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I pursued

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Nature into her hiding places

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The saintly soul of elizabeth

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Shone like a shrine dedicated lamp

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Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrated disposition

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but with all my ardour i was capable of a more intense application

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Have my murderous machinations

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Deprived you of like Clerval- my dearest friend, my benefactor

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I have a pretty

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Present for my victor

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It was the secrets of heaven and

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Earth that i desired to learn

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I became myself capable of

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Bestowing animation upon lifeles s matter

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A new species would

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Bless me as its creator and source

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I kept my

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Workshop of filthy creation

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His hair was of

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Lustrous black and flowing

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His shrivelled complexion and

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Straight black lips

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One hand was stretched out

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Seemingly to detain me

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13
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I could not have had a

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More kind and attentive nurse than him!

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Justine was the

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Most grateful little creature in the world

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She appeared to me the most

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Aimbale and benevolent creatures of the world

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16
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I did confess but i confessed a

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Lie so that i might obtain absolution

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And on the morrow

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Justine died

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18
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The criminality of

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The saintly sufferer

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19
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The first hapless

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Victims of my unhallowed arts

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Solitude was my only

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Consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude

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21
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Men appeared to me as

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Monsters bursting for each others blood

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22
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do your

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Duty towards me and i will do mine to the rest of mankind

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23
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I ought to be thy adam but

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I am rather thy fallen angel

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I was benevolent and good;

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Misery made me a fiend

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You accuse me of murder yet you with

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A satisfied conscience would destroy your own creature

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I saw, felt, heard and

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Smelt at the same time

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I was a poor

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Helpless, miserable wretch

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28
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countenance of

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angelic beauty

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a head of shining raven black

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and curiously braided

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a complexion

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wondrously fair

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what was i? the question again recurs

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to be answered only with groans

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the generous nature of

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safie was outraged by this command

33
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saffie resolved in

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her own mind

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satan had his companions fellow devils to

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admire and encounter; but i am so less hairy and abhorred

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you raise me from

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the dust by this kindness

36
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cursed, cursed creator!

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why did i live?

37
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for the first time the feelings of

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revenge and hatred filled my bosom

38
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inflamed by pain i vowed eternal

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hatred and vengeance to all mankind

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i gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exaltation

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and hellish triumph clapping my hands

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you must create

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a female for me

41
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i am malicious because

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i am miserable

42
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i was

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guiltless

43
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for which the daemon thirsted would be children

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and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth

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his countenance expressed the utmost

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extent of malice and treachery

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with trembling passion, tore

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to pieces the thing on which i was engaged

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beware; for i am fearless

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and therefore powerful

47
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i shall be with

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you on your wedding night

48
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have my murderous machinations deprived

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you also, my dearest
henry of life?

49
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but you cleveral, my

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friend, my benefactor

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i was absorbed by a gloomy and black

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melancholy that nothing could dissipate

51
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the apples was already eaten and

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the angels arm bared to drive me from all hope

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why am i here to relate the destruction of

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the best hope and the purest creature of earth?

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she was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across

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the bed, her head hanging down and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair

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i had formed in my own heart a resolution to pursue my

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destroyer to death

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i confess that it is the devouring

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and only passion of my soul

56
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do you not feel your blood congeal with horror

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like that which even now curdles mine?

57
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what a glorious creature must he have been in the days

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of his prosperity when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin!

58
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like the archangel who aspired to

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omnipotence, i am chained in an eternal hell

59
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i have been occupied in examining

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my past conductor nor do i find it blameable

60
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margaret, what comment can i make

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on the untimely extinction of this glorious spirit?

61
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hypocritical

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fiend!

62
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no guilt, no mischief, no malignity

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no misery can be found comparable to mine

63
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but it is even so; the fallen angel

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becomes a malignant devil

64
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i, the miserable and the

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abandoned am an abortion

65
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he was soon borne away by

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the waves and lost in the darkness and distance

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ruined castles hanging on the precipice

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of Piney mountains the impetuous arve

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mighty alps who’s white and

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shining pyramids and domes towered above all

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immence glaciers approached the road

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i heard rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche and marked the smoke of its passage

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desert mountains and dreary

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glaciers are my refuge

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they congregated around me

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the glittering pinnacle the pine woods and the ragged bear ravine

71
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i might retain strength

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to fulfil my pilrimage

72
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more as a task

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enjoined by heaven

73
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i am the assassin

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of those most innocent victims