soli\u00adtary being, should be wretched. Yet why were these gen\u00adtle beings unhap\u00adpy? They pos\u00adsessed a delight\u00adful house (for such it was in my eyes) and every lux\u00adu\u00adry; they had a fire to warm them when chill and deli\u00adcious viands when hun\u00adgry; they were dressed in excel\u00adlent clothes; and, still more, they enjoyed one another\u2019s com\u00adpa\u00adny and speech, inter\u00adchang\u00ading each day looks of affec\u00adtion and kind\u00adness. What did their tears imply? Did they real\u00adly express pain? I was at first unable to solve these ques\u00adtions, but per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal atten\u00adtion and time explained to me many appear\u00adances which were at first enigmatic. <\/p>\n

\u201cA con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable peri\u00adod elapsed before I dis\u00adcov\u00adered one of the caus\u00ades of the uneasi\u00adness of this ami\u00adable fam\u00adi\u00adly: it was pover\u00adty, and they suf\u00adfered that evil in a very dis\u00adtress\u00ading degree. Their nour\u00adish\u00adment con\u00adsist\u00aded entire\u00adly of the veg\u00adeta\u00adbles of their gar\u00adden and the milk of one cow, which gave very lit\u00adtle dur\u00ading the win\u00adter, when its mas\u00adters could scarce\u00adly pro\u00adcure food to sup\u00adport it. They often, I believe, suf\u00adfered the pangs of hunger very poignant\u00adly, espe\u00adcial\u00adly the two younger cot\u00adtagers, for sev\u00ader\u00adal times they placed food before the old man when they reserved none for themselves. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis trait of kind\u00adness moved me sen\u00adsi\u00adbly. I had been accus\u00adtomed, dur\u00ading the night, to steal a part of their store for my own con\u00adsump\u00adtion, but when I found that in doing this I inflict\u00aded pain on the cot\u00adtagers, I abstained and sat\u00adis\u00adfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots which I gath\u00adered from a neigh\u00adbour\u00ading wood. <\/p>\n

\u201cI dis\u00adcov\u00adered also anoth\u00ader means through which I was enabled to assist their labours. I found that the youth spent a great part of each day in col\u00adlect\u00ading wood for the fam\u00adi\u00adly fire, and dur\u00ading the night I often took his tools, the use of which I quick\u00adly dis\u00adcov\u00adered, and brought home fir\u00ading suf\u00adfi\u00adcient for the con\u00adsump\u00adtion of sev\u00ader\u00adal days. <\/p>\n

\u201cI remem\u00adber, the first time that I did this, the young woman, when she opened the door in the morn\u00ading, appeared great\u00adly aston\u00adished on see\u00ading a great pile of wood on the out\u00adside. She uttered some words in a loud voice, and the youth joined her, who also expressed sur\u00adprise. I observed, with plea\u00adsure, that he did not go to the for\u00adest that day, but spent it in repair\u00ading the cot\u00adtage and cul\u00adti\u00advat\u00ading the garden. <\/p>\n

\u201cBy degrees I made a dis\u00adcov\u00adery of still greater moment. I found that these peo\u00adple pos\u00adsessed a method of com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00ading their expe\u00adri\u00adence and feel\u00adings to one anoth\u00ader by artic\u00adu\u00adlate sounds. I per\u00adceived that the words they spoke some\u00adtimes pro\u00adduced plea\u00adsure or pain, smiles or sad\u00adness, in the minds and coun\u00adte\u00adnances of the hear\u00aders. This was indeed a god\u00adlike sci\u00adence, and I ardent\u00adly desired to become acquaint\u00aded with it. But I was baf\u00adfled in every attempt I made for this pur\u00adpose. Their pro\u00adnun\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion was quick, and the words they uttered, not hav\u00ading any appar\u00adent con\u00adnec\u00adtion with vis\u00adi\u00adble objects, I was unable to dis\u00adcov\u00ader any clue by which I could unrav\u00adel the mys\u00adtery of their ref\u00ader\u00adence. By great appli\u00adca\u00adtion, how\u00adev\u00ader, and after hav\u00ading remained dur\u00ading the space of sev\u00ader\u00adal rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtions of the moon in my hov\u00adel, I dis\u00adcov\u00adered the names that were giv\u00aden to some of the most famil\u00adiar objects of dis\u00adcourse; I learned and applied the words, fire, milk, bread,<\/span> and wood.<\/span> I learned also the names of the cot\u00adtagers them\u00adselves. The youth and his com\u00adpan\u00adion had each of them sev\u00ader\u00adal names, but the old man had only one, which was father.<\/span> The girl was called sis\u00adter<\/span> or Agatha,<\/span> and the youth Felix, broth\u00ader,<\/span> or son<\/span>. I can\u00adnot describe the delight I felt when I learned the ideas appro\u00adpri\u00adat\u00aded to each of these sounds and was able to pro\u00adnounce them. I dis\u00adtin\u00adguished sev\u00ader\u00adal oth\u00ader words with\u00adout being able as yet to under\u00adstand or apply them, such as good<\/span>, dear\u00adest, unhap\u00adpy.<\/span> <\/p>\n

\u201cI spent the win\u00adter in this man\u00adner. The gen\u00adtle man\u00adners and beau\u00adty of the cot\u00adtagers great\u00adly endeared them to me; when they were unhap\u00adpy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sym\u00adpa\u00adthised in their joys. I saw few human beings besides them, and if any oth\u00ader hap\u00adpened to enter the cot\u00adtage, their harsh man\u00adners and rude gait only enhanced to me the supe\u00adri\u00ador accom\u00adplish\u00adments of my friends. The old man, I could per\u00adceive, often endeav\u00adoured to encour\u00adage his chil\u00addren, as some\u00adtimes I found that he called them, to cast off their melan\u00adcholy. He would talk in a cheer\u00adful accent, with an expres\u00adsion of good\u00adness that bestowed plea\u00adsure even upon me. Agatha lis\u00adtened with respect, her eyes some\u00adtimes filled with tears, which she endeav\u00adoured to wipe away unper\u00adceived; but I gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly found that her coun\u00adte\u00adnance and tone were more cheer\u00adful after hav\u00ading lis\u00adtened to the exhor\u00adta\u00adtions of her father. It was not thus with Felix. He was always the sad\u00addest of the group, and even to my unprac\u00adtised sens\u00ades, he appeared to have suf\u00adfered more deeply than his friends. But if his coun\u00adte\u00adnance was more sor\u00adrow\u00adful, his voice was more cheer\u00adful than that of his sis\u00adter, espe\u00adcial\u00adly when he addressed the old man. <\/p>\n

\u201cI could men\u00adtion innu\u00admer\u00adable instances which, although slight, marked the dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions of these ami\u00adable cot\u00adtagers. In the midst of pover\u00adty and want, Felix car\u00adried with plea\u00adsure to his sis\u00adter the first lit\u00adtle white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground. Ear\u00adly in the morn\u00ading, before she had risen, he cleared away the snow that obstruct\u00aded her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well, and brought the wood from the out\u00adhouse, where, to his per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal aston\u00adish\u00adment, he found his store always replen\u00adished by an invis\u00adi\u00adble hand. In the day, I believe, he worked some\u00adtimes for a neigh\u00adbour\u00ading farmer, because he often went forth and did not return until din\u00adner, yet brought no wood with him. At oth\u00ader times he worked in the gar\u00adden, but as there was lit\u00adtle to do in the frosty sea\u00adson, he read to the old man and Agatha. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis read\u00ading had puz\u00adzled me extreme\u00adly at first, but by degrees I dis\u00adcov\u00adered that he uttered many of the same sounds when he read as when he talked. I con\u00adjec\u00adtured, there\u00adfore, that he found on the paper signs for speech which he under\u00adstood, and I ardent\u00adly longed to com\u00adpre\u00adhend these also; but how was that pos\u00adsi\u00adble when I did not even under\u00adstand the sounds for which they stood as signs? I improved, how\u00adev\u00ader, sen\u00adsi\u00adbly in this sci\u00adence, but not suf\u00adfi\u00adcient\u00adly to fol\u00adlow up any kind of con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion, although I applied my whole mind to the endeav\u00adour, for I eas\u00adi\u00adly per\u00adceived that, although I eager\u00adly longed to dis\u00adcov\u00ader myself to the cot\u00adtagers, I ought not to make the attempt until I had first become mas\u00adter of their lan\u00adguage, which knowl\u00adedge might enable me to make them over\u00adlook the defor\u00admi\u00adty of my fig\u00adure, for with this also the con\u00adtrast per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly pre\u00adsent\u00aded to my eyes had made me acquainted. <\/p>\n

\u201cI had admired the per\u00adfect forms of my cottagers\u2014their grace, beau\u00adty, and del\u00adi\u00adcate com\u00adplex\u00adions; but how was I ter\u00adri\u00adfied when I viewed myself in a trans\u00adpar\u00adent pool! At first I start\u00aded back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflect\u00aded in the mir\u00adror; and when I became ful\u00adly con\u00advinced that I was in real\u00adi\u00adty the mon\u00adster that I am, I was filled with the bit\u00adter\u00adest sen\u00adsa\u00adtions of despon\u00addence and mor\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion. Alas! I did not yet entire\u00adly know the fatal effects of this mis\u00ader\u00adable deformity. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs the sun became warmer and the light of day longer, the snow van\u00adished, and I beheld the bare trees and the black earth. From this time Felix was more employed, and the heart-mov\u00ading indi\u00adca\u00adtions of impend\u00ading famine dis\u00adap\u00adpeared. Their food, as I after\u00adwards found, was coarse, but it was whole\u00adsome; and they pro\u00adcured a suf\u00adfi\u00adcien\u00adcy of it. Sev\u00ader\u00adal new kinds of plants sprang up in the gar\u00adden, which they dressed; and these signs of com\u00adfort increased dai\u00adly as the sea\u00adson advanced. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe old man, lean\u00ading on his son, walked each day at noon, when it did not rain, as I found it was called when the heav\u00adens poured forth its waters. This fre\u00adquent\u00adly took place, but a high wind quick\u00adly dried the earth, and the sea\u00adson became far more pleas\u00adant than it had been. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy mode of life in my hov\u00adel was uni\u00adform. Dur\u00ading the morn\u00ading I attend\u00aded the motions of the cot\u00adtagers, and when they were dis\u00adpersed in var\u00adi\u00adous occu\u00adpa\u00adtions, I slept; the remain\u00adder of the day was spent in observ\u00ading my friends. When they had retired to rest, if there was any moon or the night was star-light, I went into the woods and col\u00adlect\u00aded my own food and fuel for the cot\u00adtage. When I returned, as often as it was nec\u00ades\u00adsary, I cleared their path from the snow and per\u00adformed those offices that I had seen done by Felix. I after\u00adwards found that these labours, per\u00adformed by an invis\u00adi\u00adble hand, great\u00adly aston\u00adished them; and once or twice I heard them, on these occa\u00adsions, utter the words good spir\u00adit, won\u00adder\u00adful<\/span>; but I did not then under\u00adstand the sig\u00adni\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion of these terms. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy thoughts now became more active, and I longed to dis\u00adcov\u00ader the motives and feel\u00adings of these love\u00adly crea\u00adtures; I was inquis\u00adi\u00adtive to know why Felix appeared so mis\u00ader\u00adable and so sad. I thought (fool\u00adish wretch!) that it might be in my pow\u00ader to restore hap\u00adpi\u00adness to these deserv\u00ading peo\u00adple. When I slept or was absent, the forms of the ven\u00ader\u00ada\u00adble blind father, the gen\u00adtle Agatha, and the excel\u00adlent Felix flit\u00adted before me. I looked upon them as supe\u00adri\u00ador beings who would be the arbiters of my future des\u00adtiny. I formed in my imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion a thou\u00adsand pic\u00adtures of pre\u00adsent\u00ading myself to them, and their recep\u00adtion of me. I imag\u00adined that they would be dis\u00adgust\u00aded, until, by my gen\u00adtle demeanour and con\u00adcil\u00adi\u00adat\u00ading words, I should first win their favour and after\u00adwards their love. <\/p>\n

\u201cThese thoughts exhil\u00ada\u00adrat\u00aded me and led me to apply with fresh ardour to the acquir\u00ading the art of lan\u00adguage. My organs were indeed harsh, but sup\u00adple; and although my voice was very unlike the soft music of their tones, yet I pro\u00adnounced such words as I under\u00adstood with tol\u00ader\u00ada\u00adble ease. It was as the ass and the lap-dog; yet sure\u00adly the gen\u00adtle ass whose inten\u00adtions were affec\u00adtion\u00adate, although his man\u00adners were rude, deserved bet\u00adter treat\u00adment than blows and execration. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe pleas\u00adant show\u00aders and genial warmth of spring great\u00adly altered the aspect of the earth. Men who before this change seemed to have been hid in caves dis\u00adpersed them\u00adselves and were employed in var\u00adi\u00adous arts of cul\u00adti\u00adva\u00adtion. The birds sang in more cheer\u00adful notes, and the leaves began to bud forth on the trees. Hap\u00adpy, hap\u00adpy earth! Fit habi\u00adta\u00adtion for gods, which, so short a time before, was bleak, damp, and unwhole\u00adsome. My spir\u00adits were ele\u00advat\u00aded by the enchant\u00adi\u00adng appear\u00adance of nature; the past was blot\u00adted from my mem\u00ado\u00adry, the present was tran\u00adquil, and the future gild\u00aded by bright rays of hope and antic\u00adi\u00adpa\u00adtions of joy.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cI now has\u00adten to the more mov\u00ading part of my sto\u00adry. I shall relate events that impressed me with feel\u00adings which, from what I had been, have made me what I am. <\/p>\n

\u201cSpring advanced rapid\u00adly; the weath\u00ader became fine and the skies cloud\u00adless. It sur\u00adprised me that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beau\u00adti\u00adful flow\u00aders and ver\u00addure. My sens\u00ades were grat\u00adi\u00adfied and refreshed by a thou\u00adsand scents of delight and a thou\u00adsand sights of beauty. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was on one of these days, when my cot\u00adtagers peri\u00adod\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly rest\u00aded from labour\u2014the old man played on his gui\u00adtar, and the chil\u00addren lis\u00adtened to him\u2014that I observed the coun\u00adte\u00adnance of Felix was melan\u00adcholy beyond expres\u00adsion; he sighed fre\u00adquent\u00adly, and once his father paused in his music, and I con\u00adjec\u00adtured by his man\u00adner that he inquired the cause of his son\u2019s sor\u00adrow. Felix replied in a cheer\u00adful accent, and the old man was recom\u00admenc\u00ading his music when some\u00adone tapped at the door. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a lady on horse\u00adback, accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by a coun\u00adtry-man as a guide. The lady was dressed in a dark suit and cov\u00adered with a thick black veil. Agatha asked a ques\u00adtion, to which the stranger only replied by pro\u00adnounc\u00ading, in a sweet accent, the name of Felix. Her voice was musi\u00adcal but unlike that of either of my friends. On hear\u00ading this word, Felix came up hasti\u00adly to the lady, who, when she saw him, threw up her veil, and I beheld a coun\u00adte\u00adnance of angel\u00adic beau\u00adty and expres\u00adsion. Her hair of a shin\u00ading raven black, and curi\u00adous\u00adly braid\u00aded; her eyes were dark, but gen\u00adtle, although ani\u00admat\u00aded; her fea\u00adtures of a reg\u00adu\u00adlar pro\u00adpor\u00adtion, and her com\u00adplex\u00adion won\u00addrous\u00adly fair, each cheek tinged with a love\u00adly pink. <\/p>\n

\u201cFelix seemed rav\u00adished with delight when he saw her, every trait of sor\u00adrow van\u00adished from his face, and it instant\u00adly expressed a degree of ecsta\u00adt\u00adic joy, of which I could hard\u00adly have believed it capa\u00adble; his eyes sparkled, as his cheek flushed with plea\u00adsure; and at that moment I thought him as beau\u00adti\u00adful as the stranger. She appeared affect\u00aded by dif\u00adfer\u00adent feel\u00adings; wip\u00ading a few tears from her love\u00adly eyes, she held out her hand to Felix, who kissed it rap\u00adtur\u00adous\u00adly and called her, as well as I could dis\u00adtin\u00adguish, his sweet Ara\u00adbi\u00adan. She did not appear to under\u00adstand him, but smiled. He assist\u00aded her to dis\u00admount, and dis\u00admiss\u00ading her guide, con\u00adduct\u00aded her into the cot\u00adtage. Some con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion took place between him and his father, and the young stranger knelt at the old man\u2019s feet and would have kissed his hand, but he raised her and embraced her affectionately. <\/p>\n

\u201cI soon per\u00adceived that although the stranger uttered artic\u00adu\u00adlate sounds and appeared to have a lan\u00adguage of her own, she was nei\u00adther under\u00adstood by nor her\u00adself under\u00adstood the cot\u00adtagers. They made many signs which I did not com\u00adpre\u00adhend, but I saw that her pres\u00adence dif\u00adfused glad\u00adness through the cot\u00adtage, dis\u00adpelling their sor\u00adrow as the sun dis\u00adsi\u00adpates the morn\u00ading mists. Felix seemed pecu\u00adliar\u00adly hap\u00adpy and with smiles of delight wel\u00adcomed his Ara\u00adbi\u00adan. Agatha, the ever-gen\u00adtle Agatha, kissed the hands of the love\u00adly stranger, and point\u00ading to her broth\u00ader, made signs which appeared to me to mean that he had been sor\u00adrow\u00adful until she came. Some hours passed thus, while they, by their coun\u00adte\u00adnances, expressed joy, the cause of which I did not com\u00adpre\u00adhend. Present\u00adly I found, by the fre\u00adquent recur\u00adrence of some sound which the stranger repeat\u00aded after them, that she was endeav\u00adour\u00ading to learn their lan\u00adguage; and the idea instant\u00adly occurred to me that I should make use of the same instruc\u00adtions to the same end. The stranger learned about twen\u00adty words at the first les\u00adson; most of them, indeed, were those which I had before under\u00adstood, but I prof\u00adit\u00aded by the others. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs night came on, Agatha and the Ara\u00adbi\u00adan retired ear\u00adly. When they sep\u00ada\u00adrat\u00aded Felix kissed the hand of the stranger and said, \u2018Good night sweet Safie.\u2019 He sat up much longer, con\u00advers\u00ading with his father, and by the fre\u00adquent rep\u00ade\u00adti\u00adtion of her name I con\u00adjec\u00adtured that their love\u00adly guest was the sub\u00adject of their con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion. I ardent\u00adly desired to under\u00adstand them, and bent every fac\u00adul\u00adty towards that pur\u00adpose, but found it utter\u00adly impossible. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe next morn\u00ading Felix went out to his work, and after the usu\u00adal occu\u00adpa\u00adtions of Agatha were fin\u00adished, the Ara\u00adbi\u00adan sat at the feet of the old man, and tak\u00ading his gui\u00adtar, played some airs so entranc\u00ading\u00adly beau\u00adti\u00adful that they at once drew tears of sor\u00adrow and delight from my eyes. She sang, and her voice flowed in a rich cadence, swelling or dying away like a nightin\u00adgale of the woods. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen she had fin\u00adished, she gave the gui\u00adtar to Agatha, who at first declined it. She played a sim\u00adple air, and her voice accom\u00adpa\u00adnied it in sweet accents, but unlike the won\u00addrous strain of the stranger. The old man appeared enrap\u00adtured and said some words which Agatha endeav\u00adoured to explain to Safie, and by which he appeared to wish to express that she bestowed on him the great\u00adest delight by her music. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe days now passed as peace\u00adably as before, with the sole alter\u00adation that joy had tak\u00aden place of sad\u00adness in the coun\u00adte\u00adnances of my friends. Safie was always gay and hap\u00adpy; she and I improved rapid\u00adly in the knowl\u00adedge of lan\u00adguage, so that in two months I began to com\u00adpre\u00adhend most of the words uttered by my protectors. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the mean\u00adwhile also the black ground was cov\u00adered with herbage, and the green banks inter\u00adspersed with innu\u00admer\u00adable flow\u00aders, sweet to the scent and the eyes, stars of pale radi\u00adance among the moon\u00adlight woods; the sun became warmer, the nights clear and balmy; and my noc\u00adtur\u00adnal ram\u00adbles were an extreme plea\u00adsure to me, although they were con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adably short\u00adened by the late set\u00adting and ear\u00adly ris\u00ading of the sun, for I nev\u00ader ven\u00adtured abroad dur\u00ading day\u00adlight, fear\u00adful of meet\u00ading with the same treat\u00adment I had for\u00admer\u00adly endured in the first vil\u00adlage which I entered. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy days were spent in close atten\u00adtion, that I might more speed\u00adi\u00adly mas\u00adter the lan\u00adguage; and I may boast that I improved more rapid\u00adly than the Ara\u00adbi\u00adan, who under\u00adstood very lit\u00adtle and con\u00adversed in bro\u00adken accents, whilst I com\u00adpre\u00adhend\u00aded and could imi\u00adtate almost every word that was spoken. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I improved in speech, I also learned the sci\u00adence of let\u00adters as it was taught to the stranger, and this opened before me a wide field for won\u00adder and delight. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe book from which Felix instruct\u00aded Safie was Volney\u2019s Ruins of Empires<\/span>. I should not have under\u00adstood the pur\u00adport of this book had not Felix, in read\u00ading it, giv\u00aden very minute expla\u00adna\u00adtions. He had cho\u00adsen this work, he said, because the declam\u00ada\u00adto\u00adry style was framed in imi\u00adta\u00adtion of the East\u00adern authors. Through this work I obtained a cur\u00adso\u00adry knowl\u00adedge of his\u00adto\u00adry and a view of the sev\u00ader\u00adal empires at present exist\u00ading in the world; it gave me an insight into the man\u00adners, gov\u00adern\u00adments, and reli\u00adgions of the dif\u00adfer\u00adent nations of the earth. I heard of the sloth\u00adful Asi\u00adat\u00adics, of the stu\u00adpen\u00addous genius and men\u00adtal activ\u00adi\u00adty of the Gre\u00adcians, of the wars and won\u00adder\u00adful virtue of the ear\u00adly Romans\u2014of their sub\u00adse\u00adquent degenerating\u2014of the decline of that mighty empire, of chival\u00adry, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, and kings. I heard of the dis\u00adcov\u00adery of the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan hemi\u00adsphere and wept with Safie over the hap\u00adless fate of its orig\u00adi\u00adnal inhabitants. <\/p>\n

\u201cThese won\u00adder\u00adful nar\u00adra\u00adtions inspired me with strange feel\u00adings. Was man, indeed, at once so pow\u00ader\u00adful, so vir\u00adtu\u00adous and mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil prin\u00adci\u00adple and at anoth\u00ader as all that can be con\u00adceived of noble and god\u00adlike. To be a great and vir\u00adtu\u00adous man appeared the high\u00adest hon\u00adour that can befall a sen\u00adsi\u00adtive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the low\u00adest degra\u00adda\u00adtion, a con\u00addi\u00adtion more abject than that of the blind mole or harm\u00adless worm. For a long time I could not con\u00adceive how one man could go forth to mur\u00adder his fel\u00adlow, or even why there were laws and gov\u00adern\u00adments; but when I heard details of vice and blood\u00adshed, my won\u00adder ceased and I turned away with dis\u00adgust and loathing. <\/p>\n

\u201cEvery con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion of the cot\u00adtagers now opened new won\u00adders to me. While I lis\u00adtened to the instruc\u00adtions which Felix bestowed upon the Ara\u00adbi\u00adan, the strange sys\u00adtem of human soci\u00adety was explained to me. I heard of the divi\u00adsion of prop\u00ader\u00adty, of immense wealth and squalid pover\u00adty, of rank, descent, and noble blood. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe words induced me to turn towards myself. I learned that the pos\u00adses\u00adsions most esteemed by your fel\u00adlow crea\u00adtures were high and unsul\u00adlied descent unit\u00aded with rich\u00ades. A man might be respect\u00aded with only one of these advan\u00adtages, but with\u00adout either he was con\u00adsid\u00adered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his pow\u00aders for the prof\u00adits of the cho\u00adsen few! And what was I? Of my cre\u00adation and cre\u00adator I was absolute\u00adly igno\u00adrant, but I knew that I pos\u00adsessed no mon\u00adey, no friends, no kind of prop\u00ader\u00adty. I was, besides, endued with a fig\u00adure hideous\u00adly deformed and loath\u00adsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could sub\u00adsist upon coars\u00ader diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceed\u00aded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a mon\u00adster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned? <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u00adnot describe to you the agony that these reflec\u00adtions inflict\u00aded upon me; I tried to dis\u00adpel them, but sor\u00adrow only increased with knowl\u00adedge. Oh, that I had for ever remained in my native wood, nor known nor felt beyond the sen\u00adsa\u00adtions of hunger, thirst, and heat! <\/p>\n

\u201cOf what a strange nature is knowl\u00adedge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I wished some\u00adtimes to shake off all thought and feel\u00ading, but I learned that there was but one means to over\u00adcome the sen\u00adsa\u00adtion of pain, and that was death\u2014a state which I feared yet did not under\u00adstand. I admired virtue and good feel\u00adings and loved the gen\u00adtle man\u00adners and ami\u00adable qual\u00adi\u00adties of my cot\u00adtagers, but I was shut out from inter\u00adcourse with them, except through means which I obtained by stealth, when I was unseen and unknown, and which rather increased than sat\u00adis\u00adfied the desire I had of becom\u00ading one among my fel\u00adlows. The gen\u00adtle words of Agatha and the ani\u00admat\u00aded smiles of the charm\u00ading Ara\u00adbi\u00adan were not for me. The mild exhor\u00adta\u00adtions of the old man and the live\u00adly con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion of the loved Felix were not for me. Mis\u00ader\u00adable, unhap\u00adpy wretch! <\/p>\n

\u201cOth\u00ader lessons were impressed upon me even more deeply. I heard of the dif\u00adfer\u00adence of sex\u00ades, and the birth and growth of chil\u00addren, how the father dot\u00aded on the smiles of the infant, and the live\u00adly sal\u00adlies of the old\u00ader child, how all the life and cares of the moth\u00ader were wrapped up in the pre\u00adcious charge, how the mind of youth expand\u00aded and gained knowl\u00adedge, of broth\u00ader, sis\u00adter, and all the var\u00adi\u00adous rela\u00adtion\u00adships which bind one human being to anoth\u00ader in mutu\u00adal bonds. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut where were my friends and rela\u00adtions? No father had watched my infant days, no moth\u00ader had blessed me with smiles and caress\u00ades; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacan\u00adcy in which I dis\u00adtin\u00adguished noth\u00ading. From my ear\u00adli\u00adest remem\u00adbrance I had been as I then was in height and pro\u00adpor\u00adtion. I had nev\u00ader yet seen a being resem\u00adbling me or who claimed any inter\u00adcourse with me. What was I? The ques\u00adtion again recurred, to be answered only with groans. <\/p>\n

\u201cI will soon explain to what these feel\u00adings tend\u00aded, but allow me now to return to the cot\u00adtagers, whose sto\u00adry excit\u00aded in me such var\u00adi\u00adous feel\u00adings of indig\u00adna\u00adtion, delight, and won\u00adder, but which all ter\u00admi\u00adnat\u00aded in addi\u00adtion\u00adal love and rev\u00ader\u00adence for my pro\u00adtec\u00adtors (for so I loved, in an inno\u00adcent, half-painful self-deceit, to call them).\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cSome time elapsed before I learned the his\u00adto\u00adry of my friends. It was one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind, unfold\u00ading as it did a num\u00adber of cir\u00adcum\u00adstances, each inter\u00adest\u00ading and won\u00adder\u00adful to one so utter\u00adly inex\u00adpe\u00adri\u00adenced as I was. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe name of the old man was De Lacey. He was descend\u00aded from a good fam\u00adi\u00adly in France, where he had lived for many years in afflu\u00adence, respect\u00aded by his supe\u00adri\u00adors and beloved by his equals. His son was bred in the ser\u00advice of his coun\u00adtry, and Agatha had ranked with ladies of the high\u00adest dis\u00adtinc\u00adtion. A few months before my arrival they had lived in a large and lux\u00adu\u00adri\u00adous city called Paris, sur\u00adround\u00aded by friends and pos\u00adsessed of every enjoy\u00adment which virtue, refine\u00adment of intel\u00adlect, or taste, accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by a mod\u00ader\u00adate for\u00adtune, could afford. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe father of Safie had been the cause of their ruin. He was a Turk\u00adish mer\u00adchant and had inhab\u00adit\u00aded Paris for many years, when, for some rea\u00adson which I could not learn, he became obnox\u00adious to the gov\u00adern\u00adment. He was seized and cast into prison the very day that Safie arrived from Con\u00adstan\u00adtino\u00adple to join him. He was tried and con\u00addemned to death. The injus\u00adtice of his sen\u00adtence was very fla\u00adgrant; all Paris was indig\u00adnant; and it was judged that his reli\u00adgion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation. <\/p>\n

\u201cFelix had acci\u00adden\u00adtal\u00adly been present at the tri\u00adal; his hor\u00adror and indig\u00adna\u00adtion were uncon\u00adtrol\u00adlable when he heard the deci\u00adsion of the court. He made, at that moment, a solemn vow to deliv\u00ader him and then looked around for the means. After many fruit\u00adless attempts to gain admit\u00adtance to the prison, he found a strong\u00adly grat\u00aded win\u00addow in an unguard\u00aded part of the build\u00ading, which light\u00aded the dun\u00adgeon of the unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate Muham\u00admadan, who, loaded with chains, wait\u00aded in despair the exe\u00adcu\u00adtion of the bar\u00adbarous sen\u00adtence. Felix vis\u00adit\u00aded the grate at night and made known to the pris\u00adon\u00ader his inten\u00adtions in his favour. The Turk, amazed and delight\u00aded, endeav\u00adoured to kin\u00addle the zeal of his deliv\u00ader\u00ader by promis\u00ades of reward and wealth. Felix reject\u00aded his offers with con\u00adtempt, yet when he saw the love\u00adly Safie, who was allowed to vis\u00adit her father and who by her ges\u00adtures expressed her live\u00adly grat\u00adi\u00adtude, the youth could not help own\u00ading to his own mind that the cap\u00adtive pos\u00adsessed a trea\u00adsure which would ful\u00adly reward his toil and hazard. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Turk quick\u00adly per\u00adceived the impres\u00adsion that his daugh\u00adter had made on the heart of Felix and endeav\u00adoured to secure him more entire\u00adly in his inter\u00adests by the promise of her hand in mar\u00adriage so soon as he should be con\u00adveyed to a place of safe\u00adty. Felix was too del\u00adi\u00adcate to accept this offer, yet he looked for\u00adward to the prob\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of the event as to the con\u00adsum\u00adma\u00adtion of his happiness. <\/p>\n

\u201cDur\u00ading the ensu\u00ading days, while the prepa\u00adra\u00adtions were going for\u00adward for the escape of the mer\u00adchant, the zeal of Felix was warmed by sev\u00ader\u00adal let\u00adters that he received from this love\u00adly girl, who found means to express her thoughts in the lan\u00adguage of her lover by the aid of an old man, a ser\u00advant of her father who under\u00adstood French. She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intend\u00aded ser\u00advices towards her par\u00adent, and at the same time she gen\u00adtly deplored her own fate. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have copies of these let\u00adters, for I found means, dur\u00ading my res\u00adi\u00addence in the hov\u00adel, to pro\u00adcure the imple\u00adments of writ\u00ading; and the let\u00adters were often in the hands of Felix or Agatha. Before I depart I will give them to you; they will prove the truth of my tale; but at present, as the sun is already far declined, I shall only have time to repeat the sub\u00adstance of them to you. <\/p>\n

\u201cSafie relat\u00aded that her moth\u00ader was a Chris\u00adt\u00adian Arab, seized and made a slave by the Turks; rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by her beau\u00adty, she had won the heart of the father of Safie, who mar\u00adried her. The young girl spoke in high and enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adtic terms of her moth\u00ader, who, born in free\u00addom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced. She instruct\u00aded her daugh\u00adter in the tenets of her reli\u00adgion and taught her to aspire to high\u00ader pow\u00aders of intel\u00adlect and an inde\u00adpen\u00addence of spir\u00adit for\u00adbid\u00adden to the female fol\u00adlow\u00aders of Muham\u00admad. This lady died, but her lessons were indeli\u00adbly impressed on the mind of Safie, who sick\u00adened at the prospect of again return\u00ading to Asia and being immured with\u00adin the walls of a harem, allowed only to occu\u00adpy her\u00adself with infan\u00adtile amuse\u00adments, ill-suit\u00aded to the tem\u00adper of her soul, now accus\u00adtomed to grand ideas and a noble emu\u00adla\u00adtion for virtue. The prospect of mar\u00adry\u00ading a Chris\u00adt\u00adian and remain\u00ading in a coun\u00adtry where women were allowed to take a rank in soci\u00adety was enchant\u00adi\u00adng to her. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe day for the exe\u00adcu\u00adtion of the Turk was fixed, but on the night pre\u00advi\u00adous to it he quit\u00adted his prison and before morn\u00ading was dis\u00adtant many leagues from Paris. Felix had pro\u00adcured pass\u00adports in the name of his father, sis\u00adter, and him\u00adself. He had pre\u00advi\u00adous\u00adly com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00aded his plan to the for\u00admer, who aid\u00aded the deceit by quit\u00adting his house, under the pre\u00adtence of a jour\u00adney and con\u00adcealed him\u00adself, with his daugh\u00adter, in an obscure part of Paris. <\/p>\n

\u201cFelix con\u00adduct\u00aded the fugi\u00adtives through France to Lyons and across Mont Cenis to Leghorn, where the mer\u00adchant had decid\u00aded to wait a favourable oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty of pass\u00ading into some part of the Turk\u00adish dominions. <\/p>\n

