"I busied myself to think of a story... which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature... and awaken thrilling horror" "one to make the reader dread to look around- to curdle the blood... and quicken the beatings of the heart." "Tell the captain we've got to take in... the top sail!" "She's going to rip!" "Please, Captain !" "We have to drop the sails!" "All hands to the mast!" "Take the wheel!" "Come on!" "We're dead!" "We've hit the ice!" "Iceberg ahead!" "Hard to starboard!" "Help!" "Hold on men !" "Put your backs into it, men!" " Let's go!" " Captain, this is useless." " The ice stretches tor miles." " Do you suggest we lay down and die?" "The men are exhausted." "They can't go on." "I have not come this tar to give up now." "They knew the risk when they signed on." "And we're gonna chop our way to the North Pole if we have to." "Then you run the risk ot mutiny, Captain." " Did you say "mutiny"?" " Yes, I did, sir." "We proceed north as planned." " At the cost ot how many more lives?" " As many as it takes!" "There's something out there." "What the hell is that?" "Who is your captain?" "I am." "Who the devil are you?" "I have no time to talk." "Bring your men and weapons and follow me." " Now!" " Stay where you are!" "I give the orders here." "Stop the dogs!" "Get them!" "Leave them." "They're already dead." "Get back to the ship now!" "Everybody back to the ship!" "Bears don't kill like that!" "Nothing does!" "Maybe it wants that man." " Or it wants the captain." " It's the devil come for the captain." "For the last time, I made my way trom St. Petersburg to Archangel on toot." "From there I took a whaling ship north." "When we hit the ice, I used the dogs." "What's out there?" "Listen to me." "I have spent six years planning this." "My entire tortune." "I will not be stopped by you or some phantom." "Do you share my madness?" "No, not madness." "What, then?" "There's a passage to the North Pole, and I will find it." "At the cost ot your own lite?" "The lives of your crew?" "Lives come and go." "It we succeed, our names will live on torever." "I will be hailed as the benetactor ot our species." "You're wrong." "I, of all men, know that." "Who are you?" "My name... is Victor Frankenstein." "Oh, my wondertul son, Victor." "You are the handsomest, kindest, cleverest... most wondertulest boy in the whole world." "Madam, you will spoil the boy." "Would you and your daughter leave us, please, Mrs. Moritz?" "Come along, Justine." "Victor, this is Elizabeth." "She's coming to live with us." "She's lost both her mother and tather... to the scarlet tever, Victor." "She's an orphan now." "You must think of her as your own sister." "You must look atter her, and be kind to her." "Always." "Mother!" "How is the imminent arrival?" "Oh, a little trisky today." "When you were a little boy, you used to chase tiretlies in the tield." "Yes, and when I'd trap them in my jar, they died." " Do you remember how you cried?" " Yes." "Because you wanted to keep them glowing by your bedside... to light you as you read." "You were so hungry for knowledge." "Such a serious little boy." "You've become such an earnest young man." "All these strange and ancient books." "You'll be an even greater doctor than your tather." "But you know, Victor, life shouldn't be all study." "There's such tun to be had." "Give me that back, Mother." "Change partners and twirl!" "Caroline, you mustn't exert yourselt." "Please." "Don't worry, madam." "Your new baby will be a natural dancer." "Excellent." "You'll be the envy ot all the young ladies and gentlemen." "Please, Justine, may I have this dance?" "Madam." "Come on." "That's it." "You must make a decision." " The baby's in the wrong position." " Cut me." "Oh, I can't." "Cut me." "Save the baby." "She'll be all right." "Father's the tinest doctor in Geneva." "Father?" "Well, how is she?" "I did everything I could." "Mother!" "Bring her back." "Please bring her back." "Oh, Mother, you should never have died." "No one need ever die." "I will stop this." "I promise." "Victor, you're completely obsessed." "Please explain what that is." "It's energy." "It never disappears." "It merely changes torm." "It's possible to convert this candle wax into a mechanical dog's convulsions." "The applications ot this are limitless." "Really." "Well, please come outside, Victor." "It's such a beautiful day." "Go away." "I'm busy." "What's this?" "It's tor spraying down the electric eels." "Now put it down." "It's not tor playing with." "Don't do that." "Give me that." "Yes, come on!" "Atter all, we should be grateful to Victor... tor abandoning his experiments tor one atternoon." "Well, who says I have?" " What do you mean?" " Look!" "We're all going to die." "You knew this was going to happen." "Not for certain." "But I had hoped the conditions would be right." "But I've never seen one quite as large as that." "Look, it's wondertul!" " You