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066. Vol. I, Chapter V, pp. 114–115

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

and this suspicion fills us with anguish. I perceive that your father attempts to conceal his fear from me; but cheerfulness has flown from our little circle, only to be restored by a certain assurance that there is no foundation for our anxiety. At one time my uncle being almost persuaded that you were indeed dangerously ill, could hardly be restrained from undertaking a journey to Ingolstadt.