\u201cSafie resolved to remain with her father until the moment of his depar\u00adture, before which time the Turk renewed his promise that she should be unit\u00aded to his deliv\u00ader\u00ader; and Felix remained with them in expec\u00adta\u00adtion of that event; and in the mean\u00adtime he enjoyed the soci\u00adety of the Ara\u00adbi\u00adan, who exhib\u00adit\u00aded towards him the sim\u00adplest and ten\u00adder\u00adest affec\u00adtion. They con\u00adversed with one anoth\u00ader through the means of an inter\u00adpreter, and some\u00adtimes with the inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion of looks; and Safie sang to him the divine airs of her native country. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Turk allowed this inti\u00adma\u00adcy to take place and encour\u00adaged the hopes of the youth\u00adful lovers, while in his heart he had formed far oth\u00ader plans. He loathed the idea that his daugh\u00adter should be unit\u00aded to a Chris\u00adt\u00adian, but he feared the resent\u00adment of Felix if he should appear luke\u00adwarm, for he knew that he was still in the pow\u00ader of his deliv\u00ader\u00ader if he should choose to betray him to the Ital\u00adian state which they inhab\u00adit\u00aded. He revolved a thou\u00adsand plans by which he should be enabled to pro\u00adlong the deceit until it might be no longer nec\u00ades\u00adsary, and secret\u00adly to take his daugh\u00adter with him when he depart\u00aded. His plans were facil\u00adi\u00adtat\u00aded by the news which arrived from Paris. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe gov\u00adern\u00adment of France were great\u00adly enraged at the escape of their vic\u00adtim and spared no pains to detect and pun\u00adish his deliv\u00ader\u00ader. The plot of Felix was quick\u00adly dis\u00adcov\u00adered, and De Lacey and Agatha were thrown into prison. The news reached Felix and roused him from his dream of plea\u00adsure. His blind and aged father and his gen\u00adtle sis\u00adter lay in a noi\u00adsome dun\u00adgeon while he enjoyed the free air and the soci\u00adety of her whom he loved. This idea was tor\u00adture to him. He quick\u00adly arranged with the Turk that if the lat\u00adter should find a favourable oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty for escape before Felix could return to Italy, Safie should remain as a board\u00ader at a con\u00advent at Leghorn; and then, quit\u00adting the love\u00adly Ara\u00adbi\u00adan, he has\u00adtened to Paris and deliv\u00adered him\u00adself up to the vengeance of the law, hop\u00ading to free De Lacey and Agatha by this proceeding. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe did not suc\u00adceed. They remained con\u00adfined for five months before the tri\u00adal took place, the result of which deprived them of their for\u00adtune and con\u00addemned them to a per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal exile from their native country. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey found a mis\u00ader\u00adable asy\u00adlum in the cot\u00adtage in Ger\u00admany, where I dis\u00adcov\u00adered them. Felix soon learned that the treach\u00ader\u00adous Turk, for whom he and his fam\u00adi\u00adly endured such unheard-of oppres\u00adsion, on dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00ading that his deliv\u00ader\u00ader was thus reduced to pover\u00adty and ruin, became a trai\u00adtor to good feel\u00ading and hon\u00adour and had quit\u00adted Italy with his daugh\u00adter, insult\u00ading\u00adly send\u00ading Felix a pit\u00adtance of mon\u00adey to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance. <\/p>\n

\u201cSuch were the events that preyed on the heart of Felix and ren\u00addered him, when I first saw him, the most mis\u00ader\u00adable of his fam\u00adi\u00adly. He could have endured pover\u00adty, and while this dis\u00adtress had been the meed of his virtue, he glo\u00adried in it; but the ingrat\u00adi\u00adtude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes more bit\u00adter and irrepara\u00adble. The arrival of the Ara\u00adbi\u00adan now infused new life into his soul. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the news reached Leghorn that Felix was deprived of his wealth and rank, the mer\u00adchant com\u00admand\u00aded his daugh\u00adter to think no more of her lover, but to pre\u00adpare to return to her native coun\u00adtry. The gen\u00ader\u00adous nature of Safie was out\u00adraged by this com\u00admand; she attempt\u00aded to expos\u00adtu\u00adlate with her father, but he left her angri\u00adly, reit\u00ader\u00adat\u00ading his tyran\u00adni\u00adcal mandate. <\/p>\n

\u201cA few days after, the Turk entered his daughter\u2019s apart\u00adment and told her hasti\u00adly that he had rea\u00adson to believe that his res\u00adi\u00addence at Leghorn had been divulged and that he should speed\u00adi\u00adly be deliv\u00adered up to the French gov\u00adern\u00adment; he had con\u00adse\u00adquent\u00adly hired a ves\u00adsel to con\u00advey him to Con\u00adstan\u00adtino\u00adple, for which city he should sail in a few hours. He intend\u00aded to leave his daugh\u00adter under the care of a con\u00adfi\u00adden\u00adtial ser\u00advant, to fol\u00adlow at her leisure with the greater part of his prop\u00ader\u00adty, which had not yet arrived at Leghorn. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen alone, Safie resolved in her own mind the plan of con\u00adduct that it would become her to pur\u00adsue in this emer\u00adgency. A res\u00adi\u00addence in Turkey was abhor\u00adrent to her; her reli\u00adgion and her feel\u00adings were alike averse to it. By some papers of her father which fell into her hands she heard of the exile of her lover and learnt the name of the spot where he then resided. She hes\u00adi\u00adtat\u00aded some time, but at length she formed her deter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion. Tak\u00ading with her some jew\u00adels that belonged to her and a sum of mon\u00adey, she quit\u00adted Italy with an atten\u00addant, a native of Leghorn, but who under\u00adstood the com\u00admon lan\u00adguage of Turkey, and depart\u00aded for Germany. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe arrived in safe\u00adty at a town about twen\u00adty leagues from the cot\u00adtage of De Lacey, when her atten\u00addant fell dan\u00adger\u00adous\u00adly ill. Safie nursed her with the most devot\u00aded affec\u00adtion, but the poor girl died, and the Ara\u00adbi\u00adan was left alone, unac\u00adquaint\u00aded with the lan\u00adguage of the coun\u00adtry and utter\u00adly igno\u00adrant of the cus\u00adtoms of the world. She fell, how\u00adev\u00ader, into good hands. The Ital\u00adian had men\u00adtioned the name of the spot for which they were bound, and after her death the woman of the house in which they had lived took care that Safie should arrive in safe\u00adty at the cot\u00adtage of her lover.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cSuch was the his\u00adto\u00adry of my beloved cot\u00adtagers. It impressed me deeply. I learned, from the views of social life which it devel\u00adoped, to admire their virtues and to dep\u00adre\u00adcate the vices of mankind. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs yet I looked upon crime as a dis\u00adtant evil, benev\u00ado\u00adlence and gen\u00aderos\u00adi\u00adty were ever present before me, incit\u00ading with\u00adin me a desire to become an actor in the busy scene where so many admirable qual\u00adi\u00adties were called forth and dis\u00adplayed. But in giv\u00ading an account of the progress of my intel\u00adlect, I must not omit a cir\u00adcum\u00adstance which occurred in the begin\u00adning of the month of August of the same year. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne night dur\u00ading my accus\u00adtomed vis\u00adit to the neigh\u00adbour\u00ading wood where I col\u00adlect\u00aded my own food and brought home fir\u00ading for my pro\u00adtec\u00adtors, I found on the ground a leath\u00adern port\u00adman\u00adteau con\u00adtain\u00ading sev\u00ader\u00adal arti\u00adcles of dress and some books. I eager\u00adly seized the prize and returned with it to my hov\u00adel. For\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly the books were writ\u00adten in the lan\u00adguage, the ele\u00adments of which I had acquired at the cot\u00adtage; they con\u00adsist\u00aded of Par\u00adadise Lost<\/span>, a vol\u00adume of Plutarch\u2019s Lives<\/span>, and the Sor\u00adrows of <\/span>Wert\u00ader. The pos\u00adses\u00adsion of these trea\u00adsures gave me extreme delight; I now con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly stud\u00adied and exer\u00adcised my mind upon these his\u00adto\u00adries, whilst my friends were employed in their ordi\u00adnary occupations. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can hard\u00adly describe to you the effect of these books. They pro\u00adduced in me an infin\u00adi\u00adty of new images and feel\u00adings, that some\u00adtimes raised me to ecsta\u00adsy, but more fre\u00adquent\u00adly sunk me into the low\u00adest dejec\u00adtion. In the Sor\u00adrows of <\/span>Wert\u00ader, besides the inter\u00adest of its sim\u00adple and affect\u00ading sto\u00adry, so many opin\u00adions are can\u00advassed and so many lights thrown upon what had hith\u00ader\u00adto been to me obscure sub\u00adjects that I found in it a nev\u00ader-end\u00ading source of spec\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion and aston\u00adish\u00adment. The gen\u00adtle and domes\u00adtic man\u00adners it described, com\u00adbined with lofty sen\u00adti\u00adments and feel\u00adings, which had for their object some\u00adthing out of self, accord\u00aded well with my expe\u00adri\u00adence among my pro\u00adtec\u00adtors and with the wants which were for ever alive in my own bosom. But I thought Wert\u00ader him\u00adself a more divine being than I had ever beheld or imag\u00adined; his char\u00adac\u00adter con\u00adtained no pre\u00adten\u00adsion, but it sank deep. The dis\u00adqui\u00adsi\u00adtions upon death and sui\u00adcide were cal\u00adcu\u00adlat\u00aded to fill me with won\u00adder. I did not pre\u00adtend to enter into the mer\u00adits of the case, yet I inclined towards the opin\u00adions of the hero, whose extinc\u00adtion I wept, with\u00adout pre\u00adcise\u00adly under\u00adstand\u00ading it. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs I read, how\u00adev\u00ader, I applied much per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly to my own feel\u00adings and con\u00addi\u00adtion. I found myself sim\u00adi\u00adlar yet at the same time strange\u00adly unlike to the beings con\u00adcern\u00ading whom I read and to whose con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion I was a lis\u00adten\u00ader. I sym\u00adpa\u00adthised with and part\u00adly under\u00adstood them, but I was unformed in mind; I was depen\u00addent on none and relat\u00aded to none. \u2018The path of my depar\u00adture was free,\u2019 and there was none to lament my anni\u00adhi\u00adla\u00adtion. My per\u00adson was hideous and my stature gigan\u00adtic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my des\u00adti\u00adna\u00adtion? These ques\u00adtions con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly recurred, but I was unable to solve them. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe vol\u00adume of Plutarch\u2019s Lives<\/span> which I pos\u00adsessed con\u00adtained the his\u00adto\u00adries of the first founders of the ancient republics. This book had a far dif\u00adfer\u00adent effect upon me from the Sor\u00adrows of <\/span>Wert\u00ader. I learned from Werter\u2019s imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtions despon\u00adden\u00adcy and gloom, but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he ele\u00advat\u00aded me above the wretched sphere of my own reflec\u00adtions, to admire and love the heroes of past ages. Many things I read sur\u00adpassed my under\u00adstand\u00ading and expe\u00adri\u00adence. I had a very con\u00adfused knowl\u00adedge of king\u00addoms, wide extents of coun\u00adtry, mighty rivers, and bound\u00adless seas. But I was per\u00adfect\u00adly unac\u00adquaint\u00aded with towns and large assem\u00adblages of men. The cot\u00adtage of my pro\u00adtec\u00adtors had been the only school in which I had stud\u00adied human nature, but this book devel\u00adoped new and might\u00adi\u00ader scenes of action. I read of men con\u00adcerned in pub\u00adlic affairs, gov\u00adern\u00ading or mas\u00adsacring their species. I felt the great\u00adest ardour for virtue rise with\u00adin me, and abhor\u00adrence for vice, as far as I under\u00adstood the sig\u00adni\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion of those terms, rel\u00ada\u00adtive as they were, as I applied them, to plea\u00adsure and pain alone. Induced by these feel\u00adings, I was of course led to admire peace\u00adable law\u00adgivers, Numa, Solon, and Lycur\u00adgus, in pref\u00ader\u00adence to Romu\u00adlus and The\u00adseus. The patri\u00adar\u00adchal lives of my pro\u00adtec\u00adtors caused these impres\u00adsions to take a firm hold on my mind; per\u00adhaps, if my first intro\u00adduc\u00adtion to human\u00adi\u00adty had been made by a young sol\u00addier, burn\u00ading for glo\u00adry and slaugh\u00adter, I should have been imbued with dif\u00adfer\u00adent sensations. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut Par\u00adadise Lost<\/span> excit\u00aded dif\u00adfer\u00adent and far deep\u00ader emo\u00adtions. I read it, as I had read the oth\u00ader vol\u00adumes which had fall\u00aden into my hands, as a true his\u00adto\u00adry. It moved every feel\u00ading of won\u00adder and awe that the pic\u00adture of an omnipo\u00adtent God war\u00adring with his crea\u00adtures was capa\u00adble of excit\u00ading. I often referred the sev\u00ader\u00adal sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions, as their sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty struck me, to my own. Like Adam, I was appar\u00adent\u00adly unit\u00aded by no link to any oth\u00ader being in exis\u00adtence; but his state was far dif\u00adfer\u00adent from mine in every oth\u00ader respect. He had come forth from the hands of God a per\u00adfect crea\u00adture, hap\u00adpy and pros\u00adper\u00adous, guard\u00aded by the espe\u00adcial care of his Cre\u00adator; he was allowed to con\u00adverse with and acquire knowl\u00adedge from beings of a supe\u00adri\u00ador nature, but I was wretched, help\u00adless, and alone. Many times I con\u00adsid\u00adered Satan as the fit\u00adter emblem of my con\u00addi\u00adtion, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my pro\u00adtec\u00adtors, the bit\u00adter gall of envy rose with\u00adin me. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnoth\u00ader cir\u00adcum\u00adstance strength\u00adened and con\u00adfirmed these feel\u00adings. Soon after my arrival in the hov\u00adel I dis\u00adcov\u00adered some papers in the pock\u00adet of the dress which I had tak\u00aden from your lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry. At first I had neglect\u00aded them, but now that I was able to deci\u00adpher the char\u00adac\u00adters in which they were writ\u00adten, I began to study them with dili\u00adgence. It was your jour\u00adnal of the four months that pre\u00adced\u00aded my cre\u00adation. You minute\u00adly described in these papers every step you took in the progress of your work; this his\u00adto\u00adry was min\u00adgled with accounts of domes\u00adtic occur\u00adrences. You doubt\u00adless rec\u00adol\u00adlect these papers. Here they are. Every\u00adthing is relat\u00aded in them which bears ref\u00ader\u00adence to my accursed ori\u00adgin; the whole detail of that series of dis\u00adgust\u00ading cir\u00adcum\u00adstances which pro\u00adduced it is set in view; the minut\u00adest descrip\u00adtion of my odi\u00adous and loath\u00adsome per\u00adson is giv\u00aden, in lan\u00adguage which paint\u00aded your own hor\u00adrors and ren\u00addered mine indeli\u00adble. I sick\u00adened as I read. \u2018Hate\u00adful day when I received life!\u2019 I exclaimed in agony. \u2018Accursed cre\u00adator! Why did you form a mon\u00adster so hideous that even you<\/span> turned from me in dis\u00adgust? God, in pity, made man beau\u00adti\u00adful and allur\u00ading, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more hor\u00adrid even from the very resem\u00adblance. Satan had his com\u00adpan\u00adions, fel\u00adlow dev\u00adils, to admire and encour\u00adage him, but I am soli\u00adtary and abhorred.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cThese were the reflec\u00adtions of my hours of despon\u00adden\u00adcy and soli\u00adtude; but when I con\u00adtem\u00adplat\u00aded the virtues of the cot\u00adtagers, their ami\u00adable and benev\u00ado\u00adlent dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions, I per\u00adsuad\u00aded myself that when they should become acquaint\u00aded with my admi\u00adra\u00adtion of their virtues they would com\u00adpas\u00adsion\u00adate me and over\u00adlook my per\u00adson\u00adal defor\u00admi\u00adty. Could they turn from their door one, how\u00adev\u00ader mon\u00adstrous, who solicit\u00aded their com\u00adpas\u00adsion and friend\u00adship? I resolved, at least, not to despair, but in every way to fit myself for an inter\u00adview with them which would decide my fate. I post\u00adponed this attempt for some months longer, for the impor\u00adtance attached to its suc\u00adcess inspired me with a dread lest I should fail. Besides, I found that my under\u00adstand\u00ading improved so much with every day\u2019s expe\u00adri\u00adence that I was unwill\u00ading to com\u00admence this under\u00adtak\u00ading until a few more months should have added to my sagacity. <\/p>\n

\u201cSev\u00ader\u00adal changes, in the mean\u00adtime, took place in the cot\u00adtage. The pres\u00adence of Safie dif\u00adfused hap\u00adpi\u00adness among its inhab\u00adi\u00adtants, and I also found that a greater degree of plen\u00adty reigned there. Felix and Agatha spent more time in amuse\u00adment and con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion, and were assist\u00aded in their labours by ser\u00advants. They did not appear rich, but they were con\u00adtent\u00aded and hap\u00adpy; their feel\u00adings were serene and peace\u00adful, while mine became every day more tumul\u00adtuous. Increase of knowl\u00adedge only dis\u00adcov\u00adered to me more clear\u00adly what a wretched out\u00adcast I was. I cher\u00adished hope, it is true, but it van\u00adished when I beheld my per\u00adson reflect\u00aded in water or my shad\u00adow in the moon\u00adshine, even as that frail image and that incon\u00adstant shade. <\/p>\n

\u201cI endeav\u00adoured to crush these fears and to for\u00adti\u00adfy myself for the tri\u00adal which in a few months I resolved to under\u00adgo; and some\u00adtimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by rea\u00adson, to ram\u00adble in the fields of Par\u00adadise, and dared to fan\u00adcy ami\u00adable and love\u00adly crea\u00adtures sym\u00adpa\u00adthis\u00ading with my feel\u00adings and cheer\u00ading my gloom; their angel\u00adic coun\u00adte\u00adnances breathed smiles of con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion. But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sor\u00adrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remem\u00adbered Adam\u2019s sup\u00adpli\u00adca\u00adtion to his Cre\u00adator. But where was mine? He had aban\u00addoned me, and in the bit\u00adter\u00adness of my heart I cursed him. <\/p>\n

\u201cAutumn passed thus. I saw, with sur\u00adprise and grief, the leaves decay and fall, and nature again assume the bar\u00adren and bleak appear\u00adance it had worn when I first beheld the woods and the love\u00adly moon. Yet I did not heed the bleak\u00adness of the weath\u00ader; I was bet\u00adter fit\u00adted by my con\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion for the endurance of cold than heat. But my chief delights were the sight of the flow\u00aders, the birds, and all the gay appar\u00adel of sum\u00admer; when those desert\u00aded me, I turned with more atten\u00adtion towards the cot\u00adtagers. Their hap\u00adpi\u00adness was not decreased by the absence of sum\u00admer. They loved and sym\u00adpa\u00adthised with one anoth\u00ader; and their joys, depend\u00ading on each oth\u00ader, were not inter\u00adrupt\u00aded by the casu\u00adal\u00adties that took place around them. The more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their pro\u00adtec\u00adtion and kind\u00adness; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these ami\u00adable crea\u00adtures; to see their sweet looks direct\u00aded towards me with affec\u00adtion was the utmost lim\u00adit of my ambi\u00adtion. I dared not think that they would turn them from me with dis\u00addain and hor\u00adror. The poor that stopped at their door were nev\u00ader dri\u00adven away. I asked, it is true, for greater trea\u00adsures than a lit\u00adtle food or rest: I required kind\u00adness and sym\u00adpa\u00adthy; but I did not believe myself utter\u00adly unwor\u00adthy of it. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe win\u00adter advanced, and an entire rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion of the sea\u00adsons had tak\u00aden place since I awoke into life. My atten\u00adtion at this time was sole\u00adly direct\u00aded towards my plan of intro\u00adduc\u00ading myself into the cot\u00adtage of my pro\u00adtec\u00adtors. I revolved many projects, but that on which I final\u00adly fixed was to enter the dwelling when the blind old man should be alone. I had sagac\u00adi\u00adty enough to dis\u00adcov\u00ader that the unnat\u00adur\u00adal hideous\u00adness of my per\u00adson was the chief object of hor\u00adror with those who had for\u00admer\u00adly beheld me. My voice, although harsh, had noth\u00ading ter\u00adri\u00adble in it; I thought, there\u00adfore, that if in the absence of his chil\u00addren I could gain the good will and medi\u00ada\u00adtion of the old De Lacey, I might by his means be tol\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded by my younger protectors. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne day, when the sun shone on the red leaves that strewed the ground and dif\u00adfused cheer\u00adful\u00adness, although it denied warmth, Safie, Agatha, and Felix depart\u00aded on a long coun\u00adtry walk, and the old man, at his own desire, was left alone in the cot\u00adtage. When his chil\u00addren had depart\u00aded, he took up his gui\u00adtar and played sev\u00ader\u00adal mourn\u00adful but sweet airs, more sweet and mourn\u00adful than I had ever heard him play before. At first his coun\u00adte\u00adnance was illu\u00admi\u00adnat\u00aded with plea\u00adsure, but as he con\u00adtin\u00adued, thought\u00adful\u00adness and sad\u00adness suc\u00adceed\u00aded; at length, lay\u00ading aside the instru\u00adment, he sat absorbed in reflection. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart beat quick; this was the hour and moment of tri\u00adal, which would decide my hopes or realise my fears. The ser\u00advants were gone to a neigh\u00adbour\u00ading fair. All was silent in and around the cot\u00adtage; it was an excel\u00adlent oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty; yet, when I pro\u00adceed\u00aded to exe\u00adcute my plan, my limbs failed me and I sank to the ground. Again I rose, and exert\u00ading all the firm\u00adness of which I was mas\u00adter, removed the planks which I had placed before my hov\u00adel to con\u00adceal my retreat. The fresh air revived me, and with renewed deter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion I approached the door of their cottage. <\/p>\n

\u201cI knocked. \u2018Who is there?\u2019 said the old man. \u2018Come in.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cI entered. \u2018Par\u00addon this intru\u00adsion,\u2019 said I; \u2018I am a trav\u00adeller in want of a lit\u00adtle rest; you would great\u00adly oblige me if you would allow me to remain a few min\u00adutes before the fire.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Enter,\u2019 said De Lacey, \u2018and I will try in what man\u00adner I can to relieve your wants; but, unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, my chil\u00addren are from home, and as I am blind, I am afraid I shall find it dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to pro\u00adcure food for you.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Do not trou\u00adble your\u00adself, my kind host; I have food; it is warmth and rest only that I need.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cI sat down, and a silence ensued. I knew that every minute was pre\u00adcious to me, yet I remained irres\u00adolute in what man\u00adner to com\u00admence the inter\u00adview, when the old man addressed me. <\/p>\n

\u2018By your lan\u00adguage, stranger, I sup\u00adpose you are my coun\u00adtry\u00adman; are you French?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018No; but I was edu\u00adcat\u00aded by a French fam\u00adi\u00adly and under\u00adstand that lan\u00adguage only. I am now going to claim the pro\u00adtec\u00adtion of some friends, whom I sin\u00adcere\u00adly love, and of whose favour I have some hopes.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Are they Germans?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018No, they are French. But let us change the sub\u00adject. I am an unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate and desert\u00aded crea\u00adture, I look around and I have no rela\u00adtion or friend upon earth. These ami\u00adable peo\u00adple to whom I go have nev\u00ader seen me and know lit\u00adtle of me. I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an out\u00adcast in the world for ever.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Do not despair. To be friend\u00adless is indeed to be unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate, but the hearts of men, when unprej\u00adu\u00addiced by any obvi\u00adous self-inter\u00adest, are full of broth\u00ader\u00adly love and char\u00adi\u00adty. Rely, there\u00adfore, on your hopes; and if these friends are good and ami\u00adable, do not despair.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018They are kind\u2014they are the most excel\u00adlent crea\u00adtures in the world; but, unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, they are prej\u00adu\u00addiced against me. I have good dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions; my life has been hith\u00ader\u00adto harm\u00adless and in some degree ben\u00ade\u00adfi\u00adcial; but a fatal prej\u00adu\u00addice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feel\u00ading and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018That is indeed unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate; but if you are real\u00adly blame\u00adless, can\u00adnot you unde\u00adceive them?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018I am about to under\u00adtake that task; and it is on that account that I feel so many over\u00adwhelm\u00ading ter\u00adrors. I ten\u00adder\u00adly love these friends; I have, unknown to them, been for many months in the habits of dai\u00adly kind\u00adness towards them; but they believe that I wish to injure them, and it is that prej\u00adu\u00addice which I wish to overcome.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Where do these friends reside?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Near this spot.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cThe old man paused and then con\u00adtin\u00adued, \u2018If you will unre\u00adserved\u00adly con\u00adfide to me the par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlars of your tale, I per\u00adhaps may be of use in unde\u00adceiv\u00ading them. I am blind and can\u00adnot judge of your coun\u00adte\u00adnance, but there is some\u00adthing in your words which per\u00adsuades me that you are sin\u00adcere. I am poor and an exile, but it will afford me true plea\u00adsure to be in any way ser\u00advice\u00adable to a human creature.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Excel\u00adlent man! I thank you and accept your gen\u00ader\u00adous offer. You raise me from the dust by this kind\u00adness; and I trust that, by your aid, I shall not be dri\u00adven from the soci\u00adety and sym\u00adpa\u00adthy of your fel\u00adlow creatures.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Heav\u00aden for\u00adbid! Even if you were real\u00adly crim\u00adi\u00adnal, for that can only dri\u00adve you to des\u00adper\u00ada\u00adtion, and not insti\u00adgate you to virtue. I also am unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate; I and my fam\u00adi\u00adly have been con\u00addemned, although inno\u00adcent; judge, there\u00adfore, if I do not feel for your misfortunes.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018How can I thank you, my best and only bene\u00adfac\u00adtor? From your lips first have I heard the voice of kind\u00adness direct\u00aded towards me; I shall be for ever grate\u00adful; and your present human\u00adi\u00adty assures me of suc\u00adcess with those friends whom I am on the point of meeting.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018May I know the names and res\u00adi\u00addence of those friends?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cI paused. This, I thought, was the moment of deci\u00adsion, which was to rob me of or bestow hap\u00adpi\u00adness on me for ever. I strug\u00adgled vain\u00adly for firm\u00adness suf\u00adfi\u00adcient to answer him, but the effort destroyed all my remain\u00ading strength; I sank on the chair and sobbed aloud. At that moment I heard the steps of my younger pro\u00adtec\u00adtors. I had not a moment to lose, but seiz\u00ading the hand of the old man, I cried, \u2018Now is the time! Save and pro\u00adtect me! You and your fam\u00adi\u00adly are the friends whom I seek. Do not you desert me in the hour of trial!\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Great God!\u2019 exclaimed the old man. \u2018Who are you?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cAt that instant the cot\u00adtage door was opened, and Felix, Safie, and Agatha entered. Who can describe their hor\u00adror and con\u00adster\u00adna\u00adtion on behold\u00ading me? Agatha faint\u00aded, and Safie, unable to attend to her friend, rushed out of the cot\u00adtage. Felix dart\u00aded for\u00adward, and with super\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in a trans\u00adport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me vio\u00adlent\u00adly with a stick. I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the ante\u00adlope. But my heart sank with\u00adin me as with bit\u00adter sick\u00adness, and I refrained. I saw him on the point of repeat\u00ading his blow, when, over\u00adcome by pain and anguish, I quit\u00adted the cot\u00adtage, and in the gen\u00ader\u00adal tumult escaped unper\u00adceived to my hovel.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cCursed, cursed cre\u00adator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extin\u00adguish the spark of exis\u00adtence which you had so wan\u00adton\u00adly bestowed? I know not; despair had not yet tak\u00aden pos\u00adses\u00adsion of me; my feel\u00adings were those of rage and revenge. I could with plea\u00adsure have destroyed the cot\u00adtage and its inhab\u00adi\u00adtants and have glut\u00adted myself with their shrieks and misery. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen night came I quit\u00adted my retreat and wan\u00addered in the wood; and now, no longer restrained by the fear of dis\u00adcov\u00adery, I gave vent to my anguish in fear\u00adful howl\u00adings. I was like a wild beast that had bro\u00adken the toils, destroy\u00ading the objects that obstruct\u00aded me and rang\u00ading through the wood with a stag-like swift\u00adness. Oh! What a mis\u00ader\u00adable night I passed! The cold stars shone in mock\u00adery, and the bare trees waved their branch\u00ades above me; now and then the sweet voice of a bird burst forth amidst the uni\u00adver\u00adsal still\u00adness. All, save I, were at rest or in enjoy\u00adment; I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell with\u00adin me, and find\u00ading myself unsym\u00adpa\u00adthised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread hav\u00adoc and destruc\u00adtion around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut this was a lux\u00adu\u00adry of sen\u00adsa\u00adtion that could not endure; I became fatigued with excess of bod\u00adi\u00adly exer\u00adtion and sank on the damp grass in the sick impo\u00adtence of despair. There was none among the myr\u00adi\u00adads of men that exist\u00aded who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kind\u00adness towards my ene\u00admies? No: from that moment I declared ever\u00adlast\u00ading war against the species, and more than all, against him who had formed me and sent me forth to this insup\u00adport\u00adable misery. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe sun rose; I heard the voic\u00ades of men and knew that it was impos\u00adsi\u00adble to return to my retreat dur\u00ading that day. Accord\u00ading\u00adly I hid myself in some thick under\u00adwood, deter\u00admin\u00ading to devote the ensu\u00ading hours to reflec\u00adtion on my situation. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe pleas\u00adant sun\u00adshine and the pure air of day restored me to some degree of tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty; and when I con\u00adsid\u00adered what had passed at the cot\u00adtage, I could not help believ\u00ading that I had been too hasty in my con\u00adclu\u00adsions. I had cer\u00adtain\u00adly act\u00aded impru\u00addent\u00adly. It was appar\u00adent that my con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion had inter\u00adest\u00aded the father in my behalf, and I was a fool in hav\u00ading exposed my per\u00adson to the hor\u00adror of his chil\u00addren. I ought to have famil\u00adiarised the old De Lacey to me, and by degrees to have dis\u00adcov\u00adered myself to the rest of his fam\u00adi\u00adly, when they should have been pre\u00adpared for my approach. But I did not believe my errors to be irre\u00adtriev\u00adable, and after much con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion I resolved to return to the cot\u00adtage, seek the old man, and by my rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtions win him to my party. <\/p>\n

\u201cThese thoughts calmed me, and in the after\u00adnoon I sank into a pro\u00adfound sleep; but the fever of my blood did not allow me to be vis\u00adit\u00aded by peace\u00adful dreams. The hor\u00adri\u00adble scene of the pre\u00adced\u00ading day was for ever act\u00ading before my eyes; the females were fly\u00ading and the enraged Felix tear\u00ading me from his father\u2019s feet. I awoke exhaust\u00aded, and find\u00ading that it was already night, I crept forth from my hid\u00ading-place, and went in search of food. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my hunger was appeased, I direct\u00aded my steps towards the well-known path that con\u00adduct\u00aded to the cot\u00adtage. All there was at peace. I crept into my hov\u00adel and remained in silent expec\u00adta\u00adtion of the accus\u00adtomed hour when the fam\u00adi\u00adly arose. That hour passed, the sun mount\u00aded high in the heav\u00adens, but the cot\u00adtagers did not appear. I trem\u00adbled vio\u00adlent\u00adly, appre\u00adhend\u00ading some dread\u00adful mis\u00adfor\u00adtune. The inside of the cot\u00adtage was dark, and I heard no motion; I can\u00adnot describe the agony of this suspense. <\/p>\n

\u201cPresent\u00adly two coun\u00adtry\u00admen passed by, but paus\u00ading near the cot\u00adtage, they entered into con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion, using vio\u00adlent ges\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions; but I did not under\u00adstand what they said, as they spoke the lan\u00adguage of the coun\u00adtry, which dif\u00adfered from that of my pro\u00adtec\u00adtors. Soon after, how\u00adev\u00ader, Felix approached with anoth\u00ader man; I was sur\u00adprised, as I knew that he had not quit\u00adted the cot\u00adtage that morn\u00ading, and wait\u00aded anx\u00adious\u00adly to dis\u00adcov\u00ader from his dis\u00adcourse the mean\u00ading of these unusu\u00adal appearances. <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Do you con\u00adsid\u00ader,\u2019 said his com\u00adpan\u00adion to him, \u2018that you will be oblig\u00aded to pay three months\u2019 rent and to lose the pro\u00adduce of your gar\u00adden? I do not wish to take any unfair advan\u00adtage, and I beg there\u00adfore that you will take some days to con\u00adsid\u00ader of your determination.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018It is utter\u00adly use\u00adless,\u2019 replied Felix; \u2018we can nev\u00ader again inhab\u00adit your cot\u00adtage. The life of my father is in the great\u00adest dan\u00adger, owing to the dread\u00adful cir\u00adcum\u00adstance that I have relat\u00aded. My wife and my sis\u00adter will nev\u00ader recov\u00ader from their hor\u00adror. I entreat you not to rea\u00adson with me any more. Take pos\u00adses\u00adsion of your ten\u00ade\u00adment and let me fly from this place.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cFelix trem\u00adbled vio\u00adlent\u00adly as he said this. He and his com\u00adpan\u00adion entered the cot\u00adtage, in which they remained for a few min\u00adutes, and then depart\u00aded. I nev\u00ader saw any of the fam\u00adi\u00adly of De Lacey more. <\/p>\n

\u201cI con\u00adtin\u00adued for the remain\u00adder of the day in my hov\u00adel in a state of utter and stu\u00adpid despair. My pro\u00adtec\u00adtors had depart\u00aded and had bro\u00adken the only link that held me to the world. For the first time the feel\u00adings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to con\u00adtrol them, but allow\u00ading myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death. When I thought of my friends, of the mild voice of De Lacey, the gen\u00adtle eyes of Agatha, and the exquis\u00adite beau\u00adty of the Ara\u00adbi\u00adan, these thoughts van\u00adished and a gush of tears some\u00adwhat soothed me. But again when I reflect\u00aded that they had spurned and desert\u00aded me, anger returned, a rage of anger, and unable to injure any\u00adthing human, I turned my fury towards inan\u00adi\u00admate objects. As night advanced, I placed a vari\u00adety of com\u00adbustibles around the cot\u00adtage, and after hav\u00ading destroyed every ves\u00adtige of cul\u00adti\u00adva\u00adtion in the gar\u00adden, I wait\u00aded with forced impa\u00adtience until the moon had sunk to com\u00admence my operations. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs the night advanced, a fierce wind arose from the woods and quick\u00adly dis\u00adpersed the clouds that had loi\u00adtered in the heav\u00adens; the blast tore along like a mighty avalanche and pro\u00adduced a kind of insan\u00adi\u00adty in my spir\u00adits that burst all bounds of rea\u00adson and reflec\u00adtion. I light\u00aded the dry branch of a tree and danced with fury around the devot\u00aded cot\u00adtage, my eyes still fixed on the west\u00adern hori\u00adzon, the edge of which the moon near\u00adly touched. A part of its orb was at length hid, and I waved my brand; it sank, and with a loud scream I fired the straw, and heath, and bush\u00ades, which I had col\u00adlect\u00aded. The wind fanned the fire, and the cot\u00adtage was quick\u00adly enveloped by the flames, which clung to it and licked it with their forked and destroy\u00ading tongues. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as I was con\u00advinced that no assis\u00adtance could save any part of the habi\u00adta\u00adtion, I quit\u00adted the scene and sought for refuge in the woods. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd now, with the world before me, whith\u00ader should I bend my steps? I resolved to fly far from the scene of my mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes; but to me, hat\u00aded and despised, every coun\u00adtry must be equal\u00adly hor\u00adri\u00adble. At length the thought of you crossed my mind. I learned from your papers that you were my father, my cre\u00adator; and to whom could I apply with more fit\u00adness than to him who had giv\u00aden me life? Among the lessons that Felix had bestowed upon Safie, geog\u00adra\u00adphy had not been omit\u00adted; I had learned from these the rel\u00ada\u00adtive sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions of the dif\u00adfer\u00adent coun\u00adtries of the earth. You had men\u00adtioned Gene\u00adva as the name of your native town, and towards this place I resolved to proceed. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut how was I to direct myself? I knew that I must trav\u00adel in a south\u00adwest\u00ader\u00adly direc\u00adtion to reach my des\u00adti\u00adna\u00adtion, but the sun was my only guide. I did not know the names of the towns that I was to pass through, nor could I ask infor\u00adma\u00adtion from a sin\u00adgle human being; but I did not despair. From you only could I hope for suc\u00adcour, although towards you I felt no sen\u00adti\u00adment but that of hatred. Unfeel\u00ading, heart\u00adless cre\u00adator! You had endowed me with per\u00adcep\u00adtions and pas\u00adsions and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and hor\u00adror of mankind. But on you only had I any claim for pity and redress, and from you I deter\u00admined to seek that jus\u00adtice which I vain\u00adly attempt\u00aded to gain from any oth\u00ader being that wore the human form. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy trav\u00adels were long and the suf\u00adfer\u00adings I endured intense. It was late in autumn when I quit\u00adted the dis\u00adtrict where I had so long resided. I trav\u00adelled only at night, fear\u00adful of encoun\u00adter\u00ading the vis\u00adage of a human being. Nature decayed around me, and the sun became heat\u00adless; rain and snow poured around me; mighty rivers were frozen; the sur\u00adface of the earth was hard and chill, and bare, and I found no shel\u00adter. Oh, earth! How often did I impre\u00adcate curs\u00ades on the cause of my being! The mild\u00adness of my nature had fled, and all with\u00adin me was turned to gall and bit\u00adter\u00adness. The near\u00ader I approached to your habi\u00adta\u00adtion, the more deeply did I feel the spir\u00adit of revenge enkin\u00addled in my heart. Snow fell, and the waters were hard\u00adened, but I rest\u00aded not. A few inci\u00addents now and then direct\u00aded me, and I pos\u00adsessed a map of the coun\u00adtry; but I often wan\u00addered wide from my path. The agony of my feel\u00adings allowed me no respite; no inci\u00addent occurred from which my rage and mis\u00adery could not extract its food; but a cir\u00adcum\u00adstance that hap\u00adpened when I arrived on the con\u00adfines of Switzer\u00adland, when the sun had recov\u00adered its warmth and the earth again began to look green, con\u00adfirmed in an espe\u00adcial man\u00adner the bit\u00adter\u00adness and hor\u00adror of my feelings. <\/p>\n

