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[Assistant] He took me by the neck and knocked my head against the wall of the house. And I became as weak as a newborn child. And my legs would not stand under me. Unga screamed.


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[Assistant] She grasped the heavy furniture of the house with her hands until it fell to the floor as he dragged her to the door. Then he took her in his great arms, and when she tore at his yellow hair, he laughed. Somehow, I found my way to the beach and called to my people to help, but they were afraid. Only Yashnush was man enough to act.


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[Assistant] But they struck him on the head until he lay with his face in the sand and did not move.


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[Assistant] Because there would be no more war between the two bloods in Nakatan. But I did not say a word, waiting until the time of the full moon. Then I put fish and oil in my boat, and went away to the east. I saw many islands and many people, and I, who had lived on its edge, saw that the world was very large. I talked to people by signs,


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[Assistant] But no one had seen a large ship, nor a man with yellow hair. They pointed always to the east. And I slept in queer places.


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[Assistant] And ate unfamiliar things and met strange faces. Many laughed because they thought me crazy, but sometimes,


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[Assistant] And the eyes of the young women grew soft as they asked me of the strange ship and unga and the men of the sea.


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[Assistant] I had thought it would be an easy task to find the man, as soon as I was among his people.


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[Assistant] One day when we entered port, I expected to find no more large ships than there were fingers on my hands. Instead,


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[Assistant] Everyone laughed and answered me in strange languages. Then,


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[Assistant] I went into the city to look upon the face of every man there. But there were many men. They were like fish when they run thick in the river. And I could not count them.


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[Assistant] And the noise was so great that I could not hear.


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[Assistant] And my head was spinning with so much movement. I went on and on.


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[Assistant] Through the lands which lay in the warm sunshine, where the harvests were rich.


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[Assistant] And I went into great cities where men lived like women, with false words in their mouths, and their hearts black with a desire for gold.


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[Assistant] And all the time my people of Akatan hunted and fished and were happy in the thought that the world was small.


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[Assistant] But the look in the eyes of Unga when she came home from fishing was with me always. And I knew I would find her when the time was right. There was a promise in her eyes, such as only the woman Unga could give. I wandered through a thousand towns. Some people were gentle and gave me food. Others laughed at me.


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[Assistant] And some others cursed, but I kept silent.


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[Assistant] And went to strange places and saw strange sights. Sometimes I, who was a chief, and the son of a chief, worked for other men. However, no word did I hear of him until I came back to the sea. But this was at another port, in another country which lay to the north.


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[Assistant] And there I heard stories of the yellow haired sea wanderer. And I learned that he was a hunter of seals. And that at that time, he was far out to sea.


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[Assistant] I found work on a large ship and followed his trackless trail to the north.


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[Assistant] And we were gone many months, and I heard much of the wild actions of him who I searched for. But not once did we see him.


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[Assistant] We went further north and killed the seals in great numbers on the beach and brought their warm bodies to our ship.


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[Assistant] But we added more sails until we moved with such speed that the sea washed our decks clean and we left our enemy far behind.


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[Assistant] It is said that he sailed directly to the factory.


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[Assistant] The others loaded ten thousand skins from the houses where they were stored. I say it is said, but I believe it to be true. During the voyages I made in the North Seas,


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[Assistant] Three nations which hold lands there were seeking him with their ships. And I heard too of Unga.


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[Assistant] Because the sea captain sang loud in her praise, and she was always with him. She had learned the customs of his people, they said, and was happy. But I knew better.


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[Assistant] I knew that her heart longed for her own people by the yellow beach of Akatan. After a long time


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[Assistant] I went back to the port which opens like a gateway to the sea.


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[Assistant] There I learned that he had gone to hunt for the seal to the east of the warm land, which runs south from the Russian seas. And I, who had become a seaman,


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[Assistant] He joined a ship with men of his own race and followed him in the hunt of the seals.


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[Assistant] There were a few ships off the coast of that new land.


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[Assistant] But we stayed near the seals and chased them north during the spring of the year. And when the females were ready to bear their young and cross the Russian line, our men were afraid.


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[Assistant] The weather was bad and every day men were lost in the boats. The men would not work and consequently


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[Assistant] Captain, turned our ship back toward the place it had come from.


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[Assistant] But I knew the yellow-haired sea wanderer was not afraid and would sail even to the Russian Isles. So I took a boat in the black of night and went alone to the warm, long land


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[Assistant] And the Yoshiwara girls were small and bright like steel, and good to look upon. But I could not stop.


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[Assistant] The men by Yiddo Bay had come from the ends of the earth and had neither gods nor homes.


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[Assistant] And I went with them to the rich beaches of Copper Island, where our piles became high with skins. And in that silent sea, we saw no man until we were ready to come away. Then one day, a large boat approached us. Close behind her was a Russian warship.


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[Assistant] We sailed away on the wind with the large ship pushing ahead of us. Upon her deck was the yellow haired sea wanderer, laughing in his strength of life. And Unga was there. I knew her at once.


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[Assistant] But he sent her below decks when the guns began to fire across the sea. His ship moved ahead of us while I was holding our wheel and cursing with my back to the Russian shots.


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[Assistant] We knew that he intended to run before us.


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[Assistant] Taking the wind from our sails so he might escape while we were caught.


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[Assistant] And the guns knocked our sails down until we dragged into the wind like a wounded bird. But he went on over the edge of the skyline. He and Unga. Leaving us to the Russians.


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[Assistant] What could we say? The fresh hides spoke for themselves. So they took us to Russian port, and after that to a lonely country.


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[Assistant] There they made us work in deep holes digging salt, and some died, and some did not die.


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[Assistant] Na swept the blanket from his shoulders, revealing the unmistakable marks of the whip on his flesh. Prince covered him quickly, for it was not nice to look upon. We were there a long time, and sometimes men escaped to the south.


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[Assistant] So when we who had come from Yellow Bay rose in the night and took the guns from the guards, we went to the north.


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[Assistant] And the land was very large, with plains covered with water and great forests. And the cold came, with much snow on the ground, and no man knew the way. For months we journeyed through the endless forest. There was little food, and often we lay down to die. But finally, we came to the cold sea. And only three of us were alive to look upon it.


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[Assistant] One had sailed a ship from Yeddo as its captain. He knew in his head the map of the great land.


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[Assistant] And of the place where one may cross from one land to another on the ice And he led us until we were only two When we came to the crossing place


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[Assistant] We found five of the strange people who live in that country. They had dogs and skins, and we were very poor.


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[Assistant] We fought in the snow until they died and the captain died, and the dogs and the skins were mine.


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[Assistant] Then I crossed on the ice which was broken, and after that I came to Gullivan Bay, and your friend, Pastelik. The south, south to the warm sunlands, I returned. But the sea was no longer profitable, and men no longer went to hunt the seal. The ships had scattered,


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[Assistant] And the captains and the men had no word of those I searched for. I turned away from the ocean and went among the lands. I journeyed far and learned many things, even how to read and write from books. It was well I should do this. I realized that Unga would know these things and that someday, when the time had come,


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[Assistant] My eyes and my ears were open always. I went among men who traveled much.


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[Assistant] I knew that they only had to see those I was seeking to remember them.


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[Assistant] I finally met a man who had come recently from the mountains.


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[Assistant] He carried pieces of rock in which the gold could be seen. And he had heard, he had met, and he knew them. They were rich, he said.


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[Assistant] And lived in the place where they drew the gold from the ground. It was a wild country and very far away. But after much traveling, I came to the camp hidden between the mountains.


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[Assistant] Where men worked searching for gold night and day out of the sight of the sun. However the time I was waiting for had not come. I heard what people were saying.


