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Monster and Magician or, The Fate of Frankenstein-Antony Béraud, John Kerr, Jean-Toussaint Merle · Tristan and Isolde

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Speaker 1: Act one of the Monster and Magician or The Fate
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Speaker 1: of Frankenstein by John Kerre. This is a LibriVox according
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Speaker 2: Characters Frankensdine read by.
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Speaker 3: Todd Antonio, His Son read by Anko Holbion read by
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Speaker 3: our Mapstone.
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Speaker 4: Petro read by Gregg Giardano.
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Speaker 5: Litoff read by these Candle.
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Speaker 6: Gontram read by Craig Franklin.
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Speaker 7: Yanskin read by John Hunter.
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Speaker 8: Petrusco read by Larry Wilson, Zammar read.
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Speaker 9: By Brian Fullan.
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Speaker 10: Swendor read by David Purdy.
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Speaker 11: Malfino, The Genie read by Agnes Robert Baer.
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Speaker 12: Cecilia read by shrimp Fish.
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Speaker 13: Zena read by Voul Wroth.
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Speaker 14: Bohemian Chorus read by Michael Stanish.
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Speaker 1: Stage directions read by Sonya. Act one scene the first
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Speaker 1: a dark forest in the center of which is a
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Speaker 1: Gothic tomb. On the left rock a storm Petrusco, Zomar
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Speaker 1: and Svendor, followed by the band consisting of Bohemians Enter,
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Speaker 1: apparently much fatigued.
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Speaker 14: Though murky, the path yet the lightning ill looms the
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Speaker 14: blast of the gale with loud thunderer tunes. The beasts
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Speaker 14: of the forest to shelter, retire. But we, the bold outlaws,
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Speaker 14: must brave all its tire. Though drenched with rain, we
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Speaker 14: like tritons, appear a bumper of liquor. Our spirits shall cheer.
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Speaker 2: Tis a fearful storm, be gad. You may say that
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Speaker 2: it is.
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Speaker 8: Surprised us rather awkwardly. But why should we, poor bohemian
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Speaker 8: outcasts complain of the elements, Accustomed as we are to
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Speaker 8: brave its fury.
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Speaker 10: We have worse enemies than the elements to dread, Friend Petrusco,
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Speaker 10: those cursed Venetians who are now on the hunt for us.
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Speaker 9: There would be nothing to dread were our force but
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Speaker 9: half equal to theirs.
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Speaker 7: But reduced as we.
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Speaker 8: Are, resolution must supply the deficiency. Ah, But see our
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Speaker 8: leader Janskin comes Antayanskan. Welcome, noble captain. Know you in
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Speaker 8: what part of the forest we now are?
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Speaker 7: We shall learn anon seemed tomb tis the tomb of
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Speaker 7: the forest. Withdrawal from it quickly? Why so tis an
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Speaker 7: unhallowed spot?
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Speaker 1: They advanced from it?
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Speaker 7: Is it here?
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Speaker 8: Then we are to halt?
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Speaker 7: No, you will continue your route, I alone must remain.
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Speaker 7: You will tarry for me on the summit of the
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Speaker 7: Black Mountain, near the cottage of Holbein.
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Speaker 9: But why do you not accompany us?
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Speaker 2: Captain?
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Speaker 7: No more interrogations. Some of you must be in attendance
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Speaker 7: here away, be cautious of a surprise from the Venetian soldiers.
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Speaker 7: They are not amongst the number of our friends.
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Speaker 8: We have given little cause for their beings.
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Speaker 1: Soul lead on exit Bohemians, et cetera. Yanskin remaining alone.
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Speaker 7: What a perplexed destiny is mine? Son of one of
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Speaker 7: the richest inhabitants of the Tyrol, now leader of a
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Speaker 7: wretched band of bohemians. Such is the result of misconduct.
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Speaker 7: After reducing a parent to misery, I traversed the world
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Speaker 7: the sport of man and fortune. I was their prey,
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Speaker 7: they were mine. Nor did tranquility partially dawn upon my
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Speaker 7: blighted fate. Till quitting the society of knaves and sharpers,
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Speaker 7: I became the associate of brigands. But weary of my situation,
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Speaker 7: I pant for reconciliation with my aged parent. Returning to
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Speaker 7: my native country, I find that, aided by Frankenstein, my
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Speaker 7: father and sister had taken up their residence near this spot.
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Speaker 7: Frankenstein loves my sister Cecilia, and their union will aid
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Speaker 7: my projects amidst the general joy. Will I present myself
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Speaker 7: to my father? Nor will he? I am assured, refuse forgiveness,
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Speaker 7: and then farewell. An eternal farewell to the minions, whom
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Speaker 7: I command to be an honest man is the warmest
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Speaker 7: desire of my heart. Yet I am not without alarm,
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Speaker 7: for Frankenstein is devoted to study, and the abtruse compositions
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Speaker 7: of Albert and Faustus have inflamed him with guilty pretensions.
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Speaker 7: Anon he is to repair to this forest alas for
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Speaker 7: what a frightful purpose? But I must arrest him. Ere
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Speaker 7: he plunges back into the abyss. Someone approaches, He retires
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Speaker 7: to the back.
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Speaker 1: Music and Ta Pietro with a casket under his arm,
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Speaker 1: much affrighted, followed by Frankenstein.
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Speaker 4: Lackey Forest, How cursed are dark and frightful? It is now?
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Speaker 4: I had a single drop of blood flown in my veins, Oh,
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Speaker 4: my worthy master, Now what the deuce could tempt you
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Speaker 4: to quit the castle?
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Speaker 1: Frankenstein in a reverie.
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Speaker 4: Peace, some sad misfortune will befollow us. The ravens do so, croak,
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Speaker 4: and the owls plays at a concert silence.
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Speaker 2: I command you deposit yonder that casket.
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Speaker 1: Petrol trembling, Yes, yes.
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Speaker 7: My lord, yeah'tis?
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Speaker 2: Frankenstein somewhat approaches. Who's there? Speak?
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Speaker 1: Yanskin advancing a friend?
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Speaker 2: Yanskin? What brings thee here?
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Speaker 7: To converse with thee?
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Speaker 2: You have selected an improper moment withdraw no here.
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Speaker 7: I will remain on what intent you shall know?
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Speaker 1: Motions petrol to retire, Petrol not understanding him?
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Speaker 4: What's your your pleasure? Sir?
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Speaker 7: Leave us?
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Speaker 14: Oh?
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Speaker 4: Law, you need ballso I'm not deaf? Where you wish
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Speaker 4: me to go?
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Speaker 1: Yan Skin points to the.
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Speaker 7: Beck to a respectable distance.
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Speaker 4: Pietro sighed, oh, dear, a very respectable character it is
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Speaker 4: who gives this command? Will suit it to the spot.
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Speaker 4: I am going, sir, Yes, I'm.
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Speaker 1: Gone, retires to the beck.
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Speaker 2: What would you with me?
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Speaker 7: On our last meeting? I had not sufficient time to
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Speaker 7: inform you of my past misfortunes and my future prospects.
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Speaker 7: Even then, your agitated looks escaped. Not my observation. I
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Speaker 7: have watched thy proceedings and know all but beware, Frankenstein,
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Speaker 7: seek not to perfect the frightful deed.
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Speaker 2: What is it you require.
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Speaker 7: Your safety, my happiness, that of my sister and of
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Speaker 7: my father.
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Speaker 2: To recede Wavain, I have already embarked too deeply.
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Speaker 7: You are then resolved on your own destruction.
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Speaker 2: After so many painful exertions.
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Speaker 7: Be content with thy superior knowledge, Nor seek to become
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Speaker 7: the most culpable of mortals. Oh, my friend, on you
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Speaker 7: depends the fate of Cecilia. Cecilia, you love her, Your son,
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Speaker 7: fruit of your first marriage already repeats the endearing name
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Speaker 7: of mother. Why then be discontented with your lot? Why
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Speaker 7: seek to penetrate a mystery which heaven wisely conceals from
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Speaker 7: the weakness of man.
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Speaker 2: My undertaking must be accomplished. Nor can I now pause?
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Speaker 2: The genie of this spot is about to resign to me,
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Speaker 2: a slave, who, hence forward shall be submitted to my will.
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Speaker 2: And soon perhaps I can assure to THEE and to
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Speaker 2: Celia ages of glory and felicity.
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Speaker 7: Frankenstein, I conjure THEE abandon thy frightful purpose here too late,
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Speaker 7: leave me in pity. You attempt its execution. Wait, but
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Speaker 7: till you are united to my sister.
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Speaker 2: From what motive?
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Speaker 7: The virtue of Cecilia will then protect thee from the
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Speaker 7: wrath of heaven?
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Speaker 2: Well, yes, maybe so?
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Speaker 7: Swear to return to the castle instantly, instantly, I instantly,
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Speaker 7: A moment must not be lost.
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Speaker 2: What would you exact?
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Speaker 7: Exact? I exact not, I entreat, I supplicate it in
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Speaker 7: the name of friendship and of our general safety.
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Speaker 4: Enter Petro, Oh, sir, my lord, a man comes this way?