\u201cI gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly rest\u00aded dur\u00ading the day and trav\u00adelled only when I was secured by night from the view of man. One morn\u00ading, how\u00adev\u00ader, find\u00ading that my path lay through a deep wood, I ven\u00adtured to con\u00adtin\u00adue my jour\u00adney after the sun had risen; the day, which was one of the first of spring, cheered even me by the love\u00adli\u00adness of its sun\u00adshine and the balmi\u00adness of the air. I felt emo\u00adtions of gen\u00adtle\u00adness and plea\u00adsure, that had long appeared dead, revive with\u00adin me. Half sur\u00adprised by the nov\u00adel\u00adty of these sen\u00adsa\u00adtions, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and for\u00adget\u00adting my soli\u00adtude and defor\u00admi\u00adty, dared to be hap\u00adpy. Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thank\u00adful\u00adness towards the blessed sun, which bestowed such joy upon me. <\/p>\n

\u201cI con\u00adtin\u00adued to wind among the paths of the wood, until I came to its bound\u00adary, which was skirt\u00aded by a deep and rapid riv\u00ader, into which many of the trees bent their branch\u00ades, now bud\u00adding with the fresh spring. Here I paused, not exact\u00adly know\u00ading what path to pur\u00adsue, when I heard the sound of voic\u00ades, that induced me to con\u00adceal myself under the shade of a cypress. I was scarce\u00adly hid when a young girl came run\u00adning towards the spot where I was con\u00adcealed, laugh\u00ading, as if she ran from some\u00adone in sport. She con\u00adtin\u00adued her course along the pre\u00adcip\u00adi\u00adtous sides of the riv\u00ader, when sud\u00adden\u00adly her foot slipped, and she fell into the rapid stream. I rushed from my hid\u00ading-place and with extreme labour, from the force of the cur\u00adrent, saved her and dragged her to shore. She was sense\u00adless, and I endeav\u00adoured by every means in my pow\u00ader to restore ani\u00adma\u00adtion, when I was sud\u00adden\u00adly inter\u00adrupt\u00aded by the approach of a rus\u00adtic, who was prob\u00ada\u00adbly the per\u00adson from whom she had play\u00adful\u00adly fled. On see\u00ading me, he dart\u00aded towards me, and tear\u00ading the girl from my arms, has\u00adtened towards the deep\u00ader parts of the wood. I fol\u00adlowed speed\u00adi\u00adly, I hard\u00adly knew why; but when the man saw me draw near, he aimed a gun, which he car\u00adried, at my body and fired. I sank to the ground, and my injur\u00ader, with increased swift\u00adness, escaped into the wood. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis was then the reward of my benev\u00ado\u00adlence! I had saved a human being from destruc\u00adtion, and as a rec\u00adom\u00adpense I now writhed under the mis\u00ader\u00adable pain of a wound which shat\u00adtered the flesh and bone. The feel\u00adings of kind\u00adness and gen\u00adtle\u00adness which I had enter\u00adtained but a few moments before gave place to hell\u00adish rage and gnash\u00ading of teeth. Inflamed by pain, I vowed eter\u00adnal hatred and vengeance to all mankind. But the agony of my wound over\u00adcame me; my puls\u00ades paused, and I fainted. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor some weeks I led a mis\u00ader\u00adable life in the woods, endeav\u00adour\u00ading to cure the wound which I had received. The ball had entered my shoul\u00adder, and I knew not whether it had remained there or passed through; at any rate I had no means of extract\u00ading it. My suf\u00adfer\u00adings were aug\u00adment\u00aded also by the oppres\u00adsive sense of the injus\u00adtice and ingrat\u00adi\u00adtude of their inflic\u00adtion. My dai\u00adly vows rose for revenge\u2014a deep and dead\u00adly revenge, such as would alone com\u00adpen\u00adsate for the out\u00adrages and anguish I had endured. <\/p>\n

\u201cAfter some weeks my wound healed, and I con\u00adtin\u00adued my jour\u00adney. The labours I endured were no longer to be alle\u00advi\u00adat\u00aded by the bright sun or gen\u00adtle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mock\u00adery which insult\u00aded my des\u00ado\u00adlate state and made me feel more painful\u00adly that I was not made for the enjoy\u00adment of pleasure. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut my toils now drew near a close, and in two months from this time I reached the envi\u00adrons of Geneva. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was evening when I arrived, and I retired to a hid\u00ading-place among the fields that sur\u00adround it to med\u00adi\u00adtate in what man\u00adner I should apply to you. I was oppressed by fatigue and hunger and far too unhap\u00adpy to enjoy the gen\u00adtle breezes of evening or the prospect of the sun set\u00adting behind the stu\u00adpen\u00addous moun\u00adtains of Jura. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt this time a slight sleep relieved me from the pain of reflec\u00adtion, which was dis\u00adturbed by the approach of a beau\u00adti\u00adful child, who came run\u00adning into the recess I had cho\u00adsen, with all the sportive\u00adness of infan\u00adcy. Sud\u00adden\u00adly, as I gazed on him, an idea seized me that this lit\u00adtle crea\u00adture was unprej\u00adu\u00addiced and had lived too short a time to have imbibed a hor\u00adror of defor\u00admi\u00adty. If, there\u00adfore, I could seize him and edu\u00adcate him as my com\u00adpan\u00adion and friend, I should not be so des\u00ado\u00adlate in this peo\u00adpled earth. <\/p>\n

\u201cUrged by this impulse, I seized on the boy as he passed and drew him towards me. As soon as he beheld my form, he placed his hands before his eyes and uttered a shrill scream; I drew his hand forcibly from his face and said, \u2018Child, what is the mean\u00ading of this? I do not intend to hurt you; lis\u00adten to me.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cHe strug\u00adgled vio\u00adlent\u00adly. \u2018Let me go,\u2019 he cried; \u2018mon\u00adster! Ugly wretch! You wish to eat me and tear me to pieces. You are an ogre. Let me go, or I will tell my papa.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Boy, you will nev\u00ader see your father again; you must come with me.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Hideous mon\u00adster! Let me go. My papa is a syndic\u2014he is M. Frankenstein\u2014he will pun\u00adish you. You dare not keep me.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Franken\u00adstein! you belong then to my enemy\u2014to him towards whom I have sworn eter\u00adnal revenge; you shall be my first victim.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cThe child still strug\u00adgled and loaded me with epi\u00adthets which car\u00adried despair to my heart; I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet. <\/p>\n

\u201cI gazed on my vic\u00adtim, and my heart swelled with exul\u00adta\u00adtion and hell\u00adish tri\u00adumph; clap\u00adping my hands, I exclaimed, \u2018I too can cre\u00adate des\u00ado\u00adla\u00adtion; my ene\u00admy is not invul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble; this death will car\u00adry despair to him, and a thou\u00adsand oth\u00ader mis\u00aderies shall tor\u00adment and destroy him.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cAs I fixed my eyes on the child, I saw some\u00adthing glit\u00adter\u00ading on his breast. I took it; it was a por\u00adtrait of a most love\u00adly woman. In spite of my malig\u00adni\u00adty, it soft\u00adened and attract\u00aded me. For a few moments I gazed with delight on her dark eyes, fringed by deep lash\u00ades, and her love\u00adly lips; but present\u00adly my rage returned; I remem\u00adbered that I was for ever deprived of the delights that such beau\u00adti\u00adful crea\u00adtures could bestow and that she whose resem\u00adblance I con\u00adtem\u00adplat\u00aded would, in regard\u00ading me, have changed that air of divine benig\u00adni\u00adty to one expres\u00adsive of dis\u00adgust and affright. <\/p>\n

\u201cCan you won\u00adder that such thoughts trans\u00adport\u00aded me with rage? I only won\u00adder that at that moment, instead of vent\u00ading my sen\u00adsa\u00adtions in excla\u00adma\u00adtions and agony, I did not rush among mankind and per\u00adish in the attempt to destroy them. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I was over\u00adcome by these feel\u00adings, I left the spot where I had com\u00admit\u00adted the mur\u00adder, and seek\u00ading a more seclud\u00aded hid\u00ading-place, I entered a barn which had appeared to me to be emp\u00adty. A woman was sleep\u00ading on some straw; she was young, not indeed so beau\u00adti\u00adful as her whose por\u00adtrait I held, but of an agree\u00adable aspect and bloom\u00ading in the love\u00adli\u00adness of youth and health. Here, I thought, is one of those whose joy-impart\u00ading smiles are bestowed on all but me. And then I bent over her and whis\u00adpered, \u2018Awake, fairest, thy lover is near\u2014he who would give his life but to obtain one look of affec\u00adtion from thine eyes; my beloved, awake!\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cThe sleep\u00ader stirred; a thrill of ter\u00adror ran through me. Should she indeed awake, and see me, and curse me, and denounce the mur\u00adder\u00ader? Thus would she assured\u00adly act if her dark\u00adened eyes opened and she beheld me. The thought was mad\u00adness; it stirred the fiend with\u00adin me\u2014not I, but she, shall suf\u00adfer; the mur\u00adder I have com\u00admit\u00adted because I am for ever robbed of all that she could give me, she shall atone. The crime had its source in her; be hers the pun\u00adish\u00adment! Thanks to the lessons of Felix and the san\u00adguinary laws of man, I had learned now to work mis\u00adchief. I bent over her and placed the por\u00adtrait secure\u00adly in one of the folds of her dress. She moved again, and I fled. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor some days I haunt\u00aded the spot where these scenes had tak\u00aden place, some\u00adtimes wish\u00ading to see you, some\u00adtimes resolved to quit the world and its mis\u00aderies for ever. At length I wan\u00addered towards these moun\u00adtains, and have ranged through their immense recess\u00ades, con\u00adsumed by a burn\u00ading pas\u00adsion which you alone can grat\u00adi\u00adfy. We may not part until you have promised to com\u00adply with my req\u00adui\u00adsi\u00adtion. I am alone and mis\u00ader\u00adable; man will not asso\u00adciate with me; but one as deformed and hor\u00adri\u00adble as myself would not deny her\u00adself to me. My com\u00adpan\u00adion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The being fin\u00adished speak\u00ading and fixed his looks upon me in the expec\u00adta\u00adtion of a reply. But I was bewil\u00addered, per\u00adplexed, and unable to arrange my ideas suf\u00adfi\u00adcient\u00adly to under\u00adstand the full extent of his propo\u00adsi\u00adtion. He continued, <\/p>\n

\u201cYou must cre\u00adate a female for me with whom I can live in the inter\u00adchange of those sym\u00adpa\u00adthies nec\u00ades\u00adsary for my being. This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as a right which you must not refuse to concede.\u201d <\/p>\n

The lat\u00adter part of his tale had kin\u00addled anew in me the anger that had died away while he nar\u00adrat\u00aded his peace\u00adful life among the cot\u00adtagers, and as he said this I could no longer sup\u00adpress the rage that burned with\u00adin me. <\/p>\n

\u201cI do refuse it,\u201d I replied; \u201cand no tor\u00adture shall ever extort a con\u00adsent from me. You may ren\u00adder me the most mis\u00ader\u00adable of men, but you shall nev\u00ader make me base in my own eyes. Shall I cre\u00adate anoth\u00ader like your\u00adself, whose joint wicked\u00adness might des\u00ado\u00adlate the world. Begone! I have answered you; you may tor\u00adture me, but I will nev\u00ader consent.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou are in the wrong,\u201d replied the fiend; \u201cand instead of threat\u00aden\u00ading, I am con\u00adtent to rea\u00adson with you. I am mali\u00adcious because I am mis\u00ader\u00adable. Am I not shunned and hat\u00aded by all mankind? You, my cre\u00adator, would tear me to pieces and tri\u00adumph; remem\u00adber that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me? You would not call it mur\u00adder if you could pre\u00adcip\u00adi\u00adtate me into one of those ice-rifts and destroy my frame, the work of your own hands. Shall I respect man when he con\u00addemns me? Let him live with me in the inter\u00adchange of kind\u00adness, and instead of injury I would bestow every ben\u00ade\u00adfit upon him with tears of grat\u00adi\u00adtude at his accep\u00adtance. But that can\u00adnot be; the human sens\u00ades are insur\u00admount\u00adable bar\u00adri\u00aders to our union. Yet mine shall not be the sub\u00admis\u00adsion of abject slav\u00adery. I will revenge my injuries; if I can\u00adnot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-ene\u00admy, because my cre\u00adator, do I swear inex\u00adtin\u00adguish\u00adable hatred. Have a care; I will work at your destruc\u00adtion, nor fin\u00adish until I des\u00ado\u00adlate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth.\u201d <\/p>\n

A fiendish rage ani\u00admat\u00aded him as he said this; his face was wrin\u00adkled into con\u00adtor\u00adtions too hor\u00adri\u00adble for human eyes to behold; but present\u00adly he calmed him\u00adself and proceeded\u2014 <\/p>\n

\u201cI intend\u00aded to rea\u00adson. This pas\u00adsion is detri\u00admen\u00adtal to me, for you do not reflect that you<\/span> are the cause of its excess. If any being felt emo\u00adtions of benev\u00ado\u00adlence towards me, I should return them a hun\u00addred and a hun\u00addred\u00adfold; for that one creature\u2019s sake I would make peace with the whole kind! But I now indulge in dreams of bliss that can\u00adnot be realised. What I ask of you is rea\u00adson\u00adable and mod\u00ader\u00adate; I demand a crea\u00adture of anoth\u00ader sex, but as hideous as myself; the grat\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall con\u00adtent me. It is true, we shall be mon\u00adsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one anoth\u00ader. Our lives will not be hap\u00adpy, but they will be harm\u00adless and free from the mis\u00adery I now feel. Oh! My cre\u00adator, make me hap\u00adpy; let me feel grat\u00adi\u00adtude towards you for one ben\u00ade\u00adfit! Let me see that I excite the sym\u00adpa\u00adthy of some exist\u00ading thing; do not deny me my request!\u201d <\/p>\n

I was moved. I shud\u00addered when I thought of the pos\u00adsi\u00adble con\u00adse\u00adquences of my con\u00adsent, but I felt that there was some jus\u00adtice in his argu\u00adment. His tale and the feel\u00adings he now expressed proved him to be a crea\u00adture of fine sen\u00adsa\u00adtions, and did I not as his mak\u00ader owe him all the por\u00adtion of hap\u00adpi\u00adness that it was in my pow\u00ader to bestow? He saw my change of feel\u00ading and continued, <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you con\u00adsent, nei\u00adther you nor any oth\u00ader human being shall ever see us again; I will go to the vast wilds of South Amer\u00adi\u00adca. My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me suf\u00adfi\u00adcient nour\u00adish\u00adment. My com\u00adpan\u00adion will be of the same nature as myself and will be con\u00adtent with the same fare. We shall make our bed of dried leaves; the sun will shine on us as on man and will ripen our food. The pic\u00adture I present to you is peace\u00adful and human, and you must feel that you could deny it only in the wan\u00adton\u00adness of pow\u00ader and cru\u00adel\u00adty. Piti\u00adless as you have been towards me, I now see com\u00adpas\u00adsion in your eyes; let me seize the favourable moment and per\u00adsuade you to promise what I so ardent\u00adly desire.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou pro\u00adpose,\u201d replied I, \u201cto fly from the habi\u00adta\u00adtions of man, to dwell in those wilds where the beasts of the field will be your only com\u00adpan\u00adions. How can you, who long for the love and sym\u00adpa\u00adthy of man, per\u00adse\u00advere in this exile? You will return and again seek their kind\u00adness, and you will meet with their detes\u00adta\u00adtion; your evil pas\u00adsions will be renewed, and you will then have a com\u00adpan\u00adion to aid you in the task of destruc\u00adtion. This may not be; cease to argue the point, for I can\u00adnot consent.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cHow incon\u00adstant are your feel\u00adings! But a moment ago you were moved by my rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtions, and why do you again hard\u00aden your\u00adself to my com\u00adplaints? I swear to you, by the earth which I inhab\u00adit, and by you that made me, that with the com\u00adpan\u00adion you bestow, I will quit the neigh\u00adbour\u00adhood of man and dwell, as it may chance, in the most sav\u00adage of places. My evil pas\u00adsions will have fled, for I shall meet with sym\u00adpa\u00adthy! My life will flow qui\u00adet\u00adly away, and in my dying moments I shall not curse my maker.\u201d <\/p>\n

His words had a strange effect upon me. I com\u00adpas\u00adsion\u00adat\u00aded him and some\u00adtimes felt a wish to con\u00adsole him, but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sick\u00adened and my feel\u00adings were altered to those of hor\u00adror and hatred. I tried to sti\u00adfle these sen\u00adsa\u00adtions; I thought that as I could not sym\u00adpa\u00adthise with him, I had no right to with\u00adhold from him the small por\u00adtion of hap\u00adpi\u00adness which was yet in my pow\u00ader to bestow. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou swear,\u201d I said, \u201cto be harm\u00adless; but have you not already shown a degree of mal\u00adice that should rea\u00adson\u00adably make me dis\u00adtrust you? May not even this be a feint that will increase your tri\u00adumph by afford\u00ading a wider scope for your revenge?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cHow is this? I must not be tri\u00adfled with, and I demand an answer. If I have no ties and no affec\u00adtions, hatred and vice must be my por\u00adtion; the love of anoth\u00ader will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing of whose exis\u00adtence every\u00adone will be igno\u00adrant. My vices are the chil\u00addren of a forced soli\u00adtude that I abhor, and my virtues will nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly arise when I live in com\u00admu\u00adnion with an equal. I shall feel the affec\u00adtions of a sen\u00adsi\u00adtive being and become linked to the chain of exis\u00adtence and events from which I am now excluded.\u201d <\/p>\n

I paused some time to reflect on all he had relat\u00aded and the var\u00adi\u00adous argu\u00adments which he had employed. I thought of the promise of virtues which he had dis\u00adplayed on the open\u00ading of his exis\u00adtence and the sub\u00adse\u00adquent blight of all kind\u00adly feel\u00ading by the loathing and scorn which his pro\u00adtec\u00adtors had man\u00adi\u00adfest\u00aded towards him. His pow\u00ader and threats were not omit\u00adted in my cal\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adtions; a crea\u00adture who could exist in the ice-caves of the glac\u00adi\u00aders and hide him\u00adself from pur\u00adsuit among the ridges of inac\u00adces\u00adsi\u00adble precipices was a being pos\u00adsess\u00ading fac\u00adul\u00adties it would be vain to cope with. After a long pause of reflec\u00adtion I con\u00adclud\u00aded that the jus\u00adtice due both to him and my fel\u00adlow crea\u00adtures demand\u00aded of me that I should com\u00adply with his request. Turn\u00ading to him, there\u00adfore, I said, <\/p>\n

\u201cI con\u00adsent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe for ever, and every oth\u00ader place in the neigh\u00adbour\u00adhood of man, as soon as I shall deliv\u00ader into your hands a female who will accom\u00adpa\u00adny you in your exile.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI swear,\u201d he cried, \u201cby the sun, and by the blue sky of heav\u00aden, and by the fire of love that burns my heart, that if you grant my prayer, while they exist you shall nev\u00ader behold me again. Depart to your home and com\u00admence your labours; I shall watch their progress with unut\u00adter\u00adable anx\u00adi\u00adety; and fear not but that when you are ready I shall appear.\u201d <\/p>\n

Say\u00ading this, he sud\u00adden\u00adly quit\u00adted me, fear\u00adful, per\u00adhaps, of any change in my sen\u00adti\u00adments. I saw him descend the moun\u00adtain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quick\u00adly lost among the undu\u00adla\u00adtions of the sea of ice. <\/p>\n

His tale had occu\u00adpied the whole day, and the sun was upon the verge of the hori\u00adzon when he depart\u00aded. I knew that I ought to has\u00adten my descent towards the val\u00adley, as I should soon be encom\u00adpassed in dark\u00adness; but my heart was heavy, and my steps slow. The labour of wind\u00ading among the lit\u00adtle paths of the moun\u00adtain and fix\u00ading my feet firm\u00adly as I advanced per\u00adplexed me, occu\u00adpied as I was by the emo\u00adtions which the occur\u00adrences of the day had pro\u00adduced. Night was far advanced when I came to the halfway rest\u00ading-place and seat\u00aded myself beside the foun\u00adtain. The stars shone at inter\u00advals as the clouds passed from over them; the dark pines rose before me, and every here and there a bro\u00adken tree lay on the ground; it was a scene of won\u00adder\u00adful solem\u00adni\u00adty and stirred strange thoughts with\u00adin me. I wept bit\u00adter\u00adly, and clasp\u00ading my hands in agony, I exclaimed, \u201cOh! stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye real\u00adly pity me, crush sen\u00adsa\u00adtion and mem\u00ado\u00adry; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.\u201d <\/p>\n

These were wild and mis\u00ader\u00adable thoughts, but I can\u00adnot describe to you how the eter\u00adnal twin\u00adkling of the stars weighed upon me and how I lis\u00adtened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to con\u00adsume me. <\/p>\n

Morn\u00ading dawned before I arrived at the vil\u00adlage of Chamounix; I took no rest, but returned imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly to Gene\u00adva. Even in my own heart I could give no expres\u00adsion to my sensations\u2014they weighed on me with a mountain\u2019s weight and their excess destroyed my agony beneath them. Thus I returned home, and enter\u00ading the house, pre\u00adsent\u00aded myself to the fam\u00adi\u00adly. My hag\u00adgard and wild appear\u00adance awoke intense alarm, but I answered no ques\u00adtion, scarce\u00adly did I speak. I felt as if I were placed under a ban\u2014as if I had no right to claim their sympathies\u2014as if nev\u00ader more might I enjoy com\u00adpan\u00adion\u00adship with them. Yet even thus I loved them to ado\u00adra\u00adtion; and to save them, I resolved to ded\u00adi\u00adcate myself to my most abhorred task. The prospect of such an occu\u00adpa\u00adtion made every oth\u00ader cir\u00adcum\u00adstance of exis\u00adtence pass before me like a dream, and that thought only had to me the real\u00adi\u00adty of life. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Day after day, week after week, passed away on my return to Gene\u00adva; and I could not col\u00adlect the courage to recom\u00admence my work. I feared the vengeance of the dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00aded fiend, yet I was unable to over\u00adcome my repug\u00adnance to the task which was enjoined me. I found that I could not com\u00adpose a female with\u00adout again devot\u00ading sev\u00ader\u00adal months to pro\u00adfound study and labo\u00adri\u00adous dis\u00adqui\u00adsi\u00adtion. I had heard of some dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies hav\u00ading been made by an Eng\u00adlish philoso\u00adpher, the knowl\u00adedge of which was mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal to my suc\u00adcess, and I some\u00adtimes thought of obtain\u00ading my father\u2019s con\u00adsent to vis\u00adit Eng\u00adland for this pur\u00adpose; but I clung to every pre\u00adtence of delay and shrank from tak\u00ading the first step in an under\u00adtak\u00ading whose imme\u00addi\u00adate neces\u00adsi\u00adty began to appear less absolute to me. A change indeed had tak\u00aden place in me; my health, which had hith\u00ader\u00adto declined, was now much restored; and my spir\u00adits, when unchecked by the mem\u00ado\u00adry of my unhap\u00adpy promise, rose pro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00adably. My father saw this change with plea\u00adsure, and he turned his thoughts towards the best method of erad\u00adi\u00adcat\u00ading the remains of my melan\u00adcholy, which every now and then would return by fits, and with a devour\u00ading black\u00adness over\u00adcast the approach\u00ading sun\u00adshine. At these moments I took refuge in the most per\u00adfect soli\u00adtude. I passed whole days on the lake alone in a lit\u00adtle boat, watch\u00ading the clouds and lis\u00adten\u00ading to the rip\u00adpling of the waves, silent and list\u00adless. But the fresh air and bright sun sel\u00addom failed to restore me to some degree of com\u00adpo\u00adsure, and on my return I met the salu\u00adta\u00adtions of my friends with a read\u00adier smile and a more cheer\u00adful heart. <\/p>\n

It was after my return from one of these ram\u00adbles that my father, call\u00ading me aside, thus addressed me, <\/p>\n

\u201cI am hap\u00adpy to remark, my dear son, that you have resumed your for\u00admer plea\u00adsures and seem to be return\u00ading to your\u00adself. And yet you are still unhap\u00adpy and still avoid our soci\u00adety. For some time I was lost in con\u00adjec\u00adture as to the cause of this, but yes\u00adter\u00adday an idea struck me, and if it is well found\u00aded, I con\u00adjure you to avow it. Reserve on such a point would be not only use\u00adless, but draw down tre\u00adble mis\u00adery on us all.\u201d <\/p>\n

I trem\u00adbled vio\u00adlent\u00adly at his exordi\u00adum, and my father continued\u2014 <\/p>\n

\u201cI con\u00adfess, my son, that I have always looked for\u00adward to your mar\u00adriage with our dear Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth as the tie of our domes\u00adtic com\u00adfort and the stay of my declin\u00ading years. You were attached to each oth\u00ader from your ear\u00adli\u00adest infan\u00adcy; you stud\u00adied togeth\u00ader, and appeared, in dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions and tastes, entire\u00adly suit\u00aded to one anoth\u00ader. But so blind is the expe\u00adri\u00adence of man that what I con\u00adceived to be the best assis\u00adtants to my plan may have entire\u00adly destroyed it. You, per\u00adhaps, regard her as your sis\u00adter, with\u00adout any wish that she might become your wife. Nay, you may have met with anoth\u00ader whom you may love; and con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ading your\u00adself as bound in hon\u00adour to Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, this strug\u00adgle may occa\u00adsion the poignant mis\u00adery which you appear to feel.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cMy dear father, reas\u00adsure your\u00adself. I love my cousin ten\u00adder\u00adly and sin\u00adcere\u00adly. I nev\u00ader saw any woman who excit\u00aded, as Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth does, my warmest admi\u00adra\u00adtion and affec\u00adtion. My future hopes and prospects are entire\u00adly bound up in the expec\u00adta\u00adtion of our union.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe expres\u00adsion of your sen\u00adti\u00adments of this sub\u00adject, my dear Vic\u00adtor, gives me more plea\u00adsure than I have for some time expe\u00adri\u00adenced. If you feel thus, we shall assured\u00adly be hap\u00adpy, how\u00adev\u00ader present events may cast a gloom over us. But it is this gloom which appears to have tak\u00aden so strong a hold of your mind that I wish to dis\u00adsi\u00adpate. Tell me, there\u00adfore, whether you object to an imme\u00addi\u00adate solem\u00adni\u00adsa\u00adtion of the mar\u00adriage. We have been unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate, and recent events have drawn us from that every\u00adday tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty befit\u00adting my years and infir\u00admi\u00adties. You are younger; yet I do not sup\u00adpose, pos\u00adsessed as you are of a com\u00adpe\u00adtent for\u00adtune, that an ear\u00adly mar\u00adriage would at all inter\u00adfere with any future plans of hon\u00adour and util\u00adi\u00adty that you may have formed. Do not sup\u00adpose, how\u00adev\u00ader, that I wish to dic\u00adtate hap\u00adpi\u00adness to you or that a delay on your part would cause me any seri\u00adous uneasi\u00adness. Inter\u00adpret my words with can\u00addour and answer me, I con\u00adjure you, with con\u00adfi\u00addence and sincerity.\u201d <\/p>\n

I lis\u00adtened to my father in silence and remained for some time inca\u00adpable of offer\u00ading any reply. I revolved rapid\u00adly in my mind a mul\u00adti\u00adtude of thoughts and endeav\u00adoured to arrive at some con\u00adclu\u00adsion. Alas! To me the idea of an imme\u00addi\u00adate union with my Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth was one of hor\u00adror and dis\u00admay. I was bound by a solemn promise which I had not yet ful\u00adfilled and dared not break, or if I did, what man\u00adi\u00adfold mis\u00aderies might not impend over me and my devot\u00aded fam\u00adi\u00adly! Could I enter into a fes\u00adti\u00adval with this dead\u00adly weight yet hang\u00ading round my neck and bow\u00ading me to the ground? I must per\u00adform my engage\u00adment and let the mon\u00adster depart with his mate before I allowed myself to enjoy the delight of a union from which I expect\u00aded peace. <\/p>\n

I remem\u00adbered also the neces\u00adsi\u00adty imposed upon me of either jour\u00adney\u00ading to Eng\u00adland or enter\u00ading into a long cor\u00adre\u00adspon\u00addence with those philoso\u00adphers of that coun\u00adtry whose knowl\u00adedge and dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies were of indis\u00adpens\u00adable use to me in my present under\u00adtak\u00ading. The lat\u00adter method of obtain\u00ading the desired intel\u00adli\u00adgence was dila\u00adto\u00adry and unsat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adto\u00adry; besides, I had an insur\u00admount\u00adable aver\u00adsion to the idea of engag\u00ading myself in my loath\u00adsome task in my father\u2019s house while in habits of famil\u00adiar inter\u00adcourse with those I loved. I knew that a thou\u00adsand fear\u00adful acci\u00addents might occur, the slight\u00adest of which would dis\u00adclose a tale to thrill all con\u00adnect\u00aded with me with hor\u00adror. I was aware also that I should often lose all self-com\u00admand, all capac\u00adi\u00adty of hid\u00ading the har\u00adrow\u00ading sen\u00adsa\u00adtions that would pos\u00adsess me dur\u00ading the progress of my unearth\u00adly occu\u00adpa\u00adtion. I must absent myself from all I loved while thus employed. Once com\u00admenced, it would quick\u00adly be achieved, and I might be restored to my fam\u00adi\u00adly in peace and hap\u00adpi\u00adness. My promise ful\u00adfilled, the mon\u00adster would depart for ever. Or (so my fond fan\u00adcy imaged) some acci\u00addent might mean\u00adwhile occur to destroy him and put an end to my slav\u00adery for ever. <\/p>\n

These feel\u00adings dic\u00adtat\u00aded my answer to my father. I expressed a wish to vis\u00adit Eng\u00adland, but con\u00adceal\u00ading the true rea\u00adsons of this request, I clothed my desires under a guise which excit\u00aded no sus\u00adpi\u00adcion, while I urged my desire with an earnest\u00adness that eas\u00adi\u00adly induced my father to com\u00adply. After so long a peri\u00adod of an absorb\u00ading melan\u00adcholy that resem\u00adbled mad\u00adness in its inten\u00adsi\u00adty and effects, he was glad to find that I was capa\u00adble of tak\u00ading plea\u00adsure in the idea of such a jour\u00adney, and he hoped that change of scene and var\u00adied amuse\u00adment would, before my return, have restored me entire\u00adly to myself. <\/p>\n

The dura\u00adtion of my absence was left to my own choice; a few months, or at most a year, was the peri\u00adod con\u00adtem\u00adplat\u00aded. One pater\u00adnal kind pre\u00adcau\u00adtion he had tak\u00aden to ensure my hav\u00ading a com\u00adpan\u00adion. With\u00adout pre\u00advi\u00adous\u00adly com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00ading with me, he had, in con\u00adcert with Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, arranged that Cler\u00adval should join me at Stras\u00adburgh. This inter\u00adfered with the soli\u00adtude I cov\u00adet\u00aded for the pros\u00ade\u00adcu\u00adtion of my task; yet at the com\u00admence\u00adment of my jour\u00adney the pres\u00adence of my friend could in no way be an imped\u00adi\u00adment, and tru\u00adly I rejoiced that thus I should be saved many hours of lone\u00adly, mad\u00adden\u00ading reflec\u00adtion. Nay, Hen\u00adry might stand between me and the intru\u00adsion of my foe. If I were alone, would he not at times force his abhorred pres\u00adence on me to remind me of my task or to con\u00adtem\u00adplate its progress? <\/p>\n

To Eng\u00adland, there\u00adfore, I was bound, and it was under\u00adstood that my union with Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth should take place imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly on my return. My father\u2019s age ren\u00addered him extreme\u00adly averse to delay. For myself, there was one reward I promised myself from my detest\u00aded toils\u2014one con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion for my unpar\u00adal\u00adleled suf\u00adfer\u00adings; it was the prospect of that day when, enfran\u00adchised from my mis\u00ader\u00adable slav\u00adery, I might claim Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth and for\u00adget the past in my union with her. <\/p>\n

I now made arrange\u00adments for my jour\u00adney, but one feel\u00ading haunt\u00aded me which filled me with fear and agi\u00adta\u00adtion. Dur\u00ading my absence I should leave my friends uncon\u00adscious of the exis\u00adtence of their ene\u00admy and unpro\u00adtect\u00aded from his attacks, exas\u00adper\u00adat\u00aded as he might be by my depar\u00adture. But he had promised to fol\u00adlow me wher\u00adev\u00ader I might go, and would he not accom\u00adpa\u00adny me to Eng\u00adland? This imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion was dread\u00adful in itself, but sooth\u00ading inas\u00admuch as it sup\u00adposed the safe\u00adty of my friends. I was ago\u00adnised with the idea of the pos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty that the reverse of this might hap\u00adpen. But through the whole peri\u00adod dur\u00ading which I was the slave of my crea\u00adture I allowed myself to be gov\u00aderned by the impuls\u00ades of the moment; and my present sen\u00adsa\u00adtions strong\u00adly inti\u00admat\u00aded that the fiend would fol\u00adlow me and exempt my fam\u00adi\u00adly from the dan\u00adger of his machinations. <\/p>\n