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[Assistant] He had gone away and unga with him to England.


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[Assistant] It was said they were looking for men with much money to form companies. I saw the house they had lived in.


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[Assistant] It was like a palace such as one sees in the old countries.


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[Assistant] In the night I entered the place through a window to see in what manner he treated her. I went from room to room


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[Assistant] I thought that kings and queens must live as they did. It was all so very good. And they all said he treated her like a queen.


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[Assistant] Many wondered what sort of woman she was because she was different from the women of Akatan. No one knew her past life. Yes, she was a queen, but I was a chief and the son of a chief and I had paid for her an unusual price. But why so many words? I was a seaman.


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[Assistant] I followed them to England and from there to other countries. Sometimes I heard of them from talk, and sometimes I read of them in the newspapers. Yet, never could I meet them, because they had much money and traveled fast, while I was a poor man. Then, their good luck changed.


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[Assistant] And one day their wealth disappeared like a curl of smoke. The newspapers printed much of the story at the time. But after that, nothing was said.


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[Assistant] However, I knew they had returned to where more gold could be taken from the ground. The world was no longer interested in them now that they were poor.


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[Assistant] So I wandered from camp to camp until I heard of them. They had come and gone. Some said they had gone to one place, others said another.


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[Assistant] Still others said they had gone to the country of the Yukon. And I went to each place they had mentioned.


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[Assistant] But then I traveled a long and hard trail with one of the men of the northeast who died when a time of famine came.


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[Assistant] He had been to the Yukon by an unknown way over the mountains. When he knew his time to die had come, he gave me a map.


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[Assistant] And told me the secret of a place where he promised.


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[Assistant] I was a poor man. I sold myself to be a driver of dogs. I met him and her in Dawson. She did not know me.


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[Assistant] She had no time to remember the one who had paid for her an unusual price. So, you bought from me my term of service.


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[Assistant] I went back to let things happen in my own way, because I had waited long. Now that I had my hand upon him, I was in no hurry. As I say, I intended to do it my own way because I remembered my life. Through all I had seen and suffered. As you know, I led him into the East, him and Unga.


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[Assistant] We went into the east, where many have gone and few return.


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[Assistant] I led them to the spot where the bones and the curses of men lie with the gold which they cannot have.


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[Assistant] The way was long and the snow and the trail not firm. Our dogs were many and ate much.


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[Assistant] Nor could our sleds carry all we needed until winter passed.


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[Assistant] We had to return before the ice melted and the river ran free.


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[Assistant] We stored food along the way so that our sleds might be lightened, and there would be no danger of famine when we returned. At the McQuestion there were three men, and near them we built a cache.


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[Assistant] We did this at the Mayo River also, where there was a hunting camp. After that, as we went on into the east, we saw no men. All we saw was the frozen river, the unmoving forest, and the white and silent north. As I say, the way was long and the trail not firm.


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[Assistant] Sometimes in one day we traveled no more than eight miles, and at night we slept like dead men.


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[Assistant] And not once did they dream that I was Nas, Chief of Nakatan.


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[Assistant] And change the piles so that one might think that they had been taken by a wolf.


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[Assistant] Again, there are places where the river drops suddenly and the ice that covers them is thin.


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[Assistant] In such a spot the sled I drove broke through and the dogs with it. To him and Unga it was bad luck but no more. And there was much food on that sled and the dogs were the strongest. But he laughed for he was full of life.


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[Assistant] He gave the remaining dogs very little food until we cut them from the harnesses one by one and fed them to their brothers. We would go home with no burden, he said, traveling and eating from one cache to another, with neither dogs nor sleds. This was true because our food supply was low.


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[Assistant] And the last dog died the night we came to the place of the gold, and the bones, and the curses of men.


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[Assistant] To arrive at that place. And the map was correct.


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[Assistant] We cut steps in the ice against the wall in the great mountains. One looked for a valley beyond, but there was no valley.


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[Assistant] The snow spread away, level as the great harvest plains. And here and there about us.


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[Assistant] Mighty mountains pushed their white heads among the stars, and in the middle of that strange plain, which should have been a valley, the earth and the snow fell away, straight down toward the heart of the world.


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[Assistant] Had we not been seaman, familiar with the deep places between the waves, our heads would have been turned at the sight. But we stood on the edge, so we might see a way to get down. And on one side and one side only,


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[Assistant] I do not know why this thing should be so, but it was so. It is the mouth of hell, he said. Let us go down. And we went down, and on the bottom there was a cabin, built by some man. He had thrown down the logs from above. It was a very old cabin, because men had died there, alone, at different times. On pieces of bark from a tree,


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[Assistant] We read their last words and their curses. One had died of disease. The companion of another had taken his last food and stolen away. A third had been attacked by a bear. A fourth had hunted for food and starved. And so it went. They had not wanted to leave the gold and had died by its side.


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[Assistant] And the worthless gold they had gathered yellowed the floor of the cabin like in a dream.


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[Assistant] But the man I had led there had a clear head. We have nothing to eat, he said.


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[Assistant] And we will look only upon this gold and see how much there is of it.


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[Assistant] Then, we will go away quickly before it gets into our eyes and steals away our judgment.


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[Assistant] In this way we will return later with more food and possess it all. We looked at the wall of the mountain, which was cut by a great band of gold.


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[Assistant] We measured it and traced it from above and below. We drove the poles to mark our property.


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[Assistant] And cut the bark of the trees to show that this place belonged to us.


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[Assistant] Then, our knees shaking from lack of food and a sickness in our stomachs, we climbed the mighty wall for the last time and turned our faces to the return journey.


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[Assistant] Toward the end we pulled unga between us, and we fell often.


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[Assistant] But finally, we reached the place where we had stored the food. And behold, there was no food.


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[Assistant] It was well done because he thought a wolf had stolen it. He cursed the wolf and his gods in one breath. But Unga was brave and smiled, and put her hand in his until I turned away so I might control myself. We will rest by the fire, she said, until morning, and then we will gather strength from our moccasins.


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[Assistant] We cut the tops of our moccasins in strips and boiled them during half of the night so that we could eat them. And in the morning we talked about our future. The next cache was five days distance. We could not wait that long. We must find something to eat. We will go forth and hunt, he said. And he commanded that Unga stay by the fire.


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[Assistant] And save her strength. And we went forth. He went to find a moose.


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[Assistant] And I went to the cache of food I had changed to another place. But I ate little, so they might not see new strength in me.


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[Assistant] And in the night he fell many times as he came into camp, and I too acted as if I were very weak, falling over my snowshoes as though each step might be my last. And again we ate pieces of our moccasins.


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[Assistant] He was a great man. His soul supported his body to the last. Nor did he cry aloud.


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[Assistant] On the second day I followed him so I might not miss the end. And he lay down to rest often. That night, he was almost gone. But in the morning he went forth again. I looked many times for him to yield. But his was the strength of the strong. And his soul, the soul of a giant. And he shot two small birds.


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[Assistant] But moved forward on his hands and knees through the snow. I came to him and saw death in his eyes.


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[Assistant] Even then it was not too late to eat the birds.


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[Assistant] He threw away his gun and carried the birds in his mouth like a dog. I walked by his side. And he looked at me during the moments he rested and wondered that I was so strong. I could see it, although he no longer spoke.


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[Assistant] As I say, he was a great man. And my heart was moved to pity. But I thought back on my life.


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[Assistant] And remembered the cold and the hunger of the endless forest by the Russian seas. Besides, Unga was mine. And I had paid for her very high price in skins and boats.


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[Assistant] And in this manner, we came through the White Forest.


