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Quotation from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

“This was the commencement of a nervous fever which confined me for several months”

Mary Shelley (spoken by Victor Frankenstein)

Frankenstein, Vol. I, Ch. IV (1818) / Ch. 5 (1831) (1831 text)

Portrait of Mary Shelley

After the creation, Victor collapses; Clerval nurses him through months of illness and delirium.

Citation: "This was the commencement of a nervous fever which confined me for several months" — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Vol. I, Ch. IV (1818) / Ch. 5 (1831) (1831 text). (id frankenstein-q9)

Portrait: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Richard Rothwell, Public domain.

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