Chapter 6

•  It was from my own Elizabeth.”
• “how often have I regretted not being able to perform [the journey] myself!”
• “I fear that [Ernest] will become an idler”
• “the blue lake, and snow-clad mountains, they never change [...] are regulated by the same immutable laws"
• “My trifling occupations take up my time and amuse me, and I am rewarded for any exertions by seeing none but happy, kind faces around me.”
• This girl had always been the favourite of her father; but, through a strange perversity, her mother could not endure her
• “A servant in Geneva does not mean the same thing as a servant in France or England. [...] does not include the idea of ignorance and a sacrifice of the dignity of a human being.”
• “Justine was the most grateful little creature in the world (…) you could see by her eyes that she almost adored her protectress”
• My aunt conceived a great attachment for her, by which she was induced to give her an education superior to that which she had at first intended.
• she paid the greatest attention to every gesture of my aunt. She thought her the model of all excellence and endeavored to imitate her phraseology and manners
• She sometimes begged Justine to forgive her unkindness but much oftener accused her of having caused the deaths of her brothers and sister.
• “little darling William. I wish you could see him; he is very tall of his age, with sweet laughing blue eyes, dark eyelashes, and curling hair.”
• “Now, dear Victor, I dare say you wish to be indulged in a little gossip concerning the good people of Geneva.”
• “When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.”
• inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth
• Henry saw this and had removed all my apparatus from my view.
• “Clerval had never sympathised in my tastes for natural science; and his literary pursuits differed wholly from those which had occupied me.”
• “A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me, until your gentleness and affection warmed and opened my senses.”
• Excellent Friend! how sincerely did you love me and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own!
• “When [Victor is] happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.”
• “My own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity.”