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Speaker 2: Who can it be?
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Speaker 1: Petrusco enters.
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Speaker 8: The Venetians are in pursuit of us, and my comrades
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Speaker 8: require thy immediate attendance. You are acquainted with the intricacies
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Speaker 8: of the forest. Hasten then to direct.
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Speaker 7: Our retreat cursed interruption, prithee, did I not, however dangerous
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Speaker 7: the duty? It shall be faithfully performed. My poor comrades
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Speaker 7: have in me confided their safety, nor shall their confidence
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Speaker 7: be deceived. I leave thee, Frankenstein, but first swear instantly
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Speaker 7: to quit this spot.
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Speaker 2: To quit this spot. Well be it?
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Speaker 7: So we meet again this evening, when I hope to
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Speaker 7: convince you.
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Speaker 1: Janskin presses the hand of Frankenstein and exits with Petruscu.
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Speaker 4: That chat in spite of his strange appearance seems a
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Speaker 4: very good sort of a fellow, and I shouldn't have
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Speaker 4: been sorry if he remained faith. I'm always afraid when
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Speaker 4: alweth any master of beholding on a sudden some horrible apparition.
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Speaker 1: Frankenstein, from his reverie Kenyanskin be right, and ought I
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Speaker 1: in reality to dread the least Cecilia, Cecilia, beloved maid,
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Speaker 1: tis to ensure thy eternal happiness.
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Speaker 2: That I am anxious to possess this secret. The terrors
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Speaker 2: of Jenskin, however, may have some just origin to some
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Speaker 2: other period, shall be deferred my final attempt. Come, Pietro,
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Speaker 2: We will return to the castle.
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Speaker 1: Pietro takes up the casket with.
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Speaker 4: All my heart and soul.
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Speaker 1: They are proceeding off when Frankenstein suddenly stops.
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Speaker 2: No, I cannot a secret, wishes commands my proceedings, and
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Speaker 2: fortifies my heart against the throes of terror. About to
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Speaker 2: gain the object of my desire almost within my grasp,
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Speaker 2: shall I madly resign it? Perhaps for ever? No, No,
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Speaker 2: it cannot must not be.
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Speaker 4: Oh Dad, oh dear, what is matter? Now?
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Speaker 2: The favor I would solicit may entail on me my destruction.
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Speaker 2: But should I retain it to myself? What will be
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Speaker 2: the crime? What shall I have to dread? Nothing mysterious treasure.
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Speaker 2: I will attain it, and at least my labors will
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Speaker 2: not be unrecompensed. Yes, tis decided.
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Speaker 1: He seizes the casket from Pietro with.
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Speaker 4: The mercy of heaven. My lord, what are your intentions?
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Speaker 4: I hope your mind is a changed be gone? No, no,
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Speaker 4: my dear master, no, I cannot of was certain you
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Speaker 4: have some wicked intention. For Heaven's sake, drop it and
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Speaker 4: let us return together.
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Speaker 1: Frankenstein, withdrawing from the casket several kabballistical.
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Speaker 2: Instruments, withdraw Pietro for some days past.
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Speaker 4: The state in which I have seen you has really
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Speaker 4: alarmed me. Your continued sighs, your agitated looks.
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Speaker 2: Depart, I say, I command.
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Speaker 4: My dear master, the name of that which you hold
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Speaker 4: most dear.
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Speaker 2: I remain, then, think you are so inclined.
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Speaker 1: He extends his arms towards Pietro, who is transfixed and
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Speaker 1: at the same time bereft of speech. Frankenstein now commences
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Speaker 1: his operations thunder lightning. He is surrounded by a son of.
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Speaker 2: Fire, Genie, whom I have subjugated obey the voice of
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Speaker 2: thy master.
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Speaker 1: Storm increases, the monument crumbles to atoms, and the Genie
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Speaker 1: appears surrounded by flames, holding a vase in its hand.
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Speaker 11: What would you with me?
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Speaker 2: You already know that vase encloses the rewards of my labors?
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Speaker 11: Madman?
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Speaker 2: What do you require that it should be mine?
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Speaker 11: I know to what ambitious extent? My presumption sores for tremble,
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Speaker 11: wretched mortal.
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Speaker 2: Heed not me, but give as I command.
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Speaker 11: Tis my duty to obey a power more potent than
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Speaker 11: my own. Your happiness is canceled beyond recall, and only
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Speaker 11: in death will you again behold me.
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Speaker 1: The storm in rees, the Genie becomes enveloped in a
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Speaker 1: flame of fire. Pietro utters a shriek and runs off.
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Speaker 1: Frankenstein stands exultingly see the second lodge in the castle
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Speaker 1: of Frankenstein and Alitov, followed by Matzena.
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Speaker 5: No, I guess there is usual you would be found
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Speaker 5: at the lodge Mezzina war was her father served so
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Speaker 5: scurvily by.
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Speaker 13: A daughter fight your father? If you would but listen
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Speaker 13: to reason.
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Speaker 5: Tias you that should listen to reason, But you were
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Speaker 5: deaf to every proposal for your advantage. Does not Pietro
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Speaker 5: enjoy the most indemy confidence of our worthy master, Count Frankenstein.
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Speaker 5: Does he not hold a situation in the castle almost
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Speaker 5: equal in authority to the one I.
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Speaker 13: Feel, truly, Father, the situation with Pietro holds ways but
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Speaker 13: little in my estimation.
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Speaker 5: Girls are perfect natural. Your master is liberality itself, and
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Speaker 5: he is as careless of his duckets as a prudent
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Speaker 5: servant who looks to his own interestable desire. Now Pietro
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Speaker 5: has so many favorable opportunities.
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Speaker 13: Of plundering as benefactor. I trust, Father, you have not
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Speaker 13: to accuse yourself of this.
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Speaker 5: Ingratitude me child, nor I wonder how you could ever
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Speaker 5: hint such a thing. Not, but what my nerves are
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Speaker 5: tolerably strong?
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Speaker 13: Tis true? Reports speaks unfavorable of the means by which
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Speaker 13: Frankenstein's wealth has been attained.
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Speaker 5: But that's no business of heirs. And if he does
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Speaker 5: come roguishly, we share it honestly. If Pietro Wilbert take
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Speaker 5: care of himself.
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Speaker 13: I promise he shall never have me to take care
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Speaker 13: of him. But why thus continually recommend Pietro when I
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Speaker 13: have told you over and over again that if I
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Speaker 13: ever do marry. It shall be to Guntrum.
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Speaker 5: Gontrum, a pretty bargain you would make forsooth, a sorry knave,
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Speaker 5: the emoluments of whose pitiful place of gamekeeper, but barely
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Speaker 5: afford a yearly jerkin. He's a keen shot in faith, Mazina.
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Speaker 5: He knows where are to sin when he took aim
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Speaker 5: at you, But he shall find the game too distant
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Speaker 5: to make sure of his aim. And talking of game
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Speaker 5: is another proof of Gontram's neglect.
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Speaker 13: How father, is see.
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Speaker 5: Not a profusion required for the entertainments that are to
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Speaker 5: take place tomorrow. The Violet, instead of scouring the forest
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Speaker 5: for his master, has been poaching in the preserves for himself.
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Speaker 5: But I'll spoil this sport. Be assured the largest be inspected,
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Speaker 5: and should they still lack the requisite quantity, I'll see
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Speaker 5: through no sportsmen. If I can't make him take wing
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Speaker 5: from these premises, so think of him no longer.
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Speaker 1: Exit, Oh father.
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Speaker 13: Advice is easily given, yet avails, but little where the
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Speaker 13: heart has made its election.
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Speaker 6: Contram steals on those words spoke my own Zena.
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Speaker 13: Oh Godran you overheard them.
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Speaker 6: Yes, your father's partiality to Petro and the content which
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Speaker 6: he entertains of me in consequence of my poverty, But
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Speaker 6: assured of your love, I fear not for the future,
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Speaker 6: since we have youth, health, and strength to aid our endeavors.
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Speaker 13: Lat Fashion's minions fondly shine as high their lofty pennons
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Speaker 13: wave A peasant, simple lot be mine, and health the
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Speaker 13: greatest boon, eye.
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Speaker 6: Crave and pillowed on the humble couch. No dreams our
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Speaker 6: slumber shall invade, nor on our simple joys encroach, But
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Speaker 6: sweetest thoughts our sleep prevail.
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Speaker 15: Yes, steer the home, the hour house sweet when labor
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Speaker 15: all the swain at eve returns his constant swain to greet,
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Speaker 15: and from her welcome kind.
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Speaker 1: Receive, and the petrol alarmed, I rub herself out of breath,
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Speaker 1: and thank to Heaven.
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Speaker 4: Here are you invaders a last? Oh, oh, what a
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Speaker 4: horrid sight.
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Speaker 13: A horrid sight, I hope, sir, you don't mean to
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Speaker 13: say that my face is a horrid sight.
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Speaker 4: It's the most pleasant countenance I have seen since I
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Speaker 4: left the castle. Oh what then have you seen, Petro?
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Speaker 4: What have I not seen? Mister Godstrom, Had you witnessed
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Speaker 4: the like, your legs would never have served you so
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Speaker 4: faithfully as mine did.
