Chapter 3

• “my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union”
• “Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to my younger children”
• ‘the first misfortune of my life occurred – an omen, as it were, of my future misery’.
• They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows."
• ‘Chance – or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me’
• “they were all there – my father again to bless me, Clerval to press my hand once more, my Elizabeth to renew her entreaties that I would write often, and to bestow the last feminine attentions on her playmate and friend.”
• “I was now alone.”
• “I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers.”
• “‘Every minute,’ continued M. Krempe with warmth, ‘every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost.’”
• “M. Krempe was a little squat man, with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits.”
• “M. Waldman entered shortly after (…) his voice the sweetest I had ever heard.”
• “They penetrate into the recesses of nature”
• “I closed not my eyes that night.”
• “Thus ended a day memorable to me: it decided my future destiny.”
• She forgot even in her own regret in her endeavors to make us forget.
• I was required to exchange chimaeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.
• Such was the professor's words - rather let me say such the words of the fate - enounced to destroy me.