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[Assistant] With the stillness heavy upon us like wet sea air. And the past was all about us. I saw the yellow beach at Akatan. And the boats racing home from fishing. And the houses on the edge of the forest. And the men who had made themselves chiefs were there.


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[Assistant] The lawgivers whose blood I bore and whose blood I had married in Unga. And I knew the time had come, and I saw in the eyes of Unga the promise. As I say,


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[Assistant] And I bent above him and tore the birds from his teeth. He turned on his side and rested, the wonder growing in his eyes. His hand moved toward his knife at his side, but I took it from him, smiling close to his face. Even then, he did not understand.


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[Assistant] So I acted as if I were drinking from black bottles.


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[Assistant] And lived again the things which happened on the night I was married.


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[Assistant] I spoke no word, but he understood. Yet he was unafraid. There was an ugly smile on his lips and cold anger on his face. He gathered new strength from what he now knew. It was not far, but the snow was deep and he pulled himself along very slowly. Once


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[Assistant] He lay so long I turned him over and looked into his eyes. And sometimes he looked forth.


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[Assistant] And sometimes it was death that I saw in his eyes. And when I set him free, he struggled on again. In this way we came to the fire. Unga was at his side in an instant. His lips moved without sound. Then he pointed at me so Unga might understand. And after that, he lay in the snow.


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[Assistant] I said nothing until I had cooked the birds. Then I spoke to her.


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[Assistant] In her own language which she had not heard in many years, she straightened herself and looked at me in wonder. She asked who I was and where I had learned that speech. I am Nas, I said. You? She said.


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[Assistant] And she came closer so she might look upon me. Yes, I answered.


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[Assistant] The last of the blood as you are the last of the blood. And she left.


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[Assistant] Among all the things I have seen and done, may I never hear such a laugh again. It made my soul freeze.


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[Assistant] Sitting there in the white stillness alone with death and this woman who laughed.


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[Assistant] Come, I said, because I thought her mind had wandered. Eat of the food and let us be gone. It is a long way to Akatan.


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[Assistant] But this seemed a strange manner in which to show it.


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[Assistant] Come, I cried, taking her strongly by the hand. The way is long and dark. Let us hurry. Where, she asked, sitting up and ceasing her strange laughing. To Akatan, I answered.


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[Assistant] Waiting to see the light grow on her face at the thought.


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[Assistant] We will go hand in hand to Akatan, you and I. And we will live in the dirty houses and eat fish and oil.


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[Assistant] And we will bring forth a child. A child to be proud of all the days of our life.


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[Assistant] I sat silent and wondered at the strangeness of women.


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[Assistant] I thought again of the night when he pulled her from me and she screamed and tore at his hair.


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[Assistant] And when the fire was between us and the man, I let her loose. She sat and listened, and I told her of all that lay between.


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[Assistant] Of all that had happened to me on strange seas and of all that I had done in strange land.


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[Assistant] Yes, I told all, even to what had passed that day between the man and me. And as I spoke, I saw the promise grow in her eyes. I read pity there, and the tenderness of woman, and the love, the heart and the soul of unga. And I was a lad again, because the look was the look of unga,


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[Assistant] As she ran along the beach laughing to the home of her mother. The unrest was gone, the hunger and the long waiting. The time had come. I felt the call of her breast and it seemed there I must pillow my head and forget.


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[Assistant] She opened her arms to me and I came against her.


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[Assistant] Then suddenly the hate flamed in her eyes. Her hand was at my side and once, twice, she stuck me with a knife.


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[Assistant] DOG! she cried, as she threw me into the snow. PIG!


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[Assistant] And then she laughed until the stillness broke, and then returned to her dead.


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[Assistant] As I say, she struck with a knife twice, but she was weak with hunger, and it was not meant that I should die. Yet, I wanted to stay in that place.


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[Assistant] And to shut my eyes in the last long sleep with those whose lives had crossed with mine. But there lay a debt upon me which would not let me rest. And the way was long and the cold bitter. There was little food. What I had hidden in my caches had been stolen. I do not remember much until I came here.


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[Assistant] As he finished, he moved even closer to the stove.


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[Assistant] For a long while we watched the lampshadows play upon the wall. But unga, cried Prince. Unga.


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[Assistant] She would not eat the birds. She lay with her arms about his neck, her face deep in his yellow hair.


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[Assistant] I drew the fire close that she might not feel the frost. But she moved to the other side. And I built a fire there. Yet it was of little good because she would not eat. And in this manner they still lie up there. In the snow. And you? Asked Malamute Kid. I do not know. Akatan is small.


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[Assistant] And I have little wish to return and live on the edge of the world. However, there is small use in living.


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[Assistant] I can go to the chief of police and he will put me in prison.


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[Assistant] Then one day they will tie a piece of rope around my neck and I will sleep. Yet, no, I do not know. But Kid, protested Prince, this is murder. Quiet, commanded Malamute Kid. There are things greater than our wisdom and beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say.


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[Assistant] NAS drew even closer to the fire. There was a great stillness. And in the eyes of each man, many pictures came and went.


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[Assistant] This is Jill McCorkle reading Theft by Katherine Ann Porter from the Gyroscope.


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[Assistant] Standing in the middle of the floor holding her bathrobe around her and trailing a damp towel in one hand.


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[Assistant] She surveyed the immediate past and remembered everything clearly.


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[Assistant] She had opened the flap and spread it out on the bench after she had dried the purse with her handkerchief.


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[Assistant] She had intended to take the elevated and naturally she looked in her purse to make certain she had the fare and was pleased to find forty cents in the coin envelope.


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[Assistant] She was going to pay her own fare too, even if Camillo did have the habit of seeing her up the steps and dropping a nickel in the machine before he gave the turnstile a little push and sent her through it with a bow.


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[Assistant] Camillo, by a series of compromises, had managed to make effective a fairly complete set of the smaller courtesies, ignoring the larger and more troublesome ones.


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[Assistant] She had walked with him to the station in a pouring rain because she knew he was almost as poor as she was.


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[Assistant] And when he insisted on a taxi, she was firm and said, you know it simply will not do.


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[Assistant] For it never occurred to him to buy anything of a practical color.


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[Assistant] He had put it on for the first time and the rain was spoiling it. She kept thinking, but this is dreadful. Where will he get another?


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[Assistant] And compared it with Eddie's hat that always seemed to be precisely seven years old.


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[Assistant] If he wore a shabby hat, it would be merely shabby on him, and he would lose his spirits over it.


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[Assistant] If she had not feared Camilo would take it badly.


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[Assistant] For he insisted on the practice of his little ceremonies, up to the point he had fixed for them.


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[Assistant] She would have said to him as they left Thora's house,


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[Assistant] Do go home. I can surely reach the station by myself.


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[Assistant] It is written that we must be reigned upon tonight, said Camillo, so let it be together.


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[Assistant] At the foot of the platform stairway she staggered slightly, though were both nicely set up on Thora's cocktails, and said,


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[Assistant] At least, Camilo, do me the favor not to climb these stairs in your present state.


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[Assistant] Since for you it is only a matter of coming down again at once, and you'll certainly break your neck.


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[Assistant] He made three quick bows, he was Spanish, and leaped off through the rainy darkness.


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[Assistant] She stood watching him, for he was a very graceful young man.


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[Assistant] Thinking that tomorrow morning he would gaze soberly at his spoiled hat and soggy shoes and possibly associate her with his misery.


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[Assistant] And as she watched, he stopped at the far corner and took off his hat and hid it under his overcoat.


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[Assistant] She felt she had betrayed him by seeing because he would have been humiliated if he thought she even suspected him of trying to save his hat.