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Speaker 13: Pray, what was it, Pietro.
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Speaker 4: Oh, such a bogey?
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Speaker 11: A bogey? What's a bogeye?
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Speaker 6: Oh, A stray cat that his idle fears have conjured
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Speaker 6: into some unaccountable shape.
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Speaker 4: A stray cat. I tell you what, godstrum. Had you
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Speaker 4: beheld this cat, you'd thought yourself lucky to get out
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Speaker 4: of his claws, And however unaccountable it may appear, you'd
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Speaker 4: give a very different account of the affair.
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Speaker 2: A coward.
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Speaker 4: Now you must know in the first place, that no
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Speaker 4: sooner had we gained the skirts the forest than it
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Speaker 4: began to rain, thunder, enlighten it.
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Speaker 12: Wow.
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Speaker 4: No, it wasn't well, for I was speedily drenched through
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Speaker 4: and through, and so proceed I did proceed, through brambles
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Speaker 4: and quagmires, till he came to a dark, dreary glen
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Speaker 4: in one of the most retired quarters of the Black Forest.
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Speaker 4: The very thought of it makes me shudder still, Petro,
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Speaker 4: you may return to the castle, says my master, What
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Speaker 4: and leave you all alone in this place? Says I?
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Speaker 4: In return, No blow me if I do anything of
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Speaker 4: the kind. Because I thought there would not be so
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Speaker 4: much danger in remaining with him as there would be
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Speaker 4: in returning alone, and.
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Speaker 1: So now to scare the Poltroon, who with Matzena, has
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Speaker 1: stolen to the side.
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Speaker 6: Petro, Hey, what's that behind you?
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Speaker 1: A ghost?
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Speaker 13: A ghost.
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Speaker 1: Runs off with Contram laughing. Pietro, unable for some time
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Speaker 1: to look around.
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Speaker 4: It's here again. Oh ye, saints, I'm a poor lost sinner. Mercy, murder, mercy.
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Speaker 1: He scamps off. Scene three, a gallery in the castle.
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Speaker 1: At the back staircase leading to the laboratory of Frankenstein,
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Speaker 1: Antonio discovered sleeping in an arm chair and to Cecilia.
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Speaker 12: I have seen my unfortunate brother, who informs me he
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Speaker 12: possesses the means of restoring peace to the bosom of Frankenstein.
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Speaker 12: Heaven grant him success and reinstate him in the tenderness
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Speaker 12: of our parent. Antonio sleeps, aware of my uneasiness at
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Speaker 12: the absence of his father. He endeavored to offer consolation,
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Speaker 12: dear child, soon, will you call me by the name
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Speaker 12: of mother. How sweet it will be to fulfill those duties.
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Speaker 12: What can it be that thus alarms him? Antonio?
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Speaker 16: Antonio Antonio awaking, Oh is it you, my kind to Celia,
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Speaker 16: I've been very much frightened. What has alarmed you such
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Speaker 16: a horrid dream?
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Speaker 12: A dream? What was it?
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Speaker 3: I thought we were in my father's laboratory, where you know,
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Speaker 3: neither I nor you nor any one attempt to enter.
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Speaker 3: I seated on thy knees, and you kissed me tenderly,
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Speaker 3: and my father also kissed me. When a tall man
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Speaker 3: came in and threatened to kill me, You and my
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Speaker 3: father hastened to my assistants, but he dashed you on
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Speaker 3: the floor, and with my father was gone in a moment. Oh,
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Speaker 3: is not this a sad dream?
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Speaker 12: Yes, yes, undoubtedly, But my dear Antonio, it was but
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Speaker 12: a dream.
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Speaker 3: I don't have such dreams. For why should any one
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Speaker 3: wish to.
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Speaker 12: Why indeed, my dearest child, But here is my father
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Speaker 12: and a holbine hah, my kind good.
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Speaker 17: Friend, every blessing attend you, my sweetest boy. Is not
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Speaker 17: Frankenstein returned yet?
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Speaker 12: Not yet?
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Speaker 17: Night approaches? Tis time that we return to our cottage.
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Speaker 12: My dear father. Let us tarry here sometime longer.
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Speaker 3: Yes, pray, don't go away so soon.
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Speaker 17: Frankenstein's stay alarms me. What can it be? What can
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Speaker 17: occasion it at this hour? Alas for some time past?
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Speaker 17: How greatly is he changed by study. He seldom remains
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Speaker 17: with us long, and when spoken to, replies with difficulty.
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Speaker 12: He is constantly absorbed in study.
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Speaker 17: Would that he were less anxiously employed. If credit may
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Speaker 17: be given to the reports, it arises from a guilty source.
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Speaker 17: But tis not as rich as that he assured my
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Speaker 17: approbation and esteem. Tis his virtues alone induced me to
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Speaker 17: consent to your union.
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Speaker 12: Nor doubt? But he will prove the most tender of sons.
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Speaker 17: He will console me for the one I have lost,
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Speaker 17: and whose memory I must ever hold in abhorrence.
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Speaker 12: My dear father, Janskin will love you with equal favor.
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Speaker 17: Yan Skin. Has he not been the cause of my ruin?
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Speaker 12: Was he to present himself? Could you refuse to receive
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Speaker 12: him to your arms?
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Speaker 17: Was he to present himself? But no, that is impossible.
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Speaker 1: A knock is heard at the door.
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Speaker 12: Hark, Perhaps tis Frankenstein.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it is my father, and Tayanskin. The child as
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Speaker 1: a shriek and flies to Holbein.
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Speaker 7: Janskin, heavens my father.
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Speaker 17: Who is it? Antonio appears a lord?
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Speaker 12: Father tis not a stranger, but a person attached to
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Speaker 12: the castle.
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Speaker 1: Motioned silence, Holbein sits down. Cecilia aside.
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Speaker 12: What purpose brings you hither to calm and dissipate thy alarms?
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Speaker 7: I have seen Frankenstein, who, thanks to my counsel and entreaties,
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Speaker 7: will not, I trust, execute a project which cannot be explained.
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Speaker 7: Tomorrow he will conduct THEE to the altar. Another day
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Speaker 7: would have been too late.
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Speaker 12: What mystery more?
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Speaker 7: At present I cannot disclose. My followers await me for
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Speaker 7: dangers threaten than tomorrow, at daybreak, seek the summit of
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Speaker 7: the Black Mountain. There will I await THEE farewell. But
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Speaker 7: ere my departure, might I not be permitted?
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Speaker 17: Pointing to his father, Well, se Celia brings he any
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Speaker 17: comforting intelligence.
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Speaker 12: Father, you need not be uneasy.
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Speaker 1: She holds the hand of her father, while her brother
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Speaker 1: kisses it.
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Speaker 17: My dear child, you appear deeply affected. I even thought
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Speaker 17: a tear drops upon my hand.
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Speaker 1: Urged by his sister, Janscan is withdrawing. When he is
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Speaker 1: run against by Pietro. He exits hastily.
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Speaker 4: Tis the devil, but rather the chief of hush zounds.
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Speaker 4: They're all of the same humor. Now one of them
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Speaker 4: will allow me to speak a single word.
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Speaker 17: Is that Pietro?
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Speaker 4: Yes, my lord, it's I, Petro, where have you left
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Speaker 4: your master in the forest. In the forest, yes, any
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Speaker 4: faith was I to be bastioninated to death. I'll relate
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Speaker 4: the most fearful adventure which ever befell an honest man,
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Speaker 4: only to suppose it, after having traveled ever so many
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Speaker 4: leagues in the forest, which is of a truth, the
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Speaker 4: abode of all the magicians and sorcerers of the country,
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Speaker 4: we arrived at a spot where was impossible to see
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Speaker 4: your fingers before you, even in broad day, And to Frankenstein,
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Speaker 4: on a sudden I saw as plainly as I see
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Speaker 4: you silence. Silence again, Oh Lord, oh dear, I'm silent, Sir,
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Speaker 4: I'm dumb.
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Speaker 17: You are length returned, Dear Frankenstein. You have made us
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Speaker 17: tarry late.
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Speaker 2: Pardon my dear sir, and your Cecilia. Important affairs detained
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Speaker 2: me much longer than I expected.
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Speaker 17: You are here and all is forgotten. But pray be
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Speaker 17: more careful of your health, nor thus alarm your friends.
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Speaker 17: You know the reports that are spread of your mysterious proceedings.
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Speaker 17: And on what condition I bestow the hand of my daughter.
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Speaker 17: Destroy the implements of a proscribed science, and I shall
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Speaker 17: then be tranquil as to your future fate, it is
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Speaker 17: tomorrow you are to call me father.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, tomorrow, Tomorrow I shall have that bliss.
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Speaker 17: At my abode. Your nuptials will take place. You will
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Speaker 17: take Cecilia from a cottage. But forget not that you
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Speaker 17: loved her for herself. Your tenderness as afford is comfort
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Speaker 17: to my declining days. And now you are about to
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Speaker 17: add to my obligations by undertaking the happiness of my child.
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Speaker 17: Let the present night be dedicated to repose my little Antonio.