It was in the lat\u00adter end of Sep\u00adtem\u00adber that I again quit\u00adted my native coun\u00adtry. My jour\u00adney had been my own sug\u00adges\u00adtion, and Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth there\u00adfore acqui\u00adesced, but she was filled with dis\u00adqui\u00adet at the idea of my suf\u00adfer\u00ading, away from her, the inroads of mis\u00adery and grief. It had been her care which pro\u00advid\u00aded me a com\u00adpan\u00adion in Clerval\u2014and yet a man is blind to a thou\u00adsand minute cir\u00adcum\u00adstances which call forth a woman\u2019s sed\u00adu\u00adlous atten\u00adtion. She longed to bid me has\u00adten my return; a thou\u00adsand con\u00adflict\u00ading emo\u00adtions ren\u00addered her mute as she bade me a tear\u00adful, silent farewell. <\/p>\n

I threw myself into the car\u00adriage that was to con\u00advey me away, hard\u00adly know\u00ading whith\u00ader I was going, and care\u00adless of what was pass\u00ading around. I remem\u00adbered only, and it was with a bit\u00adter anguish that I reflect\u00aded on it, to order that my chem\u00adi\u00adcal instru\u00adments should be packed to go with me. Filled with drea\u00adry imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtions, I passed through many beau\u00adti\u00adful and majes\u00adtic scenes, but my eyes were fixed and unob\u00adserv\u00ading. I could only think of the bourne of my trav\u00adels and the work which was to occu\u00adpy me whilst they endured. <\/p>\n

After some days spent in list\u00adless indo\u00adlence, dur\u00ading which I tra\u00adversed many leagues, I arrived at Stras\u00adburgh, where I wait\u00aded two days for Cler\u00adval. He came. Alas, how great was the con\u00adtrast between us! He was alive to every new scene, joy\u00adful when he saw the beau\u00adties of the set\u00adting sun, and more hap\u00adpy when he beheld it rise and recom\u00admence a new day. He point\u00aded out to me the shift\u00ading colours of the land\u00adscape and the appear\u00adances of the sky. \u201cThis is what it is to live,\u201d he cried; \u201cnow I enjoy exis\u00adtence! But you, my dear Franken\u00adstein, where\u00adfore are you despond\u00ading and sor\u00adrow\u00adful!\u201d In truth, I was occu\u00adpied by gloomy thoughts and nei\u00adther saw the descent of the evening star nor the gold\u00aden sun\u00adrise reflect\u00aded in the Rhine. And you, my friend, would be far more amused with the jour\u00adnal of Cler\u00adval, who observed the scenery with an eye of feel\u00ading and delight, than in lis\u00adten\u00ading to my reflec\u00adtions. I, a mis\u00ader\u00adable wretch, haunt\u00aded by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment. <\/p>\n

We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Stras\u00adburgh to Rot\u00adter\u00addam, whence we might take ship\u00adping for Lon\u00addon. Dur\u00ading this voy\u00adage we passed many wil\u00adlowy islands and saw sev\u00ader\u00adal beau\u00adti\u00adful towns. We stayed a day at Mannheim, and on the fifth from our depar\u00adture from Stras\u00adburgh, arrived at Mainz. The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more pic\u00adturesque. The riv\u00ader descends rapid\u00adly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beau\u00adti\u00adful forms. We saw many ruined cas\u00adtles stand\u00ading on the edges of precipices, sur\u00adround\u00aded by black woods, high and inac\u00adces\u00adsi\u00adble. This part of the Rhine, indeed, presents a sin\u00adgu\u00adlar\u00adly var\u00adie\u00adgat\u00aded land\u00adscape. In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined cas\u00adtles over\u00adlook\u00ading tremen\u00addous precipices, with the dark Rhine rush\u00ading beneath; and on the sud\u00adden turn of a promon\u00adto\u00adry, flour\u00adish\u00ading vine\u00adyards with green slop\u00ading banks and a mean\u00adder\u00ading riv\u00ader and pop\u00adu\u00adlous towns occu\u00adpy the scene. <\/p>\n

We trav\u00adelled at the time of the vin\u00adtage and heard the song of the labour\u00aders as we glid\u00aded down the stream. Even I, depressed in mind, and my spir\u00adits con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly agi\u00adtat\u00aded by gloomy feel\u00adings, even I was pleased. I lay at the bot\u00adtom of the boat, and as I gazed on the cloud\u00adless blue sky, I seemed to drink in a tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty to which I had long been a stranger. And if these were my sen\u00adsa\u00adtions, who can describe those of Hen\u00adry? He felt as if he had been trans\u00adport\u00aded to Fairy-land and enjoyed a hap\u00adpi\u00adness sel\u00addom tast\u00aded by man. \u201cI have seen,\u201d he said, \u201cthe most beau\u00adti\u00adful scenes of my own coun\u00adtry; I have vis\u00adit\u00aded the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy moun\u00adtains descend almost per\u00adpen\u00addic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly to the water, cast\u00ading black and impen\u00ade\u00adtra\u00adble shades, which would cause a gloomy and mourn\u00adful appear\u00adance were it not for the most ver\u00addant islands that relieve the eye by their gay appear\u00adance; I have seen this lake agi\u00adtat\u00aded by a tem\u00adpest, when the wind tore up whirl\u00adwinds of water and gave you an idea of what the water-spout must be on the great ocean; and the waves dash with fury the base of the moun\u00adtain, where the priest and his mis\u00adtress were over\u00adwhelmed by an avalanche and where their dying voic\u00ades are still said to be heard amid the paus\u00ades of the night\u00adly wind; I have seen the moun\u00adtains of La Valais, and the Pays de Vaud; but this coun\u00adtry, Vic\u00adtor, pleas\u00ades me more than all those won\u00adders. The moun\u00adtains of Switzer\u00adland are more majes\u00adtic and strange, but there is a charm in the banks of this divine riv\u00ader that I nev\u00ader before saw equalled. Look at that cas\u00adtle which over\u00adhangs yon precipice; and that also on the island, almost con\u00adcealed amongst the foliage of those love\u00adly trees; and now that group of labour\u00aders com\u00ading from among their vines; and that vil\u00adlage half hid in the recess of the moun\u00adtain. Oh, sure\u00adly the spir\u00adit that inhab\u00adits and guards this place has a soul more in har\u00admo\u00adny with man than those who pile the glac\u00adi\u00ader or retire to the inac\u00adces\u00adsi\u00adble peaks of the moun\u00adtains of our own country.\u201d <\/p>\n

Cler\u00adval! Beloved friend! Even now it delights me to record your words and to dwell on the praise of which you are so emi\u00adnent\u00adly deserv\u00ading. He was a being formed in the \u201cvery poet\u00adry of nature.\u201d His wild and enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adtic imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion was chas\u00adtened by the sen\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of his heart. His soul over\u00adflowed with ardent affec\u00adtions, and his friend\u00adship was of that devot\u00aded and won\u00addrous nature that the world\u00adly-mind\u00aded teach us to look for only in the imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion. But even human sym\u00adpa\u00adthies were not suf\u00adfi\u00adcient to sat\u00adis\u00adfy his eager mind. The scenery of exter\u00adnal nature, which oth\u00aders regard only with admi\u00adra\u00adtion, he loved with ardour:\u2014 <\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014The sound\u00ading catarac\u00adtHaunt\u00aded him like a pas\u00adsion: the tall rock,The moun\u00adtain, and the deep and gloomy wood,Their colours and their forms, were then to himAn appetite; a feel\u00ading, and a love,That had no need of a remot\u00ader charm,By thought sup\u00adplied, or any interestUnborrow\u2019d from the eye.[Wordsworth\u2019s \u201cTin\u00adtern Abbey\u201d.] <\/p>\n

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And where does he now exist? Is this gen\u00adtle and love\u00adly being lost for ever? Has this mind, so replete with ideas, imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtions fan\u00adci\u00adful and mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent, which formed a world, whose exis\u00adtence depend\u00aded on the life of its creator;\u2014has this mind per\u00adished? Does it now only exist in my mem\u00ado\u00adry? No, it is not thus; your form so divine\u00adly wrought, and beam\u00ading with beau\u00adty, has decayed, but your spir\u00adit still vis\u00adits and con\u00adsoles your unhap\u00adpy friend. <\/p>\n

Par\u00addon this gush of sor\u00adrow; these inef\u00adfec\u00adtu\u00adal words are but a slight trib\u00adute to the unex\u00adam\u00adpled worth of Hen\u00adry, but they soothe my heart, over\u00adflow\u00ading with the anguish which his remem\u00adbrance cre\u00adates. I will pro\u00adceed with my tale. <\/p>\n

Beyond Cologne we descend\u00aded to the plains of Hol\u00adland; and we resolved to post the remain\u00adder of our way, for the wind was con\u00adtrary and the stream of the riv\u00ader was too gen\u00adtle to aid us. <\/p>\n

Our jour\u00adney here lost the inter\u00adest aris\u00ading from beau\u00adti\u00adful scenery, but we arrived in a few days at Rot\u00adter\u00addam, whence we pro\u00adceed\u00aded by sea to Eng\u00adland. It was on a clear morn\u00ading, in the lat\u00adter days of Decem\u00adber, that I first saw the white cliffs of Britain. The banks of the Thames pre\u00adsent\u00aded a new scene; they were flat but fer\u00adtile, and almost every town was marked by the remem\u00adbrance of some sto\u00adry. We saw Tilbury Fort and remem\u00adbered the Span\u00adish Arma\u00adda, Gravesend, Wool\u00adwich, and Greenwich\u2014places which I had heard of even in my country. <\/p>\n

At length we saw the numer\u00adous steeples of Lon\u00addon, St. Paul\u2019s tow\u00ader\u00ading above all, and the Tow\u00ader famed in Eng\u00adlish history. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

Lon\u00addon was our present point of rest; we deter\u00admined to remain sev\u00ader\u00adal months in this won\u00adder\u00adful and cel\u00ade\u00adbrat\u00aded city. Cler\u00adval desired the inter\u00adcourse of the men of genius and tal\u00adent who flour\u00adished at this time, but this was with me a sec\u00adondary object; I was prin\u00adci\u00adpal\u00adly occu\u00adpied with the means of obtain\u00ading the infor\u00adma\u00adtion nec\u00ades\u00adsary for the com\u00adple\u00adtion of my promise and quick\u00adly availed myself of the let\u00adters of intro\u00adduc\u00adtion that I had brought with me, addressed to the most dis\u00adtin\u00adguished nat\u00adur\u00adal philosophers. <\/p>\n

If this jour\u00adney had tak\u00aden place dur\u00ading my days of study and hap\u00adpi\u00adness, it would have afford\u00aded me inex\u00adpress\u00adible plea\u00adsure. But a blight had come over my exis\u00adtence, and I only vis\u00adit\u00aded these peo\u00adple for the sake of the infor\u00adma\u00adtion they might give me on the sub\u00adject in which my inter\u00adest was so ter\u00adri\u00adbly pro\u00adfound. Com\u00adpa\u00adny was irk\u00adsome to me; when alone, I could fill my mind with the sights of heav\u00aden and earth; the voice of Hen\u00adry soothed me, and I could thus cheat myself into a tran\u00adsi\u00adto\u00adry peace. But busy, unin\u00adter\u00adest\u00ading, joy\u00adous faces brought back despair to my heart. I saw an insur\u00admount\u00adable bar\u00adri\u00ader placed between me and my fel\u00adlow men; this bar\u00adri\u00ader was sealed with the blood of William and Jus\u00adtine, and to reflect on the events con\u00adnect\u00aded with those names filled my soul with anguish. <\/p>\n

But in Cler\u00adval I saw the image of my for\u00admer self; he was inquis\u00adi\u00adtive and anx\u00adious to gain expe\u00adri\u00adence and instruc\u00adtion. The dif\u00adfer\u00adence of man\u00adners which he observed was to him an inex\u00adhaustible source of instruc\u00adtion and amuse\u00adment. He was also pur\u00adsu\u00ading an object he had long had in view. His design was to vis\u00adit India, in the belief that he had in his knowl\u00adedge of its var\u00adi\u00adous lan\u00adguages, and in the views he had tak\u00aden of its soci\u00adety, the means of mate\u00adri\u00adal\u00adly assist\u00ading the progress of Euro\u00adpean col\u00ado\u00adniza\u00adtion and trade. In Britain only could he fur\u00adther the exe\u00adcu\u00adtion of his plan. He was for ever busy, and the only check to his enjoy\u00adments was my sor\u00adrow\u00adful and deject\u00aded mind. I tried to con\u00adceal this as much as pos\u00adsi\u00adble, that I might not debar him from the plea\u00adsures nat\u00adur\u00adal to one who was enter\u00ading on a new scene of life, undis\u00adturbed by any care or bit\u00adter rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion. I often refused to accom\u00adpa\u00adny him, alleg\u00ading anoth\u00ader engage\u00adment, that I might remain alone. I now also began to col\u00adlect the mate\u00adri\u00adals nec\u00ades\u00adsary for my new cre\u00adation, and this was to me like the tor\u00adture of sin\u00adgle drops of water con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly falling on the head. Every thought that was devot\u00aded to it was an extreme anguish, and every word that I spoke in allu\u00adsion to it caused my lips to quiver, and my heart to palpitate. <\/p>\n

After pass\u00ading some months in Lon\u00addon, we received a let\u00adter from a per\u00adson in Scot\u00adland who had for\u00admer\u00adly been our vis\u00adi\u00adtor at Gene\u00adva. He men\u00adtioned the beau\u00adties of his native coun\u00adtry and asked us if those were not suf\u00adfi\u00adcient allure\u00adments to induce us to pro\u00adlong our jour\u00adney as far north as Perth, where he resided. Cler\u00adval eager\u00adly desired to accept this invi\u00adta\u00adtion, and I, although I abhorred soci\u00adety, wished to view again moun\u00adtains and streams and all the won\u00addrous works with which Nature adorns her cho\u00adsen dwelling-places. <\/p>\n

We had arrived in Eng\u00adland at the begin\u00adning of Octo\u00adber, and it was now Feb\u00adru\u00adary. We accord\u00ading\u00adly deter\u00admined to com\u00admence our jour\u00adney towards the north at the expi\u00adra\u00adtion of anoth\u00ader month. In this expe\u00addi\u00adtion we did not intend to fol\u00adlow the great road to Edin\u00adburgh, but to vis\u00adit Wind\u00adsor, Oxford, Mat\u00adlock, and the Cum\u00adber\u00adland lakes, resolv\u00ading to arrive at the com\u00adple\u00adtion of this tour about the end of July. I packed up my chem\u00adi\u00adcal instru\u00adments and the mate\u00adri\u00adals I had col\u00adlect\u00aded, resolv\u00ading to fin\u00adish my labours in some obscure nook in the north\u00adern high\u00adlands of Scotland. <\/p>\n

We quit\u00adted Lon\u00addon on the 27th of March and remained a few days at Wind\u00adsor, ram\u00adbling in its beau\u00adti\u00adful for\u00adest. This was a new scene to us moun\u00adtaineers; the majes\u00adtic oaks, the quan\u00adti\u00adty of game, and the herds of state\u00adly deer were all nov\u00adel\u00adties to us. <\/p>\n

From thence we pro\u00adceed\u00aded to Oxford. As we entered this city, our minds were filled with the remem\u00adbrance of the events that had been trans\u00adact\u00aded there more than a cen\u00adtu\u00adry and a half before. It was here that Charles I. had col\u00adlect\u00aded his forces. This city had remained faith\u00adful to him, after the whole nation had for\u00adsak\u00aden his cause to join the stan\u00addard of Par\u00adlia\u00adment and lib\u00ader\u00adty. The mem\u00ado\u00adry of that unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate king and his com\u00adpan\u00adions, the ami\u00adable Falk\u00adland, the inso\u00adlent Gor\u00ading, his queen, and son, gave a pecu\u00adliar inter\u00adest to every part of the city which they might be sup\u00adposed to have inhab\u00adit\u00aded. The spir\u00adit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delight\u00aded to trace its foot\u00adsteps. If these feel\u00adings had not found an imag\u00adi\u00adnary grat\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion, the appear\u00adance of the city had yet in itself suf\u00adfi\u00adcient beau\u00adty to obtain our admi\u00adra\u00adtion. The col\u00adleges are ancient and pic\u00adturesque; the streets are almost mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent; and the love\u00adly Isis, which flows beside it through mead\u00adows of exquis\u00adite ver\u00addure, is spread forth into a placid expanse of waters, which reflects its majes\u00adtic assem\u00adblage of tow\u00aders, and spires, and domes, embo\u00adsomed among aged trees. <\/p>\n

I enjoyed this scene, and yet my enjoy\u00adment was embit\u00adtered both by the mem\u00ado\u00adry of the past and the antic\u00adi\u00adpa\u00adtion of the future. I was formed for peace\u00adful hap\u00adpi\u00adness. Dur\u00ading my youth\u00adful days dis\u00adcon\u00adtent nev\u00ader vis\u00adit\u00aded my mind, and if I was ever over\u00adcome by ennui, the sight of what is beau\u00adti\u00adful in nature or the study of what is excel\u00adlent and sub\u00adlime in the pro\u00adduc\u00adtions of man could always inter\u00adest my heart and com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcate elas\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adty to my spir\u00adits. But I am a blast\u00aded tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should sur\u00advive to exhib\u00adit what I shall soon cease to be\u2014a mis\u00ader\u00adable spec\u00adta\u00adcle of wrecked human\u00adi\u00adty, pitiable to oth\u00aders and intol\u00ader\u00ada\u00adble to myself. <\/p>\n

We passed a con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable peri\u00adod at Oxford, ram\u00adbling among its envi\u00adrons and endeav\u00adour\u00ading to iden\u00adti\u00adfy every spot which might relate to the most ani\u00admat\u00ading epoch of Eng\u00adlish his\u00adto\u00adry. Our lit\u00adtle voy\u00adages of dis\u00adcov\u00adery were often pro\u00adlonged by the suc\u00adces\u00adsive objects that pre\u00adsent\u00aded them\u00adselves. We vis\u00adit\u00aded the tomb of the illus\u00adtri\u00adous Ham\u00adp\u00adden and the field on which that patri\u00adot fell. For a moment my soul was ele\u00advat\u00aded from its debas\u00ading and mis\u00ader\u00adable fears to con\u00adtem\u00adplate the divine ideas of lib\u00ader\u00adty and self-sac\u00adri\u00adfice of which these sights were the mon\u00adu\u00adments and the remem\u00adbrancers. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spir\u00adit, but the iron had eat\u00aden into my flesh, and I sank again, trem\u00adbling and hope\u00adless, into my mis\u00ader\u00adable self. <\/p>\n

We left Oxford with regret and pro\u00adceed\u00aded to Mat\u00adlock, which was our next place of rest. The coun\u00adtry in the neigh\u00adbour\u00adhood of this vil\u00adlage resem\u00adbled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzer\u00adland; but every\u00adthing is on a low\u00ader scale, and the green hills want the crown of dis\u00adtant white Alps which always attend on the piny moun\u00adtains of my native coun\u00adtry. We vis\u00adit\u00aded the won\u00addrous cave and the lit\u00adtle cab\u00adi\u00adnets of nat\u00adur\u00adal his\u00adto\u00adry, where the curiosi\u00adties are dis\u00adposed in the same man\u00adner as in the col\u00adlec\u00adtions at Ser\u00advox and Chamounix. The lat\u00adter name made me trem\u00adble when pro\u00adnounced by Hen\u00adry, and I has\u00adtened to quit Mat\u00adlock, with which that ter\u00adri\u00adble scene was thus associated. <\/p>\n

From Der\u00adby, still jour\u00adney\u00ading north\u00adwards, we passed two months in Cum\u00adber\u00adland and West\u00admor\u00adland. I could now almost fan\u00adcy myself among the Swiss moun\u00adtains. The lit\u00adtle patch\u00ades of snow which yet lin\u00adgered on the north\u00adern sides of the moun\u00adtains, the lakes, and the dash\u00ading of the rocky streams were all famil\u00adiar and dear sights to me. Here also we made some acquain\u00adtances, who almost con\u00adtrived to cheat me into hap\u00adpi\u00adness. The delight of Cler\u00adval was pro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00adably greater than mine; his mind expand\u00aded in the com\u00adpa\u00adny of men of tal\u00adent, and he found in his own nature greater capac\u00adi\u00adties and resources than he could have imag\u00adined him\u00adself to have pos\u00adsessed while he asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with his infe\u00adri\u00adors. \u201cI could pass my life here,\u201d said he to me; \u201cand among these moun\u00adtains I should scarce\u00adly regret Switzer\u00adland and the Rhine.\u201d <\/p>\n

But he found that a traveller\u2019s life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoy\u00adments. His feel\u00adings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds him\u00adself oblig\u00aded to quit that on which he rests in plea\u00adsure for some\u00adthing new, which again engages his atten\u00adtion, and which also he for\u00adsakes for oth\u00ader novelties. <\/p>\n

We had scarce\u00adly vis\u00adit\u00aded the var\u00adi\u00adous lakes of Cum\u00adber\u00adland and West\u00admor\u00adland and con\u00adceived an affec\u00adtion for some of the inhab\u00adi\u00adtants when the peri\u00adod of our appoint\u00adment with our Scotch friend approached, and we left them to trav\u00adel on. For my own part I was not sor\u00adry. I had now neglect\u00aded my promise for some time, and I feared the effects of the d\u00e6mon\u2019s dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment. He might remain in Switzer\u00adland and wreak his vengeance on my rel\u00ada\u00adtives. This idea pur\u00adsued me and tor\u00adment\u00aded me at every moment from which I might oth\u00ader\u00adwise have snatched repose and peace. I wait\u00aded for my let\u00adters with fever\u00adish impa\u00adtience; if they were delayed I was mis\u00ader\u00adable and over\u00adcome by a thou\u00adsand fears; and when they arrived and I saw the super\u00adscrip\u00adtion of Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth or my father, I hard\u00adly dared to read and ascer\u00adtain my fate. Some\u00adtimes I thought that the fiend fol\u00adlowed me and might expe\u00addite my remiss\u00adness by mur\u00adder\u00ading my com\u00adpan\u00adion. When these thoughts pos\u00adsessed me, I would not quit Hen\u00adry for a moment, but fol\u00adlowed him as his shad\u00adow, to pro\u00adtect him from the fan\u00adcied rage of his destroy\u00ader. I felt as if I had com\u00admit\u00adted some great crime, the con\u00adscious\u00adness of which haunt\u00aded me. I was guilt\u00adless, but I had indeed drawn down a hor\u00adri\u00adble curse upon my head, as mor\u00adtal as that of crime. <\/p>\n

I vis\u00adit\u00aded Edin\u00adburgh with lan\u00adguid eyes and mind; and yet that city might have inter\u00adest\u00aded the most unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate being. Cler\u00adval did not like it so well as Oxford, for the antiq\u00adui\u00adty of the lat\u00adter city was more pleas\u00ading to him. But the beau\u00adty and reg\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty of the new town of Edin\u00adburgh, its roman\u00adtic cas\u00adtle and its envi\u00adrons, the most delight\u00adful in the world, Arthur\u2019s Seat, St. Bernard\u2019s Well, and the Pent\u00adland Hills, com\u00adpen\u00adsat\u00aded him for the change and filled him with cheer\u00adful\u00adness and admi\u00adra\u00adtion. But I was impa\u00adtient to arrive at the ter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion of my journey. <\/p>\n

We left Edin\u00adburgh in a week, pass\u00ading through Coupar, St. Andrew\u2019s, and along the banks of the Tay, to Perth, where our friend expect\u00aded us. But I was in no mood to laugh and talk with strangers or enter into their feel\u00adings or plans with the good humour expect\u00aded from a guest; and accord\u00ading\u00adly I told Cler\u00adval that I wished to make the tour of Scot\u00adland alone. \u201cDo you,\u201d said I, \u201cenjoy your\u00adself, and let this be our ren\u00addezvous. I may be absent a month or two; but do not inter\u00adfere with my motions, I entreat you; leave me to peace and soli\u00adtude for a short time; and when I return, I hope it will be with a lighter heart, more con\u00adge\u00adnial to your own temper.\u201d <\/p>\n

Hen\u00adry wished to dis\u00adsuade me, but see\u00ading me bent on this plan, ceased to remon\u00adstrate. He entreat\u00aded me to write often. \u201cI had rather be with you,\u201d he said, \u201cin your soli\u00adtary ram\u00adbles, than with these Scotch peo\u00adple, whom I do not know; has\u00adten, then, my dear friend, to return, that I may again feel myself some\u00adwhat at home, which I can\u00adnot do in your absence.\u201d <\/p>\n

Hav\u00ading part\u00aded from my friend, I deter\u00admined to vis\u00adit some remote spot of Scot\u00adland and fin\u00adish my work in soli\u00adtude. I did not doubt but that the mon\u00adster fol\u00adlowed me and would dis\u00adcov\u00ader him\u00adself to me when I should have fin\u00adished, that he might receive his companion. <\/p>\n

With this res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion I tra\u00adversed the north\u00adern high\u00adlands and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene of my labours. It was a place fit\u00adted for such a work, being hard\u00adly more than a rock whose high sides were con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly beat\u00aden upon by the waves. The soil was bar\u00adren, scarce\u00adly afford\u00ading pas\u00adture for a few mis\u00ader\u00adable cows, and oat\u00admeal for its inhab\u00adi\u00adtants, which con\u00adsist\u00aded of five per\u00adsons, whose gaunt and scrag\u00adgy limbs gave tokens of their mis\u00ader\u00adable fare. Veg\u00adeta\u00adbles and bread, when they indulged in such lux\u00adu\u00adries, and even fresh water, was to be pro\u00adcured from the main\u00adland, which was about five miles distant. <\/p>\n

On the whole island there were but three mis\u00ader\u00adable huts, and one of these was vacant when I arrived. This I hired. It con\u00adtained but two rooms, and these exhib\u00adit\u00aded all the squalid\u00adness of the most mis\u00ader\u00adable penury. The thatch had fall\u00aden in, the walls were unplas\u00adtered, and the door was off its hinges. I ordered it to be repaired, bought some fur\u00adni\u00adture, and took pos\u00adses\u00adsion, an inci\u00addent which would doubt\u00adless have occa\u00adsioned some sur\u00adprise had not all the sens\u00ades of the cot\u00adtagers been benumbed by want and squalid pover\u00adty. As it was, I lived ungazed at and unmo\u00adlest\u00aded, hard\u00adly thanked for the pit\u00adtance of food and clothes which I gave, so much does suf\u00adfer\u00ading blunt even the coars\u00adest sen\u00adsa\u00adtions of men. <\/p>\n

In this retreat I devot\u00aded the morn\u00ading to labour; but in the evening, when the weath\u00ader per\u00admit\u00adted, I walked on the stony beach of the sea to lis\u00adten to the waves as they roared and dashed at my feet. It was a monot\u00ado\u00adnous yet ever-chang\u00ading scene. I thought of Switzer\u00adland; it was far dif\u00adfer\u00adent from this des\u00ado\u00adlate and appalling land\u00adscape. Its hills are cov\u00adered with vines, and its cot\u00adtages are scat\u00adtered thick\u00adly in the plains. Its fair lakes reflect a blue and gen\u00adtle sky, and when trou\u00adbled by the winds, their tumult is but as the play of a live\u00adly infant when com\u00adpared to the roar\u00adings of the giant ocean. <\/p>\n

In this man\u00adner I dis\u00adtrib\u00aduted my occu\u00adpa\u00adtions when I first arrived, but as I pro\u00adceed\u00aded in my labour, it became every day more hor\u00adri\u00adble and irk\u00adsome to me. Some\u00adtimes I could not pre\u00advail on myself to enter my lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry for sev\u00ader\u00adal days, and at oth\u00ader times I toiled day and night in order to com\u00adplete my work. It was, indeed, a filthy process in which I was engaged. Dur\u00ading my first exper\u00adi\u00adment, a kind of enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adtic fren\u00adzy had blind\u00aded me to the hor\u00adror of my employ\u00adment; my mind was intent\u00adly fixed on the con\u00adsum\u00adma\u00adtion of my labour, and my eyes were shut to the hor\u00adror of my pro\u00adceed\u00adings. But now I went to it in cold blood, and my heart often sick\u00adened at the work of my hands. <\/p>\n

Thus sit\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded, employed in the most detestable occu\u00adpa\u00adtion, immersed in a soli\u00adtude where noth\u00ading could for an instant call my atten\u00adtion from the actu\u00adal scene in which I was engaged, my spir\u00adits became unequal; I grew rest\u00adless and ner\u00advous. Every moment I feared to meet my per\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adtor. Some\u00adtimes I sat with my eyes fixed on the ground, fear\u00ading to raise them lest they should encounter the object which I so much dread\u00aded to behold. I feared to wan\u00adder from the sight of my fel\u00adlow crea\u00adtures lest when alone he should come to claim his companion. <\/p>\n

In the mean time I worked on, and my labour was already con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adably advanced. I looked towards its com\u00adple\u00adtion with a tremu\u00adlous and eager hope, which I dared not trust myself to ques\u00adtion but which was inter\u00admixed with obscure fore\u00adbod\u00adings of evil that made my heart sick\u00aden in my bosom. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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I sat one evening in my lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry; the sun had set, and the moon was just ris\u00ading from the sea; I had not suf\u00adfi\u00adcient light for my employ\u00adment, and I remained idle, in a pause of con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of whether I should leave my labour for the night or has\u00adten its con\u00adclu\u00adsion by an unremit\u00adting atten\u00adtion to it. As I sat, a train of reflec\u00adtion occurred to me which led me to con\u00adsid\u00ader the effects of what I was now doing. Three years before, I was engaged in the same man\u00adner and had cre\u00adat\u00aded a fiend whose unpar\u00adal\u00adleled bar\u00adbar\u00adi\u00adty had des\u00ado\u00adlat\u00aded my heart and filled it for ever with the bit\u00adter\u00adest remorse. I was now about to form anoth\u00ader being of whose dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions I was alike igno\u00adrant; she might become ten thou\u00adsand times more malig\u00adnant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in mur\u00adder and wretched\u00adness. He had sworn to quit the neigh\u00adbour\u00adhood of man and hide him\u00adself in deserts, but she had not; and she, who in all prob\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty was to become a think\u00ading and rea\u00adson\u00ading ani\u00admal, might refuse to com\u00adply with a com\u00adpact made before her cre\u00adation. They might even hate each oth\u00ader; the crea\u00adture who already lived loathed his own defor\u00admi\u00adty, and might he not con\u00adceive a greater abhor\u00adrence for it when it came before his eyes in the female form? She also might turn with dis\u00adgust from him to the supe\u00adri\u00ador beau\u00adty of man; she might quit him, and he be again alone, exas\u00adper\u00adat\u00aded by the fresh provo\u00adca\u00adtion of being desert\u00aded by one of his own species. <\/p>\n

Even if they were to leave Europe and inhab\u00adit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sym\u00adpa\u00adthies for which the d\u00e6mon thirst\u00aded would be chil\u00addren, and a race of dev\u00adils would be prop\u00ada\u00adgat\u00aded upon the earth who might make the very exis\u00adtence of the species of man a con\u00addi\u00adtion pre\u00adcar\u00adi\u00adous and full of ter\u00adror. Had I right, for my own ben\u00ade\u00adfit, to inflict this curse upon ever\u00adlast\u00ading gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions? I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had cre\u00adat\u00aded; I had been struck sense\u00adless by his fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wicked\u00adness of my promise burst upon me; I shud\u00addered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose self\u00adish\u00adness had not hes\u00adi\u00adtat\u00aded to buy its own peace at the price, per\u00adhaps, of the exis\u00adtence of the whole human race. <\/p>\n

I trem\u00adbled and my heart failed with\u00adin me, when, on look\u00ading up, I saw by the light of the moon the d\u00e6mon at the case\u00adment. A ghast\u00adly grin wrin\u00adkled his lips as he gazed on me, where I sat ful\u00adfill\u00ading the task which he had allot\u00adted to me. Yes, he had fol\u00adlowed me in my trav\u00adels; he had loi\u00adtered in forests, hid him\u00adself in caves, or tak\u00aden refuge in wide and desert heaths; and he now came to mark my progress and claim the ful\u00adfil\u00adment of my promise. <\/p>\n

As I looked on him, his coun\u00adte\u00adnance expressed the utmost extent of mal\u00adice and treach\u00adery. I thought with a sen\u00adsa\u00adtion of mad\u00adness on my promise of cre\u00adat\u00ading anoth\u00ader like to him, and trem\u00adbling with pas\u00adsion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged. The wretch saw me destroy the crea\u00adture on whose future exis\u00adtence he depend\u00aded for hap\u00adpi\u00adness, and with a howl of dev\u00adil\u00adish despair and revenge, withdrew. <\/p>\n

I left the room, and lock\u00ading the door, made a solemn vow in my own heart nev\u00ader to resume my labours; and then, with trem\u00adbling steps, I sought my own apart\u00adment. I was alone; none were near me to dis\u00adsi\u00adpate the gloom and relieve me from the sick\u00aden\u00ading oppres\u00adsion of the most ter\u00adri\u00adble reveries. <\/p>\n

Sev\u00ader\u00adal hours passed, and I remained near my win\u00addow gaz\u00ading on the sea; it was almost motion\u00adless, for the winds were hushed, and all nature reposed under the eye of the qui\u00adet moon. A few fish\u00ading ves\u00adsels alone specked the water, and now and then the gen\u00adtle breeze waft\u00aded the sound of voic\u00ades as the fish\u00ader\u00admen called to one anoth\u00ader. I felt the silence, although I was hard\u00adly con\u00adscious of its extreme pro\u00adfun\u00addi\u00adty, until my ear was sud\u00adden\u00adly arrest\u00aded by the pad\u00addling of oars near the shore, and a per\u00adson land\u00aded close to my house. <\/p>\n

In a few min\u00adutes after, I heard the creak\u00ading of my door, as if some one endeav\u00adoured to open it soft\u00adly. I trem\u00adbled from head to foot; I felt a pre\u00adsen\u00adti\u00adment of who it was and wished to rouse one of the peas\u00adants who dwelt in a cot\u00adtage not far from mine; but I was over\u00adcome by the sen\u00adsa\u00adtion of help\u00adless\u00adness, so often felt in fright\u00adful dreams, when you in vain endeav\u00adour to fly from an impend\u00ading dan\u00adger, and was root\u00aded to the spot. <\/p>\n

Present\u00adly I heard the sound of foot\u00adsteps along the pas\u00adsage; the door opened, and the wretch whom I dread\u00aded appeared. Shut\u00adting the door, he approached me and said in a smoth\u00adered voice, <\/p>\n

\u201cYou have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? Do you dare to break your promise? I have endured toil and mis\u00adery; I left Switzer\u00adland with you; I crept along the shores of the Rhine, among its wil\u00adlow islands and over the sum\u00admits of its hills. I have dwelt many months in the heaths of Eng\u00adland and among the deserts of Scot\u00adland. I have endured incal\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adble fatigue, and cold, and hunger; do you dare destroy my hopes?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBegone! I do break my promise; nev\u00ader will I cre\u00adate anoth\u00ader like your\u00adself, equal in defor\u00admi\u00adty and wickedness.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cSlave, I before rea\u00adsoned with you, but you have proved your\u00adself unwor\u00adthy of my con\u00adde\u00adscen\u00adsion. Remem\u00adber that I have pow\u00ader; you believe your\u00adself mis\u00ader\u00adable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hate\u00adful to you. You are my cre\u00adator, but I am your mas\u00adter; obey!\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe hour of my irres\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion is past, and the peri\u00adod of your pow\u00ader is arrived. Your threats can\u00adnot move me to do an act of wicked\u00adness; but they con\u00adfirm me in a deter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion of not cre\u00adat\u00ading you a com\u00adpan\u00adion in vice. Shall I, in cool blood, set loose upon the earth a d\u00e6mon whose delight is in death and wretched\u00adness? Begone! I am firm, and your words will only exas\u00adper\u00adate my rage.\u201d <\/p>\n

