Letter 3, Frankenstein audiobook

Letter III of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, read by Anna Butterworth

Episode Transcript

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Letter three July seventeenth seventeen to missusSeville, England, My dear sister,
I write a few lines in hasteto say that I am safe and well
advanced on my voyage. This letterwill reach England by a merchantman, now
on its homeward journey from Archangel,more fortunate than I, who may not

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see my native land perhaps for manyyears. I am, however, in
good spirits. My men are boldand apparently firm of purpose. Nor do
the floating sheets of ice that continuallypass us, indicating the dangers of the
region towards which we are advancing,appear to dismay them. We have already

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reached a very high latitude, butit is the height of summer, and
although not so warm as in England, the southern gales which blow us speedily
towards those shores which I so ardentlydesire to attain, breathe a degree of
renovating warmth which I had not expected. No incidents have hitherto befallen us that

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would make a figure in the letter. One or two stiff gales and the
springing of a leak are accidents whichexperienced navigators scarcely remember. To record,
and I shall be well content ifnothing worse happens to us during our voyage.
Adieu, my dear Margaret, beassured that for my own sake as

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well as yours, I will notrashly encounter danger. I will be cool,
persevering, and prudent. But successshall crown my endeavors. Wherefore,
not, thus far I have gonetracing a secure way over the pathless seas,
the very stars themselves being witnesses andtestimonies of my triumph, Why not

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still proceed over the untamed yet obedientelement? What can stop the determined heart
and resolved will of man. Myswelling heart involuntarily pours itself out. Thus,
but I must finish Heaven's bless mybeloved sister R. W.