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Speaker 17: Will conduct me home. Say will you not mist willingly?
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Speaker 12: Father? I will follow you instantly.
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Speaker 1: Exee tolbine et cetera.
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Speaker 12: A word, my friend, ere we part?
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Speaker 2: What would my dearest Cecilia?
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Speaker 12: You have seen my brother, but fear nothing. He has
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Speaker 12: not made me the confidant of your mysterious conduct, and
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Speaker 12: this day I will still respect them. But tomorrow, forget
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Speaker 12: not that you ought no longer to have any mystery
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Speaker 12: concealed from your wife.
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Speaker 2: Belave me necessity alone.
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Speaker 12: Nay, I ask nothing, nor will I this evening require
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Speaker 12: the slightest explanation. But take the advice of my father
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Speaker 12: seek repose. Your features are altered by so many painful exertions,
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Speaker 12: Oh Frankenstein, let us live only for each other tis
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Speaker 12: the choicest and sweetest.
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Speaker 2: Study, my dear Cecilia.
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Speaker 12: Rely on my tenderness. Cannot I dissipate this sadness, this
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Speaker 12: loathed melancholy, which even at this moment is depicted on
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Speaker 12: thy visage. I shall then think you no longer love me,
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Speaker 12: a reflection that will embitter my days, and soon, ah
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Speaker 12: soon deprive you of your Cecilia.
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Speaker 2: What say you? Sooner would I die a thousand deaths
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Speaker 2: than cause you a moment's affliction? You exact that I
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Speaker 2: should abandon my researches. You shall be obeyed. From tomorrow, Yon,
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Speaker 2: laboratory shall be closed forever, and I will live but
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Speaker 2: for my Cecilia, happy possessor of an adored object. Every
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Speaker 2: thought but her shall be a stranger to my bosom.
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Speaker 12: You have given your promise. I ought and will believe
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Speaker 12: it now to join my father, farewell till to morrow.
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Speaker 2: To morrow I shall commence a new existence.
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Speaker 12: Think on your oath, farewell exit.
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Speaker 2: I have sworn to morrow to morrow, but this night
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Speaker 2: is still mine. I am alone. Why have they withdrawn greatly?
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Speaker 2: Did I need their presence? Must my enterprise be left
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Speaker 2: incomplete after so many years of anxious research, possessed of
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Speaker 2: such an extraordinary power, must I behold it annihilated without
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Speaker 2: attaining the slightest benefit. Ah, the object of my attempt
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Speaker 2: is there, should I succeed, but those misfortunes with which
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Speaker 2: I am threatened augh, A light breaks in upon me.
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Speaker 2: A power jealous of my potency, is perhaps desirous by
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Speaker 2: alarming to oppose my triumph. Yes, that may be so.
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Speaker 2: Sumner bugbears to frighten the irresolute tis a horrid knight.
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Speaker 2: The loud peals of thunder and the broad glare of
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Speaker 2: vivid lightning accord well with the deed I am about
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Speaker 2: to perpetrate. Come for the last time. Now fortitude assists. Yes,
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Speaker 2: it is resolved.
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Speaker 1: He goes up and enters the laboratory. Pietro enters with
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Speaker 1: a lamp.
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Speaker 4: My master has not yet returned to his chamber. Now
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Speaker 4: when I wager that he is still in its laboratory,
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Speaker 4: in the midst of its crucibles alan Beck's and Devil's
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Speaker 4: kitchen utensils. However, he must be up in times, for
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Speaker 4: Miss Celia has strictly cautioned me too.
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Speaker 1: He tumbles against a chair and drops the lamp.
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Speaker 4: Oh lord, oh dear, here I am alone in the dark.
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Speaker 4: What will become of me?
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Speaker 1: A blue flame issues from one of the laboratory windows.
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Speaker 4: Good Lord, who can that be? I'm burning to know.
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Speaker 4: Don't believe I ever felt such courage. It's a good omen.
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Speaker 1: Here goes He ascends the stairs. Frankenstein in the laboratory.
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Speaker 2: What have I done? What have I accomplished?
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Speaker 1: Peter rushes downstairs, trembling in every limb. He falls on
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Speaker 1: the floor.
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Speaker 4: Ah, what have I seen? Wretched?
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Speaker 5: I am?
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Speaker 4: It's all over with me.
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Speaker 1: Hastens off.
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Speaker 4: I'm a dead man. Help help.
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Speaker 1: Frankenstein rushes down Horror, Horror, back, demon fiend, Back to
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Speaker 1: the cold and lifeless corpse you were before.
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Speaker 2: My folly gave you animation. What fearful monster? Has hell resigned? Oh?
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Speaker 2: I feel his cold and clammy hand upon me. Still,
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Speaker 2: merciful Heavens? What dreadful object have I created? Oh? Already
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Speaker 2: as my punishment begun? Already do I feel that I
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Speaker 2: have merited the punishment of heaven? All this tranquil Perhaps
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Speaker 2: the monster has relapsed into oblivion. Should it be so?
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Speaker 2: But no, he lives to be my eternal girls, Antonio,
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Speaker 2: my son, Dear Cecilia, you I dare no longer approach.
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Speaker 2: I am lost, lost forever.
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Speaker 1: He sinks, exhausted in the chair. The door of the
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Speaker 1: laboratory opens, the monster springs over the balcony.
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Speaker 2: Heavens tis he Monster.
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Speaker 1: Gazes at him attentively, whilst he recoils with horror.
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Speaker 2: Monster approach me. Not, hans are dread my vengeance? No, no,
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Speaker 2: you shall not quit this spot. But thus thus I
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Speaker 2: destroy the wretch I have created.
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Speaker 1: Frankenstein attempts to stab the monster, who snatches the sword
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Speaker 1: and breaks it, then disappears by breaking through the wall.
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Speaker 1: Frankenstein falls senseless and the act finishes and the Act one,
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Speaker 1: Act two of The Monster and Magician or The Fate
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Speaker 1: of Frankenstein by John Kerr. This is a LibriVox recording.
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Speaker 1: scene the first the forest the Bohemians discovered, seated around
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Speaker 1: the fire, regaling though from.
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Speaker 9: Man condemned to rome and like wolves to hunt for prey.
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Speaker 9: Where we stray, we make our home, heedless of the
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Speaker 9: coming day.
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Speaker 14: When danger threatens, we are alert. The call of joy
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Speaker 14: will ne'er desert. Beneath the oak. Our tents we spread.
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Speaker 14: The forest chase provides our fare. Luxurious meals we do
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Speaker 14: not heed, whilst we have generous wine to share.
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Speaker 7: It cannot be long ere Cecilia arrives a few more hours,
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Speaker 7: and I dare entertain the hope that a father's malediction
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Speaker 7: will no longer overwhelm me. Frankenstein has abandoned his fatal purpose,
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Speaker 7: and this day he a sponsors my sister, an union
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Speaker 7: which will wean him from his fatal purpose.
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Speaker 1: Enter Petruschool at length.
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Speaker 8: I have found my way.
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Speaker 1: Back, giving a letter to Janskin.
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Speaker 8: Here is a letter which an inhabitant of the neighboring
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Speaker 8: hamlet charged me to.
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Speaker 7: Del tis from Cecilia. I cannot attend the prepared rendezvous,
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Speaker 7: but have spoken to my father, and everything conduces to
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Speaker 7: make me entertain the hope that he will pronounce thy forgiveness.
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Speaker 7: This is the extreme of happiness. Now, then, what have
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Speaker 7: we to dread? Nothing?
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Speaker 8: The Venetians, deceived by my stratagem, have taken another route,
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Speaker 8: and I have left two of our party at the
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Speaker 8: entrance of the forest to apprise us. Should the enemy
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Speaker 8: retrace their steps. Hark, someone approaches.
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Speaker 7: I am not mistaken. Tis the valet of Frankenstein. He
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Speaker 7: appears alarmed? What can it mean?
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Speaker 1: Petrusco intercepting his passage?
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Speaker 4: Halfe bet hello, here's another stop gap? O Lord, O Lord,
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Speaker 4: it's all over with me now. Mercy, mercy, sweet thieves, Bohemians,
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Speaker 4: enraged thieves.
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Speaker 8: We are Bohemians, my good fellow. Do you comprehend?
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Bohemians, not thieves. I didn't mean to call
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Speaker 4: you so bohemians. I mean good, honest, well meaning folks
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Speaker 4: who I am sure won't wish to do any harm
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Speaker 4: to a poor devil.
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Speaker 7: Approach and fear nothing.
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Speaker 4: Why it's he again? It seems certain that I am
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Speaker 4: to meet him in all parts.
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Speaker 7: Come hi, though, I say, yes, mister.
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Speaker 4: Captain, I'm coming here.
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Speaker 7: I am Answer me? Where are you going.
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Speaker 4: To the cottage of Hobin, an old blind man.
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Speaker 7: Who lives from whence?
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Speaker 4: Come you from my master's castle?
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Speaker 7: But why this haste? You appear agitated? Say from what cause?
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Speaker 4: Oh, precious serious cause, I can assure you did you
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Speaker 4: but know what took place last night at the castle?