The mon\u00adster saw my deter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion in my face and gnashed his teeth in the impo\u00adtence of anger. \u201cShall each man,\u201d cried he, \u201cfind a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feel\u00adings of affec\u00adtion, and they were requit\u00aded by detes\u00adta\u00adtion and scorn. Man! You may hate, but beware! Your hours will pass in dread and mis\u00adery, and soon the bolt will fall which must rav\u00adish from you your hap\u00adpi\u00adness for ever. Are you to be hap\u00adpy while I grov\u00adel in the inten\u00adsi\u00adty of my wretched\u00adness? You can blast my oth\u00ader pas\u00adsions, but revenge remains\u2014revenge, hence\u00adforth dear\u00ader than light or food! I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tor\u00admen\u00adtor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your mis\u00adery. Beware, for I am fear\u00adless and there\u00adfore pow\u00ader\u00adful. I will watch with the wil\u00adi\u00adness of a snake, that I may sting with its ven\u00adom. Man, you shall repent of the injuries you inflict.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cDev\u00adil, cease; and do not poi\u00adson the air with these sounds of mal\u00adice. I have declared my res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion to you, and I am no cow\u00adard to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is well. I go; but remem\u00adber, I shall be with you on your wedding-night.\u201d <\/p>\n

I start\u00aded for\u00adward and exclaimed, \u201cVil\u00adlain! Before you sign my death-war\u00adrant, be sure that you are your\u00adself safe.\u201d <\/p>\n

I would have seized him, but he elud\u00aded me and quit\u00adted the house with pre\u00adcip\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion. In a few moments I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swift\u00adness and was soon lost amidst the waves. <\/p>\n

All was again silent, but his words rang in my ears. I burned with rage to pur\u00adsue the mur\u00adder\u00ader of my peace and pre\u00adcip\u00adi\u00adtate him into the ocean. I walked up and down my room hasti\u00adly and per\u00adturbed, while my imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion con\u00adjured up a thou\u00adsand images to tor\u00adment and sting me. Why had I not fol\u00adlowed him and closed with him in mor\u00adtal strife? But I had suf\u00adfered him to depart, and he had direct\u00aded his course towards the main\u00adland. I shud\u00addered to think who might be the next vic\u00adtim sac\u00adri\u00adficed to his insa\u00adtiate revenge. And then I thought again of his words\u2014\u201cI will be with you on your wed\u00adding<\/span>-night.<\/span>\u201d That, then, was the peri\u00adod fixed for the ful\u00adfil\u00adment of my des\u00adtiny. In that hour I should die and at once sat\u00adis\u00adfy and extin\u00adguish his mal\u00adice. The prospect did not move me to fear; yet when I thought of my beloved Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, of her tears and end\u00adless sor\u00adrow, when she should find her lover so bar\u00adbarous\u00adly snatched from her, tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my ene\u00admy with\u00adout a bit\u00adter struggle. <\/p>\n

The night passed away, and the sun rose from the ocean; my feel\u00adings became calmer, if it may be called calm\u00adness when the vio\u00adlence of rage sinks into the depths of despair. I left the house, the hor\u00adrid scene of the last night\u2019s con\u00adtention, and walked on the beach of the sea, which I almost regard\u00aded as an insu\u00adper\u00ada\u00adble bar\u00adri\u00ader between me and my fel\u00adlow crea\u00adtures; nay, a wish that such should prove the fact stole across me. I desired that I might pass my life on that bar\u00adren rock, weari\u00adly, it is true, but unin\u00adter\u00adrupt\u00aded by any sud\u00adden shock of mis\u00adery. If I returned, it was to be sac\u00adri\u00adficed or to see those whom I most loved die under the grasp of a d\u00e6mon whom I had myself created. <\/p>\n

I walked about the isle like a rest\u00adless spec\u00adtre, sep\u00ada\u00adrat\u00aded from all it loved and mis\u00ader\u00adable in the sep\u00ada\u00adra\u00adtion. When it became noon, and the sun rose high\u00ader, I lay down on the grass and was over\u00adpow\u00adered by a deep sleep. I had been awake the whole of the pre\u00adced\u00ading night, my nerves were agi\u00adtat\u00aded, and my eyes inflamed by watch\u00ading and mis\u00adery. The sleep into which I now sank refreshed me; and when I awoke, I again felt as if I belonged to a race of human beings like myself, and I began to reflect upon what had passed with greater com\u00adpo\u00adsure; yet still the words of the fiend rang in my ears like a death-knell; they appeared like a dream, yet dis\u00adtinct and oppres\u00adsive as a reality. <\/p>\n

The sun had far descend\u00aded, and I still sat on the shore, sat\u00adis\u00adfy\u00ading my appetite, which had become rav\u00aden\u00adous, with an oat\u00aden cake, when I saw a fish\u00ading-boat land close to me, and one of the men brought me a pack\u00adet; it con\u00adtained let\u00adters from Gene\u00adva, and one from Cler\u00adval entreat\u00ading me to join him. He said that he was wear\u00ading away his time fruit\u00adless\u00adly where he was, that let\u00adters from the friends he had formed in Lon\u00addon desired his return to com\u00adplete the nego\u00adti\u00ada\u00adtion they had entered into for his Indi\u00adan enter\u00adprise. He could not any longer delay his depar\u00adture; but as his jour\u00adney to Lon\u00addon might be fol\u00adlowed, even soon\u00ader than he now con\u00adjec\u00adtured, by his longer voy\u00adage, he entreat\u00aded me to bestow as much of my soci\u00adety on him as I could spare. He besought me, there\u00adfore, to leave my soli\u00adtary isle and to meet him at Perth, that we might pro\u00adceed south\u00adwards togeth\u00ader. This let\u00adter in a degree recalled me to life, and I deter\u00admined to quit my island at the expi\u00adra\u00adtion of two days. <\/p>\n

Yet, before I depart\u00aded, there was a task to per\u00adform, on which I shud\u00addered to reflect; I must pack up my chem\u00adi\u00adcal instru\u00adments, and for that pur\u00adpose I must enter the room which had been the scene of my odi\u00adous work, and I must han\u00addle those uten\u00adsils the sight of which was sick\u00aden\u00ading to me. The next morn\u00ading, at day\u00adbreak, I sum\u00admoned suf\u00adfi\u00adcient courage and unlocked the door of my lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry. The remains of the half-fin\u00adished crea\u00adture, whom I had destroyed, lay scat\u00adtered on the floor, and I almost felt as if I had man\u00adgled the liv\u00ading flesh of a human being. I paused to col\u00adlect myself and then entered the cham\u00adber. With trem\u00adbling hand I con\u00adveyed the instru\u00adments out of the room, but I reflect\u00aded that I ought not to leave the relics of my work to excite the hor\u00adror and sus\u00adpi\u00adcion of the peas\u00adants; and I accord\u00ading\u00adly put them into a bas\u00adket, with a great quan\u00adti\u00adty of stones, and lay\u00ading them up, deter\u00admined to throw them into the sea that very night; and in the mean\u00adtime I sat upon the beach, employed in clean\u00ading and arrang\u00ading my chem\u00adi\u00adcal apparatus. <\/p>\n

Noth\u00ading could be more com\u00adplete than the alter\u00adation that had tak\u00aden place in my feel\u00adings since the night of the appear\u00adance of the d\u00e6mon. I had before regard\u00aded my promise with a gloomy despair as a thing that, with what\u00adev\u00ader con\u00adse\u00adquences, must be ful\u00adfilled; but I now felt as if a film had been tak\u00aden from before my eyes and that I for the first time saw clear\u00adly. The idea of renew\u00ading my labours did not for one instant occur to me; the threat I had heard weighed on my thoughts, but I did not reflect that a vol\u00adun\u00adtary act of mine could avert it. I had resolved in my own mind that to cre\u00adate anoth\u00ader like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atro\u00adcious self\u00adish\u00adness, and I ban\u00adished from my mind every thought that could lead to a dif\u00adfer\u00adent conclusion. <\/p>\n

Between two and three in the morn\u00ading the moon rose; and I then, putting my bas\u00adket aboard a lit\u00adtle skiff, sailed out about four miles from the shore. The scene was per\u00adfect\u00adly soli\u00adtary; a few boats were return\u00ading towards land, but I sailed away from them. I felt as if I was about the com\u00admis\u00adsion of a dread\u00adful crime and avoid\u00aded with shud\u00adder\u00ading anx\u00adi\u00adety any encounter with my fel\u00adlow crea\u00adtures. At one time the moon, which had before been clear, was sud\u00adden\u00adly over\u00adspread by a thick cloud, and I took advan\u00adtage of the moment of dark\u00adness and cast my bas\u00adket into the sea; I lis\u00adtened to the gur\u00adgling sound as it sank and then sailed away from the spot. The sky became cloud\u00aded, but the air was pure, although chilled by the north\u00adeast breeze that was then ris\u00ading. But it refreshed me and filled me with such agree\u00adable sen\u00adsa\u00adtions that I resolved to pro\u00adlong my stay on the water, and fix\u00ading the rud\u00adder in a direct posi\u00adtion, stretched myself at the bot\u00adtom of the boat. Clouds hid the moon, every\u00adthing was obscure, and I heard only the sound of the boat as its keel cut through the waves; the mur\u00admur lulled me, and in a short time I slept soundly. <\/p>\n

I do not know how long I remained in this sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion, but when I awoke I found that the sun had already mount\u00aded con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adably. The wind was high, and the waves con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly threat\u00adened the safe\u00adty of my lit\u00adtle skiff. I found that the wind was north\u00adeast and must have dri\u00adven me far from the coast from which I had embarked. I endeav\u00adoured to change my course but quick\u00adly found that if I again made the attempt the boat would be instant\u00adly filled with water. Thus sit\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded, my only resource was to dri\u00adve before the wind. I con\u00adfess that I felt a few sen\u00adsa\u00adtions of ter\u00adror. I had no com\u00adpass with me and was so slen\u00adder\u00adly acquaint\u00aded with the geog\u00adra\u00adphy of this part of the world that the sun was of lit\u00adtle ben\u00ade\u00adfit to me. I might be dri\u00adven into the wide Atlantic and feel all the tor\u00adtures of star\u00adva\u00adtion or be swal\u00adlowed up in the immea\u00adsur\u00adable waters that roared and buf\u00adfet\u00aded around me. I had already been out many hours and felt the tor\u00adment of a burn\u00ading thirst, a pre\u00adlude to my oth\u00ader suf\u00adfer\u00adings. I looked on the heav\u00adens, which were cov\u00adered by clouds that flew before the wind, only to be replaced by oth\u00aders; I looked upon the sea; it was to be my grave. \u201cFiend,\u201d I exclaimed, \u201cyour task is already ful\u00adfilled!\u201d I thought of Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, of my father, and of Clerval\u2014all left behind, on whom the mon\u00adster might sat\u00adis\u00adfy his san\u00adguinary and mer\u00adci\u00adless pas\u00adsions. This idea plunged me into a rever\u00adie so despair\u00ading and fright\u00adful that even now, when the scene is on the point of clos\u00ading before me for ever, I shud\u00adder to reflect on it. <\/p>\n

Some hours passed thus; but by degrees, as the sun declined towards the hori\u00adzon, the wind died away into a gen\u00adtle breeze and the sea became free from break\u00aders. But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hard\u00adly able to hold the rud\u00adder, when sud\u00adden\u00adly I saw a line of high land towards the south. <\/p>\n

Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue and the dread\u00adful sus\u00adpense I endured for sev\u00ader\u00adal hours, this sud\u00adden cer\u00adtain\u00adty of life rushed like a flood of warm joy to my heart, and tears gushed from my eyes. <\/p>\n

How muta\u00adble are our feel\u00adings, and how strange is that cling\u00ading love we have of life even in the excess of mis\u00adery! I con\u00adstruct\u00aded anoth\u00ader sail with a part of my dress and eager\u00adly steered my course towards the land. It had a wild and rocky appear\u00adance, but as I approached near\u00ader I eas\u00adi\u00adly per\u00adceived the traces of cul\u00adti\u00adva\u00adtion. I saw ves\u00adsels near the shore and found myself sud\u00adden\u00adly trans\u00adport\u00aded back to the neigh\u00adbour\u00adhood of civilised man. I care\u00adful\u00adly traced the wind\u00adings of the land and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issu\u00ading from behind a small promon\u00adto\u00adry. As I was in a state of extreme debil\u00adi\u00adty, I resolved to sail direct\u00adly towards the town, as a place where I could most eas\u00adi\u00adly pro\u00adcure nour\u00adish\u00adment. For\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly I had mon\u00adey with me. As I turned the promon\u00adto\u00adry I per\u00adceived a small neat town and a good har\u00adbour, which I entered, my heart bound\u00ading with joy at my unex\u00adpect\u00aded escape. <\/p>\n

As I was occu\u00adpied in fix\u00ading the boat and arrang\u00ading the sails, sev\u00ader\u00adal peo\u00adple crowd\u00aded towards the spot. They seemed much sur\u00adprised at my appear\u00adance, but instead of offer\u00ading me any assis\u00adtance, whis\u00adpered togeth\u00ader with ges\u00adtures that at any oth\u00ader time might have pro\u00adduced in me a slight sen\u00adsa\u00adtion of alarm. As it was, I mere\u00adly remarked that they spoke Eng\u00adlish, and I there\u00adfore addressed them in that lan\u00adguage. \u201cMy good friends,\u201d said I, \u201cwill you be so kind as to tell me the name of this town and inform me where I am?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou will know that soon enough,\u201d replied a man with a hoarse voice. \u201cMaybe you are come to a place that will not prove much to your taste, but you will not be con\u00adsult\u00aded as to your quar\u00adters, I promise you.\u201d <\/p>\n

I was exceed\u00ading\u00adly sur\u00adprised on receiv\u00ading so rude an answer from a stranger, and I was also dis\u00adcon\u00adcert\u00aded on per\u00adceiv\u00ading the frown\u00ading and angry coun\u00adte\u00adnances of his com\u00adpan\u00adions. \u201cWhy do you answer me so rough\u00adly?\u201d I replied. \u201cSure\u00adly it is not the cus\u00adtom of Eng\u00adlish\u00admen to receive strangers so inhospitably.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI do not know,\u201d said the man, \u201cwhat the cus\u00adtom of the Eng\u00adlish may be, but it is the cus\u00adtom of the Irish to hate villains.\u201d <\/p>\n

While this strange dia\u00adlogue con\u00adtin\u00adued, I per\u00adceived the crowd rapid\u00adly increase. Their faces expressed a mix\u00adture of curios\u00adi\u00adty and anger, which annoyed and in some degree alarmed me. I inquired the way to the inn, but no one replied. I then moved for\u00adward, and a mur\u00admur\u00ading sound arose from the crowd as they fol\u00adlowed and sur\u00adround\u00aded me, when an ill-look\u00ading man approach\u00ading tapped me on the shoul\u00adder and said, \u201cCome, sir, you must fol\u00adlow me to Mr. Kirwin\u2019s to give an account of yourself.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWho is Mr. Kir\u00adwin? Why am I to give an account of myself? Is not this a free country?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAy, sir, free enough for hon\u00adest folks. Mr. Kir\u00adwin is a mag\u00adis\u00adtrate, and you are to give an account of the death of a gen\u00adtle\u00adman who was found mur\u00addered here last night.\u201d <\/p>\n

This answer star\u00adtled me, but I present\u00adly recov\u00adered myself. I was inno\u00adcent; that could eas\u00adi\u00adly be proved; accord\u00ading\u00adly I fol\u00adlowed my con\u00adduc\u00adtor in silence and was led to one of the best hous\u00ades in the town. I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being sur\u00adround\u00aded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no phys\u00adi\u00adcal debil\u00adi\u00adty might be con\u00adstrued into appre\u00adhen\u00adsion or con\u00adscious guilt. Lit\u00adtle did I then expect the calami\u00adty that was in a few moments to over\u00adwhelm me and extin\u00adguish in hor\u00adror and despair all fear of ignominy or death. <\/p>\n

I must pause here, for it requires all my for\u00adti\u00adtude to recall the mem\u00ado\u00adry of the fright\u00adful events which I am about to relate, in prop\u00ader detail, to my recollection. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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I was soon intro\u00adduced into the pres\u00adence of the mag\u00adis\u00adtrate, an old benev\u00ado\u00adlent man with calm and mild man\u00adners. He looked upon me, how\u00adev\u00ader, with some degree of sever\u00adi\u00adty, and then, turn\u00ading towards my con\u00adduc\u00adtors, he asked who appeared as wit\u00adness\u00ades on this occasion. <\/p>\n

About half a dozen men came for\u00adward; and, one being select\u00aded by the mag\u00adis\u00adtrate, he deposed that he had been out fish\u00ading the night before with his son and broth\u00ader-in-law, Daniel Nugent, when, about ten o\u2019clock, they observed a strong norther\u00adly blast ris\u00ading, and they accord\u00ading\u00adly put in for port. It was a very dark night, as the moon had not yet risen; they did not land at the har\u00adbour, but, as they had been accus\u00adtomed, at a creek about two miles below. He walked on first, car\u00adry\u00ading a part of the fish\u00ading tack\u00adle, and his com\u00adpan\u00adions fol\u00adlowed him at some dis\u00adtance. As he was pro\u00adceed\u00ading along the sands, he struck his foot against some\u00adthing and fell at his length on the ground. His com\u00adpan\u00adions came up to assist him, and by the light of their lantern they found that he had fall\u00aden on the body of a man, who was to all appear\u00adance dead. Their first sup\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion was that it was the corpse of some per\u00adson who had been drowned and was thrown on shore by the waves, but on exam\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion they found that the clothes were not wet and even that the body was not then cold. They instant\u00adly car\u00adried it to the cot\u00adtage of an old woman near the spot and endeav\u00adoured, but in vain, to restore it to life. It appeared to be a hand\u00adsome young man, about five and twen\u00adty years of age. He had appar\u00adent\u00adly been stran\u00adgled, for there was no sign of any vio\u00adlence except the black mark of fin\u00adgers on his neck. <\/p>\n

The first part of this depo\u00adsi\u00adtion did not in the least inter\u00adest me, but when the mark of the fin\u00adgers was men\u00adtioned I remem\u00adbered the mur\u00adder of my broth\u00ader and felt myself extreme\u00adly agi\u00adtat\u00aded; my limbs trem\u00adbled, and a mist came over my eyes, which oblig\u00aded me to lean on a chair for sup\u00adport. The mag\u00adis\u00adtrate observed me with a keen eye and of course drew an unfavourable augury from my manner. <\/p>\n

The son con\u00adfirmed his father\u2019s account, but when Daniel Nugent was called he swore pos\u00adi\u00adtive\u00adly that just before the fall of his com\u00adpan\u00adion, he saw a boat, with a sin\u00adgle man in it, at a short dis\u00adtance from the shore; and as far as he could judge by the light of a few stars, it was the same boat in which I had just landed. <\/p>\n

A woman deposed that she lived near the beach and was stand\u00ading at the door of her cot\u00adtage, wait\u00ading for the return of the fish\u00ader\u00admen, about an hour before she heard of the dis\u00adcov\u00adery of the body, when she saw a boat with only one man in it push off from that part of the shore where the corpse was after\u00adwards found. <\/p>\n

Anoth\u00ader woman con\u00adfirmed the account of the fish\u00ader\u00admen hav\u00ading brought the body into her house; it was not cold. They put it into a bed and rubbed it, and Daniel went to the town for an apothe\u00adcary, but life was quite gone. <\/p>\n

Sev\u00ader\u00adal oth\u00ader men were exam\u00adined con\u00adcern\u00ading my land\u00ading, and they agreed that, with the strong north wind that had arisen dur\u00ading the night, it was very prob\u00ada\u00adble that I had beat\u00aden about for many hours and had been oblig\u00aded to return near\u00adly to the same spot from which I had depart\u00aded. Besides, they observed that it appeared that I had brought the body from anoth\u00ader place, and it was like\u00adly that as I did not appear to know the shore, I might have put into the har\u00adbour igno\u00adrant of the dis\u00adtance of the town of \u2014\u2014 from the place where I had deposit\u00aded the corpse. <\/p>\n

Mr. Kir\u00adwin, on hear\u00ading this evi\u00addence, desired that I should be tak\u00aden into the room where the body lay for inter\u00adment, that it might be observed what effect the sight of it would pro\u00adduce upon me. This idea was prob\u00ada\u00adbly sug\u00adgest\u00aded by the extreme agi\u00adta\u00adtion I had exhib\u00adit\u00aded when the mode of the mur\u00adder had been described. I was accord\u00ading\u00adly con\u00adduct\u00aded, by the mag\u00adis\u00adtrate and sev\u00ader\u00adal oth\u00ader per\u00adsons, to the inn. I could not help being struck by the strange coin\u00adci\u00addences that had tak\u00aden place dur\u00ading this event\u00adful night; but, know\u00ading that I had been con\u00advers\u00ading with sev\u00ader\u00adal per\u00adsons in the island I had inhab\u00adit\u00aded about the time that the body had been found, I was per\u00adfect\u00adly tran\u00adquil as to the con\u00adse\u00adquences of the affair. <\/p>\n

I entered the room where the corpse lay and was led up to the cof\u00adfin. How can I describe my sen\u00adsa\u00adtions on behold\u00ading it? I feel yet parched with hor\u00adror, nor can I reflect on that ter\u00adri\u00adble moment with\u00adout shud\u00adder\u00ading and agony. The exam\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion, the pres\u00adence of the mag\u00adis\u00adtrate and wit\u00adness\u00ades, passed like a dream from my mem\u00ado\u00adry when I saw the life\u00adless form of Hen\u00adry Cler\u00adval stretched before me. I gasped for breath, and throw\u00ading myself on the body, I exclaimed, \u201cHave my mur\u00adder\u00adous machi\u00adna\u00adtions deprived you also, my dear\u00adest Hen\u00adry, of life? Two I have already destroyed; oth\u00ader vic\u00adtims await their des\u00adtiny; but you, Cler\u00adval, my friend, my benefactor\u2014\u201d <\/p>\n

The human frame could no longer sup\u00adport the ago\u00adnies that I endured, and I was car\u00adried out of the room in strong convulsions. <\/p>\n

A fever suc\u00adceed\u00aded to this. I lay for two months on the point of death; my rav\u00adings, as I after\u00adwards heard, were fright\u00adful; I called myself the mur\u00adder\u00ader of William, of Jus\u00adtine, and of Cler\u00adval. Some\u00adtimes I entreat\u00aded my atten\u00addants to assist me in the destruc\u00adtion of the fiend by whom I was tor\u00adment\u00aded; and at oth\u00aders I felt the fin\u00adgers of the mon\u00adster already grasp\u00ading my neck, and screamed aloud with agony and ter\u00adror. For\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, as I spoke my native lan\u00adguage, Mr. Kir\u00adwin alone under\u00adstood me; but my ges\u00adtures and bit\u00adter cries were suf\u00adfi\u00adcient to affright the oth\u00ader witnesses. <\/p>\n

Why did I not die? More mis\u00ader\u00adable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into for\u00adget\u00adful\u00adness and rest? Death snatch\u00ades away many bloom\u00ading chil\u00addren, the only hopes of their dot\u00ading par\u00adents; how many brides and youth\u00adful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what mate\u00adri\u00adals was I made that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turn\u00ading of the wheel, con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly renewed the torture? <\/p>\n

But I was doomed to live and in two months found myself as awak\u00ading from a dream, in a prison, stretched on a wretched bed, sur\u00adround\u00aded by gaol\u00aders, turnkeys, bolts, and all the mis\u00ader\u00adable appa\u00adra\u00adtus of a dun\u00adgeon. It was morn\u00ading, I remem\u00adber, when I thus awoke to under\u00adstand\u00ading; I had for\u00adgot\u00adten the par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlars of what had hap\u00adpened and only felt as if some great mis\u00adfor\u00adtune had sud\u00adden\u00adly over\u00adwhelmed me; but when I looked around and saw the barred win\u00addows and the squalid\u00adness of the room in which I was, all flashed across my mem\u00ado\u00adry and I groaned bitterly. <\/p>\n

This sound dis\u00adturbed an old woman who was sleep\u00ading in a chair beside me. She was a hired nurse, the wife of one of the turnkeys, and her coun\u00adte\u00adnance expressed all those bad qual\u00adi\u00adties which often char\u00adac\u00adterise that class. The lines of her face were hard and rude, like that of per\u00adsons accus\u00adtomed to see with\u00adout sym\u00adpa\u00adthis\u00ading in sights of mis\u00adery. Her tone expressed her entire indif\u00adfer\u00adence; she addressed me in Eng\u00adlish, and the voice struck me as one that I had heard dur\u00ading my sufferings. <\/p>\n

\u201cAre you bet\u00adter now, sir?\u201d said she. <\/p>\n

I replied in the same lan\u00adguage, with a fee\u00adble voice, \u201cI believe I am; but if it be all true, if indeed I did not dream, I am sor\u00adry that I am still alive to feel this mis\u00adery and horror.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cFor that mat\u00adter,\u201d replied the old woman, \u201cif you mean about the gen\u00adtle\u00adman you mur\u00addered, I believe that it were bet\u00adter for you if you were dead, for I fan\u00adcy it will go hard with you! How\u00adev\u00ader, that\u2019s none of my busi\u00adness; I am sent to nurse you and get you well; I do my duty with a safe con\u00adscience; it were well if every\u00adbody did the same.\u201d <\/p>\n

I turned with loathing from the woman who could utter so unfeel\u00ading a speech to a per\u00adson just saved, on the very edge of death; but I felt lan\u00adguid and unable to reflect on all that had passed. The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I some\u00adtimes doubt\u00aded if indeed it were all true, for it nev\u00ader pre\u00adsent\u00aded itself to my mind with the force of reality. <\/p>\n

As the images that float\u00aded before me became more dis\u00adtinct, I grew fever\u00adish; a dark\u00adness pressed around me; no one was near me who soothed me with the gen\u00adtle voice of love; no dear hand sup\u00adport\u00aded me. The physi\u00adcian came and pre\u00adscribed med\u00adi\u00adcines, and the old woman pre\u00adpared them for me; but utter care\u00adless\u00adness was vis\u00adi\u00adble in the first, and the expres\u00adsion of bru\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty was strong\u00adly marked in the vis\u00adage of the sec\u00adond. Who could be inter\u00adest\u00aded in the fate of a mur\u00adder\u00ader but the hang\u00adman who would gain his fee? <\/p>\n

These were my first reflec\u00adtions, but I soon learned that Mr. Kir\u00adwin had shown me extreme kind\u00adness. He had caused the best room in the prison to be pre\u00adpared for me (wretched indeed was the best); and it was he who had pro\u00advid\u00aded a physi\u00adcian and a nurse. It is true, he sel\u00addom came to see me, for although he ardent\u00adly desired to relieve the suf\u00adfer\u00adings of every human crea\u00adture, he did not wish to be present at the ago\u00adnies and mis\u00ader\u00adable rav\u00adings of a mur\u00adder\u00ader. He came, there\u00adfore, some\u00adtimes to see that I was not neglect\u00aded, but his vis\u00adits were short and with long intervals. <\/p>\n

One day, while I was grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly recov\u00ader\u00ading, I was seat\u00aded in a chair, my eyes half open and my cheeks livid like those in death. I was over\u00adcome by gloom and mis\u00adery and often reflect\u00aded I had bet\u00adter seek death than desire to remain in a world which to me was replete with wretched\u00adness. At one time I con\u00adsid\u00adered whether I should not declare myself guilty and suf\u00adfer the penal\u00adty of the law, less inno\u00adcent than poor Jus\u00adtine had been. Such were my thoughts when the door of my apart\u00adment was opened and Mr. Kir\u00adwin entered. His coun\u00adte\u00adnance expressed sym\u00adpa\u00adthy and com\u00adpas\u00adsion; he drew a chair close to mine and addressed me in French, <\/p>\n

\u201cI fear that this place is very shock\u00ading to you; can I do any\u00adthing to make you more comfortable?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI thank you, but all that you men\u00adtion is noth\u00ading to me; on the whole earth there is no com\u00adfort which I am capa\u00adble of receiving.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI know that the sym\u00adpa\u00adthy of a stranger can be but of lit\u00adtle relief to one borne down as you are by so strange a mis\u00adfor\u00adtune. But you will, I hope, soon quit this melan\u00adcholy abode, for doubt\u00adless evi\u00addence can eas\u00adi\u00adly be brought to free you from the crim\u00adi\u00adnal charge.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThat is my least con\u00adcern; I am, by a course of strange events, become the most mis\u00ader\u00adable of mor\u00adtals. Per\u00adse\u00adcut\u00aded and tor\u00adtured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNoth\u00ading indeed could be more unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate and ago\u00adnis\u00ading than the strange chances that have late\u00adly occurred. You were thrown, by some sur\u00adpris\u00ading acci\u00addent, on this shore, renowned for its hos\u00adpi\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty, seized imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly, and charged with mur\u00adder. The first sight that was pre\u00adsent\u00aded to your eyes was the body of your friend, mur\u00addered in so unac\u00adcount\u00adable a man\u00adner and placed, as it were, by some fiend across your path.\u201d <\/p>\n

As Mr. Kir\u00adwin said this, notwith\u00adstand\u00ading the agi\u00adta\u00adtion I endured on this ret\u00adro\u00adspect of my suf\u00adfer\u00adings, I also felt con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable sur\u00adprise at the knowl\u00adedge he seemed to pos\u00adsess con\u00adcern\u00ading me. I sup\u00adpose some aston\u00adish\u00adment was exhib\u00adit\u00aded in my coun\u00adte\u00adnance, for Mr. Kir\u00adwin has\u00adtened to say, <\/p>\n

\u201cImme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly upon your being tak\u00aden ill, all the papers that were on your per\u00adson were brought me, and I exam\u00adined them that I might dis\u00adcov\u00ader some trace by which I could send to your rela\u00adtions an account of your mis\u00adfor\u00adtune and ill\u00adness. I found sev\u00ader\u00adal let\u00adters, and, among oth\u00aders, one which I dis\u00adcov\u00adered from its com\u00admence\u00adment to be from your father. I instant\u00adly wrote to Gene\u00adva; near\u00adly two months have elapsed since the depar\u00adture of my let\u00adter. But you are ill; even now you trem\u00adble; you are unfit for agi\u00adta\u00adtion of any kind.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThis sus\u00adpense is a thou\u00adsand times worse than the most hor\u00adri\u00adble event; tell me what new scene of death has been act\u00aded, and whose mur\u00adder I am now to lament?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYour fam\u00adi\u00adly is per\u00adfect\u00adly well,\u201d said Mr. Kir\u00adwin with gen\u00adtle\u00adness; \u201cand some\u00adone, a friend, is come to vis\u00adit you.\u201d <\/p>\n

I know not by what chain of thought the idea pre\u00adsent\u00aded itself, but it instant\u00adly dart\u00aded into my mind that the mur\u00adder\u00ader had come to mock at my mis\u00adery and taunt me with the death of Cler\u00adval, as a new incite\u00adment for me to com\u00adply with his hell\u00adish desires. I put my hand before my eyes, and cried out in agony, <\/p>\n

\u201cOh! Take him away! I can\u00adnot see him; for God\u2019s sake, do not let him enter!\u201d <\/p>\n

Mr. Kir\u00adwin regard\u00aded me with a trou\u00adbled coun\u00adte\u00adnance. He could not help regard\u00ading my excla\u00adma\u00adtion as a pre\u00adsump\u00adtion of my guilt and said in rather a severe tone, <\/p>\n

\u201cI should have thought, young man, that the pres\u00adence of your father would have been wel\u00adcome instead of inspir\u00ading such vio\u00adlent repugnance.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cMy father!\u201d cried I, while every fea\u00adture and every mus\u00adcle was relaxed from anguish to plea\u00adsure. \u201cIs my father indeed come? How kind, how very kind! But where is he, why does he not has\u00adten to me?\u201d <\/p>\n

My change of man\u00adner sur\u00adprised and pleased the mag\u00adis\u00adtrate; per\u00adhaps he thought that my for\u00admer excla\u00adma\u00adtion was a momen\u00adtary return of delir\u00adi\u00adum, and now he instant\u00adly resumed his for\u00admer benev\u00ado\u00adlence. He rose and quit\u00adted the room with my nurse, and in a moment my father entered it. <\/p>\n

Noth\u00ading, at this moment, could have giv\u00aden me greater plea\u00adsure than the arrival of my father. I stretched out my hand to him and cried, <\/p>\n

\u201cAre you then safe\u2014and Elizabeth\u2014and Ernest?\u201d <\/p>\n

My father calmed me with assur\u00adances of their wel\u00adfare and endeav\u00adoured, by dwelling on these sub\u00adjects so inter\u00adest\u00ading to my heart, to raise my despond\u00ading spir\u00adits; but he soon felt that a prison can\u00adnot be the abode of cheer\u00adful\u00adness. \u201cWhat a place is this that you inhab\u00adit, my son!\u201d said he, look\u00ading mourn\u00adful\u00adly at the barred win\u00addows and wretched appear\u00adance of the room. \u201cYou trav\u00adelled to seek hap\u00adpi\u00adness, but a fatal\u00adi\u00adty seems to pur\u00adsue you. And poor Clerval\u2014\u201d <\/p>\n

The name of my unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate and mur\u00addered friend was an agi\u00adta\u00adtion too great to be endured in my weak state; I shed tears. <\/p>\n

\u201cAlas! Yes, my father,\u201d replied I; \u201csome des\u00adtiny of the most hor\u00adri\u00adble kind hangs over me, and I must live to ful\u00adfil it, or sure\u00adly I should have died on the cof\u00adfin of Henry.\u201d <\/p>\n

We were not allowed to con\u00adverse for any length of time, for the pre\u00adcar\u00adi\u00adous state of my health ren\u00addered every pre\u00adcau\u00adtion nec\u00ades\u00adsary that could ensure tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty. Mr. Kir\u00adwin came in and insist\u00aded that my strength should not be exhaust\u00aded by too much exer\u00adtion. But the appear\u00adance of my father was to me like that of my good angel, and I grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly recov\u00adered my health. <\/p>\n

As my sick\u00adness quit\u00adted me, I was absorbed by a gloomy and black melan\u00adcholy that noth\u00ading could dis\u00adsi\u00adpate. The image of Cler\u00adval was for ever before me, ghast\u00adly and mur\u00addered. More than once the agi\u00adta\u00adtion into which these reflec\u00adtions threw me made my friends dread a dan\u00adger\u00adous relapse. Alas! Why did they pre\u00adserve so mis\u00ader\u00adable and detest\u00aded a life? It was sure\u00adly that I might ful\u00adfil my des\u00adtiny, which is now draw\u00ading to a close. Soon, oh, very soon, will death extin\u00adguish these throb\u00adbings and relieve me from the mighty weight of anguish that bears me to the dust; and, in exe\u00adcut\u00ading the award of jus\u00adtice, I shall also sink to rest. Then the appear\u00adance of death was dis\u00adtant, although the wish was ever present to my thoughts; and I often sat for hours motion\u00adless and speech\u00adless, wish\u00ading for some mighty rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion that might bury me and my destroy\u00ader in its ruins. <\/p>\n