shouldn't have done this." " It's all right." " We must take cover." "A tree!" " That's exactly the wrong thing to do." " It's a larger conductor than we are." " What about Willie?" " What are we to do?" " Come on !" "Spread out!" "Elizabeth, take this." " Come on !" "Quickly!" " What is that?" " Dig it right into the ground." " Now what?" "Everyone down." "Quickly!" "Give me your hands." "It'll be fine." " That's good." " I hope you know what you're doing." "Willie, don't look up!" "Wait." "One, two, three!" "Now." "So how do you teel, Elizabeth?" "Alive." "Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends... gather around and listen." "As you probably know, tomorrow my dear son Victor..." "leaves me to pursue what I'm sure... will be an illustrious career in a protession... that I myselt am not altogether unassociated with." "Though, my" "My one regret is that his mother- my late wite- is not here... to share the fire... which our son fills me with tonight." "Yes." "She wanted you to have this, Victor, on your graduation." "And in it she has written..." ""This is the journal ot Victor Frankenstein."" "The rest ot the leaves are blank... to be filled with the deeds of a noble life." "We'd better go in betore they miss us." "Just a little while longer, please." "I don't know when we'll be alone together again." "Oh, dear Victor." "I'll miss you laughing at me." "I'll miss you making me laugh." "So... how do brothers and sisters say good-bye?" "Perhaps they never have to." "I won't if you won't." "Are you my sister?" "Sister." "Friend." "Lover." "Wite?" "Yes." "Then come with me to Ingolstadt." "Marry me now." " No." " Then I'll stay." "I want more than anything else in the world to be your wife." "But as long as you're away, I belong here." "I want to make this house live again." "I want to make this a great home tor our children." "And now you must go, and do the great things you need to do." "I want you so much." "I'll be here when you return." "Each holiday." "Every visit." "And on our wedding night." "Until our wedding night." "A lot ot stairs, I'm atraid." "How was your journey?" "Very good, thank you." "I made good progress in the mountains." "Good." "I'm pleased." "As I've said, we've only got attic space." "That's exactly what I'm looking tor." "But Frau Brach... there will be a great deal ot scientitic equipment and rigging... to be delivered every day tor the next week." "I trust you've no objections." "I'm sure you appreciate the need tor a proper laboratory." "Oh, Putzi likes you." "This will be pertect." "The foolish and vain force their views by the rod... but "knowledge is power only through God. "" "Our motto." "Easily torgotten... by you young men in a hurry." "But perhaps the greatest mistake... that all students make during their time here... is to suppose that they can ever have... an original or creative thought." "We have all imagined that in our time." "But gentlemen, you have not come here... in order to think tor yourselves." "You are here to learn how to think tor your patients." "You must learn, therefore, in the tirst place... to submit yourselves... to the established laws ot physical reality." "But surely, Protessor... you don't intend we disregard more philosophical approaches?" "Philosophical?" "Those which stir the imagination as well as the intellect." "Paracelsus, tor example." "Ah, Paracelsus." "An arrogant and foolish Swiss." "Albertus Magnus." "His nonsense was exploded... 500 years ago." "Cornelius Agrippa." "A sorcerer, an occultist." "What is your name?" "Victor Frankenstein, sir." "Of Geneva." "Oh, another Swiss." "Mr. Frankenstein... here at the University of Ingolstadt we teach... and indeed hope to advance, the science ot medicine." "Chemistry, biology, physics." "We study hard science." "But surely, Protessor, the greatest advances come in combining these things." "We do not study the ravings of lunatics and alchemists... hundreds ot years in their graves." "Because their kind... ot amateur, tanatical, tantastical speculation... does not heal bodies or save lives." "Only science can do that." "Now, have we your permission to continue?" " Nice coat." " Thank you." "Don't take it too hard." "Krempe just doesn't approve ot public humiliation." " I am not mad." " My dear tellow, ot course you're not." "In tact, that's just the sort ot thing I'd expect a rational person... to say to a complete stranger." "Henry Clerval, by the way, and I'm completely crazy." " Victor Frankenstein." " Of Geneva." "Why don't you look where I'm going?" "That's Schiller, ornament ot the playing tield." " Really?" " You can tell he's new." "He goes around looking at things with his mouth open." "What are you here tor?" " Research." " Very grand." "I'm here to become a mere doctor." "I'm told that has something to do with healing the sick... but I find sick people rather revolting." "Still, I'll have a good time... get my degree- it