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Speaker 7: And above all, what I saw confusion. Has Frankenstein forgotten
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Speaker 7: his promise? Friends?
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Speaker 1: You may withdraw exit Bohamians mean.
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Speaker 4: I withdraw as well, mister captain.
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Speaker 7: No, stay where you are.
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Speaker 4: Stay where I am. Here's a pretty go. Really, my Lord,
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Speaker 4: I don't see you have any occasion for me.
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Speaker 7: Stay where you are, I say, I would speak.
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Speaker 4: With thee speak to me, oh, very gladly, excuse the conversation.
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Speaker 4: They seem all in the speaking way and won't allow
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Speaker 4: me to wage in a syllable.
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Speaker 7: Say when I quitted Frankenstein last night near the old
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Speaker 7: monument of the forest, did he retire forthwith not?
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Speaker 4: He? He remained his worse luck would have it?
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Speaker 7: And how was he employed?
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Speaker 4: Faith? I can't say precisely, because my master, do you see,
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Speaker 4: threw me into a sort of a he just he
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Speaker 4: did just so, and I was struck just so.
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Speaker 7: What has passed at the castle that has been so alarming?
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Speaker 7: What did you behold?
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Speaker 4: Zeus? I saw? I really can't tell you exactly what
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Speaker 4: I saw. All that I can say is that I
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Speaker 4: thought I beheld in Master's laboratories something very unaccountable. Put
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Speaker 4: the figure a corpse upon my soul, and all your
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Speaker 4: gang in which they are saving your presence, a rascally
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Speaker 4: set of ill looking chaps that I don't believe you
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Speaker 4: of one thing that's half so ugly.
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Speaker 7: He is lost and my sister, my father, Oh, may
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Speaker 7: I at least protect them from the fatal influence which
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Speaker 7: Frankenstein's compact has extended over them.
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Speaker 4: Is that all you wish to know may now be
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Speaker 4: permitted to you know what I mean?
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Speaker 7: Yes, you may now withdraw, but beware of saying aught
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Speaker 7: to any one of what you have witnessed.
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Speaker 4: If you but prate, prate, I guess then what I
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Speaker 4: should have to expect. But I'll be mute as a
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Speaker 4: stock fish. Since tis your pleasure, I beg pardon, sir,
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Speaker 4: But I think I perceived my master. It's he sure
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Speaker 4: enough in a precious hurries. And one would suppose, like me, afraid,
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Speaker 4: given a spur to his motion.
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Speaker 7: What a state of agitation. You may now withdraw?
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Speaker 4: Ay, in are a full trot now to collect the
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Speaker 4: wedding guests. When a mercy these chaps didn't put an
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Speaker 4: end to my errand then there would be no chance
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Speaker 4: of my dancing at the festivity.
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Speaker 1: Exit And to Frankenstein Hans Hans approach me not, living specter,
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Speaker 1: What would you with me?
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Speaker 2: Why arrest my progress? Am I then the prey whom
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Speaker 2: you would div Oh? Yes, twas I who gave you
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Speaker 2: being That crime is my work, and thine it is
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Speaker 2: to avenged. Come then and gulf me in that hell
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Speaker 2: from which I have dragged THEE. But suffer me at
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Speaker 2: least to be thy only victim lost.
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Speaker 1: Man approaching him.
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Speaker 7: Frankenstein, who calls tis I yanskin, thy friend.
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Speaker 2: Approach me not you will become the associate of crime,
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Speaker 2: like me, the horror of the earth, accursed by heaven,
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Speaker 2: the mark of all the torture's hell has in store
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Speaker 2: the triumph of the damned.
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Speaker 7: Be thyself, Frankenstein, Despite thy crime, I pity thee.
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Speaker 2: Pity pity have I entertained pity for my fellow creatures
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Speaker 2: when I cast upon the earth anexecrable enemy. No Heaven
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Speaker 2: is just. And since the moment I presume to outrage humanity,
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Speaker 2: its wrath has dwelt heavily on my devoted head.
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Speaker 7: Thy crime is frightful, but divine mercy is infinite. Perhaps
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Speaker 7: the monster to whom thy presumptive deed has given birth,
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Speaker 7: has already yielded up his unhallowed existence.
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Speaker 2: No, no, this night a night of horror which curdles
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Speaker 2: my very heart's blood. I beheld the monster peer for
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Speaker 2: some period. He vanished, but his frightful image pursued me everywhere. Frantic,
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Speaker 2: I quitted my abode and, exhausted with fatigue, sunk at
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Speaker 2: the entrance of the forest. But scarcely had I sought
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Speaker 2: a moment's repose. Ere I again perceived the monster who
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Speaker 2: seemed to triumph in my fears, whilst the genie of
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Speaker 2: whom stood smiling at my misery.
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Speaker 7: Perhaps your bewildered imagination gives birth to ideal horrors. All
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Speaker 7: around us is in tranquility.
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Speaker 2: AI for a moment, but soon hark here you not,
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Speaker 2: I think that I perceive nothing.
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Speaker 7: Come banish these vain terrors. Listen to the voice of reason,
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Speaker 7: and friendship is.
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Speaker 2: Mine No longer all is terminated. Death, death on which
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Speaker 2: I call, can alone put a period to my torments.
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Speaker 7: Your son, would you leave him without a protector? You
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Speaker 7: may still hope for days of happiness to Janskin.
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Speaker 2: With what consoling hope do you inspire me?
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Speaker 7: Rustic music tis my bohemians who are repairing to my
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Speaker 7: father's cottage. Come, I will conduct you to the frontiers
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Speaker 7: of the forest.
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Speaker 1: They retire. The monster now appears on the rocks, seize
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Speaker 1: the fire, and taking a piece of flighted wood, which
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Speaker 1: burns his finger, he throws it from him, expressing the pain.
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Speaker 1: Hearing the music, he listens with ecstasy, endeavoring to catch it,
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Speaker 1: and exits following its modulations. And to Pietro and villagers.
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Speaker 4: Come, that's away to the wedding. I don't say who
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Speaker 4: I'll dance with, but mind no tearing caps about me.
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Speaker 4: With shape and looks of killing a handsomer youth, you'll
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Speaker 4: ne'er find these pretty girls. If you are willin' take
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Speaker 4: a husband, wilt dib in mind, don't look shy, don't
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Speaker 4: look shy, don't look shy. Well the day on poor ay,
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Speaker 4: But come young lasses and let us be gay and
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Speaker 4: merrily merrily dance away for a watts or quadrille. I'm
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Speaker 4: in cue, I must say, and will as flowers in may,
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Speaker 4: come away and will merrily dance and play. If there's
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Speaker 4: a maid inclined to marry and beg shall not be
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Speaker 4: your choy. And no doubt if hopes don't miscarry. Eve
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Speaker 4: at nine months a fine chopping boy, Pretty dear, pretty dear,
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Speaker 4: pretty dear, Oh dear, pretty dear. And then with my mate,
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Speaker 4: I'll be happy and gay. We'll laugh, dance and sing
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Speaker 4: and drive sorrow away with the sweet little baby. Looks
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Speaker 4: how he will play and teach him to dance like
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Speaker 4: Papa night and day will merrily dance and play.
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Speaker 1: Seen the second cottage of holbein so an opening is
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Speaker 1: seen a rustic bridge. On one side is a door,
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Speaker 1: the other a stove village girls discovered with Cecilia.
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Speaker 12: Thanks, thanks friends, I am now in readiness. But Frankenstein
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Speaker 12: has not kept his promise. He should have been here.
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Speaker 12: Ere now, Antonio, where is my father?
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Speaker 3: He's going to join my father.
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Speaker 12: Frankenstein is tardy in his arrival. But why that noise?
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Speaker 12: Pietro comes? Perhaps he can explain? Pietro enters Pietro, what
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Speaker 12: occasions this tumult?
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Speaker 4: Zeukes? Miss Cecilia, tis these confounded bohemians? Again?
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Speaker 12: Have they been pursued?
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Speaker 4: Quite the contrary, Miss tis they who are in pursuit?
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Speaker 4: Why and wherefore? I know not? But they are scampering here,
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Speaker 4: coming to join the party, Zeukes? How they do stride?
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Speaker 4: I have a good pair of shanks of my own.
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Speaker 4: But I couldn't gallop at such a rate.
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Speaker 3: As father is not come, I'll run and meet him.
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Speaker 3: Come along with.
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Speaker 1: Me, friends, exit with villages.
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Speaker 4: Pietro asighed he's God, fetch her a husband. That I
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Speaker 4: have my doubts whether there will be any.
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Speaker 12: Wedding, Pietro, what are you talking about?
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Speaker 4: Nothing? Miss, absolutely nothing, And I beg it to be
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Speaker 4: understood that I have said nothing, nothing at all. Why
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Speaker 4: so you'll recollect, Miss that I said nothing, so that
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Speaker 4: I may call you as a witness since.
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Speaker 12: Your arrival, Pietro, I have remarked that you have worn
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Speaker 12: an air of mystery.
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Speaker 4: True, Miss, But then I have my reasons.
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Speaker 12: What are they?
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Speaker 4: Beg pardon? I have reasons for not telling you my reasons.