The sea\u00adson of the assizes approached. I had already been three months in prison, and although I was still weak and in con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal dan\u00adger of a relapse, I was oblig\u00aded to trav\u00adel near\u00adly a hun\u00addred miles to the coun\u00adtry town where the court was held. Mr. Kir\u00adwin charged him\u00adself with every care of col\u00adlect\u00ading wit\u00adness\u00ades and arrang\u00ading my defence. I was spared the dis\u00adgrace of appear\u00ading pub\u00adlicly as a crim\u00adi\u00adnal, as the case was not brought before the court that decides on life and death. The grand jury reject\u00aded the bill, on its being proved that I was on the Orkney Islands at the hour the body of my friend was found; and a fort\u00adnight after my removal I was lib\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded from prison. <\/p>\n

My father was enrap\u00adtured on find\u00ading me freed from the vex\u00ada\u00adtions of a crim\u00adi\u00adnal charge, that I was again allowed to breathe the fresh atmos\u00adphere and per\u00admit\u00adted to return to my native coun\u00adtry. I did not par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpate in these feel\u00adings, for to me the walls of a dun\u00adgeon or a palace were alike hate\u00adful. The cup of life was poi\u00adsoned for ever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the hap\u00adpy and gay of heart, I saw around me noth\u00ading but a dense and fright\u00adful dark\u00adness, pen\u00ade\u00adtrat\u00aded by no light but the glim\u00admer of two eyes that glared upon me. Some\u00adtimes they were the expres\u00adsive eyes of Hen\u00adry, lan\u00adguish\u00ading in death, the dark orbs near\u00adly cov\u00adered by the lids and the long black lash\u00ades that fringed them; some\u00adtimes it was the watery, cloud\u00aded eyes of the mon\u00adster, as I first saw them in my cham\u00adber at Ingolstadt. <\/p>\n

My father tried to awak\u00aden in me the feel\u00adings of affec\u00adtion. He talked of Gene\u00adva, which I should soon vis\u00adit, of Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth and Ernest; but these words only drew deep groans from me. Some\u00adtimes, indeed, I felt a wish for hap\u00adpi\u00adness and thought with melan\u00adcholy delight of my beloved cousin or longed, with a devour\u00ading mal\u00adadie <\/span>du pays<\/span>, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in ear\u00adly child\u00adhood; but my gen\u00ader\u00adal state of feel\u00ading was a tor\u00adpor in which a prison was as wel\u00adcome a res\u00adi\u00addence as the divinest scene in nature; and these fits were sel\u00addom inter\u00adrupt\u00aded but by parox\u00adysms of anguish and despair. At these moments I often endeav\u00adoured to put an end to the exis\u00adtence I loathed, and it required unceas\u00ading atten\u00addance and vig\u00adi\u00adlance to restrain me from com\u00admit\u00adting some dread\u00adful act of violence. <\/p>\n

Yet one duty remained to me, the rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion of which final\u00adly tri\u00adumphed over my self\u00adish despair. It was nec\u00ades\u00adsary that I should return with\u00adout delay to Gene\u00adva, there to watch over the lives of those I so fond\u00adly loved and to lie in wait for the mur\u00adder\u00ader, that if any chance led me to the place of his con\u00adceal\u00adment, or if he dared again to blast me by his pres\u00adence, I might, with unfail\u00ading aim, put an end to the exis\u00adtence of the mon\u00adstrous image which I had endued with the mock\u00adery of a soul still more mon\u00adstrous. My father still desired to delay our depar\u00adture, fear\u00adful that I could not sus\u00adtain the fatigues of a jour\u00adney, for I was a shat\u00adtered wreck\u2014the shad\u00adow of a human being. My strength was gone. I was a mere skele\u00adton, and fever night and day preyed upon my wast\u00aded frame. <\/p>\n

Still, as I urged our leav\u00ading Ire\u00adland with such inqui\u00adetude and impa\u00adtience, my father thought it best to yield. We took our pas\u00adsage on board a ves\u00adsel bound for Havre-de-Grace and sailed with a fair wind from the Irish shores. It was mid\u00adnight. I lay on the deck look\u00ading at the stars and lis\u00adten\u00ading to the dash\u00ading of the waves. I hailed the dark\u00adness that shut Ire\u00adland from my sight, and my pulse beat with a fever\u00adish joy when I reflect\u00aded that I should soon see Gene\u00adva. The past appeared to me in the light of a fright\u00adful dream; yet the ves\u00adsel in which I was, the wind that blew me from the detest\u00aded shore of Ire\u00adland, and the sea which sur\u00adround\u00aded me, told me too forcibly that I was deceived by no vision and that Cler\u00adval, my friend and dear\u00adest com\u00adpan\u00adion, had fall\u00aden a vic\u00adtim to me and the mon\u00adster of my cre\u00adation. I repassed, in my mem\u00ado\u00adry, my whole life; my qui\u00adet hap\u00adpi\u00adness while resid\u00ading with my fam\u00adi\u00adly in Gene\u00adva, the death of my moth\u00ader, and my depar\u00adture for Ingol\u00adstadt. I remem\u00adbered, shud\u00adder\u00ading, the mad enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm that hur\u00adried me on to the cre\u00adation of my hideous ene\u00admy, and I called to mind the night in which he first lived. I was unable to pur\u00adsue the train of thought; a thou\u00adsand feel\u00adings pressed upon me, and I wept bitterly. <\/p>\n

Ever since my recov\u00adery from the fever, I had been in the cus\u00adtom of tak\u00ading every night a small quan\u00adti\u00adty of lau\u00addanum, for it was by means of this drug only that I was enabled to gain the rest nec\u00ades\u00adsary for the preser\u00adva\u00adtion of life. Oppressed by the rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion of my var\u00adi\u00adous mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes, I now swal\u00adlowed dou\u00adble my usu\u00adal quan\u00adti\u00adty and soon slept pro\u00adfound\u00adly. But sleep did not afford me respite from thought and mis\u00adery; my dreams pre\u00adsent\u00aded a thou\u00adsand objects that scared me. Towards morn\u00ading I was pos\u00adsessed by a kind of night\u00admare; I felt the fiend\u2019s grasp in my neck and could not free myself from it; groans and cries rang in my ears. My father, who was watch\u00ading over me, per\u00adceiv\u00ading my rest\u00adless\u00adness, awoke me; the dash\u00ading waves were around, the cloudy sky above, the fiend was not here: a sense of secu\u00adri\u00adty, a feel\u00ading that a truce was estab\u00adlished between the present hour and the irre\u00adsistible, dis\u00adas\u00adtrous future impart\u00aded to me a kind of calm for\u00adget\u00adful\u00adness, of which the human mind is by its struc\u00adture pecu\u00adliar\u00adly susceptible. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The voy\u00adage came to an end. We land\u00aded, and pro\u00adceed\u00aded to Paris. I soon found that I had over\u00adtaxed my strength and that I must repose before I could con\u00adtin\u00adue my jour\u00adney. My father\u2019s care and atten\u00adtions were inde\u00adfati\u00adga\u00adble, but he did not know the ori\u00adgin of my suf\u00adfer\u00adings and sought erro\u00adneous meth\u00adods to rem\u00ade\u00addy the incur\u00adable ill. He wished me to seek amuse\u00adment in soci\u00adety. I abhorred the face of man. Oh, not abhorred! They were my brethren, my fel\u00adlow beings, and I felt attract\u00aded even to the most repul\u00adsive among them, as to crea\u00adtures of an angel\u00adic nature and celes\u00adtial mech\u00ada\u00adnism. But I felt that I had no right to share their inter\u00adcourse. I had unchained an ene\u00admy among them whose joy it was to shed their blood and to rev\u00adel in their groans. How they would, each and all, abhor me and hunt me from the world, did they know my unhal\u00adlowed acts and the crimes which had their source in me! <\/p>\n

My father yield\u00aded at length to my desire to avoid soci\u00adety and strove by var\u00adi\u00adous argu\u00adments to ban\u00adish my despair. Some\u00adtimes he thought that I felt deeply the degra\u00adda\u00adtion of being oblig\u00aded to answer a charge of mur\u00adder, and he endeav\u00adoured to prove to me the futil\u00adi\u00adty of pride. <\/p>\n

\u201cAlas! My father,\u201d said I, \u201chow lit\u00adtle do you know me. Human beings, their feel\u00adings and pas\u00adsions, would indeed be degrad\u00aded if such a wretch as I felt pride. Jus\u00adtine, poor unhap\u00adpy Jus\u00adtine, was as inno\u00adcent as I, and she suf\u00adfered the same charge; she died for it; and I am the cause of this\u2014I mur\u00addered her. William, Jus\u00adtine, and Henry\u2014they all died by my hands.\u201d <\/p>\n

My father had often, dur\u00ading my impris\u00adon\u00adment, heard me make the same asser\u00adtion; when I thus accused myself, he some\u00adtimes seemed to desire an expla\u00adna\u00adtion, and at oth\u00aders he appeared to con\u00adsid\u00ader it as the off\u00adspring of delir\u00adi\u00adum, and that, dur\u00ading my ill\u00adness, some idea of this kind had pre\u00adsent\u00aded itself to my imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion, the remem\u00adbrance of which I pre\u00adserved in my con\u00adva\u00adles\u00adcence. I avoid\u00aded expla\u00adna\u00adtion and main\u00adtained a con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal silence con\u00adcern\u00ading the wretch I had cre\u00adat\u00aded. I had a per\u00adsua\u00adsion that I should be sup\u00adposed mad, and this in itself would for ever have chained my tongue. But, besides, I could not bring myself to dis\u00adclose a secret which would fill my hear\u00ader with con\u00adster\u00adna\u00adtion and make fear and unnat\u00adur\u00adal hor\u00adror the inmates of his breast. I checked, there\u00adfore, my impa\u00adtient thirst for sym\u00adpa\u00adthy and was silent when I would have giv\u00aden the world to have con\u00adfid\u00aded the fatal secret. Yet, still, words like those I have record\u00aded would burst uncon\u00adtrol\u00adlably from me. I could offer no expla\u00adna\u00adtion of them, but their truth in part relieved the bur\u00adden of my mys\u00adte\u00adri\u00adous woe. <\/p>\n

Upon this occa\u00adsion my father said, with an expres\u00adsion of unbound\u00aded won\u00adder, \u201cMy dear\u00adest Vic\u00adtor, what infat\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion is this? My dear son, I entreat you nev\u00ader to make such an asser\u00adtion again.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI am not mad,\u201d I cried ener\u00adget\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly; \u201cthe sun and the heav\u00adens, who have viewed my oper\u00ada\u00adtions, can bear wit\u00adness of my truth. I am the assas\u00adsin of those most inno\u00adcent vic\u00adtims; they died by my machi\u00adna\u00adtions. A thou\u00adsand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sac\u00adri\u00adfice the whole human race.\u201d <\/p>\n

The con\u00adclu\u00adsion of this speech con\u00advinced my father that my ideas were deranged, and he instant\u00adly changed the sub\u00adject of our con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion and endeav\u00adoured to alter the course of my thoughts. He wished as much as pos\u00adsi\u00adble to oblit\u00ader\u00adate the mem\u00ado\u00adry of the scenes that had tak\u00aden place in Ire\u00adland and nev\u00ader allud\u00aded to them or suf\u00adfered me to speak of my misfortunes. <\/p>\n

As time passed away I became more calm; mis\u00adery had her dwelling in my heart, but I no longer talked in the same inco\u00adher\u00adent man\u00adner of my own crimes; suf\u00adfi\u00adcient for me was the con\u00adscious\u00adness of them. By the utmost self-vio\u00adlence I curbed the impe\u00adri\u00adous voice of wretched\u00adness, which some\u00adtimes desired to declare itself to the whole world, and my man\u00adners were calmer and more com\u00adposed than they had ever been since my jour\u00adney to the sea of ice. <\/p>\n

A few days before we left Paris on our way to Switzer\u00adland, I received the fol\u00adlow\u00ading let\u00adter from Elizabeth: <\/p>\n

\u201cMy dear Friend, <\/p>\n

\u201cIt gave me the great\u00adest plea\u00adsure to receive a let\u00adter from my uncle dat\u00aded at Paris; you are no longer at a for\u00admi\u00adda\u00adble dis\u00adtance, and I may hope to see you in less than a fort\u00adnight. My poor cousin, how much you must have suf\u00adfered! I expect to see you look\u00ading even more ill than when you quit\u00adted Gene\u00adva. This win\u00adter has been passed most mis\u00ader\u00adably, tor\u00adtured as I have been by anx\u00adious sus\u00adpense; yet I hope to see peace in your coun\u00adte\u00adnance and to find that your heart is not total\u00adly void of com\u00adfort and tranquillity. <\/p>\n

\u201cYet I fear that the same feel\u00adings now exist that made you so mis\u00ader\u00adable a year ago, even per\u00adhaps aug\u00adment\u00aded by time. I would not dis\u00adturb you at this peri\u00adod, when so many mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes weigh upon you, but a con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion that I had with my uncle pre\u00advi\u00adous to his depar\u00adture ren\u00adders some expla\u00adna\u00adtion nec\u00ades\u00adsary before we meet. <\/p>\n

Expla\u00adna\u00adtion! You may pos\u00adsi\u00adbly say, What can Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth have to explain? If you real\u00adly say this, my ques\u00adtions are answered and all my doubts sat\u00adis\u00adfied. But you are dis\u00adtant from me, and it is pos\u00adsi\u00adble that you may dread and yet be pleased with this expla\u00adna\u00adtion; and in a prob\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of this being the case, I dare not any longer post\u00adpone writ\u00ading what, dur\u00ading your absence, I have often wished to express to you but have nev\u00ader had the courage to begin. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou well know, Vic\u00adtor, that our union had been the favourite plan of your par\u00adents ever since our infan\u00adcy. We were told this when young, and taught to look for\u00adward to it as an event that would cer\u00adtain\u00adly take place. We were affec\u00adtion\u00adate playfel\u00adlows dur\u00ading child\u00adhood, and, I believe, dear and val\u00adued friends to one anoth\u00ader as we grew old\u00ader. But as broth\u00ader and sis\u00adter often enter\u00adtain a live\u00adly affec\u00adtion towards each oth\u00ader with\u00adout desir\u00ading a more inti\u00admate union, may not such also be our case? Tell me, dear\u00adest Vic\u00adtor. Answer me, I con\u00adjure you by our mutu\u00adal hap\u00adpi\u00adness, with sim\u00adple truth\u2014Do you not love another? <\/p>\n

\u201cYou have trav\u00adelled; you have spent sev\u00ader\u00adal years of your life at Ingol\u00adstadt; and I con\u00adfess to you, my friend, that when I saw you last autumn so unhap\u00adpy, fly\u00ading to soli\u00adtude from the soci\u00adety of every crea\u00adture, I could not help sup\u00adpos\u00ading that you might regret our con\u00adnec\u00adtion and believe your\u00adself bound in hon\u00adour to ful\u00adfil the wish\u00ades of your par\u00adents, although they opposed them\u00adselves to your incli\u00adna\u00adtions. But this is false rea\u00adson\u00ading. I con\u00adfess to you, my friend, that I love you and that in my airy dreams of futu\u00adri\u00adty you have been my con\u00adstant friend and com\u00adpan\u00adion. But it is your hap\u00adpi\u00adness I desire as well as my own when I declare to you that our mar\u00adriage would ren\u00adder me eter\u00adnal\u00adly mis\u00ader\u00adable unless it were the dic\u00adtate of your own free choice. Even now I weep to think that, borne down as you are by the cru\u00adellest mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes, you may sti\u00adfle, by the word hon\u00adour<\/span>, all hope of that love and hap\u00adpi\u00adness which would alone restore you to your\u00adself. I, who have so dis\u00adin\u00adter\u00adest\u00aded an affec\u00adtion for you, may increase your mis\u00aderies ten\u00adfold by being an obsta\u00adcle to your wish\u00ades. Ah! Vic\u00adtor, be assured that your cousin and play\u00admate has too sin\u00adcere a love for you not to be made mis\u00ader\u00adable by this sup\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion. Be hap\u00adpy, my friend; and if you obey me in this one request, remain sat\u00adis\u00adfied that noth\u00ading on earth will have the pow\u00ader to inter\u00adrupt my tranquillity. <\/p>\n

\u201cDo not let this let\u00adter dis\u00adturb you; do not answer tomor\u00adrow, or the next day, or even until you come, if it will give you pain. My uncle will send me news of your health, and if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occa\u00adsioned by this or any oth\u00ader exer\u00adtion of mine, I shall need no oth\u00ader happiness. <\/p>\n

\u201cEliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Lavenza. <\/p>\n

\u201cGene\u00adva, May 18th, 17\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

This let\u00adter revived in my mem\u00ado\u00adry what I had before for\u00adgot\u00adten, the threat of the fiend\u2014\u201cI will be<\/span> with you on your wed\u00adding<\/span>-night<\/span>!\u201d Such was my sen\u00adtence, and on that night would the d\u00e6mon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from the glimpse of hap\u00adpi\u00adness which promised part\u00adly to con\u00adsole my suf\u00adfer\u00adings. On that night he had deter\u00admined to con\u00adsum\u00admate his crimes by my death. Well, be it so; a dead\u00adly strug\u00adgle would then assured\u00adly take place, in which if he were vic\u00adto\u00adri\u00adous I should be at peace and his pow\u00ader over me be at an end. If he were van\u00adquished, I should be a free man. Alas! What free\u00addom? Such as the peas\u00adant enjoys when his fam\u00adi\u00adly have been mas\u00adsa\u00adcred before his eyes, his cot\u00adtage burnt, his lands laid waste, and he is turned adrift, home\u00adless, pen\u00adni\u00adless, and alone, but free. Such would be my lib\u00ader\u00adty except that in my Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth I pos\u00adsessed a trea\u00adsure, alas, bal\u00adanced by those hor\u00adrors of remorse and guilt which would pur\u00adsue me until death. <\/p>\n

Sweet and beloved Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth! I read and reread her let\u00adter, and some soft\u00adened feel\u00adings stole into my heart and dared to whis\u00adper par\u00ada\u00addisi\u00ada\u00adcal dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eat\u00aden, and the angel\u2019s arm bared to dri\u00adve me from all hope. Yet I would die to make her hap\u00adpy. If the mon\u00adster exe\u00adcut\u00aded his threat, death was inevitable; yet, again, I con\u00adsid\u00adered whether my mar\u00adriage would has\u00adten my fate. My destruc\u00adtion might indeed arrive a few months soon\u00ader, but if my tor\u00adtur\u00ader should sus\u00adpect that I post\u00adponed it, influ\u00adenced by his men\u00adaces, he would sure\u00adly find oth\u00ader and per\u00adhaps more dread\u00adful means of revenge. He had vowed to be<\/span> with me on my wed\u00adding<\/span>-night<\/span>, yet he did not con\u00adsid\u00ader that threat as bind\u00ading him to peace in the mean\u00adtime, for as if to show me that he was not yet sati\u00adat\u00aded with blood, he had mur\u00addered Cler\u00adval imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly after the enun\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion of his threats. I resolved, there\u00adfore, that if my imme\u00addi\u00adate union with my cousin would con\u00adduce either to hers or my father\u2019s hap\u00adpi\u00adness, my adversary\u2019s designs against my life should not retard it a sin\u00adgle hour. <\/p>\n

In this state of mind I wrote to Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth. My let\u00adter was calm and affec\u00adtion\u00adate. \u201cI fear, my beloved girl,\u201d I said, \u201clit\u00adtle hap\u00adpi\u00adness remains for us on earth; yet all that I may one day enjoy is cen\u00adtred in you. Chase away your idle fears; to you alone do I con\u00adse\u00adcrate my life and my endeav\u00adours for con\u00adtent\u00adment. I have one secret, Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, a dread\u00adful one; when revealed to you, it will chill your frame with hor\u00adror, and then, far from being sur\u00adprised at my mis\u00adery, you will only won\u00adder that I sur\u00advive what I have endured. I will con\u00adfide this tale of mis\u00adery and ter\u00adror to you the day after our mar\u00adriage shall take place, for, my sweet cousin, there must be per\u00adfect con\u00adfi\u00addence between us. But until then, I con\u00adjure you, do not men\u00adtion or allude to it. This I most earnest\u00adly entreat, and I know you will comply.\u201d <\/p>\n

In about a week after the arrival of Elizabeth\u2019s let\u00adter we returned to Gene\u00adva. The sweet girl wel\u00adcomed me with warm affec\u00adtion, yet tears were in her eyes as she beheld my ema\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded frame and fever\u00adish cheeks. I saw a change in her also. She was thin\u00adner and had lost much of that heav\u00aden\u00adly vivac\u00adi\u00adty that had before charmed me; but her gen\u00adtle\u00adness and soft looks of com\u00adpas\u00adsion made her a more fit com\u00adpan\u00adion for one blast\u00aded and mis\u00ader\u00adable as I was. <\/p>\n

The tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty which I now enjoyed did not endure. Mem\u00ado\u00adry brought mad\u00adness with it, and when I thought of what had passed, a real insan\u00adi\u00adty pos\u00adsessed me; some\u00adtimes I was furi\u00adous and burnt with rage, some\u00adtimes low and despon\u00addent. I nei\u00adther spoke nor looked at any\u00adone, but sat motion\u00adless, bewil\u00addered by the mul\u00adti\u00adtude of mis\u00aderies that over\u00adcame me. <\/p>\n

Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth alone had the pow\u00ader to draw me from these fits; her gen\u00adtle voice would soothe me when trans\u00adport\u00aded by pas\u00adsion and inspire me with human feel\u00adings when sunk in tor\u00adpor. She wept with me and for me. When rea\u00adson returned, she would remon\u00adstrate and endeav\u00adour to inspire me with res\u00adig\u00adna\u00adtion. Ah! It is well for the unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The ago\u00adnies of remorse poi\u00adson the lux\u00adu\u00adry there is oth\u00ader\u00adwise some\u00adtimes found in indulging the excess of grief. <\/p>\n

Soon after my arrival my father spoke of my imme\u00addi\u00adate mar\u00adriage with Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth. I remained silent. <\/p>\n

\u201cHave you, then, some oth\u00ader attachment?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNone on earth. I love Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth and look for\u00adward to our union with delight. Let the day there\u00adfore be fixed; and on it I will con\u00adse\u00adcrate myself, in life or death, to the hap\u00adpi\u00adness of my cousin.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cMy dear Vic\u00adtor, do not speak thus. Heavy mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes have befall\u00aden us, but let us only cling clos\u00ader to what remains and trans\u00adfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our cir\u00adcle will be small but bound close by the ties of affec\u00adtion and mutu\u00adal mis\u00adfor\u00adtune. And when time shall have soft\u00adened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cru\u00adel\u00adly deprived.\u201d <\/p>\n

Such were the lessons of my father. But to me the remem\u00adbrance of the threat returned; nor can you won\u00adder that, omnipo\u00adtent as the fiend had yet been in his deeds of blood, I should almost regard him as invin\u00adci\u00adble, and that when he had pro\u00adnounced the words \u201cI shall be<\/span> with you on your wed\u00adding<\/span>-night<\/span>,\u201d I should regard the threat\u00adened fate as unavoid\u00adable. But death was no evil to me if the loss of Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth were bal\u00adanced with it, and I there\u00adfore, with a con\u00adtent\u00aded and even cheer\u00adful coun\u00adte\u00adnance, agreed with my father that if my cousin would con\u00adsent, the cer\u00ade\u00admo\u00adny should take place in ten days, and thus put, as I imag\u00adined, the seal to my fate. <\/p>\n

Great God! If for one instant I had thought what might be the hell\u00adish inten\u00adtion of my fiendish adver\u00adsary, I would rather have ban\u00adished myself for ever from my native coun\u00adtry and wan\u00addered a friend\u00adless out\u00adcast over the earth than have con\u00adsent\u00aded to this mis\u00ader\u00adable mar\u00adriage. But, as if pos\u00adsessed of mag\u00adic pow\u00aders, the mon\u00adster had blind\u00aded me to his real inten\u00adtions; and when I thought that I had pre\u00adpared only my own death, I has\u00adtened that of a far dear\u00ader victim. <\/p>\n

As the peri\u00adod fixed for our mar\u00adriage drew near\u00ader, whether from cow\u00adardice or a prophet\u00adic feel\u00ading, I felt my heart sink with\u00adin me. But I con\u00adcealed my feel\u00adings by an appear\u00adance of hilar\u00adi\u00adty that brought smiles and joy to the coun\u00adte\u00adnance of my father, but hard\u00adly deceived the ever-watch\u00adful and nicer eye of Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth. She looked for\u00adward to our union with placid con\u00adtent\u00adment, not unmin\u00adgled with a lit\u00adtle fear, which past mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes had impressed, that what now appeared cer\u00adtain and tan\u00adgi\u00adble hap\u00adpi\u00adness might soon dis\u00adsi\u00adpate into an airy dream and leave no trace but deep and ever\u00adlast\u00ading regret. <\/p>\n

Prepa\u00adra\u00adtions were made for the event, con\u00adgrat\u00adu\u00adla\u00adto\u00adry vis\u00adits were received, and all wore a smil\u00ading appear\u00adance. I shut up, as well as I could, in my own heart the anx\u00adi\u00adety that preyed there and entered with seem\u00ading earnest\u00adness into the plans of my father, although they might only serve as the dec\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtions of my tragedy. Through my father\u2019s exer\u00adtions a part of the inher\u00adi\u00adtance of Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth had been restored to her by the Aus\u00adtri\u00adan gov\u00adern\u00adment. A small pos\u00adses\u00adsion on the shores of Como belonged to her. It was agreed that, imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly after our union, we should pro\u00adceed to Vil\u00adla Laven\u00adza and spend our first days of hap\u00adpi\u00adness beside the beau\u00adti\u00adful lake near which it stood. <\/p>\n

In the mean\u00adtime I took every pre\u00adcau\u00adtion to defend my per\u00adson in case the fiend should open\u00adly attack me. I car\u00adried pis\u00adtols and a dag\u00adger con\u00adstant\u00adly about me and was ever on the watch to pre\u00advent arti\u00adfice, and by these means gained a greater degree of tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty. Indeed, as the peri\u00adod approached, the threat appeared more as a delu\u00adsion, not to be regard\u00aded as wor\u00adthy to dis\u00adturb my peace, while the hap\u00adpi\u00adness I hoped for in my mar\u00adriage wore a greater appear\u00adance of cer\u00adtain\u00adty as the day fixed for its solem\u00adni\u00adsa\u00adtion drew near\u00ader and I heard it con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly spo\u00adken of as an occur\u00adrence which no acci\u00addent could pos\u00adsi\u00adbly prevent. <\/p>\n

Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth seemed hap\u00adpy; my tran\u00adquil demeanour con\u00adtributed great\u00adly to calm her mind. But on the day that was to ful\u00adfil my wish\u00ades and my des\u00adtiny, she was melan\u00adcholy, and a pre\u00adsen\u00adti\u00adment of evil per\u00advad\u00aded her; and per\u00adhaps also she thought of the dread\u00adful secret which I had promised to reveal to her on the fol\u00adlow\u00ading day. My father was in the mean\u00adtime over\u00adjoyed, and, in the bus\u00adtle of prepa\u00adra\u00adtion, only recog\u00adnised in the melan\u00adcholy of his niece the dif\u00adfi\u00addence of a bride. <\/p>\n

After the cer\u00ade\u00admo\u00adny was per\u00adformed a large par\u00adty assem\u00adbled at my father\u2019s, but it was agreed that Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth and I should com\u00admence our jour\u00adney by water, sleep\u00ading that night at Evian and con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading our voy\u00adage on the fol\u00adlow\u00ading day. The day was fair, the wind favourable; all smiled on our nup\u00adtial embarkation. <\/p>\n

Those were the last moments of my life dur\u00ading which I enjoyed the feel\u00ading of hap\u00adpi\u00adness. We passed rapid\u00adly along; the sun was hot, but we were shel\u00adtered from its rays by a kind of canopy while we enjoyed the beau\u00adty of the scene, some\u00adtimes on one side of the lake, where we saw Mont Sal\u00eave, the pleas\u00adant banks of Mon\u00adtal\u00e8\u00adgre, and at a dis\u00adtance, sur\u00admount\u00ading all, the beau\u00adti\u00adful Mont Blanc, and the assem\u00adblage of snowy moun\u00adtains that in vain endeav\u00adour to emu\u00adlate her; some\u00adtimes coast\u00ading the oppo\u00adsite banks, we saw the mighty Jura oppos\u00ading its dark side to the ambi\u00adtion that would quit its native coun\u00adtry, and an almost insur\u00admount\u00adable bar\u00adri\u00ader to the invad\u00ader who should wish to enslave it. <\/p>\n

I took the hand of Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth. \u201cYou are sor\u00adrow\u00adful, my love. Ah! If you knew what I have suf\u00adfered and what I may yet endure, you would endeav\u00adour to let me taste the qui\u00adet and free\u00addom from despair that this one day at least per\u00admits me to enjoy.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBe hap\u00adpy, my dear Vic\u00adtor,\u201d replied Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth; \u201cthere is, I hope, noth\u00ading to dis\u00adtress you; and be assured that if a live\u00adly joy is not paint\u00aded in my face, my heart is con\u00adtent\u00aded. Some\u00adthing whis\u00adpers to me not to depend too much on the prospect that is opened before us, but I will not lis\u00adten to such a sin\u00adis\u00adter voice. Observe how fast we move along and how the clouds, which some\u00adtimes obscure and some\u00adtimes rise above the dome of Mont Blanc, ren\u00adder this scene of beau\u00adty still more inter\u00adest\u00ading. Look also at the innu\u00admer\u00adable fish that are swim\u00adming in the clear waters, where we can dis\u00adtin\u00adguish every peb\u00adble that lies at the bot\u00adtom. What a divine day! How hap\u00adpy and serene all nature appears!\u201d <\/p>\n

Thus Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth endeav\u00adoured to divert her thoughts and mine from all reflec\u00adtion upon melan\u00adcholy sub\u00adjects. But her tem\u00adper was fluc\u00adtu\u00adat\u00ading; joy for a few instants shone in her eyes, but it con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly gave place to dis\u00adtrac\u00adtion and reverie. <\/p>\n

The sun sank low\u00ader in the heav\u00adens; we passed the riv\u00ader Drance and observed its path through the chasms of the high\u00ader and the glens of the low\u00ader hills. The Alps here come clos\u00ader to the lake, and we approached the amphithe\u00adatre of moun\u00adtains which forms its east\u00adern bound\u00adary. The spire of Evian shone under the woods that sur\u00adround\u00aded it and the range of moun\u00adtain above moun\u00adtain by which it was overhung. <\/p>\n

The wind, which had hith\u00ader\u00adto car\u00adried us along with amaz\u00ading rapid\u00adi\u00adty, sank at sun\u00adset to a light breeze; the soft air just ruf\u00adfled the water and caused a pleas\u00adant motion among the trees as we approached the shore, from which it waft\u00aded the most delight\u00adful scent of flow\u00aders and hay. The sun sank beneath the hori\u00adzon as we land\u00aded, and as I touched the shore I felt those cares and fears revive which soon were to clasp me and cling to me for ever. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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It was eight o\u2019clock when we land\u00aded; we walked for a short time on the shore, enjoy\u00ading the tran\u00adsi\u00adto\u00adry light, and then retired to the inn and con\u00adtem\u00adplat\u00aded the love\u00adly scene of waters, woods, and moun\u00adtains, obscured in dark\u00adness, yet still dis\u00adplay\u00ading their black outlines. <\/p>\n

The wind, which had fall\u00aden in the south, now rose with great vio\u00adlence in the west. The moon had reached her sum\u00admit in the heav\u00adens and was begin\u00adning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vul\u00adture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflect\u00aded the scene of the busy heav\u00adens, ren\u00addered still busier by the rest\u00adless waves that were begin\u00adning to rise. Sud\u00adden\u00adly a heavy storm of rain descended. <\/p>\n

I had been calm dur\u00ading the day, but so soon as night obscured the shapes of objects, a thou\u00adsand fears arose in my mind. I was anx\u00adious and watch\u00adful, while my right hand grasped a pis\u00adtol which was hid\u00adden in my bosom; every sound ter\u00adri\u00adfied me, but I resolved that I would sell my life dear\u00adly and not shrink from the con\u00adflict until my own life or that of my adver\u00adsary was extinguished. <\/p>\n

Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth observed my agi\u00adta\u00adtion for some time in timid and fear\u00adful silence, but there was some\u00adthing in my glance which com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcat\u00aded ter\u00adror to her, and trem\u00adbling, she asked, \u201cWhat is it that agi\u00adtates you, my dear Vic\u00adtor? What is it you fear?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cOh! Peace, peace, my love,\u201d replied I; \u201cthis night, and all will be safe; but this night is dread\u00adful, very dreadful.\u201d <\/p>\n

I passed an hour in this state of mind, when sud\u00adden\u00adly I reflect\u00aded how fear\u00adful the com\u00adbat which I momen\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adly expect\u00aded would be to my wife, and I earnest\u00adly entreat\u00aded her to retire, resolv\u00ading not to join her until I had obtained some knowl\u00adedge as to the sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion of my enemy. <\/p>\n

She left me, and I con\u00adtin\u00adued some time walk\u00ading up and down the pas\u00adsages of the house and inspect\u00ading every cor\u00adner that might afford a retreat to my adver\u00adsary. But I dis\u00adcov\u00adered no trace of him and was begin\u00adning to con\u00adjec\u00adture that some for\u00adtu\u00adnate chance had inter\u00advened to pre\u00advent the exe\u00adcu\u00adtion of his men\u00adaces when sud\u00adden\u00adly I heard a shrill and dread\u00adful scream. It came from the room into which Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth had retired. As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every mus\u00adcle and fibre was sus\u00adpend\u00aded; I could feel the blood trick\u00adling in my veins and tin\u00adgling in the extrem\u00adi\u00adties of my limbs. This state last\u00aded but for an instant; the scream was repeat\u00aded, and I rushed into the room. <\/p>\n

Great God! Why did I not then expire! Why am I here to relate the destruc\u00adtion of the best hope and the purest crea\u00adture on earth? She was there, life\u00adless and inan\u00adi\u00admate, thrown across the bed, her head hang\u00ading down and her pale and dis\u00adtort\u00aded fea\u00adtures half cov\u00adered by her hair. Every\u00adwhere I turn I see the same figure\u2014her blood\u00adless arms and relaxed form flung by the mur\u00adder\u00ader on its bridal bier. Could I behold this and live? Alas! Life is obsti\u00adnate and clings clos\u00adest where it is most hat\u00aded. For a moment only did I lose rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion; I fell sense\u00adless on the ground. <\/p>\n