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[Assistant] Roger's voice sounded over her shoulder above the clang of the rain falling on the stairway shed, wanting to know what she was doing out in the rain at this time of night, and did she take herself for a duck?


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[Assistant] His long, imperturbable face was streaming with water.


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[Assistant] And he tapped a bulging spot on the breast of his buttoned up overcoat.


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[Assistant] She settled back against Roger's arm which he laid around her shoulders and with the gesture they exchanged a glance full of long, amiable associations.


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[Assistant] Then she looked through the window at the rain, changing the shapes of everything and the colors.


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[Assistant] The taxi dodged in and out between the pillars of the elevated skidding slightly on every curve.


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[Assistant] They waited on the traffic at 40th Street and 6th Avenue, and three boys walked before the nose of the taxi.


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[Assistant] Under the globes of light, they were cheerful scarecrows, all very thin and wearing very seedy snappy cut suits and gay neckties. They were not very sober either.


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[Assistant] They leaned toward each other as if they were getting ready to sing, and the first one said,


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[Assistant] When I get married, it won't be just for getting married. I'm gonna marry for love, see?


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[Assistant] And the second one said, ah, go on and tell that stuff to her. Why don't you? And the third one gave a kind of hoot and said, hell, this guy, what the hell he got.


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[Assistant] And the first one said, ah, sure up, ya mush, I got plenty.


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[Assistant] Two girls went skittering by in short transparent raincoats, one green, one red, their heads tucked against the drive of the rain. One of them was saying to the other, Yes, I know all about that.


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[Assistant] And they ran on with their little pelican legs flashing back and forth.


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[Assistant] The taxi backed up suddenly and leaped forward again, and after a while Roger said,


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[Assistant] I had a letter from Stella today, and she'll be home on the 26th.


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[Assistant] So I suppose she's made up her mind and it's all settled.


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[Assistant] I had a sort of letter today too, she said. I think it is time for you and Stella to do something definite.


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[Assistant] When the taxi stopped on the corner of West 53rd Street, Roger said, I've just enough if you'll add ten cents. So she opened her purse and gave him a dime. And he said, that's beautiful, that purse.


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[Assistant] It's a birthday present, she told him, and I like it. How's your show coming?


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[Assistant] Oh, still hanging on, I guess. I don't go near the place. Nothing's sold yet.


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[Assistant] I mean to keep right on the way I'm going and they can take it or leave it. I'm through with the argument. It's absolutely a matter of holding out, isn't it? Holding out's the tough part. Good night, Roger. Good night.


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[Assistant] You should take aspirin and push yourself into a tub of hot water. You look as though you're catching cold. I will. With the purse under her arms, she went upstairs, and on the first landing, Bill heard her step.


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[Assistant] And poked his head out with his hair tumbled and his eyes red.


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[Assistant] And he said, for Christ sake, come in and have a drink with me. I've had some bad news. You're perfectly sopping, said Bill. They had two drinks.


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[Assistant] And Bill told how the director had thrown his play out after the cast had been picked over twice and had gone through three rehearsals.


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[Assistant] I said to him, I didn't say it was a masterpiece, I said it was a good show. And he said it just doesn't play. Do you see? It needs a doctor.


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[Assistant] So I'm stuck, absolutely stuck said Bill, on the edge of weeping again. I've been crying, he told her, in my cups.


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[Assistant] And he went on to ask her if she realized that his wife was ruining him with her extravagance.


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[Assistant] I send her ten dollars every week of my unhappy life and I don't really have to. She threatens to jail me if I don't, but she can't do it.


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[Assistant] God, let her try it after the way she treated me.


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[Assistant] She's no right to alimony and she knows it, but I send it because I can't bear to see anybody suffer.


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[Assistant] And I'm way behind on the piano and the Victrola both.


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[Assistant] Ricky said it once belonged to Marie Dressler and cost fifteen hundred dollars, but there's a burnt place on it. Can you beat that? No, she said.


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[Assistant] They had another drink and she went to her apartment on the floor above.


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[Assistant] And there she now remembered distinctly she had taken the letter out of the purse before she spread the purse out to dry.


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[Assistant] She had sat down and read the letter over again.


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[Assistant] But there were phrases that insisted on being read many times. They had a life of their own, separate from the others. And when she tried to read past and around them, they moved with the movement of her eyes and she could not escape them. Thinking about you more than I mean to. Yes, I even talk about you. Why were you so anxious to destroy?


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[Assistant] Carefully she tore the letter into narrow strips and touched a lighted match to them in the cold gray.


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[Assistant] Early the next morning, she was in the bathtub when the Janitress knocked and then came in.


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[Assistant] Calling out that she wished to examine the radiators before she started the furnace going for the winter.


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[Assistant] After moving about the room for a few minutes, the Janitris went out, closing the door very sharply.


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[Assistant] She came out of the bathroom to get a cigarette from the package in the purse. The purse was gone.


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[Assistant] She dressed and made coffee and sat by the window while she drank it. Certainly the Janitress had taken the purse.


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[Assistant] There rose coincidentally in her blood a deep, almost murderous anger.


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[Assistant] She set the cup carefully in the center of the table.


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[Assistant] Where the Janitress, her face streaked with coal dust, was shaking up the furnace. Will you please give me back my purse? There isn't any money in it. It was a present and I don't want to lose it.


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[Assistant] The Janitris turned without straightening up and peered at her with hot flickering eyes.


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[Assistant] The gold cloth purse you took from the wooden bench in my room, she said. I must have it back.


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[Assistant] Before God, I never laid eyes on your purse, and thus the holy truth, said the Janitress. Oh well, then keep it, she said.


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[Assistant] But in a very bitter voice, keep it if you want it so much. And she walked away.


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[Assistant] She remembered how she had never locked a door in her life.


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[Assistant] And she had been pleased with the bleak humility of this concrete example designed to illustrate and justify a certain fixed, otherwise baseless and general faith which ordered the movements of her life without regard to her will in the matter.


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[Assistant] In this moment, she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible. Things lost or broken by her own fault.


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[Assistant] Things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved, books borrowed and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made.


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[Assistant] Words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard.


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[Assistant] And the words she had meant to answer with bitter alternatives and intolerable substitutes worse than nothing and yet inescapable.


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[Assistant] The long patient suffering of dying friendships and the dark inexplicable death of love. All that she had had and all that she had missed were lost together.


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[Assistant] And we're twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.


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[Assistant] The Janitress was following her upstairs with her purse in her hand and the same deep red fire flickering in her eyes.


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[Assistant] The Janitress thrust the purse towards her while they were still a half dozen steps apart and said, Don't never tell on me. I must have been crazy. I get crazy in the head sometimes. I swear I do. My son can tell you. She took the purse after a moment and the Janitress went home.


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[Assistant] I got a niece who is going on seventeen and she's a nice girl and I thought I'd give it to her. She needs a pretty purse. I must have been crazy. I thought maybe you wouldn't mind. You leave things around and don't seem to notice much.


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[Assistant] She said, I miss this because it was a present to me from someone.


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[Assistant] The janitor said, he'd get you another if you lost this one. My niece is young and needs pretty things. We ought to give the young ones a chance.


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[Assistant] She's got young men after her. Maybe we'll want to marry her. She ought to have nice things. She needs them bad right now. You're a grown woman. You've had your chance. You ought to know how it is. She held the purse out to the janitor saying, You don't know what you're talking about. Here, take it. I've changed my mind. I really don't want it.


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[Assistant] The janitor's looked up at her with hatred and said, I don't want it either now.


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[Assistant] My niece is young and pretty. She don't need fixing up to be pretty. She's young and pretty anyhow. I guess you need it worse than she does.


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[Assistant] It wasn't really yours in the first place she said turning away.