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Speaker 12: Well, then, since there are.
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Speaker 4: Secrets, yes, famous secrets, And I was to tell you
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Speaker 4: why you'd be as wise as myself? Hark ye, Miss,
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Speaker 4: But I beg you won't make me babble, because as
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Speaker 4: how I've much inclined to do so, and should that
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Speaker 4: misfortune happen, I might get into a hobble.
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Speaker 12: I will not be in discreet. But tell me have
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Speaker 12: you completed the preparation for the fete? Is everything in
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Speaker 12: order in the garden, Yes.
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Speaker 4: Yes, miss, The tables, wine orchestra are all ready. We
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Speaker 4: only want the dancers, the drinkers, and the musicians, rustic
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Speaker 4: music and zooks. Here they come in the nicer time.
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Speaker 1: Exit. The monster enters and perceives Cecilia at the moment
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Speaker 1: she is retiring. He opens the door by which she
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Speaker 1: has withdrawn, and regards her with rapture. His eyes are
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Speaker 1: now directed towards a mirror, and recoils on beholding his
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Speaker 1: own resemblance. He endeavors to catch his own reflection, and
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Speaker 1: after some pantomime business, conceals himself. Upon the entrance of Janskin.
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Speaker 7: Twas impossible to overtake him. Heaven send that he may
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Speaker 7: have fled far from the spot, nor bring amongst us
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Speaker 7: terror and desolation. And to Cecilia, dearest Cecila, say his
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Speaker 7: Frankenstein arrived not.
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Speaker 12: Yet, but his stay cannot be long.
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Speaker 7: Janskin asighed he should have been here ere now fatal delay?
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Speaker 4: What is it?
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Speaker 12: Janskin? You appear uneasy? You dread least my father should
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Speaker 12: oppose your prayers. You received my letter I wrote therein
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Speaker 12: that every circumstance tended to promote our reunion.
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Speaker 7: Should you obtain my pardon? What other ties have I
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Speaker 7: to form? I shall then be reunited to those I love,
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Speaker 7: and our father will then enjoy a life of tranquility.
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Speaker 12: Heaven grant no obstacle may interpose to more our felicity.
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Speaker 1: Frankenstein and Holbein appear on bridge.
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Speaker 7: Frankenstein did he anon? We shall have nothing to dread?
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Speaker 7: My father too. The anxious sought moment is at length arrived.
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Speaker 1: And to Holbein and Frankenstein.
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Speaker 17: My children, I had but one crop. Now I shall
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Speaker 17: possess too.
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Speaker 7: You have not observed him?
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Speaker 2: No, and my hopes revive?
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Speaker 12: Father. Here is the person inquiring for you?
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Speaker 17: What would he with me?
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Speaker 12: He brings information of one that is dear to us,
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Speaker 12: and of whom I spoke to you. But some moments
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Speaker 12: since who mean you? Janskin? Father? Tis of him? He
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Speaker 12: comes to.
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Speaker 17: Speak, Oh, my son, does he still live? But what
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Speaker 17: would he inform me? Cecilia? Where is the.
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Speaker 1: Person Yanskin approaching?
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Speaker 7: I am here, my Lord?
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Speaker 17: Was it my son who sent you?
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Speaker 7: Yes? Yes it was?
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Speaker 17: What are his wishes?
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Speaker 2: Is then?
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Speaker 17: The pride of the haughty subdued? You knew him? Frankenstein
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Speaker 17: he became fascinated with a science which merited the wrath
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Speaker 17: of heaven and the contempt of his creatures. He abandoned
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Speaker 17: the pursuit of honor, and deaf to my counsel's and entreaties,
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Speaker 17: entailed my ruin, dishonored our name, and rendered me like
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Speaker 17: himself the horror of our fellow citizens, from whose society
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Speaker 17: I have been compelled to withdraw. Yes to him, I
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Speaker 17: owe all the miseries of my existence. And after a
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Speaker 17: silence of six years, what motive can he now have
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Speaker 17: forever remembering his father?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 7: Believe it not. Never has he ceased to remember to
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Speaker 7: bow with veneration at the name of father? What boy
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Speaker 7: is that great? Has been his guilt towards you, numerous
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Speaker 7: his crimes, But did you know by how many sufferings
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Speaker 7: he has expiated his faults in pity. Shut not your
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Speaker 7: heart against him, be not deaf to his prayer, And
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Speaker 7: all his future days shall be dedicated to repair his misdeeds.
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Speaker 1: What can you be, yanskin falling at his feet?
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Speaker 7: Yes, sire, Yes, your son, your wretched son, who comes
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Speaker 7: to implore, pardon and expire at your.
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Speaker 17: Feet powers of innocence away approach me.
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Speaker 12: Not, Father, Can you be inexorable?
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Speaker 2: Will you accord?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 2: Boomed the repentant the name of heaven?
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Speaker 17: Reject him, not, Cecilia, you have deceived me. I yet
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Speaker 17: want to be in flexible, but he is there. Nor
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Speaker 17: have I sufficient fortitude to resist. I can no longer
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Speaker 17: close my arms against him.
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Speaker 1: Father embracing him. A shriek is heard, and Antonio and
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Speaker 1: villagers in a state of alarm?
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Speaker 17: What means this alarm?
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Speaker 7: Why that fearful shriek?
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Speaker 1: Pietro advancing hello, I say, what's all this?
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Speaker 3: Why, ce Celia? Had you but seen seen what you recollect?
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Speaker 3: What the figure to toddo saw in my dream?
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Speaker 17: Well?
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Speaker 3: Just now, as I returned to the cottage, I saw him?
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Speaker 2: Where there?
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Speaker 3: Yonder?
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Speaker 7: Could it be? He come? Friends? Let us endeavor to
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Speaker 7: ascertain what has so greatly alarmed Antonio.
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Speaker 1: Exit villagers headed by Janskin.
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Speaker 4: Aye aye, But don't go and ascertain. As for me,
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Speaker 4: I am not at all curious. I've already had my.
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Speaker 1: Share Frankenstein aside, My fortitude has abandoned me.
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Speaker 2: Heavens are my fearful presentiments about to be accomplished?
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Speaker 1: Horbein aside?
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Speaker 17: Have you disregarded your oath, and am I to suspect
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Speaker 17: that far from abandoning your guilty labors?
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Speaker 2: No, no, believe it.
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Speaker 17: Not yet your hand trembles.
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Speaker 1: Methinks in mine antoyanskan with villagers.
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Speaker 7: We have discovered no one, our little Antonio has been deceived.
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Speaker 1: Frankenstein aside.
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Speaker 2: Can it be possible?
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Speaker 12: Yes, yes, tis probable.
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Speaker 3: Indeed I saw him plainly.
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Speaker 4: The clock strikes four oh oh length. There's the happy signal.
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Speaker 17: Tis the hour appointed for the ceremony. Let us proceed,
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Speaker 17: give the signal for departure.
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Speaker 4: Own friends, come along, I'll place myself at your head.
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Speaker 1: Exit Holvine, Antonio and Pietro ere.
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Speaker 12: We proceed to the altar. I would speak to you
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Speaker 12: for an instant.
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Speaker 7: On what subject?
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Speaker 2: Dearest Cecilia, delay not a moment.
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Speaker 12: The interview is necessary?
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Speaker 7: Is it for thy happiness?
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Speaker 12: Yes? 'tis in the name of that happiness that I entreat.
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Speaker 4: It was you.
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Speaker 7: But to comprehend what then?
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Speaker 2: Nothing? Nothing, Dear Cecilia. I will hear you, young skin,
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Speaker 2: pray thee retire and like me watch over her safety.
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Speaker 12: We are alone, and on the short interview will perhaps
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Speaker 12: depend future felicity. It is but justice I should possess
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Speaker 12: your amplest confidence. Would you disguise the trouble by which
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Speaker 12: you are agitated?
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Speaker 1: Heavens, what would you say aside?
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Speaker 2: I shudder with alarm.
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Speaker 12: You have not kept your promise.
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Speaker 2: I must avow to you that a dreadful secret presses
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Speaker 2: on my soul. But I swear in the phase of
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Speaker 2: heaven which is about to receive our vows, you shall
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Speaker 2: know it, and you will then see. Far from breaking
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Speaker 2: the bonds by which we are united, it ought to
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Speaker 2: strengthen them still more. In conducting you to the altar,
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Speaker 2: I do not alone recompense the virtues of Cecilia. My
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Speaker 2: fate depends on her.
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Speaker 12: I ought to confide in your sincerity. Yes, to doubt
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Speaker 12: that you love me, it would be an outrage to
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Speaker 12: a spo.
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Speaker 2: Dearest Cecilia, you are mine, forever mine.
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Speaker 1: The monster approaches the lovers, expresses his admiration of Cecilia,
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Speaker 1: becomes enraged at seeing her in the arms of Frankenstein.
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Speaker 1: He darts on Cecilia. At the moment she quits her
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Speaker 1: lovers on brace, she perceives the monster, who extends his
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Speaker 1: arms towards her. Uttering a fearful shriek, she rushes off
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Speaker 1: across the bridge.
