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056. Vol. I, Chapter III, pp. 94–95

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1797–1851

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.

PML 16799

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1910

Transcription

my voice became broken, my trembling hands almost refused to accomplish their task; I became as timid as a love-sick girl, and alternate tremor and passionate ardour took the place of wholesome sensation and regulated ambition.