When I recov\u00adered I found myself sur\u00adround\u00aded by the peo\u00adple of the inn; their coun\u00adte\u00adnances expressed a breath\u00adless ter\u00adror, but the hor\u00adror of oth\u00aders appeared only as a mock\u00adery, a shad\u00adow of the feel\u00adings that oppressed me. I escaped from them to the room where lay the body of Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, my love, my wife, so late\u00adly liv\u00ading, so dear, so wor\u00adthy. She had been moved from the pos\u00adture in which I had first beheld her, and now, as she lay, her head upon her arm and a hand\u00adker\u00adchief thrown across her face and neck, I might have sup\u00adposed her asleep. I rushed towards her and embraced her with ardour, but the dead\u00adly lan\u00adguor and cold\u00adness of the limbs told me that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth whom I had loved and cher\u00adished. The mur\u00adder\u00adous mark of the fiend\u2019s grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips. <\/p>\n

While I still hung over her in the agony of despair, I hap\u00adpened to look up. The win\u00addows of the room had before been dark\u00adened, and I felt a kind of pan\u00adic on see\u00ading the pale yel\u00adlow light of the moon illu\u00admi\u00adnate the cham\u00adber. The shut\u00adters had been thrown back, and with a sen\u00adsa\u00adtion of hor\u00adror not to be described, I saw at the open win\u00addow a fig\u00adure the most hideous and abhorred. A grin was on the face of the mon\u00adster; he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish fin\u00adger he point\u00aded towards the corpse of my wife. I rushed towards the win\u00addow, and draw\u00ading a pis\u00adtol from my bosom, fired; but he elud\u00aded me, leaped from his sta\u00adtion, and run\u00adning with the swift\u00adness of light\u00adning, plunged into the lake. <\/p>\n

The report of the pis\u00adtol brought a crowd into the room. I point\u00aded to the spot where he had dis\u00adap\u00adpeared, and we fol\u00adlowed the track with boats; nets were cast, but in vain. After pass\u00ading sev\u00ader\u00adal hours, we returned hope\u00adless, most of my com\u00adpan\u00adions believ\u00ading it to have been a form con\u00adjured up by my fan\u00adcy. After hav\u00ading land\u00aded, they pro\u00adceed\u00aded to search the coun\u00adtry, par\u00adties going in dif\u00adfer\u00adent direc\u00adtions among the woods and vines. <\/p>\n

I attempt\u00aded to accom\u00adpa\u00adny them and pro\u00adceed\u00aded a short dis\u00adtance from the house, but my head whirled round, my steps were like those of a drunk\u00aden man, I fell at last in a state of utter exhaus\u00adtion; a film cov\u00adered my eyes, and my skin was parched with the heat of fever. In this state I was car\u00adried back and placed on a bed, hard\u00adly con\u00adscious of what had hap\u00adpened; my eyes wan\u00addered round the room as if to seek some\u00adthing that I had lost. <\/p>\n

After an inter\u00adval I arose, and as if by instinct, crawled into the room where the corpse of my beloved lay. There were women weep\u00ading around; I hung over it and joined my sad tears to theirs; all this time no dis\u00adtinct idea pre\u00adsent\u00aded itself to my mind, but my thoughts ram\u00adbled to var\u00adi\u00adous sub\u00adjects, reflect\u00ading con\u00adfus\u00aded\u00adly on my mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes and their cause. I was bewil\u00addered, in a cloud of won\u00adder and hor\u00adror. The death of William, the exe\u00adcu\u00adtion of Jus\u00adtine, the mur\u00adder of Cler\u00adval, and last\u00adly of my wife; even at that moment I knew not that my only remain\u00ading friends were safe from the malig\u00adni\u00adty of the fiend; my father even now might be writhing under his grasp, and Ernest might be dead at his feet. This idea made me shud\u00adder and recalled me to action. I start\u00aded up and resolved to return to Gene\u00adva with all pos\u00adsi\u00adble speed. <\/p>\n

There were no hors\u00ades to be pro\u00adcured, and I must return by the lake; but the wind was unfavourable, and the rain fell in tor\u00adrents. How\u00adev\u00ader, it was hard\u00adly morn\u00ading, and I might rea\u00adson\u00adably hope to arrive by night. I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always expe\u00adri\u00adenced relief from men\u00adtal tor\u00adment in bod\u00adi\u00adly exer\u00adcise. But the over\u00adflow\u00ading mis\u00adery I now felt, and the excess of agi\u00adta\u00adtion that I endured ren\u00addered me inca\u00adpable of any exer\u00adtion. I threw down the oar, and lean\u00ading my head upon my hands, gave way to every gloomy idea that arose. If I looked up, I saw scenes which were famil\u00adiar to me in my hap\u00adpi\u00ader time and which I had con\u00adtem\u00adplat\u00aded but the day before in the com\u00adpa\u00adny of her who was now but a shad\u00adow and a rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion. Tears streamed from my eyes. The rain had ceased for a moment, and I saw the fish play in the waters as they had done a few hours before; they had then been observed by Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth. Noth\u00ading is so painful to the human mind as a great and sud\u00adden change. The sun might shine or the clouds might low\u00ader, but noth\u00ading could appear to me as it had done the day before. A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future hap\u00adpi\u00adness; no crea\u00adture had ever been so mis\u00ader\u00adable as I was; so fright\u00adful an event is sin\u00adgle in the his\u00adto\u00adry of man. <\/p>\n

But why should I dwell upon the inci\u00addents that fol\u00adlowed this last over\u00adwhelm\u00ading event? Mine has been a tale of hor\u00adrors; I have reached their acme, and what I must now relate can but be tedious to you. Know that, one by one, my friends were snatched away; I was left des\u00ado\u00adlate. My own strength is exhaust\u00aded, and I must tell, in a few words, what remains of my hideous narration. <\/p>\n

I arrived at Gene\u00adva. My father and Ernest yet lived, but the for\u00admer sunk under the tid\u00adings that I bore. I see him now, excel\u00adlent and ven\u00ader\u00ada\u00adble old man! His eyes wan\u00addered in vacan\u00adcy, for they had lost their charm and their delight\u2014his Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, his more than daugh\u00adter, whom he dot\u00aded on with all that affec\u00adtion which a man feels, who in the decline of life, hav\u00ading few affec\u00adtions, clings more earnest\u00adly to those that remain. Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought mis\u00adery on his grey hairs and doomed him to waste in wretched\u00adness! He could not live under the hor\u00adrors that were accu\u00admu\u00adlat\u00aded around him; the springs of exis\u00adtence sud\u00adden\u00adly gave way; he was unable to rise from his bed, and in a few days he died in my arms. <\/p>\n

What then became of me? I know not; I lost sen\u00adsa\u00adtion, and chains and dark\u00adness were the only objects that pressed upon me. Some\u00adtimes, indeed, I dreamt that I wan\u00addered in flow\u00adery mead\u00adows and pleas\u00adant vales with the friends of my youth, but I awoke and found myself in a dun\u00adgeon. Melan\u00adcholy fol\u00adlowed, but by degrees I gained a clear con\u00adcep\u00adtion of my mis\u00aderies and sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion and was then released from my prison. For they had called me mad, and dur\u00ading many months, as I under\u00adstood, a soli\u00adtary cell had been my habitation. <\/p>\n

Lib\u00ader\u00adty, how\u00adev\u00ader, had been a use\u00adless gift to me, had I not, as I awak\u00adened to rea\u00adson, at the same time awak\u00adened to revenge. As the mem\u00ado\u00adry of past mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes pressed upon me, I began to reflect on their cause\u2014the mon\u00adster whom I had cre\u00adat\u00aded, the mis\u00ader\u00adable d\u00e6mon whom I had sent abroad into the world for my destruc\u00adtion. I was pos\u00adsessed by a mad\u00adden\u00ading rage when I thought of him, and desired and ardent\u00adly prayed that I might have him with\u00adin my grasp to wreak a great and sig\u00adnal revenge on his cursed head. <\/p>\n

Nor did my hate long con\u00adfine itself to use\u00adless wish\u00ades; I began to reflect on the best means of secur\u00ading him; and for this pur\u00adpose, about a month after my release, I repaired to a crim\u00adi\u00adnal judge in the town and told him that I had an accu\u00adsa\u00adtion to make, that I knew the destroy\u00ader of my fam\u00adi\u00adly, and that I required him to exert his whole author\u00adi\u00adty for the appre\u00adhen\u00adsion of the murderer. <\/p>\n

The mag\u00adis\u00adtrate lis\u00adtened to me with atten\u00adtion and kind\u00adness. \u201cBe assured, sir,\u201d said he, \u201cno pains or exer\u00adtions on my part shall be spared to dis\u00adcov\u00ader the villain.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI thank you,\u201d replied I; \u201clis\u00adten, there\u00adfore, to the depo\u00adsi\u00adtion that I have to make. It is indeed a tale so strange that I should fear you would not cred\u00adit it were there not some\u00adthing in truth which, how\u00adev\u00ader won\u00adder\u00adful, forces con\u00advic\u00adtion. The sto\u00adry is too con\u00adnect\u00aded to be mis\u00adtak\u00aden for a dream, and I have no motive for false\u00adhood.\u201d My man\u00adner as I thus addressed him was impres\u00adsive but calm; I had formed in my own heart a res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion to pur\u00adsue my destroy\u00ader to death, and this pur\u00adpose qui\u00adet\u00aded my agony and for an inter\u00adval rec\u00adon\u00adciled me to life. I now relat\u00aded my his\u00adto\u00adry briefly but with firm\u00adness and pre\u00adci\u00adsion, mark\u00ading the dates with accu\u00adra\u00adcy and nev\u00ader devi\u00adat\u00ading into invec\u00adtive or exclamation. <\/p>\n

The mag\u00adis\u00adtrate appeared at first per\u00adfect\u00adly incred\u00adu\u00adlous, but as I con\u00adtin\u00adued he became more atten\u00adtive and inter\u00adest\u00aded; I saw him some\u00adtimes shud\u00adder with hor\u00adror; at oth\u00aders a live\u00adly sur\u00adprise, unmin\u00adgled with dis\u00adbe\u00adlief, was paint\u00aded on his countenance. <\/p>\n

When I had con\u00adclud\u00aded my nar\u00adra\u00adtion, I said, \u201cThis is the being whom I accuse and for whose seizure and pun\u00adish\u00adment I call upon you to exert your whole pow\u00ader. It is your duty as a mag\u00adis\u00adtrate, and I believe and hope that your feel\u00adings as a man will not revolt from the exe\u00adcu\u00adtion of those func\u00adtions on this occasion.\u201d <\/p>\n

This address caused a con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adable change in the phys\u00adiog\u00adno\u00admy of my own audi\u00adtor. He had heard my sto\u00adry with that half kind of belief that is giv\u00aden to a tale of spir\u00adits and super\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal events; but when he was called upon to act offi\u00adcial\u00adly in con\u00adse\u00adquence, the whole tide of his increduli\u00adty returned. He, how\u00adev\u00ader, answered mild\u00adly, \u201cI would will\u00ading\u00adly afford you every aid in your pur\u00adsuit, but the crea\u00adture of whom you speak appears to have pow\u00aders which would put all my exer\u00adtions to defi\u00adance. Who can fol\u00adlow an ani\u00admal which can tra\u00adverse the sea of ice and inhab\u00adit caves and dens where no man would ven\u00adture to intrude? Besides, some months have elapsed since the com\u00admis\u00adsion of his crimes, and no one can con\u00adjec\u00adture to what place he has wan\u00addered or what region he may now inhabit.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI do not doubt that he hov\u00aders near the spot which I inhab\u00adit, and if he has indeed tak\u00aden refuge in the Alps, he may be hunt\u00aded like the chamois and destroyed as a beast of prey. But I per\u00adceive your thoughts; you do not cred\u00adit my nar\u00adra\u00adtive and do not intend to pur\u00adsue my ene\u00admy with the pun\u00adish\u00adment which is his desert.\u201d <\/p>\n

As I spoke, rage sparkled in my eyes; the mag\u00adis\u00adtrate was intim\u00adi\u00addat\u00aded. \u201cYou are mis\u00adtak\u00aden,\u201d said he. \u201cI will exert myself, and if it is in my pow\u00ader to seize the mon\u00adster, be assured that he shall suf\u00adfer pun\u00adish\u00adment pro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00adate to his crimes. But I fear, from what you have your\u00adself described to be his prop\u00ader\u00adties, that this will prove imprac\u00adti\u00adca\u00adble; and thus, while every prop\u00ader mea\u00adsure is pur\u00adsued, you should make up your mind to disappointment.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThat can\u00adnot be; but all that I can say will be of lit\u00adtle avail. My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I con\u00adfess that it is the devour\u00ading and only pas\u00adsion of my soul. My rage is unspeak\u00adable when I reflect that the mur\u00adder\u00ader, whom I have turned loose upon soci\u00adety, still exists. You refuse my just demand; I have but one resource, and I devote myself, either in my life or death, to his destruction.\u201d <\/p>\n

I trem\u00adbled with excess of agi\u00adta\u00adtion as I said this; there was a fren\u00adzy in my man\u00adner, and some\u00adthing, I doubt not, of that haughty fierce\u00adness which the mar\u00adtyrs of old are said to have pos\u00adsessed. But to a Genevan mag\u00adis\u00adtrate, whose mind was occu\u00adpied by far oth\u00ader ideas than those of devo\u00adtion and hero\u00adism, this ele\u00adva\u00adtion of mind had much the appear\u00adance of mad\u00adness. He endeav\u00adoured to soothe me as a nurse does a child and revert\u00aded to my tale as the effects of delirium. <\/p>\n

\u201cMan,\u201d I cried, \u201chow igno\u00adrant art thou in thy pride of wis\u00addom! Cease; you know not what it is you say.\u201d <\/p>\n

I broke from the house angry and dis\u00adturbed and retired to med\u00adi\u00adtate on some oth\u00ader mode of action. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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My present sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion was one in which all vol\u00adun\u00adtary thought was swal\u00adlowed up and lost. I was hur\u00adried away by fury; revenge alone endowed me with strength and com\u00adpo\u00adsure; it mould\u00aded my feel\u00adings and allowed me to be cal\u00adcu\u00adlat\u00ading and calm at peri\u00adods when oth\u00ader\u00adwise delir\u00adi\u00adum or death would have been my portion. <\/p>\n

My first res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion was to quit Gene\u00adva for ever; my coun\u00adtry, which, when I was hap\u00adpy and beloved, was dear to me, now, in my adver\u00adsi\u00adty, became hate\u00adful. I pro\u00advid\u00aded myself with a sum of mon\u00adey, togeth\u00ader with a few jew\u00adels which had belonged to my moth\u00ader, and departed. <\/p>\n

And now my wan\u00adder\u00adings began which are to cease but with life. I have tra\u00adversed a vast por\u00adtion of the earth and have endured all the hard\u00adships which trav\u00adellers in deserts and bar\u00adbarous coun\u00adtries are wont to meet. How I have lived I hard\u00adly know; many times have I stretched my fail\u00ading limbs upon the sandy plain and prayed for death. But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adver\u00adsary in being. <\/p>\n

When I quit\u00adted Gene\u00adva my first labour was to gain some clue by which I might trace the steps of my fiendish ene\u00admy. But my plan was unset\u00adtled, and I wan\u00addered many hours round the con\u00adfines of the town, uncer\u00adtain what path I should pur\u00adsue. As night approached I found myself at the entrance of the ceme\u00adtery where William, Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, and my father reposed. I entered it and approached the tomb which marked their graves. Every\u00adthing was silent except the leaves of the trees, which were gen\u00adtly agi\u00adtat\u00aded by the wind; the night was near\u00adly dark, and the scene would have been solemn and affect\u00ading even to an unin\u00adter\u00adest\u00aded observ\u00ader. The spir\u00adits of the depart\u00aded seemed to flit around and to cast a shad\u00adow, which was felt but not seen, around the head of the mourner. <\/p>\n

The deep grief which this scene had at first excit\u00aded quick\u00adly gave way to rage and despair. They were dead, and I lived; their mur\u00adder\u00ader also lived, and to destroy him I must drag out my weary exis\u00adtence. I knelt on the grass and kissed the earth and with quiv\u00ader\u00ading lips exclaimed, \u201cBy the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wan\u00adder near me, by the deep and eter\u00adnal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spir\u00adits that pre\u00adside over thee, to pur\u00adsue the d\u00e6mon who caused this mis\u00adery, until he or I shall per\u00adish in mor\u00adtal con\u00adflict. For this pur\u00adpose I will pre\u00adserve my life; to exe\u00adcute this dear revenge will I again behold the sun and tread the green herbage of earth, which oth\u00ader\u00adwise should van\u00adish from my eyes for ever. And I call on you, spir\u00adits of the dead, and on you, wan\u00adder\u00ading min\u00adis\u00adters of vengeance, to aid and con\u00adduct me in my work. Let the cursed and hell\u00adish mon\u00adster drink deep of agony; let him feel the despair that now tor\u00adments me.\u201d <\/p>\n

I had begun my adju\u00adra\u00adtion with solem\u00adni\u00adty and an awe which almost assured me that the shades of my mur\u00addered friends heard and approved my devo\u00adtion, but the furies pos\u00adsessed me as I con\u00adclud\u00aded, and rage choked my utterance. <\/p>\n

I was answered through the still\u00adness of night by a loud and fiendish laugh. It rang on my ears long and heav\u00adi\u00adly; the moun\u00adtains re-echoed it, and I felt as if all hell sur\u00adround\u00aded me with mock\u00adery and laugh\u00adter. Sure\u00adly in that moment I should have been pos\u00adsessed by fren\u00adzy and have destroyed my mis\u00ader\u00adable exis\u00adtence but that my vow was heard and that I was reserved for vengeance. The laugh\u00adter died away, when a well-known and abhorred voice, appar\u00adent\u00adly close to my ear, addressed me in an audi\u00adble whis\u00adper, \u201cI am sat\u00adis\u00adfied, mis\u00ader\u00adable wretch! You have deter\u00admined to live, and I am satisfied.\u201d <\/p>\n

I dart\u00aded towards the spot from which the sound pro\u00adceed\u00aded, but the dev\u00adil elud\u00aded my grasp. Sud\u00adden\u00adly the broad disk of the moon arose and shone full upon his ghast\u00adly and dis\u00adtort\u00aded shape as he fled with more than mor\u00adtal speed. <\/p>\n

I pur\u00adsued him, and for many months this has been my task. Guid\u00aded by a slight clue, I fol\u00adlowed the wind\u00adings of the Rhone, but vain\u00adly. The blue Mediter\u00adranean appeared, and by a strange chance, I saw the fiend enter by night and hide him\u00adself in a ves\u00adsel bound for the Black Sea. I took my pas\u00adsage in the same ship, but he escaped, I know not how. <\/p>\n

Amidst the wilds of Tar\u00adtary and Rus\u00adsia, although he still evad\u00aded me, I have ever fol\u00adlowed in his track. Some\u00adtimes the peas\u00adants, scared by this hor\u00adrid appari\u00adtion, informed me of his path; some\u00adtimes he him\u00adself, who feared that if I lost all trace of him I should despair and die, left some mark to guide me. The snows descend\u00aded on my head, and I saw the print of his huge step on the white plain. To you first enter\u00ading on life, to whom care is new and agony unknown, how can you under\u00adstand what I have felt and still feel? Cold, want, and fatigue were the least pains which I was des\u00adtined to endure; I was cursed by some dev\u00adil and car\u00adried about with me my eter\u00adnal hell; yet still a spir\u00adit of good fol\u00adlowed and direct\u00aded my steps and when I most mur\u00admured would sud\u00adden\u00adly extri\u00adcate me from seem\u00ading\u00adly insur\u00admount\u00adable dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adties. Some\u00adtimes, when nature, over\u00adcome by hunger, sank under the exhaus\u00adtion, a repast was pre\u00adpared for me in the desert that restored and inspir\u00adit\u00aded me. The fare was, indeed, coarse, such as the peas\u00adants of the coun\u00adtry ate, but I will not doubt that it was set there by the spir\u00adits that I had invoked to aid me. Often, when all was dry, the heav\u00adens cloud\u00adless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bed\u00adim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish. <\/p>\n

I fol\u00adlowed, when I could, the cours\u00ades of the rivers; but the d\u00e6mon gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly avoid\u00aded these, as it was here that the pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion of the coun\u00adtry chiefly col\u00adlect\u00aded. In oth\u00ader places human beings were sel\u00addom seen, and I gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly sub\u00adsist\u00aded on the wild ani\u00admals that crossed my path. I had mon\u00adey with me and gained the friend\u00adship of the vil\u00adlagers by dis\u00adtrib\u00adut\u00ading it; or I brought with me some food that I had killed, which, after tak\u00ading a small part, I always pre\u00adsent\u00aded to those who had pro\u00advid\u00aded me with fire and uten\u00adsils for cooking. <\/p>\n

My life, as it passed thus, was indeed hate\u00adful to me, and it was dur\u00ading sleep alone that I could taste joy. O blessed sleep! Often, when most mis\u00ader\u00adable, I sank to repose, and my dreams lulled me even to rap\u00adture. The spir\u00adits that guard\u00aded me had pro\u00advid\u00aded these moments, or rather hours, of hap\u00adpi\u00adness that I might retain strength to ful\u00adfil my pil\u00adgrim\u00adage. Deprived of this respite, I should have sunk under my hard\u00adships. Dur\u00ading the day I was sus\u00adtained and inspir\u00adit\u00aded by the hope of night, for in sleep I saw my friends, my wife, and my beloved coun\u00adtry; again I saw the benev\u00ado\u00adlent coun\u00adte\u00adnance of my father, heard the sil\u00adver tones of my Elizabeth\u2019s voice, and beheld Cler\u00adval enjoy\u00ading health and youth. Often, when wea\u00adried by a toil\u00adsome march, I per\u00adsuad\u00aded myself that I was dream\u00ading until night should come and that I should then enjoy real\u00adi\u00adty in the arms of my dear\u00adest friends. What ago\u00adnis\u00ading fond\u00adness did I feel for them! How did I cling to their dear forms, as some\u00adtimes they haunt\u00aded even my wak\u00ading hours, and per\u00adsuade myself that they still lived! At such moments vengeance, that burned with\u00adin me, died in my heart, and I pur\u00adsued my path towards the destruc\u00adtion of the d\u00e6mon more as a task enjoined by heav\u00aden, as the mechan\u00adi\u00adcal impulse of some pow\u00ader of which I was uncon\u00adscious, than as the ardent desire of my soul. <\/p>\n

What his feel\u00adings were whom I pur\u00adsued I can\u00adnot know. Some\u00adtimes, indeed, he left marks in writ\u00ading on the barks of the trees or cut in stone that guid\u00aded me and insti\u00adgat\u00aded my fury. \u201cMy reign is not yet over\u201d\u2014these words were leg\u00adi\u00adble in one of these inscriptions\u2014\u201cyou live, and my pow\u00ader is com\u00adplete. Fol\u00adlow me; I seek the ever\u00adlast\u00ading ices of the north, where you will feel the mis\u00adery of cold and frost, to which I am impas\u00adsive. You will find near this place, if you fol\u00adlow not too tardi\u00adly, a dead hare; eat and be refreshed. Come on, my ene\u00admy; we have yet to wres\u00adtle for our lives, but many hard and mis\u00ader\u00adable hours must you endure until that peri\u00adod shall arrive.\u201d <\/p>\n

Scoff\u00ading dev\u00adil! Again do I vow vengeance; again do I devote thee, mis\u00ader\u00adable fiend, to tor\u00adture and death. Nev\u00ader will I give up my search until he or I per\u00adish; and then with what ecsta\u00adsy shall I join my Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth and my depart\u00aded friends, who even now pre\u00adpare for me the reward of my tedious toil and hor\u00adri\u00adble pilgrimage! <\/p>\n

As I still pur\u00adsued my jour\u00adney to the north\u00adward, the snows thick\u00adened and the cold increased in a degree almost too severe to sup\u00adport. The peas\u00adants were shut up in their hov\u00adels, and only a few of the most hardy ven\u00adtured forth to seize the ani\u00admals whom star\u00adva\u00adtion had forced from their hid\u00ading-places to seek for prey. The rivers were cov\u00adered with ice, and no fish could be pro\u00adcured; and thus I was cut off from my chief arti\u00adcle of maintenance. <\/p>\n

The tri\u00adumph of my ene\u00admy increased with the dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty of my labours. One inscrip\u00adtion that he left was in these words: \u201cPre\u00adpare! Your toils only begin; wrap your\u00adself in furs and pro\u00advide food, for we shall soon enter upon a jour\u00adney where your suf\u00adfer\u00adings will sat\u00adis\u00adfy my ever\u00adlast\u00ading hatred.\u201d <\/p>\n

My courage and per\u00adse\u00adver\u00adance were invig\u00ado\u00adrat\u00aded by these scoff\u00ading words; I resolved not to fail in my pur\u00adpose, and call\u00ading on Heav\u00aden to sup\u00adport me, I con\u00adtin\u00adued with unabat\u00aded fer\u00advour to tra\u00adverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a dis\u00adtance and formed the utmost bound\u00adary of the hori\u00adzon. Oh! How unlike it was to the blue sea\u00adsons of the south! Cov\u00adered with ice, it was only to be dis\u00adtin\u00adguished from land by its supe\u00adri\u00ador wild\u00adness and rugged\u00adness. The Greeks wept for joy when they beheld the Mediter\u00adranean from the hills of Asia, and hailed with rap\u00adture the bound\u00adary of their toils. I did not weep, but I knelt down and with a full heart thanked my guid\u00ading spir\u00adit for con\u00adduct\u00ading me in safe\u00adty to the place where I hoped, notwith\u00adstand\u00ading my adversary\u2019s gibe, to meet and grap\u00adple with him. <\/p>\n

Some weeks before this peri\u00adod I had pro\u00adcured a sledge and dogs and thus tra\u00adversed the snows with incon\u00adceiv\u00adable speed. I know not whether the fiend pos\u00adsessed the same advan\u00adtages, but I found that, as before I had dai\u00adly lost ground in the pur\u00adsuit, I now gained on him, so much so that when I first saw the ocean he was but one day\u2019s jour\u00adney in advance, and I hoped to inter\u00adcept him before he should reach the beach. With new courage, there\u00adfore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched ham\u00adlet on the seashore. I inquired of the inhab\u00adi\u00adtants con\u00adcern\u00ading the fiend and gained accu\u00adrate infor\u00adma\u00adtion. A gigan\u00adtic mon\u00adster, they said, had arrived the night before, armed with a gun and many pis\u00adtols, putting to flight the inhab\u00adi\u00adtants of a soli\u00adtary cot\u00adtage through fear of his ter\u00adrif\u00adic appear\u00adance. He had car\u00adried off their store of win\u00adter food, and plac\u00ading it in a sledge, to draw which he had seized on a numer\u00adous drove of trained dogs, he had har\u00adnessed them, and the same night, to the joy of the hor\u00adror-struck vil\u00adlagers, had pur\u00adsued his jour\u00adney across the sea in a direc\u00adtion that led to no land; and they con\u00adjec\u00adtured that he must speed\u00adi\u00adly be destroyed by the break\u00ading of the ice or frozen by the eter\u00adnal frosts. <\/p>\n

On hear\u00ading this infor\u00adma\u00adtion I suf\u00adfered a tem\u00adpo\u00adrary access of despair. He had escaped me, and I must com\u00admence a destruc\u00adtive and almost end\u00adless jour\u00adney across the moun\u00adtain\u00adous ices of the ocean, amidst cold that few of the inhab\u00adi\u00adtants could long endure and which I, the native of a genial and sun\u00adny cli\u00admate, could not hope to sur\u00advive. Yet at the idea that the fiend should live and be tri\u00adumphant, my rage and vengeance returned, and like a mighty tide, over\u00adwhelmed every oth\u00ader feel\u00ading. After a slight repose, dur\u00ading which the spir\u00adits of the dead hov\u00adered round and insti\u00adgat\u00aded me to toil and revenge, I pre\u00adpared for my journey. <\/p>\n

I exchanged my land-sledge for one fash\u00adioned for the inequal\u00adi\u00adties of the Frozen Ocean, and pur\u00adchas\u00ading a plen\u00adti\u00adful stock of pro\u00advi\u00adsions, I depart\u00aded from land. <\/p>\n

I can\u00adnot guess how many days have passed since then, but I have endured mis\u00adery which noth\u00ading but the eter\u00adnal sen\u00adti\u00adment of a just ret\u00adri\u00adbu\u00adtion burn\u00ading with\u00adin my heart could have enabled me to sup\u00adport. Immense and rugged moun\u00adtains of ice often barred up my pas\u00adsage, and I often heard the thun\u00adder of the ground sea, which threat\u00adened my destruc\u00adtion. But again the frost came and made the paths of the sea secure. <\/p>\n

By the quan\u00adti\u00adty of pro\u00advi\u00adsion which I had con\u00adsumed, I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this jour\u00adney; and the con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal pro\u00adtrac\u00adtion of hope, return\u00ading back upon the heart, often wrung bit\u00adter drops of despon\u00adden\u00adcy and grief from my eyes. Despair had indeed almost secured her prey, and I should soon have sunk beneath this mis\u00adery. Once, after the poor ani\u00admals that con\u00adveyed me had with incred\u00adi\u00adble toil gained the sum\u00admit of a slop\u00ading ice moun\u00adtain, and one, sink\u00ading under his fatigue, died, I viewed the expanse before me with anguish, when sud\u00adden\u00adly my eye caught a dark speck upon the dusky plain. I strained my sight to dis\u00adcov\u00ader what it could be and uttered a wild cry of ecsta\u00adsy when I dis\u00adtin\u00adguished a sledge and the dis\u00adtort\u00aded pro\u00adpor\u00adtions of a well-known form with\u00adin. Oh! With what a burn\u00ading gush did hope revis\u00adit my heart! Warm tears filled my eyes, which I hasti\u00adly wiped away, that they might not inter\u00adcept the view I had of the d\u00e6mon; but still my sight was dimmed by the burn\u00ading drops, until, giv\u00ading way to the emo\u00adtions that oppressed me, I wept aloud. <\/p>\n

But this was not the time for delay; I dis\u00aden\u00adcum\u00adbered the dogs of their dead com\u00adpan\u00adion, gave them a plen\u00adti\u00adful por\u00adtion of food, and after an hour\u2019s rest, which was absolute\u00adly nec\u00ades\u00adsary, and yet which was bit\u00adter\u00adly irk\u00adsome to me, I con\u00adtin\u00adued my route. The sledge was still vis\u00adi\u00adble, nor did I again lose sight of it except at the moments when for a short time some ice-rock con\u00adcealed it with its inter\u00adven\u00ading crags. I indeed per\u00adcep\u00adti\u00adbly gained on it, and when, after near\u00adly two days\u2019 jour\u00adney, I beheld my ene\u00admy at no more than a mile dis\u00adtant, my heart bound\u00aded with\u00adin me. <\/p>\n

But now, when I appeared almost with\u00adin grasp of my foe, my hopes were sud\u00adden\u00adly extin\u00adguished, and I lost all trace of him more utter\u00adly than I had ever done before. A ground sea was heard; the thun\u00adder of its progress, as the waters rolled and swelled beneath me, became every moment more omi\u00adnous and ter\u00adrif\u00adic. I pressed on, but in vain. The wind arose; the sea roared; and, as with the mighty shock of an earth\u00adquake, it split and cracked with a tremen\u00addous and over\u00adwhelm\u00ading sound. The work was soon fin\u00adished; in a few min\u00adutes a tumul\u00adtuous sea rolled between me and my ene\u00admy, and I was left drift\u00ading on a scat\u00adtered piece of ice that was con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly less\u00aden\u00ading and thus prepar\u00ading for me a hideous death. <\/p>\n

In this man\u00adner many appalling hours passed; sev\u00ader\u00adal of my dogs died, and I myself was about to sink under the accu\u00admu\u00adla\u00adtion of dis\u00adtress when I saw your ves\u00adsel rid\u00ading at anchor and hold\u00ading forth to me hopes of suc\u00adcour and life. I had no con\u00adcep\u00adtion that ves\u00adsels ever came so far north and was astound\u00aded at the sight. I quick\u00adly destroyed part of my sledge to con\u00adstruct oars, and by these means was enabled, with infi\u00adnite fatigue, to move my ice raft in the direc\u00adtion of your ship. I had deter\u00admined, if you were going south\u00adwards, still to trust myself to the mer\u00adcy of the seas rather than aban\u00addon my pur\u00adpose. I hoped to induce you to grant me a boat with which I could pur\u00adsue my ene\u00admy. But your direc\u00adtion was north\u00adwards. You took me on board when my vigour was exhaust\u00aded, and I should soon have sunk under my mul\u00adti\u00adplied hard\u00adships into a death which I still dread, for my task is unfulfilled. <\/p>\n

Oh! When will my guid\u00ading spir\u00adit, in con\u00adduct\u00ading me to the d\u00e6mon, allow me the rest I so much desire; or must I die, and he yet live? If I do, swear to me, Wal\u00adton, that he shall not escape, that you will seek him and sat\u00adis\u00adfy my vengeance in his death. And do I dare to ask of you to under\u00adtake my pil\u00adgrim\u00adage, to endure the hard\u00adships that I have under\u00adgone? No; I am not so self\u00adish. Yet, when I am dead, if he should appear, if the min\u00adis\u00adters of vengeance should con\u00adduct him to you, swear that he shall not live\u2014swear that he shall not tri\u00adumph over my accu\u00admu\u00adlat\u00aded woes and sur\u00advive to add to the list of his dark crimes. He is elo\u00adquent and per\u00adsua\u00adsive, and once his words had even pow\u00ader over my heart; but trust him not. His soul is as hell\u00adish as his form, full of treach\u00adery and fiend-like mal\u00adice. Hear him not; call on the names of William, Jus\u00adtine, Cler\u00adval, Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth, my father, and of the wretched Vic\u00adtor, and thrust your sword into his heart. I will hov\u00ader near and direct the steel aright. <\/p>\n

Wal\u00adton, in con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion.<\/span> <\/p>\n

August 26th, 17\u2014. <\/p>\n

You have read this strange and ter\u00adrif\u00adic sto\u00adry, Mar\u00adgaret; and do you not feel your blood con\u00adgeal with hor\u00adror, like that which even now cur\u00addles mine? Some\u00adtimes, seized with sud\u00adden agony, he could not con\u00adtin\u00adue his tale; at oth\u00aders, his voice bro\u00adken, yet pierc\u00ading, uttered with dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty the words so replete with anguish. His fine and love\u00adly eyes were now light\u00aded up with indig\u00adna\u00adtion, now sub\u00addued to down\u00adcast sor\u00adrow and quenched in infi\u00adnite wretched\u00adness. Some\u00adtimes he com\u00admand\u00aded his coun\u00adte\u00adnance and tones and relat\u00aded the most hor\u00adri\u00adble inci\u00addents with a tran\u00adquil voice, sup\u00adpress\u00ading every mark of agi\u00adta\u00adtion; then, like a vol\u00adcano burst\u00ading forth, his face would sud\u00adden\u00adly change to an expres\u00adsion of the wildest rage as he shrieked out impre\u00adca\u00adtions on his persecutor. <\/p>\n

His tale is con\u00adnect\u00aded and told with an appear\u00adance of the sim\u00adplest truth, yet I own to you that the let\u00adters of Felix and Safie, which he showed me, and the appari\u00adtion of the mon\u00adster seen from our ship, brought to me a greater con\u00advic\u00adtion of the truth of his nar\u00adra\u00adtive than his assev\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions, how\u00adev\u00ader earnest and con\u00adnect\u00aded. Such a mon\u00adster has, then, real\u00adly exis\u00adtence! I can\u00adnot doubt it, yet I am lost in sur\u00adprise and admi\u00adra\u00adtion. Some\u00adtimes I endeav\u00adoured to gain from Franken\u00adstein the par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlars of his creature\u2019s for\u00adma\u00adtion, but on this point he was impenetrable. <\/p>\n