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[Assistant] It's from her you're stealing it said the Janitress and went back downstairs. She laid the purse on the table.


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[Assistant] And sat down with a cup of chilled coffee and thought.


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[Assistant] I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself who will end by leaving me nothing.


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[Assistant] Well then, if ever I thank any man, I thank you.


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[Assistant] Now when a man thanks me heartily, me thinks I've given him a penny, and he renders me the beggar he thanks.


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[Assistant] And looking on it with lackluster eye, says very wisely, it is ten o'clock. That we may see, quote he, how the world wags.


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[Assistant] It is but an hour ago since it was nine and after one hour more it will be eleven. And so from hour to hour we write and write and then from hour to hour we rot and rot and thereby hang the tail.


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[Assistant] Much is the only way. What fool is this? A wily fool.


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[Assistant] One that has been a courtier, and says if ladies be but young and fair, they have the gift to know it. And in his brain.


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[Assistant] Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.


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[Assistant] Provided that you weave your better judgements of all opinion, the closed rank, and then that I am wide.


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[Assistant] I must have liberty with all, as large a charter as the wind to blow on whom I please, for so fools have.


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[Assistant] And they that are most galled with my folly, they most must laugh. And why so must they so? The wise plane has way to parish church. He that a fool doth very wisely hit.


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[Assistant] If not, the wise man's folly is anatomized even by the squandering dances of the fool. Invest me in my motley. Give me leave to speak my mind.


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[Assistant] And I will through and through cleanse the foul body of the infected world if they will patiently receive my medicine.


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[Assistant] Why, bookrides are unpride, that can therein tax any private party. That it not flow as hugely as the sea, till at the weary very means do head.


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[Assistant] What woman of the city do I name, when that I say the city woman bears the cast of princes on unworthy shoulders?


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[Assistant] Or what is he of basest function that says his word is not on my card thinking that I mean him. But therein suits his folly to the metal of my speech. There then.


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[Assistant] How then? What? Let me be wherein my tongue hath wronged him. If it do him right, then he hath wronged himself. If he be free.


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[Assistant] Why then, my taxing like a wild goose flies, unclaimed of any man. But who comes here?


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[Assistant] Creeping like snail unwillingly to school. Then the lover.


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[Assistant] Full of strange olds and bearded, like the pub, jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking a bubble reputation, even in the cannon's mouth. And then the just.


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[Assistant] In fair round belly, with good capon lined, with eyes to veer.


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[Assistant] Shifts into the lean and slippered pantaloon with spectacles on nose and punch on side.


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[Assistant] When thou wakest, it is thy dear.


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[Assistant] But now in some slight measure it will pay, if for his tender ear I make some stay.


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[Assistant] I would not have my right, Rosalind, of this mind. For I protest her frown might kill me.


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[Assistant] I take D Rosalind for wine.


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[Assistant] I leave my duty a little unthought of and speak out of my injury, the madly used Malvolio.


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[Assistant] And let no quarrel nor no brawl to come taint the condition of this present hour which I have wondered at. In hope it shall not.


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[Assistant] Nor no one here, because he has never passed the lips of those that breathe them in the air.


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[Assistant] If my weak oratory can from his mother win the Duke of York, anon expect him here.


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[Assistant] But my convalescence had commenced and proceeded regularly. In another fortnight I was able to leave my chamber.


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[Assistant] I underwent a kind of rough usage ill befitting the wounds that my mind had sustained ever since the fatal night.


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[Assistant] I had conceived a violent antipathy even to the name of natural philosophy.


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[Assistant] When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms. Henry saw this and had removed all my apparatus from my view. He had also changed my apartment.


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[Assistant] Sir Waldman inflicted torture when he praised with kindness and warmth the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences. He soon perceived that I disliked the subject.


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[Assistant] But not guessing the real cause he attributed my feelings to modesty and changed the subject from my improvement to the science itself with a desire as I evidently saw of drawing me out. What could I do? He meant to please and he tormented me.


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[Assistant] I felt as if he had placed carefully, one by one, in my view, those instruments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death.


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[Assistant] I writhed under his words, yet dared not exhibit the pain I felt.


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[Assistant] Clairvaux, whose eyes and feelings were always quick in discerning the sensations of others, declined the subject, alleging in excuse his total ignorance. And the conversation took a more general turn.


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[Assistant] I thanked my friend from my heart, but I did not speak. I saw plainly that he was surprised.


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[Assistant] But he never attempted to draw my secret from me.


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[Assistant] Yet I could never persuade myself to confide in him that event which was so often present to my recollection, but which I feared the detail to another would only impress more deeply.


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[Assistant] His harsh, blunt encomiums gave me even more pain than the benevolent approbation of Monsieur Waldman. Damn the fellow! cried he.


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[Assistant] Young men should be diffident of themselves, you know, Mr. Clawell. I was myself when young. But that wears out in a very short time.


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[Assistant] Mr. Krempe had now commenced an eulogy on himself.


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[Assistant] Which happily turned the conversation from a subject that was so annoying me.


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[Assistant] Clever had never sympathized in my tastes for natural science.


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[Assistant] And his literary pursuits differed wholly from those which had occupied me.


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[Assistant] He came to the university with a design of making himself complete master of the oriental languages, and thus he should open a field for the plan of life he had marked out for himself. Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the east as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.


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[Assistant] The Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit languages engaged his attention, and I was easily induced to enter on the same studies.


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[Assistant] Idle-ness had ever been irksome to me, and now that I wished to fly from reflection and hated my former studies, I felt great relief in being the fellow pupil with my friend, and found not only instruction, but consolation in the works of the Orientalist.


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[Assistant] I did not, like him, attempt a critical knowledge of their dialect


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[Assistant] And the joy elevating to a degree I never experienced in studying the authors of any other country. When you read their writings,


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[Assistant] Life appears to consist in a warm sun and a garden of roses.


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[Assistant] And my return to Geneva was fixed for the latter end of autumn. But being delayed by several accidents


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[Assistant] Winter and snow arrived, the roads were deemed impassable, and my journey was retarded until the ensuing spring. I helped this delay very bitterly.


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[Assistant] For I longed to see my native town and my beloved friends. My return had only been delayed so long from an unwillingness to leave Clairvaux in a strange place before he had become acquainted with any of its inhabitants. The winter, however, was spent cheerfully.


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[Assistant] The month of May had already commenced and I expected the letter daily, which was to fix the date of my departure.


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[Assistant] When Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the country I had so long inhabited. I exceeded with pleasure to this proposition.


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[Assistant] I was fond of exercise, and Clareval had always been my favourite companion in the ramble of this nature that I had taken among the scenes of my native country. We passed a fortnight in these perambulations. My health and spirits?


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[Assistant] This had long been restored and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidence of our progress, and the conversation of my friends.


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[Assistant] Study had before secluded me from the intercourse of my fellow creatures and rendered me unsocial, but Clairvaux called forth the better feelings of my heart.


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[Assistant] He again taught me to love the aspect of nature and the cheerful faces of children. Excellent friend.


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[Assistant] How sincerely you did love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own.


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[Assistant] A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me.


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[Assistant] I became the same happy creature who a few years ago loved and beloved by all, had no sorrow or care. When happy,


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[Assistant] Inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.


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[Assistant] A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy. The present season was indeed divine.


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[Assistant] The flowers of spring bloomed in the hedges, while those of summer were already in bud. I was undisturbed by thoughts


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[Assistant] Which during the preceding year had pressed upon me, notwithstanding my endeavors to throw them off, with an invincible burden. Henry rejoiced in my Getty.


