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Elizabeth is adopted by the Frankensteins when they visited Italy. Elizabeth is a beautiful girl with blonde hair who belonged to a peasant family but her biological father was a Milanese nobleman and was not around and her German mother died at birth.
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Beaufort is Caroline's (Victor's mother) father who was good friends with Victor's father. Once Beaufort died Victor's father took care of Caroline and soon they married.
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"'Why, M. Clerval, I assure you he has outstripped us all...' continued he, observing my face expressing suffering." (Pg. 66)
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"Indeed, who would credit that Justine Moritz, who so aimable and fond of all the family, could suddenly become capable of so frightful, so appalling a crime?" (pg.76)
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"I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow up on the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts."(pg 85)
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" It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows." (pg.89)
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"But I consented to listen; and, seating myself by the fire which my odious companion had lighted, he thus began his tale." Page 97
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"It was a lovely sight, even to me, poor wretch who had never beheld aught beautiful before." page 103
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"My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past were blotted with memory, the present was tranquil, and the future guided by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy." (Pg.110)
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"The stranger learned about 20 words at the first lesson; most of them, indeed, were those which I had before understood, but I profited by the others." (pg.112)
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"The government of France were greatly enraged at the escape of their victim and spared no pains to detect and punish his deliverer. The plot of Felix was quickly discovered, and De Lacey and Agatha were thrown into prison." (Pg. 120)
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"'Nothing indeed could be more unfortunate and agonizing than the strange chances that have lately occurred... so unaccountable a manner and paced, as it were, by some fiend across your path."
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"'I will be with you on your wedding-night' Such was a sentence, and on that night would the demon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from the glimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings."(pg. 179)
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"The murderous mark of the fiend's grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips." Page 186
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"I took my passage in the same ship, but he escaped, I know not how" Pg. 193
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pg 211, "I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched. He is dead who called me into being..."