\u201cAre you mad, my friend?\u201d said he. \u201cOr whith\u00ader does your sense\u00adless curios\u00adi\u00adty lead you? Would you also cre\u00adate for your\u00adself and the world a demo\u00adni\u00ada\u00adcal ene\u00admy? Peace, peace! Learn my mis\u00aderies and do not seek to increase your own.\u201d <\/p>\n

Franken\u00adstein dis\u00adcov\u00adered that I made notes con\u00adcern\u00ading his his\u00adto\u00adry; he asked to see them and then him\u00adself cor\u00adrect\u00aded and aug\u00adment\u00aded them in many places, but prin\u00adci\u00adpal\u00adly in giv\u00ading the life and spir\u00adit to the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions he held with his ene\u00admy. \u201cSince you have pre\u00adserved my nar\u00adra\u00adtion,\u201d said he, \u201cI would not that a muti\u00adlat\u00aded one should go down to posterity.\u201d <\/p>\n

Thus has a week passed away, while I have lis\u00adtened to the strangest tale that ever imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion formed. My thoughts and every feel\u00ading of my soul have been drunk up by the inter\u00adest for my guest which this tale and his own ele\u00advat\u00aded and gen\u00adtle man\u00adners have cre\u00adat\u00aded. I wish to soothe him, yet can I coun\u00adsel one so infi\u00adnite\u00adly mis\u00ader\u00adable, so des\u00adti\u00adtute of every hope of con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion, to live? Oh, no! The only joy that he can now know will be when he com\u00adpos\u00ades his shat\u00adtered spir\u00adit to peace and death. Yet he enjoys one com\u00adfort, the off\u00adspring of soli\u00adtude and delir\u00adi\u00adum; he believes that when in dreams he holds con\u00adverse with his friends and derives from that com\u00admu\u00adnion con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion for his mis\u00aderies or excite\u00adments to his vengeance, that they are not the cre\u00adations of his fan\u00adcy, but the beings them\u00adselves who vis\u00adit him from the regions of a remote world. This faith gives a solem\u00adni\u00adty to his rever\u00adies that ren\u00adder them to me almost as impos\u00ading and inter\u00adest\u00ading as truth. <\/p>\n

Our con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions are not always con\u00adfined to his own his\u00adto\u00adry and mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes. On every point of gen\u00ader\u00adal lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture he dis\u00adplays unbound\u00aded knowl\u00adedge and a quick and pierc\u00ading appre\u00adhen\u00adsion. His elo\u00adquence is forcible and touch\u00ading; nor can I hear him, when he relates a pathet\u00adic inci\u00addent or endeav\u00adours to move the pas\u00adsions of pity or love, with\u00adout tears. What a glo\u00adri\u00adous crea\u00adture must he have been in the days of his pros\u00adper\u00adi\u00adty, when he is thus noble and god\u00adlike in ruin! He seems to feel his own worth and the great\u00adness of his fall. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen younger,\u201d said he, \u201cI believed myself des\u00adtined for some great enter\u00adprise. My feel\u00adings are pro\u00adfound, but I pos\u00adsessed a cool\u00adness of judg\u00adment that fit\u00adted me for illus\u00adtri\u00adous achieve\u00adments. This sen\u00adti\u00adment of the worth of my nature sup\u00adport\u00aded me when oth\u00aders would have been oppressed, for I deemed it crim\u00adi\u00adnal to throw away in use\u00adless grief those tal\u00adents that might be use\u00adful to my fel\u00adlow crea\u00adtures. When I reflect\u00aded on the work I had com\u00adplet\u00aded, no less a one than the cre\u00adation of a sen\u00adsi\u00adtive and ratio\u00adnal ani\u00admal, I could not rank myself with the herd of com\u00admon pro\u00adjec\u00adtors. But this thought, which sup\u00adport\u00aded me in the com\u00admence\u00adment of my career, now serves only to plunge me low\u00ader in the dust. All my spec\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions and hopes are as noth\u00ading, and like the archangel who aspired to omnipo\u00adtence, I am chained in an eter\u00adnal hell. My imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion was vivid, yet my pow\u00aders of analy\u00adsis and appli\u00adca\u00adtion were intense; by the union of these qual\u00adi\u00adties I con\u00adceived the idea and exe\u00adcut\u00aded the cre\u00adation of a man. Even now I can\u00adnot rec\u00adol\u00adlect with\u00adout pas\u00adsion my rever\u00adies while the work was incom\u00adplete. I trod heav\u00aden in my thoughts, now exult\u00ading in my pow\u00aders, now burn\u00ading with the idea of their effects. From my infan\u00adcy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambi\u00adtion; but how am I sunk! Oh! My friend, if you had known me as I once was, you would not recog\u00adnise me in this state of degra\u00adda\u00adtion. Despon\u00adden\u00adcy rarely vis\u00adit\u00aded my heart; a high des\u00adtiny seemed to bear me on, until I fell, nev\u00ader, nev\u00ader again to rise.\u201d <\/p>\n

Must I then lose this admirable being? I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sym\u00adpa\u00adthise with and love me. Behold, on these desert seas I have found such a one, but I fear I have gained him only to know his val\u00adue and lose him. I would rec\u00adon\u00adcile him to life, but he repuls\u00ades the idea. <\/p>\n

\u201cI thank you, Wal\u00adton,\u201d he said, \u201cfor your kind inten\u00adtions towards so mis\u00ader\u00adable a wretch; but when you speak of new ties and fresh affec\u00adtions, think you that any can replace those who are gone? Can any man be to me as Cler\u00adval was, or any woman anoth\u00ader Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth? Even where the affec\u00adtions are not strong\u00adly moved by any supe\u00adri\u00ador excel\u00adlence, the com\u00adpan\u00adions of our child\u00adhood always pos\u00adsess a cer\u00adtain pow\u00ader over our minds which hard\u00adly any lat\u00ader friend can obtain. They know our infan\u00adtine dis\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions, which, how\u00adev\u00ader they may be after\u00adwards mod\u00adi\u00adfied, are nev\u00ader erad\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded; and they can judge of our actions with more cer\u00adtain con\u00adclu\u00adsions as to the integri\u00adty of our motives. A sis\u00adter or a broth\u00ader can nev\u00ader, unless indeed such symp\u00adtoms have been shown ear\u00adly, sus\u00adpect the oth\u00ader of fraud or false deal\u00ading, when anoth\u00ader friend, how\u00adev\u00ader strong\u00adly he may be attached, may, in spite of him\u00adself, be con\u00adtem\u00adplat\u00aded with sus\u00adpi\u00adcion. But I enjoyed friends, dear not only through habit and asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion, but from their own mer\u00adits; and wher\u00adev\u00ader I am, the sooth\u00ading voice of my Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth and the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion of Cler\u00adval will be ever whis\u00adpered in my ear. They are dead, and but one feel\u00ading in such a soli\u00adtude can per\u00adsuade me to pre\u00adserve my life. If I were engaged in any high under\u00adtak\u00ading or design, fraught with exten\u00adsive util\u00adi\u00adty to my fel\u00adlow crea\u00adtures, then could I live to ful\u00adfil it. But such is not my des\u00adtiny; I must pur\u00adsue and destroy the being to whom I gave exis\u00adtence; then my lot on earth will be ful\u00adfilled and I may die.\u201d <\/p>\n

My beloved Sister, <\/p>\n

Sep\u00adtem\u00adber 2d. <\/p>\n

I write to you, encom\u00adpassed by per\u00adil and igno\u00adrant whether I am ever doomed to see again dear Eng\u00adland and the dear\u00ader friends that inhab\u00adit it. I am sur\u00adround\u00aded by moun\u00adtains of ice which admit of no escape and threat\u00aden every moment to crush my ves\u00adsel. The brave fel\u00adlows whom I have per\u00adsuad\u00aded to be my com\u00adpan\u00adions look towards me for aid, but I have none to bestow. There is some\u00adthing ter\u00adri\u00adbly appalling in our sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion, yet my courage and hopes do not desert me. Yet it is ter\u00adri\u00adble to reflect that the lives of all these men are endan\u00adgered through me. If we are lost, my mad schemes are the cause. <\/p>\n

And what, Mar\u00adgaret, will be the state of your mind? You will not hear of my destruc\u00adtion, and you will anx\u00adious\u00adly await my return. Years will pass, and you will have vis\u00adit\u00adings of despair and yet be tor\u00adtured by hope. Oh! My beloved sis\u00adter, the sick\u00aden\u00ading fail\u00ading of your heart-felt expec\u00adta\u00adtions is, in prospect, more ter\u00adri\u00adble to me than my own death. But you have a hus\u00adband and love\u00adly chil\u00addren; you may be hap\u00adpy. Heav\u00aden bless you and make you so! <\/p>\n

My unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate guest regards me with the ten\u00adder\u00adest com\u00adpas\u00adsion. He endeav\u00adours to fill me with hope and talks as if life were a pos\u00adses\u00adsion which he val\u00adued. He reminds me how often the same acci\u00addents have hap\u00adpened to oth\u00ader nav\u00adi\u00adga\u00adtors who have attempt\u00aded this sea, and in spite of myself, he fills me with cheer\u00adful auguries. Even the sailors feel the pow\u00ader of his elo\u00adquence; when he speaks, they no longer despair; he rous\u00ades their ener\u00adgies, and while they hear his voice they believe these vast moun\u00adtains of ice are mole-hills which will van\u00adish before the res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtions of man. These feel\u00adings are tran\u00adsi\u00adto\u00adry; each day of expec\u00adta\u00adtion delayed fills them with fear, and I almost dread a mutiny caused by this despair. <\/p>\n

Sep\u00adtem\u00adber 5th. <\/p>\n

A scene has just passed of such uncom\u00admon inter\u00adest that, although it is high\u00adly prob\u00ada\u00adble that these papers may nev\u00ader reach you, yet I can\u00adnot for\u00adbear record\u00ading it. <\/p>\n

We are still sur\u00adround\u00aded by moun\u00adtains of ice, still in immi\u00adnent dan\u00adger of being crushed in their con\u00adflict. The cold is exces\u00adsive, and many of my unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate com\u00adrades have already found a grave amidst this scene of des\u00ado\u00adla\u00adtion. Franken\u00adstein has dai\u00adly declined in health; a fever\u00adish fire still glim\u00admers in his eyes, but he is exhaust\u00aded, and when sud\u00adden\u00adly roused to any exer\u00adtion, he speed\u00adi\u00adly sinks again into appar\u00adent lifelessness. <\/p>\n

I men\u00adtioned in my last let\u00adter the fears I enter\u00adtained of a mutiny. This morn\u00ading, as I sat watch\u00ading the wan coun\u00adte\u00adnance of my friend\u2014his eyes half closed and his limbs hang\u00ading listlessly\u2014I was roused by half a dozen of the sailors, who demand\u00aded admis\u00adsion into the cab\u00adin. They entered, and their leader addressed me. He told me that he and his com\u00adpan\u00adions had been cho\u00adsen by the oth\u00ader sailors to come in dep\u00adu\u00adta\u00adtion to me to make me a req\u00adui\u00adsi\u00adtion which, in jus\u00adtice, I could not refuse. We were immured in ice and should prob\u00ada\u00adbly nev\u00ader escape, but they feared that if, as was pos\u00adsi\u00adble, the ice should dis\u00adsi\u00adpate and a free pas\u00adsage be opened, I should be rash enough to con\u00adtin\u00adue my voy\u00adage and lead them into fresh dan\u00adgers, after they might hap\u00adpi\u00adly have sur\u00admount\u00aded this. They insist\u00aded, there\u00adfore, that I should engage with a solemn promise that if the ves\u00adsel should be freed I would instant\u00adly direct my course southwards. <\/p>\n

This speech trou\u00adbled me. I had not despaired, nor had I yet con\u00adceived the idea of return\u00ading if set free. Yet could I, in jus\u00adtice, or even in pos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty, refuse this demand? I hes\u00adi\u00adtat\u00aded before I answered, when Franken\u00adstein, who had at first been silent, and indeed appeared hard\u00adly to have force enough to attend, now roused him\u00adself; his eyes sparkled, and his cheeks flushed with momen\u00adtary vigour. Turn\u00ading towards the men, he said, <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you mean? What do you demand of your cap\u00adtain? Are you, then, so eas\u00adi\u00adly turned from your design? Did you not call this a glo\u00adri\u00adous expe\u00addi\u00adtion? \u201cAnd where\u00adfore was it glo\u00adri\u00adous? Not because the way was smooth and placid as a south\u00adern sea, but because it was full of dan\u00adgers and ter\u00adror, because at every new inci\u00addent your for\u00adti\u00adtude was to be called forth and your courage exhib\u00adit\u00aded, because dan\u00adger and death sur\u00adround\u00aded it, and these you were to brave and over\u00adcome. For this was it a glo\u00adri\u00adous, for this was it an hon\u00adourable under\u00adtak\u00ading. You were here\u00adafter to be hailed as the bene\u00adfac\u00adtors of your species, your names adored as belong\u00ading to brave men who encoun\u00adtered death for hon\u00adour and the ben\u00ade\u00adfit of mankind. And now, behold, with the first imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion of dan\u00adger, or, if you will, the first mighty and ter\u00adrif\u00adic tri\u00adal of your courage, you shrink away and are con\u00adtent to be hand\u00aded down as men who had not strength enough to endure cold and per\u00adil; and so, poor souls, they were chilly and returned to their warm fire\u00adsides. Why, that requires not this prepa\u00adra\u00adtion; ye need not have come thus far and dragged your cap\u00adtain to the shame of a defeat mere\u00adly to prove your\u00adselves cow\u00adards. Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your pur\u00adpos\u00ades and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is muta\u00adble and can\u00adnot with\u00adstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your fam\u00adi\u00adlies with the stig\u00adma of dis\u00adgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and con\u00adquered and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.\u201d <\/p>\n

He spoke this with a voice so mod\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded to the dif\u00adfer\u00adent feel\u00adings expressed in his speech, with an eye so full of lofty design and hero\u00adism, that can you won\u00adder that these men were moved? They looked at one anoth\u00ader and were unable to reply. I spoke; I told them to retire and con\u00adsid\u00ader of what had been said, that I would not lead them far\u00adther north if they stren\u00adu\u00adous\u00adly desired the con\u00adtrary, but that I hoped that, with reflec\u00adtion, their courage would return. <\/p>\n

They retired and I turned towards my friend, but he was sunk in lan\u00adguor and almost deprived of life. <\/p>\n

How all this will ter\u00admi\u00adnate, I know not, but I had rather die than return shame\u00adful\u00adly, my pur\u00adpose unful\u00adfilled. Yet I fear such will be my fate; the men, unsup\u00adport\u00aded by ideas of glo\u00adry and hon\u00adour, can nev\u00ader will\u00ading\u00adly con\u00adtin\u00adue to endure their present hardships. <\/p>\n

Sep\u00adtem\u00adber 7th. <\/p>\n

The die is cast; I have con\u00adsent\u00aded to return if we are not destroyed. Thus are my hopes blast\u00aded by cow\u00adardice and inde\u00adci\u00adsion; I come back igno\u00adrant and dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00aded. It requires more phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy than I pos\u00adsess to bear this injus\u00adtice with patience. <\/p>\n

Sep\u00adtem\u00adber 12th. <\/p>\n

It is past; I am return\u00ading to Eng\u00adland. I have lost my hopes of util\u00adi\u00adty and glo\u00adry; I have lost my friend. But I will endeav\u00adour to detail these bit\u00adter cir\u00adcum\u00adstances to you, my dear sis\u00adter; and while I am waft\u00aded towards Eng\u00adland and towards you, I will not despond. <\/p>\n

Sep\u00adtem\u00adber 9th, the ice began to move, and roar\u00adings like thun\u00adder were heard at a dis\u00adtance as the islands split and cracked in every direc\u00adtion. We were in the most immi\u00adnent per\u00adil, but as we could only remain pas\u00adsive, my chief atten\u00adtion was occu\u00adpied by my unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate guest whose ill\u00adness increased in such a degree that he was entire\u00adly con\u00adfined to his bed. The ice cracked behind us and was dri\u00adven with force towards the north; a breeze sprang from the west, and on the 11th the pas\u00adsage towards the south became per\u00adfect\u00adly free. When the sailors saw this and that their return to their native coun\u00adtry was appar\u00adent\u00adly assured, a shout of tumul\u00adtuous joy broke from them, loud and long-con\u00adtin\u00adued. Franken\u00adstein, who was doz\u00ading, awoke and asked the cause of the tumult. \u201cThey shout,\u201d I said, \u201cbecause they will soon return to England.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cDo you, then, real\u00adly return?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAlas! Yes; I can\u00adnot with\u00adstand their demands. I can\u00adnot lead them unwill\u00ading\u00adly to dan\u00adger, and I must return.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cDo so, if you will; but I will not. You may give up your pur\u00adpose, but mine is assigned to me by Heav\u00aden, and I dare not. I am weak, but sure\u00adly the spir\u00adits who assist my vengeance will endow me with suf\u00adfi\u00adcient strength.\u201d Say\u00ading this, he endeav\u00adoured to spring from the bed, but the exer\u00adtion was too great for him; he fell back and fainted. <\/p>\n

It was long before he was restored, and I often thought that life was entire\u00adly extinct. At length he opened his eyes; he breathed with dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty and was unable to speak. The sur\u00adgeon gave him a com\u00adpos\u00ading draught and ordered us to leave him undis\u00adturbed. In the mean\u00adtime he told me that my friend had cer\u00adtain\u00adly not many hours to live. <\/p>\n

His sen\u00adtence was pro\u00adnounced, and I could only grieve and be patient. I sat by his bed, watch\u00ading him; his eyes were closed, and I thought he slept; but present\u00adly he called to me in a fee\u00adble voice, and bid\u00adding me come near, said, \u201cAlas! The strength I relied on is gone; I feel that I shall soon die, and he, my ene\u00admy and per\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adtor, may still be in being. Think not, Wal\u00adton, that in the last moments of my exis\u00adtence I feel that burn\u00ading hatred and ardent desire of revenge I once expressed; but I feel myself jus\u00adti\u00adfied in desir\u00ading the death of my adver\u00adsary. Dur\u00ading these last days I have been occu\u00adpied in exam\u00adin\u00ading my past con\u00adduct; nor do I find it blam\u00adable. In a fit of enthu\u00adsi\u00adas\u00adtic mad\u00adness I cre\u00adat\u00aded a ratio\u00adnal crea\u00adture and was bound towards him to assure, as far as was in my pow\u00ader, his hap\u00adpi\u00adness and well-being. This was my duty, but there was anoth\u00ader still para\u00admount to that. My duties towards the beings of my own species had greater claims to my atten\u00adtion because they includ\u00aded a greater pro\u00adpor\u00adtion of hap\u00adpi\u00adness or mis\u00adery. Urged by this view, I refused, and I did right in refus\u00ading, to cre\u00adate a com\u00adpan\u00adion for the first crea\u00adture. He showed unpar\u00adal\u00adleled malig\u00adni\u00adty and self\u00adish\u00adness in evil; he destroyed my friends; he devot\u00aded to destruc\u00adtion beings who pos\u00adsessed exquis\u00adite sen\u00adsa\u00adtions, hap\u00adpi\u00adness, and wis\u00addom; nor do I know where this thirst for vengeance may end. Mis\u00ader\u00adable him\u00adself that he may ren\u00adder no oth\u00ader wretched, he ought to die. The task of his destruc\u00adtion was mine, but I have failed. When actu\u00adat\u00aded by self\u00adish and vicious motives, I asked you to under\u00adtake my unfin\u00adished work, and I renew this request now, when I am only induced by rea\u00adson and virtue. <\/p>\n

\u201cYet I can\u00adnot ask you to renounce your coun\u00adtry and friends to ful\u00adfil this task; and now that you are return\u00ading to Eng\u00adland, you will have lit\u00adtle chance of meet\u00ading with him. But the con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of these points, and the well bal\u00adanc\u00ading of what you may esteem your duties, I leave to you; my judg\u00adment and ideas are already dis\u00adturbed by the near approach of death. I dare not ask you to do what I think right, for I may still be mis\u00adled by passion. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat he should live to be an instru\u00adment of mis\u00adchief dis\u00adturbs me; in oth\u00ader respects, this hour, when I momen\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adly expect my release, is the only hap\u00adpy one which I have enjoyed for sev\u00ader\u00adal years. The forms of the beloved dead flit before me, and I has\u00adten to their arms. Farewell, Wal\u00adton! Seek hap\u00adpi\u00adness in tran\u00adquil\u00adli\u00adty and avoid ambi\u00adtion, even if it be only the appar\u00adent\u00adly inno\u00adcent one of dis\u00adtin\u00adguish\u00ading your\u00adself in sci\u00adence and dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies. Yet why do I say this? I have myself been blast\u00aded in these hopes, yet anoth\u00ader may succeed.\u201d <\/p>\n

His voice became fainter as he spoke, and at length, exhaust\u00aded by his effort, he sank into silence. About half an hour after\u00adwards he attempt\u00aded again to speak but was unable; he pressed my hand fee\u00adbly, and his eyes closed for ever, while the irra\u00addi\u00ada\u00adtion of a gen\u00adtle smile passed away from his lips. <\/p>\n

Mar\u00adgaret, what com\u00adment can I make on the untime\u00adly extinc\u00adtion of this glo\u00adri\u00adous spir\u00adit? What can I say that will enable you to under\u00adstand the depth of my sor\u00adrow? All that I should express would be inad\u00ade\u00adquate and fee\u00adble. My tears flow; my mind is over\u00adshad\u00adowed by a cloud of dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00adment. But I jour\u00adney towards Eng\u00adland, and I may there find consolation. <\/p>\n

I am inter\u00adrupt\u00aded. What do these sounds por\u00adtend? It is mid\u00adnight; the breeze blows fair\u00adly, and the watch on deck scarce\u00adly stir. Again there is a sound as of a human voice, but hoars\u00ader; it comes from the cab\u00adin where the remains of Franken\u00adstein still lie. I must arise and exam\u00adine. Good night, my sister. <\/p>\n

Great God! what a scene has just tak\u00aden place! I am yet dizzy with the remem\u00adbrance of it. I hard\u00adly know whether I shall have the pow\u00ader to detail it; yet the tale which I have record\u00aded would be incom\u00adplete with\u00adout this final and won\u00adder\u00adful catastrophe. <\/p>\n

I entered the cab\u00adin where lay the remains of my ill-fat\u00aded and admirable friend. Over him hung a form which I can\u00adnot find words to describe\u2014gigantic in stature, yet uncouth and dis\u00adtort\u00aded in its pro\u00adpor\u00adtions. As he hung over the cof\u00adfin, his face was con\u00adcealed by long locks of ragged hair; but one vast hand was extend\u00aded, in colour and appar\u00adent tex\u00adture like that of a mum\u00admy. When he heard the sound of my approach, he ceased to utter excla\u00adma\u00adtions of grief and hor\u00adror and sprung towards the win\u00addow. Nev\u00ader did I behold a vision so hor\u00adri\u00adble as his face, of such loath\u00adsome yet appalling hideous\u00adness. I shut my eyes invol\u00adun\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adly and endeav\u00adoured to rec\u00adol\u00adlect what were my duties with regard to this destroy\u00ader. I called on him to stay. <\/p>\n

He paused, look\u00ading on me with won\u00adder, and again turn\u00ading towards the life\u00adless form of his cre\u00adator, he seemed to for\u00adget my pres\u00adence, and every fea\u00adture and ges\u00adture seemed insti\u00adgat\u00aded by the wildest rage of some uncon\u00adtrol\u00adlable passion. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat is also my vic\u00adtim!\u201d he exclaimed. \u201cIn his mur\u00adder my crimes are con\u00adsum\u00admat\u00aded; the mis\u00ader\u00adable series of my being is wound to its close! Oh, Franken\u00adstein! Gen\u00ader\u00adous and self-devot\u00aded being! What does it avail that I now ask thee to par\u00addon me? I, who irre\u00adtriev\u00adably destroyed thee by destroy\u00ading all thou lovedst. Alas! He is cold, he can\u00adnot answer me.\u201d <\/p>\n

His voice seemed suf\u00adfo\u00adcat\u00aded, and my first impuls\u00ades, which had sug\u00adgest\u00aded to me the duty of obey\u00ading the dying request of my friend in destroy\u00ading his ene\u00admy, were now sus\u00adpend\u00aded by a mix\u00adture of curios\u00adi\u00adty and com\u00adpas\u00adsion. I approached this tremen\u00addous being; I dared not again raise my eyes to his face, there was some\u00adthing so scar\u00ading and unearth\u00adly in his ugli\u00adness. I attempt\u00aded to speak, but the words died away on my lips. The mon\u00adster con\u00adtin\u00adued to utter wild and inco\u00adher\u00adent self-reproach\u00ades. At length I gath\u00adered res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion to address him in a pause of the tem\u00adpest of his passion. <\/p>\n

\u201cYour repen\u00adtance,\u201d I said, \u201cis now super\u00adflu\u00adous. If you had lis\u00adtened to the voice of con\u00adscience and heed\u00aded the stings of remorse before you had urged your dia\u00adbol\u00adi\u00adcal vengeance to this extrem\u00adi\u00adty, Franken\u00adstein would yet have lived.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd do you dream?\u201d said the d\u00e6mon. \u201cDo you think that I was then dead to agony and remorse? He,\u201d he con\u00adtin\u00adued, point\u00ading to the corpse, \u201che suf\u00adfered not in the con\u00adsum\u00adma\u00adtion of the deed. Oh! Not the ten-thou\u00adsandth por\u00adtion of the anguish that was mine dur\u00ading the lin\u00adger\u00ading detail of its exe\u00adcu\u00adtion. A fright\u00adful self\u00adish\u00adness hur\u00adried me on, while my heart was poi\u00adsoned with remorse. Think you that the groans of Cler\u00adval were music to my ears? My heart was fash\u00adioned to be sus\u00adcep\u00adti\u00adble of love and sym\u00adpa\u00adthy, and when wrenched by mis\u00adery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the vio\u00adlence of the change with\u00adout tor\u00adture such as you can\u00adnot even imagine. <\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the mur\u00adder of Cler\u00adval I returned to Switzer\u00adland, heart-bro\u00adken and over\u00adcome. I pitied Franken\u00adstein; my pity amount\u00aded to hor\u00adror; I abhorred myself. But when I dis\u00adcov\u00adered that he, the author at once of my exis\u00adtence and of its unspeak\u00adable tor\u00adments, dared to hope for hap\u00adpi\u00adness, that while he accu\u00admu\u00adlat\u00aded wretched\u00adness and despair upon me he sought his own enjoy\u00adment in feel\u00adings and pas\u00adsions from the indul\u00adgence of which I was for ever barred, then impo\u00adtent envy and bit\u00adter indig\u00adna\u00adtion filled me with an insa\u00adtiable thirst for vengeance. I rec\u00adol\u00adlect\u00aded my threat and resolved that it should be accom\u00adplished. I knew that I was prepar\u00ading for myself a dead\u00adly tor\u00adture, but I was the slave, not the mas\u00adter, of an impulse which I detest\u00aded yet could not dis\u00adobey. Yet when she died! Nay, then I was not mis\u00ader\u00adable. I had cast off all feel\u00ading, sub\u00addued all anguish, to riot in the excess of my despair. Evil thence\u00adforth became my good. Urged thus far, I had no choice but to adapt my nature to an ele\u00adment which I had will\u00ading\u00adly cho\u00adsen. The com\u00adple\u00adtion of my demo\u00adni\u00ada\u00adcal design became an insa\u00adtiable pas\u00adsion. And now it is end\u00aded; there is my last victim!\u201d <\/p>\n

I was at first touched by the expres\u00adsions of his mis\u00adery; yet, when I called to mind what Franken\u00adstein had said of his pow\u00aders of elo\u00adquence and per\u00adsua\u00adsion, and when I again cast my eyes on the life\u00adless form of my friend, indig\u00adna\u00adtion was rekin\u00addled with\u00adin me. \u201cWretch!\u201d I said. \u201cIt is well that you come here to whine over the des\u00ado\u00adla\u00adtion that you have made. You throw a torch into a pile of build\u00adings, and when they are con\u00adsumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall. Hyp\u00ado\u00adcrit\u00adi\u00adcal fiend! If he whom you mourn still lived, still would he be the object, again would he become the prey, of your accursed vengeance. It is not pity that you feel; you lament only because the vic\u00adtim of your malig\u00adni\u00adty is with\u00addrawn from your power.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cOh, it is not thus\u2014not thus,\u201d inter\u00adrupt\u00aded the being. \u201cYet such must be the impres\u00adsion con\u00adveyed to you by what appears to be the pur\u00adport of my actions. Yet I seek not a fel\u00adlow feel\u00ading in my mis\u00adery. No sym\u00adpa\u00adthy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feel\u00adings of hap\u00adpi\u00adness and affec\u00adtion with which my whole being over\u00adflowed, that I wished to be par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpat\u00aded. But now that virtue has become to me a shad\u00adow, and that hap\u00adpi\u00adness and affec\u00adtion are turned into bit\u00adter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sym\u00adpa\u00adthy? I am con\u00adtent to suf\u00adfer alone while my suf\u00adfer\u00adings shall endure; when I die, I am well sat\u00adis\u00adfied that abhor\u00adrence and oppro\u00adbri\u00adum should load my mem\u00ado\u00adry. Once my fan\u00adcy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoy\u00adment. Once I false\u00adly hoped to meet with beings who, par\u00addon\u00ading my out\u00adward form, would love me for the excel\u00adlent qual\u00adi\u00adties which I was capa\u00adble of unfold\u00ading. I was nour\u00adished with high thoughts of hon\u00adour and devo\u00adtion. But now crime has degrad\u00aded me beneath the mean\u00adest ani\u00admal. No guilt, no mis\u00adchief, no malig\u00adni\u00adty, no mis\u00adery, can be found com\u00adpa\u00adra\u00adble to mine. When I run over the fright\u00adful cat\u00ada\u00adlogue of my sins, I can\u00adnot believe that I am the same crea\u00adture whose thoughts were once filled with sub\u00adlime and tran\u00adscen\u00addent visions of the beau\u00adty and the majesty of good\u00adness. But it is even so; the fall\u00aden angel becomes a malig\u00adnant dev\u00adil. Yet even that ene\u00admy of God and man had friends and asso\u00adciates in his des\u00ado\u00adla\u00adtion; I am alone. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou, who call Franken\u00adstein your friend, seem to have a knowl\u00adedge of my crimes and his mis\u00adfor\u00adtunes. But in the detail which he gave you of them he could not sum up the hours and months of mis\u00adery which I endured wast\u00ading in impo\u00adtent pas\u00adsions. For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not sat\u00adis\u00adfy my own desires. They were for ever ardent and crav\u00ading; still I desired love and fel\u00adlow\u00adship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injus\u00adtice in this? Am I to be thought the only crim\u00adi\u00adnal, when all humankind sinned against me? Why do you not hate Felix, who drove his friend from his door with con\u00adtu\u00adme\u00adly? Why do you not exe\u00adcrate the rus\u00adtic who sought to destroy the sav\u00adiour of his child? Nay, these are vir\u00adtu\u00adous and immac\u00adu\u00adlate beings! I, the mis\u00ader\u00adable and the aban\u00addoned, am an abor\u00adtion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and tram\u00adpled on. Even now my blood boils at the rec\u00adol\u00adlec\u00adtion of this injustice. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut it is true that I am a wretch. I have mur\u00addered the love\u00adly and the help\u00adless; I have stran\u00adgled the inno\u00adcent as they slept and grasped to death his throat who nev\u00ader injured me or any oth\u00ader liv\u00ading thing. I have devot\u00aded my cre\u00adator, the select spec\u00adi\u00admen of all that is wor\u00adthy of love and admi\u00adra\u00adtion among men, to mis\u00adery; I have pur\u00adsued him even to that irre\u00adme\u00addi\u00ada\u00adble ruin. There he lies, white and cold in death. You hate me, but your abhor\u00adrence can\u00adnot equal that with which I regard myself. I look on the hands which exe\u00adcut\u00aded the deed; I think on the heart in which the imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion of it was con\u00adceived and long for the moment when these hands will meet my eyes, when that imag\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion will haunt my thoughts no more. <\/p>\n

\u201cFear not that I shall be the instru\u00adment of future mis\u00adchief. My work is near\u00adly com\u00adplete. Nei\u00adther yours nor any man\u2019s death is need\u00aded to con\u00adsum\u00admate the series of my being and accom\u00adplish that which must be done, but it requires my own. Do not think that I shall be slow to per\u00adform this sac\u00adri\u00adfice. I shall quit your ves\u00adsel on the ice raft which brought me thith\u00ader and shall seek the most north\u00adern extrem\u00adi\u00adty of the globe; I shall col\u00adlect my funer\u00adal pile and con\u00adsume to ash\u00ades this mis\u00ader\u00adable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curi\u00adous and unhal\u00adlowed wretch who would cre\u00adate such anoth\u00ader as I have been. I shall die. I shall no longer feel the ago\u00adnies which now con\u00adsume me or be the prey of feel\u00adings unsat\u00adis\u00adfied, yet unquenched. He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remem\u00adbrance of us both will speed\u00adi\u00adly van\u00adish. I shall no longer see the sun or stars or feel the winds play on my cheeks. Light, feel\u00ading, and sense will pass away; and in this con\u00addi\u00adtion must I find my hap\u00adpi\u00adness. Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheer\u00ading warmth of sum\u00admer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the war\u00adbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtion. Pol\u00adlut\u00aded by crimes and torn by the bit\u00adter\u00adest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? <\/p>\n

\u201cFarewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Franken\u00adstein! If thou wert yet alive and yet cher\u00adished a desire of revenge against me, it would be bet\u00adter sati\u00adat\u00aded in my life than in my destruc\u00adtion. But it was not so; thou didst seek my extinc\u00adtion, that I might not cause greater wretched\u00adness; and if yet, in some mode unknown to me, thou hadst not ceased to think and feel, thou wouldst not desire against me a vengeance greater than that which I feel. Blast\u00aded as thou wert, my agony was still supe\u00adri\u00ador to thine, for the bit\u00adter sting of remorse will not cease to ran\u00adkle in my wounds until death shall close them for ever. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut soon,\u201d he cried with sad and solemn enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm, \u201cI shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burn\u00ading mis\u00aderies will be extinct. I shall ascend my funer\u00adal pile tri\u00adumphant\u00adly and exult in the agony of the tor\u00adtur\u00ading flames. The light of that con\u00adfla\u00adgra\u00adtion will fade away; my ash\u00ades will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spir\u00adit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not sure\u00adly think thus. Farewell.\u201d <\/p>\n

He sprang from the cab\u00adin-win\u00addow as he said this, upon the ice raft which lay close to the ves\u00adsel. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in dark\u00adness and distance. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pinmapshop.com\/webbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pinmapshop.com\/webbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pinmapshop.com\/webbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pinmapshop.com\/webbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pinmapshop.com\/webbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pinmapshop.com\/webbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pinmapshop.com\/webbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pinmapshop.com\/webbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pinmapshop.com\/webbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}