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[Assistant] And sincerely sympathized in my feelings, he exerted himself to amuse me while he expressed the sensations that filled his soul.


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[Assistant] His conversation was full of imagination and very often, in imitation of the Persian and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion.


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[Assistant] At other times he repeated my favourite poems, or drew me out into arguments which he supported with great ingenuity.


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[Assistant] The peasants were dancing and everyone we met appeared gay and happy. My own spirits were high and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity.


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[Assistant] Chapter 7. On my return, I found the following letter from my father. My dear Victor.


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[Assistant] You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us. And I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning the day on which I should expect you. But that would be a cruel kindness, and I dare not do it. What would be your surprise, my son?


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[Assistant] When you expected a happy and glad welcome to behold, on the contrary, tears and wretchedness. And how victor can I relate our misfortune?


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[Assistant] Absence cannot have rendered you callous to our joys and griefs, and how shall I inflict pain on my long absent son?


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[Assistant] I wish to prepare you for the woeful news, but I know it is impossible.


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[Assistant] Even now your eye skims over the page to seek the words which are to convey to you the horrible tidings. William is dead.


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[Assistant] I will not attempt to console you, but will simply relate the circumstances of the transaction. Last Thursday, May 7.


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[Assistant] I, my niece, and your two brothers went to walk in Plum Palais. The evening was warm and serene.


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[Assistant] And we prolonged our walk farther than usual. It was already dusk before we thought of returning. And then we discovered that William and Ernest, who had gone on before, were not to be found. We accordingly rested on a seat until they should return.


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[Assistant] Presently Ernest came and inquired if we had seen his brother. He said that he had been playing with him, that William had run away to hide himself


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[Assistant] And that he vainly sought for him and afterwards waited for a long time, but that he did not return.


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[Assistant] When Elizabeth conjectured that he might have returned to the house, he was not there. We returned again with torches.


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[Assistant] For I could not rest when I thought that my sweet boy had lost himself and was exposed to all the damps and dews of night. Elizabeth also suffered extreme anguish.


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[Assistant] The print of the murderer's finger was on his neck. He was conveyed home.


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[Assistant] The anguish that was visible in my countenance betrayed the secret to Elizabeth. She was very earnest to see the corpse.


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[Assistant] At first I attempted to prevent her, but she persisted, and entering the room where it lay, hastily examined the neck of the victim, and clasping her hands, exclaimed, Oh God! I have murdered my darling child! She fainted and was restored with extreme difficulty.


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[Assistant] When she again lived it was only to weep and sigh.


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[Assistant] She told me that that same evening William had teased her to let him wear a very valuable miniature that she possessed of your mother. This picture is gone.


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[Assistant] They have no trace of him at present, although our exertions to discover him are unremitted. But they will not restore my beloved William. Come, dearest Victor. You alone can console Elizabeth.


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[Assistant] She weeps continually and accuses herself unjustly as the cause of his death. Her words pierce my heart. We are all unhappy.


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[Assistant] Will not that be an additional motive for you, my son, to return and be our comforter? Your dear mother. Alas, Victor.


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[Assistant] I now say, thank God she did not live to witness the cruel, miserable death of her youngest darling. Come, Victor.


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[Assistant] Not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentleness that will heal instead of festering the wounds of our minds. Enter the house of mourning, my friend.


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[Assistant] But with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies. Your affectionate and afflicted father. Alphonse Frankenstein. Geneva, May 12th, 17. Clairvaux, who had watched my countenance as I read this letter.


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[Assistant] Was surprised to observe the despair that succeeded the joy I at first expressed on receiving news from my friends.


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[Assistant] Exclaimed Henry, when he perceived me weep with bitterness. Are you always to be unhappy? My dear friend, what has happened?


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[Assistant] I motioned him to take up the letter, while I walked up and down the room in the extremest agitation.


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[Assistant] Tears also gushed from the eyes of Clerval as he read the account of my misfortune. I can offer you no consolation, my friend, said he. Your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do? To go instantly to Geneva. Come with me, Henry, to order the horses. During our walk, Clerval endeavored to say a few words of consolation.


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[Assistant] Who that had seen him bright and joyous in his young beauty, but must weep over his untimely loss?


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[Assistant] How much more a murderer that could destroy radiant innocence. Poor little fellow.


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[Assistant] One only consolation have we? His friends mourn and weep, but he is at rest.


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[Assistant] And I beheld a countenance of angelic beauty and expression.


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[Assistant] A hair of a shining raven, black and curiously braided. Her eyes were dark, but gentle, although animated.


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[Assistant] Her features of a regular proportion and her complexion wondrously fair, each cheek tinged with a lovely pink.


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[Assistant] Felix seemed ravished with delight when he saw her.


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[Assistant] Every trait of sorrow vanished from his face, and it instantly expressed a degree of ecstatic joy of which I could hardly have believed it capable.


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[Assistant] His eyes sparkled as his cheek flushed with pleasure.


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[Assistant] And at that moment I thought him as beautiful as the stranger. She appeared affected by different feelings. Wiping a few tears from her lovely eyes, she held out her hand to Felix, who kissed it rapturously and called her, as well as I could distinguish, his sweet Arabian.


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[Assistant] He assisted her to dismount, and dismissing her guide, conducted her into the cottage.


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[Assistant] Some conversation took place between him and his father, and a young stranger knelt at the old man's feet and would have kissed his hand, but he raised her and embraced her affectionately.


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[Assistant] I soon perceived that although the stranger uttered articulate sounds and appeared to have a language of her own, she was neither understood by nor herself understood the cottagers. They made many signs which I did not comprehend.


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[Assistant] Dispelling their sorrow as the sun dissipates the morning mist.


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[Assistant] Felix seemed peculiarly happy and with smiles of delight welcomed his Arabian. Agatha? The ever gentle Agatha.


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[Assistant] Kissed the hands of the lovely stranger and pointing to her brother made signs which appeared to me to mean that he had been sorrowful until she came.


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[Assistant] Some hours passed thus, while they by their countenances


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[Assistant] That I should make use of the same instructions to the same end.


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[Assistant] A stranger learned about twenty words at the first lesson.


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[Assistant] Most of them indeed were those which I had before understood, but I profited by the others.


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[Assistant] As night came on, Agatha and the Arabian retired early. When they separated, Felix kissed the hand of the stranger and said, Good night, sweet Sufi.


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[Assistant] He sat up much longer conversing with his father and by the frequent repetition of her name.


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[Assistant] I conjectured that their lovely guest was the subject of their conversation. I ardently desired to understand them


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[Assistant] The Arabian sat at the feet of the old man and taking his guitar.


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[Assistant] I played some airs so entrancingly beautiful that they at once drew tears of sorrow and delight from my eyes.


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[Assistant] Swelling or dying away like a nightingale in the woods. When she had finished.


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[Assistant] She gave the guitar to Agatha, who at first declined it.


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[Assistant] She played a simple air and her voice accompanied it in sweet accents, but unlike the wondrous strain of the stranger.


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[Assistant] The old man appeared enraptured and said some words which Agatha endeavoured to explain to Saphir.


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[Assistant] And by which he appeared to wish to express that she bestowed on him the greatest delight by her music. The days now passed as peaceably as before.


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[Assistant] With the sole alteration that joy had taken place of sadness in the countenances of my friends. Safi was always gay and happy.


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[Assistant] She and I improved rapidly in the knowledge of language.


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[Assistant] So that in two months I began to comprehend most of the words uttered by my protector.


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[Assistant] In the meanwhile also the black ground was covered with herbage.


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[Assistant] And the great banks interspersed with numerable flowers, sweet to the scent and the eyes.