I can stop tailing anatomy- and settle down to relieve rich ladies of their imaginary ailments... and then relieve their very real and beautiful daughters." "Who was that?" "He was at the lecture." "That's Waldman." "Yes." "Interesting case." "They say in his youth he could break into heaven and lecture God on science." "Ran into trouble with the authorities a tew years back." "Something to do with illegal experiments." "What kind of experiments, I wonder?" "What was it you were saying?" "Rich old ladies and their daughters?" "Yes, it's a lite ot sacritice, I know, but someone's got to do it." "That is why the central nervous system and its crowning achievement... the brain, are as complicated and mysterious a set of organs... as you are ever likely to encounter." "Mr. Frankenstein, the incision is yours." "Excellent." "Mr. Clerval, you may remove the cranial lid." ""Henry has now tully recovered and continues his struggle to pass anatomy."" "I was always terrible at anatomy." ""Protessor Waldman is very tolerant ot him and myselt." "I am learning a great deal." "Professor Waldman is remarkable."" " And so is Henry." " "God bless you all." "My Love, Victor."" " That's very nice." " "P.S. I've tallen in love."" " I beg your pardon !" " "She's dark, sleek and beautitul... and always wags her tail whenever she sees me." "Her name is Putzi, and she's the triendliest sheepdog I've ever known."" ""P.S. Elizabeth, I dream ot how your hair shines in the moonlight."" "Of how your lips taste." "I dream of your arms and your breasts... and of the time on our wedding night... when we will be alone together at last." "What else does it say?" "It says, "I'm working very hard and making lots ot new triends."" "Cottee, anyone?" "Once and for all, Frankenstein." "Lite is life." "Death is death." "These things are real." "That is rubbish, and you know it." "That premise has been repeatedly challenged by your own statt members." "We don't know where lite ends or death begins." "Hair and tingernails continue to grow after what we choose to call death." "We know that a man's brain, heart and lungs may continue to pump and breathe." "Now, you know that!" "Mr. Frankenstein ot Geneva, I warn you, what you are suggesting... is not only illegal, it is immoral." "Rubbish!" ""Dear Diary, Why does no one understand me?" "P.S. I am not mad."" "You !" "Explain yourself!" "Protessor, I'm sorry." "Listen." "I came here to learn all about the new science." "Galvanism, Franklin's experiments." "The combination of modern disciplines... with ancient knowledge in an attempt to protect and create" "To create what?" "So we can change things." "We can make things better." "You know that." "We are on the verge of undreamt-ot discoveries... it we've the courage to ask the right questions." "Now, you must help me." "Please!" "Come on." "Lock the door." "Now, tor thousands ot years, the Chinese have based their medical science... on the belief that the human body is a chemical engine run by energy streams." "But how do they explain" "Don't touch that!" "Their doctors treat patients by inserting needles like these... into the tlesh at various key points to manipulate these electric streams." "I see." "So electricity is the key." "Now look at this." "Go on." "Touch it." " It teels warm." " Yes." "Yes." "How do you do?" " Turn it otf!" " I can't." "It's not working." "Try to stay calm." "It's simply a matter of reducing the polarity." " A monkey's arm is like a human's." " No arm is this strong!" "Now, this must work." "Let me help you, Professor." "You shall, ot course, tell no one." "They wouldn't believe you anyway." ""Dearest Victor, Nothing much changes here." "Mrs. Moritz continues to love and torment Justine in equal measure." "Willie grows more precocious every day... and Father almost expires with pride at the very thought ot you and your work." "And I" " Well, I just miss you." "Very much." "Please write soon, Victor."" "No, I'm serious." "You take vaccine, for instance." "Thirty years ago, the entire concept ot vaccine was unheard of... and now we save lives every day." " But that isn't the whole answer." " What do you mean?" "Eventually, the best way to cheat death will be to create lite." "Now you've gone too tar." "There's only one God, Victor." "Leave God out of this." "Listen." "Say someone you love has a sick heart." " Would you give them a healthy one?" " Impossible." "We can do it." "If we can replace one part ot a human being, we can replace every part." "And it we can do that, we can design a lite." "We can create a being that will not grow old or sicken." "One that will be stronger than us, better than us." "One that will be more intelligent, more civilized than us." " In our lifetime?" " No." "How close did you get, Protessor?" "Too close." "Protessor, I beg you, let me see these notes." "My work now and its application lies exclusively... in the preservation ot life." "I