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Speaker 2: Horror is he the monster is.
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Speaker 1: About to pursue Cecilia. Frankenstein opposes his passage. The monster
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Speaker 1: dashes him on the earth and hastens across the bridge
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Speaker 1: after Cecilia. Frankenstein's about to follow, when at the moment
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Speaker 1: several armed villagers appear at the back. Frankenstein seizes a
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Speaker 1: gun and exits. Cecilia appears on the bridge in the
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Speaker 1: arms of the monster. Holbein rushes on the bridge, to
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Speaker 1: whose arms the monster consigns.
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Speaker 17: Dear is Cecilia. Alas she answers.
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Speaker 1: Not, Holbyn enters. Supporting Cecilia, she revives, and, perceiving the
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Speaker 1: monster with a shriek, again feigns. At this moment, Frankenstein
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Speaker 1: enters and firing wounds the monster, who utters a fearful cry,
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Speaker 1: seizes a lighted brand from the hearth, fires the cottage.
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Speaker 1: They all escape, save Holbein, whom the monster thrusts into
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Speaker 1: the blazing ruins and a wag two. Act three of
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Speaker 1: The Monster and Magician or the Fate of Frankenstein by
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Speaker 1: Please visit LibriVox dot org. Act three. Seen the chamber
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Speaker 1: in the castle, Cecilia discovered, seated with Antonio Janskin, Pietro,
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Speaker 1: Madzena and villagers.
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Speaker 7: Look up my dear sister, Alas, shall I have her
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Speaker 7: death to deplore as well as that of my unhappy parent? Oh, Frankenstein,
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Speaker 7: how much hast thou to answer for?
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Speaker 1: C Sir? My dear lady revives Cecilia gradually reviving.
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Speaker 12: Where am I? What a frightful dream? But how is this?
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Speaker 12: These wedding garments in the name of heaven dissipate my alarms?
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Speaker 12: Why am I here? You answer?
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Speaker 5: Not?
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Speaker 12: I perceive too clearly to snow dream, I have no
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Speaker 12: longer a father. But tell me has Frankenstein perished?
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Speaker 14: No?
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Speaker 7: He lives for a life of protracted misery, an object
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Speaker 7: of horror to all. But see he.
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Speaker 1: Comes and to frankenst he is here.
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Speaker 7: Let us away.
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Speaker 2: You have just cause to loath me, but you shall
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Speaker 2: not much longer behold this hated form. Pietro conduct them
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Speaker 2: to the castle hall, where I will make known my
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Speaker 2: last resolve.
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Speaker 1: Exit Petrol and peasantry Yenskin.
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Speaker 2: Celia too well I know my sight is hateful to you,
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Speaker 2: but in pity to my sufferings, do not drive me
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Speaker 2: to despair.
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Speaker 7: Frankenstein, thy crimes have broken every tie by which were united.
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Speaker 7: Regardless of my friendship and my sister's love, you have
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Speaker 7: perpetrated a deed which entails our general ruin.
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Speaker 2: Ah reproach me not. Heaven has already amply avenged my
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Speaker 2: crime to expiate it. There is no sacrifice but what
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Speaker 2: I am prepared to make, Cecilia. I am about to
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Speaker 2: fly this spot as the only means of preserving those
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Speaker 2: beings who are so dear to me. But ere I
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Speaker 2: take my last farewell? May I not at least hope
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Speaker 2: for thy forgiveness.
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Speaker 18: Oh Frankenstein, Thou hast blighted all my hopes of happiness,
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Speaker 18: and the fondest dreams that mortal ever pictured have been
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Speaker 18: destroyed by thy fatal presumption.
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Speaker 2: And the name of Heaven upbraid me not methought that.
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Speaker 12: When united, no cloud could disturb a tranquility. Our only
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Speaker 12: care would have been that of consoling the declining days
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Speaker 12: of my aged parent. But even that sad consolation is
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Speaker 12: denied me and to you, to you alone, all this
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Speaker 12: is owing.
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Speaker 2: Heaven in pity terminate my wretched being.
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Speaker 7: Why would you appeal to the divinity you have so
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Speaker 7: much outraged to curtail your existence in the very moment
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Speaker 7: of guilt, seek rather to live that by prayer and
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Speaker 7: penitence you may atone to that power whose mercy is
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Speaker 7: never utterly denied, even to the most sinful of its creatures.
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Speaker 7: Do this, Frankenstein, and rank me still among the number
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Speaker 7: of thy friends.
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Speaker 12: Nor can my affection be withheld, For despite thy crime,
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Speaker 12: I find you are so entwined around my affections that
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Speaker 12: to rend the bond is unavailing.
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Speaker 2: Oh sir Celia. When I look on thee onnyanskin one,
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Speaker 2: my darling boy, I can but marvel that I have
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Speaker 2: sinned so greatly.
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Speaker 1: Ander, Pietro and Petrusco.
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Speaker 2: All is lost.
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Speaker 8: The Venetian soldiers, whom we have twice escaped, have discovered
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Speaker 8: our retreat confusion. They are armed against you, Frankenstein, against
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Speaker 8: you to whom we owe all the danger with which
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Speaker 8: we are threatened. They granted but four hours ere you
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Speaker 8: yield yourself up, And if this is not accorded, the castle,
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Speaker 8: with all its inmates, is to be given up to
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Speaker 8: the flames four hours.
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Speaker 7: Then there is still time left for escape. Frankenstein, you
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Speaker 7: shall yet be saved. There are certain outlets in the
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Speaker 7: castle leading to the sea, which shall be explored in
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Speaker 7: the interim to your charge. I can sign my sister Pietro,
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Speaker 7: see that the child has some repose, Nor suffer him
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Speaker 7: for a moment from your presence.
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Speaker 1: Exit with Petrosco.
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Speaker 4: You shall be obeyed, Sir, Come along, my little darling,
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Speaker 4: Exit with child.
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Speaker 12: With what horrors are we enviironed?
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Speaker 2: Regardless of my own safety, Yours is now my only care.
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Speaker 1: They retire. Monster enters, examines round. Observing someone approach, he
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Speaker 1: conceals himself and to Pietro with Antonio and lithov.
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Speaker 4: Now are you sure it's a bottle of good stuff
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Speaker 4: that don't warrant?
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Speaker 5: For all, we've just partaken of the fellow bottle. But arque, Pietro,
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Speaker 5: don't you make two free? For the liquor is potent
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Speaker 5: and may steal away your senses.
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Speaker 4: Don't be afraid of that, old gentleman. You see a
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Speaker 4: courage I must possess, or master will never trust me
1:07:34
Speaker 4: as he has done so. Good night, old gentleman. I've
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Speaker 4: got the key of the door, and to make all safe,
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Speaker 4: we'll lock myself in. Come along, Antonio, there's a man
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Speaker 4: of courage.
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Speaker 1: Second scene, dormitory and the Pietro with Antonio.
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Speaker 4: There now all safe, and so Antonio, you may go
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Speaker 4: to slap as soon as you please.
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Speaker 3: I'm not sleepy. I want to go to my father.
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Speaker 4: But I tell you mustn't go to your father. After father,
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Speaker 4: you now how to protect you, for I am a
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Speaker 4: man of courage, which you always.
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Speaker 3: Sue by running away asighed as I will do the
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Speaker 3: first opportunity.
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Speaker 4: Well, then sit down, and as you are not sleepy,
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Speaker 4: we'll have something to eat and drink I.
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Speaker 3: Pietro, and then you should tell me one of your
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Speaker 3: pretty stories.
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Speaker 4: That I will. I shall have somebody to listen to me.
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Speaker 1: At last, they sit down. When a slight noise.
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Speaker 4: Is heard, there's that confounded tom cat scratching at the door.
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Speaker 4: Go along, Puss, Now I'll tell you my story. And
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Speaker 4: talking about tomcats, it t all about a cat called Grimalkin. Now,
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Speaker 4: Grimalkin had a little kitten. Its name was Calliwa, and
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Speaker 4: Kali Wobble was such an expert mouser that nothing escaped mice, rats, aye,
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Speaker 4: and even the dairy maide cream were all tasted by
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Speaker 4: Kali Wobble. It even made free with poor grim Hawkin's allowance,
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Speaker 4: plundered its own poor mother. Now, wasn't that too bad,
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Speaker 4: so says grim Hawkin too, Kali Wobble.
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Speaker 1: During the above, the child takes the key, opens the door,
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Speaker 1: and is about to escape when Pietro discovers his absence
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Speaker 1: brings him back. In the interim, the monster enters and
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Speaker 1: conceals himself.
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Speaker 4: Oh, you little varlet serve me so. But I'll stop
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Speaker 4: your games, for I'll lock the door and put the
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Speaker 4: key in my pockets.
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Speaker 3: You're a very ill natured man, and I won't listen
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Speaker 3: to your story.
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Speaker 1: But I'll go to sleep despite you lies down.
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Speaker 4: Can't say I much like his going asleep and leaving
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Speaker 4: me here to entertain myself. And I think a storm
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Speaker 4: is bruin nothing but storms late. However, I've got a book,
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Speaker 4: and so I'll seat myself at the foot of Antonio's
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Speaker 4: couch and read and watch him.