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[Assistant] Stars of pale radiance among the moonlight woods. The sun became warmer, the nights clearer and balmer.


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[Assistant] And my nocturnal rambles were an extreme pleasure to me, although they were considerably shorter


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[Assistant] Fearful of meeting with the same treatment I had formally endured in the first village which I had entered.


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[Assistant] And I may boast that I improved more rapidly than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, while I comprehended and could imitate almost every word that was spoken.


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[Assistant] While I improved in speech, I also learned the science of letters as it was taught to the stranger.


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[Assistant] Open before me a wide field for wonder and delight. The book from which Felix instructed Safi was Volney's Ruins of Empires.


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[Assistant] I should not have understood the purport of this book.


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[Assistant] Had not Felix in reading it given very minute explanation? He had chosen this work, he said.


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[Assistant] Because the declamatory style was framed in imitation of the Eastern authors.


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[Assistant] Through this work I obtained a cursory knowledge of history and a view of the several empires at present existing in the world. It gave me an insight into the manners


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[Assistant] Governments and religions of the different nations of the earth.


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[Assistant] I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous genius and mental activity of the Grecians.


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[Assistant] These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings.


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[Assistant] Was man indeed at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?


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[Assistant] He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle.


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[Assistant] And at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.


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[Assistant] To be base and vicious as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation.


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[Assistant] A condition more abject than that of a blind mole or harmless worm.


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[Assistant] For a long time I could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or even why there were laws and governments.


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[Assistant] But when I heard details of vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased and I turned away with disgust and loathing.


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[Assistant] Every conversation of the cottagers now opened new wonders to me.


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[Assistant] The strange system of human society was explained to me. I heard of the division of property.


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[Assistant] Of immense wealth and squalid poverty, of rank, descent, and noble blood. The words induced me to turn towards myself.


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[Assistant] I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow creatures were high and unsullied descent united with riches.


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[Assistant] A man might be respected with only one of these advantages, but without either he was considered except in very rare instances as a vagabond and a slave.


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[Assistant] Doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few. And what was I? Of my creation and creator, I was absolutely ignorant. But I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property.


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[Assistant] I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome.


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[Assistant] I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet.


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[Assistant] I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame. My stature far exceeded theirs.


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[Assistant] A blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned.


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[Assistant] I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me.


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[Assistant] I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.


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[Assistant] Oh, that I had forever remained in my native wood.


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[Assistant] Nor known, nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat. Of what a strange nature is knowledge.


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[Assistant] It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I wished


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[Assistant] Sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death. A state which I feared, yet did not understand. I admired virtue and good feelings,


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[Assistant] And loved the gentle manners and amiable qualities of my cottages, but I was shut out from intercourse with them.


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[Assistant] Except through means which I obtained by stealth, when I was unseen and unknown, and which rather increased


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[Assistant] The gentle words of Agatha and the animated smiles of the charming Arabian were not for me.


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[Assistant] The mild exhortations of the old man and the lively conversation of the loved Felix were not for me. Miserable, unhappy wretch.


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[Assistant] Other lessons were impressed upon me even more deeply. I heard of the difference of sexes and the birth and growth of children.


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[Assistant] How the father doted on the smiles of the infant and the lively sallies of the older child.


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[Assistant] How all the life and cares of the mother were wrapped up in the precious charge.


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[Assistant] How the mind of youth expanded and gained knowledge of brother, sister, and all the various relationships which bind one human being to another in mutual bonds. But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days.


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[Assistant] No mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses, or if they had, all my past life was now a block.


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[Assistant] A blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing from my earliest remembrance.


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[Assistant] I had been as I then was in height and proportion.


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[Assistant] I'd never yet seen a being resembling me or who claimed any intercourse with me. What was I?


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[Assistant] The question again recurred to be answered only with groans.


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[Assistant] I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottages


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[Assistant] Whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder.


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[Assistant] But which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors.


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[Assistant] For so I loved in an innocent half painful self-deceit to call them.


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[Assistant] Chapter 14 Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends.


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[Assistant] It was one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind.


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[Assistant] Respected by his superiors and beloved by his equals. His son was bred in the surface of his country.


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[Assistant] And Agatha had ranked with ladies of the highest distinction.


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[Assistant] They had lived in a large and luxurious city called Paris surrounded by friends and possessed of every enjoyment which virtue


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[Assistant] Refinement of intellect or taste accompanied by a moderate fortune could afford.


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[Assistant] He was a Turkish merchant and had inhabited Paris for many years when, for some reason which I could not learn, he became obnoxious to the government.


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[Assistant] He was seized and cast into prison the very day that Sapphi arrived from Constantinople to join him.


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[Assistant] He was tried and condemned to death. The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant. All Paris was indignant.


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[Assistant] And it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation.


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[Assistant] His horror and indignation were uncontrollable when he heard the decision of the court.


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[Assistant] He made at that moment a solemn vow to deliver him, and then looked around for the means.


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[Assistant] After many fruitless attempts to gain admittance to the prison,


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[Assistant] Have more time for Vena hours and tutors not so careful.


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[Assistant] Follow me. Speak not you for him. He's a traitor. Come. I'll manacle thy neck and feet together. See what I shall thou drink.


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[Assistant] Appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.


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[Assistant] No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs.


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[Assistant] Pursuing these reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time, although I now found it impossible, renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption. These thoughts supported my spirit.


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[Assistant] While I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardor, my cheek had grown pale with study.


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[Assistant] And my person had become emaciated with confinement. Sometimes on the very brink of certainty I failed.


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[Assistant] Yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realize.


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[Assistant] One secret which I alone possessed was the hope to which I had dedicated myself.


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[Assistant] And the moon gazed on my midnight labors, while, with un-relaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.


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[Assistant] Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?


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[Assistant] My limbs now tremble and my eyes swim with remembrance.


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[Assistant] But then a resistless and almost frantic impulse urged me forward.


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[Assistant] I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit. It was indeed but a passing trance.


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[Assistant] That only made me feel with renewed acuteness so soon as the unnatural stimulus ceasing to operate, I had returned to my old habits.


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[Assistant] I collected bones from charnel houses and disturbed with profane fingers the tremendous secrets of the human frame. In a solitary chamber.


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[Assistant] Or rather sell at the top of the house and separate it from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase.


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[Assistant] I kept my workshop of filthy creation.


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[Assistant] My eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment.


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[Assistant] The dissecting room and the slaughterhouse furnished many of my materials.


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[Assistant] And often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation whilst still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion.


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[Assistant] The summer months passed while I was thus engaged heart and soul in one pursuit. It was the most beautiful season.


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[Assistant] Never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest, or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage, but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature.


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[Assistant] And the same feelings which made me neglect the scenes around me caused me also to forget those friends who were so many miles absent and whom I had not seen for so long a time. I knew my silence disquieted them, and I well remembered the words of my father.


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[Assistant] I know that while you are pleased with yourself you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you.


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[Assistant] You must pardon me if I regard any interruption in your correspondence as a proof that your other duties are equally neglected. I knew well therefore what would be my father's feelings.


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[Assistant] I then thought that my father would be unjust if he ascribed my neglect to vice or faultiness on my part, but I am now convinced that he was justified in conceiving that I should not be altogether free from blame.


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[Assistant] A human being in perfection or always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind.


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[Assistant] And never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.


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[Assistant] I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule.


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[Assistant] If this study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful. That is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed,


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[Assistant] If no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquility of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved. Caesar would have spared his country.


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[Assistant] America would have been discovered more gradually and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.


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[Assistant] But I forget that I am moralizing in the most interesting part of my tale. And your looks remind me to proceed. My father made no reproach.


