Audiobook Demo: Frankenstein
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Chapter nine. Nothing is more painful to the human mind than after. The feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty, which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear. Justine died. She rested and I was alive. The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart, which nothing could remove. Sleep fled from my eyes. I wandered like an evil spirit, for I had committed deeds of mischief beyond description. Horrible and more, much more, I persuaded myself was yet behind. Get my heart overflowed with kindness and the love of virtue. I had begun life with benevolent intentions and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice and make myself useful to my fellow beings. Now all was blasted instead of that serenity of conscience, which allowed me to look back upon the past with self satisfaction and from thence to gather promise of new hopes. I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt which hurried me away to a **** of intense tortures such as no language can describe