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FRANKENSTEIN;

OR, THE

MODERN PROMETHEUS.



CHAPTER I.


Day after day, week after week, passed away on my return to Geneva; and I could not collect the courage to recommence my work. I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me. I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and labo-

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