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[Assistant] Winter, spring and summer passed away during my labors.


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[Assistant] But I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves.


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[Assistant] Sights which before always yielded me supreme delight, So deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.


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[Assistant] The leaves of that year had withered before my work drew near to a close, and now every day showed me more plainly how well I had succeeded. But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety.


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[Assistant] And I appeared rather like one doomed to slavery to toil in the mines or any other unwholesome trade that an artist occupied by his favorite employment. Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever and I became nervous to a most painful degree. The fall of a leaf startled me.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I grew alarmed at the wreck I perceived that I had become. The energy of my purpose alone sustained me.


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[Assistant] My labors would soon end and I believed that exercise and amusement would then drive away incipient disease.


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[Assistant] And I promised myself both of these when my creation should be complete.


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[Assistant] Chapter 5 It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils, with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony.


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[Assistant] I collected the instruments of life around me that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning.


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[Assistant] The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out when, by the glimmer of the half extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. It breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limb.


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[Assistant] How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe?


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[Assistant] Oh, how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to form. His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful. Great God!


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[Assistant] His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath. His hair was of a lustrous black and flowing. His teeth of a pearly whiteness.


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[Assistant] But these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes that seemed almost of the same color as the done white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black lips. The different accidents of life


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[Assistant] I had desired it with an ardor that far exceeded moderation, but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished.


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[Assistant] Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.


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[Assistant] At length, lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes endeavoring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness. But it was in vain. I slept.


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[Assistant] Indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams.


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[Assistant] I thought I saw Elizabeth in the bloom of health walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised I embraced her.


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[Assistant] Her features appeared to change and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms. A shroud enveloped her form


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[Assistant] And I saw the grave worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started from my sleep with horror.


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[Assistant] A cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered and every limb became convulsed. When


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[Assistant] If eyes they may be called were fixed on me.


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[Assistant] His jaws opened and he muttered some inarticulate sounds while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken but I did not hear.


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[Assistant] One hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs.


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[Assistant] No mortal could support the horror of that countenance.


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[Assistant] At others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.


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[Assistant] Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment.


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[Assistant] Dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me, and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete.


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[Assistant] Morning, dismal and wet at length dawned and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.


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[Assistant] The porter opened the gates of the court, which had that night been my asylum, and I issued into the streets, pacing them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch, whom I feared every turning of the street would present to my view.


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[Assistant] I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited.


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[Assistant] But felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky. I continued walking in this manner for some time.


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[Assistant] Endeavoring by bodily exercise to ease the load that weighed upon my mind.


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[Assistant] I traversed the streets without any clear conception of where I was or what I was doing.


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[Assistant] My heart palpitated in the sickness of fear, and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me.


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[Assistant] Like one who on a lonely road doth walk in fear and dread.


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[Assistant] And having once turned round walks on and turns no more his head.


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[Assistant] Because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread. Coleridge's ancient mariner. Continuing thus.


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[Assistant] I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligencies and carriages usually stopped. Here I paused. I knew not why.


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[Assistant] But I remained some minutes with my eyes fixed on a coach that was coming towards me from the other end of the street.


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[Assistant] It stopped just where I was standing, and on the door being opened I perceived Henry Clerval, who on seeing me instantly sprung out. My dear Frankenstein, exclaimed he, how glad I am to see you.


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[Assistant] How fortunate that you should be here at the very moment of my alighting. Nothing could equal my delight on seeing clever.


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[Assistant] His presence brought back to my thoughts my father, Elizabeth, and all those scenes of home so dear to my recollection. I grasped his hand and in a moment forgot my horror and misfortune.


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[Assistant] I felt suddenly and for the first time during many months calm and serene joy. I welcomed my friend therefore in the most cordial manner, and we walked towards my college.


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[Assistant] Clever, I'll continue talking for some time about our mutual friends.


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[Assistant] And his own good fortune in being permitted to come to Ingolstadt.


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[Assistant] You may easily believe, said he, how great was the difficulty to persuade my father that all necessary knowledge was not comprised in the noble art of bookkeeping.


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[Assistant] But his affection for me at length overcame his dislike of learning, and he has permitted me to undertake a voyage of discovery to the land of knowledge. It gives me the greatest delight to see you. But tell me how you left my father, brothers, and Elizabeth.


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[Assistant] Very well and very happy, only a little uneasy that they hear from you so seldom. By the by, I mean to lecture you a little upon their account myself.


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[Assistant] You all know, I must have patience to endure the load.


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[Assistant] Young Ed would live. Think now what I would speak. Say, uhm, my loving lord. Why, Buckingham, I say I would be king. Why, so you are, my thrice-renowned lord. Huh? Am I king?


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[Assistant] But Edward should still live true noble prince.


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[Assistant] No star, not any, whom corrupting gold will tempt unto a close exploit of death.


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[Assistant] I must be married now to Edward's daughter, or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass. Murder her brothers, and then marry her. Uncertain way of game.


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[Assistant] But I am in so far in blood that sin will pluck on sin, till a falling pity dwells not in this eye.


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[Assistant] So to my rest and my sweet sleep disturbers are they that I would have thee deal upon, Tyrrell? I mean those bastards in the tower.


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[Assistant] Meantime, but think how I may do thee good and be in hector of thy desire. Farewell till then.


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[Assistant] Now, for I know the Breton Richmond aims at young Elizabeth, my brother's daughter, and by that knot looks proudly on the crown to her go I.


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[Assistant] Ely with Richmond troubles me more near than Buckingham and his rash, levid strength. Come!


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[Assistant] The high imperial type of this earth, glorious.


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[Assistant] So in the least of thy angriest soul thou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs which thou supposest I have done to thee.


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[Assistant] Then know, that from my soul I love thy daughter.


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[Assistant] Look, what is done cannot now be amended.


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[Assistant] Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, which after hours gives leisure to repent.


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[Assistant] If I did take the kingdom from your son to make amends, I'll give it to your daughter.


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[Assistant] The granddad's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.


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[Assistant] Children, but one step below, even of your metal, of your very blood.


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[Assistant] All of one pain, save for a night of groans, endured of her for whom you bid like sorrow. Your children were vexation to your youth, but mine shall be the comfort to your age.


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[Assistant] Dorset your son that with a fearful soul leads discontented steps in foreign soil, this fair alliance quickly shall come home to high promotions and high dignity. The king that calls your beauteous daughter wife familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother. Again you shall be mother to a king.


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[Assistant] Put in her tender heart the aspiring flame of golden sovereignty. Acquaint the princess with the sweet, silent hours of marriage joy.


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[Assistant] Grossly grew captive to his honey words.


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[Assistant] Which hitherto hath held mine eyes from rest.


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[Assistant] Teen, day, yet look back with me unto the tar.


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[Assistant] I know a discontented gentleman whose humble means match not his haughty spirit.


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[Assistant] If yet your gentle souls fly in the air and be not fixed in doom perpetual, Hover about me with your airy wings and hear your mother's lamentation.


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[Assistant] That dog that had his teeth before his eyes to worry lambs and lap their gentle blood. That houndy pacer of God's handiwork. That excellent grand tyrant of the earth that reigns in gored eyes of weeping souls. Thy wound let loose to chase us to our graves. O our pride, just and true disposing God, how I do thank thee.


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[Assistant] Only reserve their factor to buy, pull, and send them to God.


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[Assistant] The flattering index of a direful pageant Unleaved the eye to be hurled down below.


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[Assistant] And dost thou not usurp the just proportion of my sorrow? No!


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[Assistant] My daughters, Richard, they shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens, and therefore level not to hit their life.