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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: with agony and terror. Fortunately, as I spoke my native language,
Mr. Kirwin alone understood me; but my gestures and bitter cries
were sufficient to affright the other witnesses. Why did I not die?
More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into
forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children,
the only hopes of their doting parents; how many brides and youthful
lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next
a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was
I made that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning
of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?
But I was doomed to live and in two months found myself as
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