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Speaker 1: At the same time, Monster advances from his concealment, but
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Speaker 1: is unable to seize the child, fearful of alarming Pietro.
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Speaker 4: Now, who could have thought that I should have brought
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Speaker 4: a book with me, all about ghosts and hobgoblins. But
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Speaker 4: never mind, I'll read a little of it. I'm not
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Speaker 4: much afraid. The turl clock struck twelve. All was silent
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Speaker 4: as the grave at that instant the light which burned
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Speaker 4: but dimly.
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Speaker 1: The monster extinguishes the light.
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Speaker 4: Hey, what's that? Oh? I suppose it was only the wind.
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Speaker 4: But I can soon relight it at the fire.
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Speaker 1: The monster attempts to seize the child, but retreat on
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Speaker 1: the lamp being relighted.
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Speaker 4: There it's all right, he gad. I begin to feel
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Speaker 4: sleepy myself. That won't do no, I must try something
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Speaker 4: to amuse me. I'll drink a little drop, and I'll
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Speaker 4: sing a little bits.
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Speaker 1: He eats, drinks and hums at June and gradually falls asleep.
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Speaker 1: Monster watches the moment, seizes the child, who shrieks aloud.
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Speaker 1: Pietro awakes, in alarm, and missing his charge, shouts for help,
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Speaker 1: rushing off. Frankenstein enters with a pistol. What cries are
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Speaker 1: those perceiving the monster?
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Speaker 2: Ah? The evil one.
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Speaker 1: Again, Antonio shrieking as he is extended in the monster's arms. Huh, father, father, horror,
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Speaker 1: my son presenting his pistol at the monster.
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Speaker 2: Hold ex grabole wretch.
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Speaker 1: He is about to fire. The monster places the child
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Speaker 1: before him as a target. Frankenstein drops the pistol, exclaiming
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Speaker 1: in agony.
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Speaker 2: No, no, you have nothing to fear. Spare, but my son,
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Speaker 2: restore him to these arms.
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Speaker 1: My son, Frankenstein kneels and implores compassion. But the monster,
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Speaker 1: uttering an inarticulate shout Belshimov.
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Speaker 2: He bears him from me, regardless of my cries, My child,
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Speaker 2: my child.
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Speaker 1: He sinks on the floor. And to Cecilia, what means
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Speaker 1: this clamor?
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Speaker 12: Have they reached the spot? Frankenstein? What has happened?
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Speaker 2: Cecilia? You here fly? This is the abode of demons. Fly, Oh,
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Speaker 2: you will become their victim.
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Speaker 12: In the name of Heaven.
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Speaker 2: Frankenstein, what mean you that I am the most wretched
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Speaker 2: of parents? The ear of inexorable fate is deaf to
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Speaker 2: my cries and yields us to the enemy my presumption
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Speaker 2: has created. Hark. Hear you not the dying groans of
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Speaker 2: my child.
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Speaker 12: Of Antonio there there.
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Speaker 2: See you not his last convulsive struggles. Hear you not
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Speaker 2: his last agonizing shriek, the shriek of death. It vibrates
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Speaker 2: on my brain and drives me to madness. My boy,
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Speaker 2: my Antonio DearS I I have been by assassin.
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Speaker 1: Antonio murdered, antoyanskan hastily.
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Speaker 7: We are overpowered. The majority of my followers are either
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Speaker 7: slain or prisoners, but we have still means of escape.
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Speaker 7: A vessel manned by my bohemian floats in the adjoining bay.
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Speaker 7: Hasten them to the sally port with my sister, while
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Speaker 7: I secure a boat Frankenstein and delay. Not tis for
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Speaker 7: thy eternal salvation.
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Speaker 1: Rushes off.
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Speaker 2: I am reckless of my.
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Speaker 12: Fate, reckless of thy fate. Not so thy Cecilia tarry
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Speaker 12: here for a moment, whilst I speed and procure thee
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Speaker 12: a disguise, hastens off.
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Speaker 2: His hell pacified. Have I not undergone sufficient punishment? What
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Speaker 2: would it more? Amply? Has its minister performed its horrible task.
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Speaker 2: He has deprived me of all my son, wife, friend,
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Speaker 2: and now I am an isolated wretch. But I still live,
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Speaker 2: Still render this spot unhallowed by my presence. A council
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Speaker 2: of ten demanded my head. No, no, tis not on
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Speaker 2: the scaffold. In my days must eminate. My fate is
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Speaker 2: inseparable from the execrable executioner whom I have madly called
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Speaker 2: into existence. Monster. Up Here thou seekest alast a victim,
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Speaker 2: be at the wretched, heart broken Frankenstein.
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Speaker 1: The monster appears, watches Frankenstein's movement, seizes the pistol which
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Speaker 1: the former has laid down. Cecilia enters with a cloak, and,
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Speaker 1: perceiving the monster, exclaims.
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Speaker 12: Spare, oh, spare my Frankenstein.
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Speaker 1: The monster fires, and Cecilia, advancing, receives the ball and
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Speaker 1: expires in the arms of Frankenstein, who places her on
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Speaker 1: the couch. Seizes a dagger and rushes at the monster,
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Speaker 1: who escapes his arm, hurls him round and dashing him
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Speaker 1: on the ground, retires, exulting in his villainy. Seeing the
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Speaker 1: third exterior of the castle, Bohemian's cross the stage pursued
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Speaker 1: by Venetians and Alithov.
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Speaker 5: Here's an upset to all my prospect of angrandizement. The
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Speaker 5: Venetians are battering the walls about her ears and missiles
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Speaker 5: are flying in every direction. Yeah, they'll batter me and
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Speaker 5: make my ducats fly too if they pop on my
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Speaker 5: secret hoard.
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Speaker 1: Pietro runs on alarmed.
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Speaker 4: Here is an end of the world with ever a
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Speaker 4: poor Mordel expected to do so many ups and downs.
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Speaker 5: Now I'm getting in years and my limbs fail me.
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Speaker 5: Now I'd give him my wealth if I could but
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Speaker 5: light on one to get me out of this danger.
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Speaker 4: Pietro, Hey, is that you letov what not? Cut up? Yet?
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Speaker 2: Cut up?
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Speaker 5: I'm done up for certain now if you could only
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Speaker 5: help me out.
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Speaker 4: I wish to the Lord I can help myself out.
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Speaker 4: Every One here is taking care of himself, and here
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Speaker 4: comes Gantria, who it appears have sufficient courage to take
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Speaker 4: care of one besides himself.
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Speaker 1: At Agontram and Mazzina.
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Speaker 5: He appears to take it as if nothing was the matter,
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Speaker 5: while the castle too is tumbling about our ears.
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Speaker 6: Consent to my union with your daughter, and I promise
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Speaker 6: to ensure your safety.
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Speaker 5: Pietro, can you make the same promise insure my safety?
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Speaker 4: Oh, by my soul, I can promise nothing. It's as
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Speaker 4: much as I can do to secure my own preservation.
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Speaker 5: Since that's the case, they'll make a virtue of necessity.
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Speaker 5: As danger threatens.
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Speaker 6: Danger threatens, let's away. A faithful friend protects thy flight.
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Speaker 5: And in that trouble, I must say he is comfort
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Speaker 5: to a wretched white.
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Speaker 13: Hasten then to escape the strife, and whilst time serves,
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Speaker 13: let us.
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Speaker 4: Speakne since it is thus upon my life, I'll not
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Speaker 4: stop here to be undone.
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Speaker 1: Seen the last the Adriatic Sea, a vessel is seen
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Speaker 1: in the midst of the waves, exposed to a violent tempest,
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Speaker 1: on the deck of which is seen Yanskan, Petrusco and Mariness.
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Speaker 1: Frankenstein appears in a small boat, which is tossed to
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Speaker 1: and fro by the billows on beholding him. Those in
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Speaker 1: the ship utter an exclamation of joy.
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Speaker 7: He's escaped the castle flames, but how to gain the vessel?
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Speaker 7: Providence protect thee yes.
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Speaker 2: Yes, if contrution is entitled to commiseration, it will, it will.
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Speaker 1: Throwing a rope towards Frankenstein, which he vainly attempts to seize.
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Speaker 1: The boat from a sudden dust of wind. Being driven
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Speaker 1: at a still greater distance from the vessel, the boat
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Speaker 1: is again compelled towards the ship, and Janskin endeavors a
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Speaker 1: second time to convey the rope to Frankenstein, but is
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Speaker 1: again disappointed. At this moment, the monster appears on the rock,
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Speaker 1: uttering a shout of demoniac joy On beholding him, Frankenstein
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Speaker 1: utters a shriek of despair. Ah the monster darts from
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Speaker 1: the rock into the boat, seizes Frankenstein. A moment after,
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Speaker 1: a thunderbolt descends and severs the bark. The waves vomit
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Speaker 1: forth a mass of fire, and the Magician and his
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Speaker 1: unhallowed abortion are with the boat engulfed in the waves.
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Speaker 1: End of Act three. End of The Monster and Magician,
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Speaker 1: or the Fate of Frankenstein by John Kerr