abandoned my other researches many years ago." "Why?" "Because they resulted in abomination." "You're not sticking that in me." "It's got a pox in it, I hear." " Pox?" "They're giving us pox?" " That's right." "It's a vaccine that will prevent a plague in this city." "Just tiny harmless amounts ot anti-smallpox serum." " You just said pox!" " I said it was harmless." "It's a necessary precaution without which this godforsaken city... would be immediately put under quarantine." "I don't care what you doctors tell me." "You're not sticking that in me!" "Yes, I am!" "It's the law!" "Now, sit him down, someone." " Come on." " You're not sticking that in me!" " Sir?" " Protessor?" "Get him!" "Come on !" "It's no use, Victor." "He's gone." "Let him go." "This shouldn't happen." "It need not happen!" "To hell with you!" "Whatever you say, whatever you call it... you doctors are killers!" "You murder people!" "Evil!" "You're evil!" "You're the ones deserve to die!" "God will punish you !" "My God, you were so close." "Ot course, the power!" "The materials were wrong." "You needed auxiliary sources." "Yes, the experiment." "A tailure? "Resulting reanimant... maltormed and hideous to behold." "This tactor dependent on the appropriate raw materials."" "Raw materials." " Come on, Henry." " I can't help you." " What are you trightened ot?" " Everything." " What it the authorities" " We'll do this in secret." "I've got the raw materials." "I've got Waldman's journals." " You stole Waldman's journals?" " We owe it to him to complete his work." " He was one step away." " He never wanted this." " He couldn't tace it." " Even it it were possible... and even it you had the right, which you don't, to make this decision... can you imagine for one second there wouldn't be a terrible price to pay?" "I think tor the chance to defeat death and disease- to let everyone on this earth have the chance ot lite- sustained, healthy lite- to allow people to love each other, to be together torever" "tor all ot that, I think it's a risk worth taking." "Please, Justine, just leave me alone." "I won't talk about it." "All these letters." "You read them to us every week." "I wrote the letters!" "He hasn't written to me in months." "Something horrific is happening to him." "I can teel it." "At tirst I wasn't sure, but I knew I had to hide it trom Father." "Now there are rumors ot cholera." "I can look after Father and Willie." "You go to Ingolstadt." "That's not possible." "He won't want me." "He's probably found someone else!" "It he was mine, I would have gone already!" "But he isn't mine." "He's yours." "And you must go to him." "Raw materials, that's all they are." "Tissue to be reused." "The very tinest brain." " But they all died ot cholera, sir." " No matter." "Thank you." "Now, the assembled organs must have the appropriate nutrients and heat." "And crucially, more direct power." "More direct power." "Amniotic tluid is the chiet biogenic element." "The subject is injected with this." "The acupuncture needles pierce the tlesh at all key energy points." "After the removal of current, a dead toad should retain animation... but independently of external power sources." "Yes!" "That's it!" "That's the combination!" "That's it!" "Open the door!" " Victor, please!" " What do you want?" "It's cholera." "It's an epidemic." "The city's been placed under martial law." " Are you listening to me?" " Yes." "And?" "The militia's arriving to quarantine the city." "Most of us are getting out while we still can." "Krempe knows you're here." "What if he tells the authorities?" "Good-bye, Henry." "Victor, it's me!" "Elizabeth." "Can you hear me?" "Victor, I have to see you." " Go away!" " Please, Victor!" "I won't leave here until you see me!" "Come in the side door." "Alone!" "What's happened to you?" "How can you live here like this?" "And that stench!" "Don't go in there!" " We have to leave." "It isn't sate." " No, I have to stay." " Even it it means you will die?" " Yes." "Well, let me help you." "No, that's impossible." "We made a promise." "Victor, I beg you." "Look, I know that this is difticult for you to understand... but I cannot abandon this work now." "It is too important." "Not just tor me, but... believe me, for everyone." "And it must come tirst." "Betore us?" "I love you so much." "But" "Good-bye." "Oh, God!" "Elizabeth!" "Live!" "Live!" "Yes!" "It's alive." "What have I done?" "Massive birth detects." "Greatly enhanced physical strength." "But resulting... reanimant... is malfunctional... and pitiful... and dead." "Tomorrow, this journal and its secrets must be destroyed." "Forever." "Oh, God." "You tool, Victor Frankenstein of Geneva!" "How could you know what you'd unleashed?" "How is it pieced together?" "With bits ot thieves, bits ot murderers?" "Evil stitched to evil stitched to evil." "Do you really believe this thing will thank you tor its monstrous birth?" "Evil will have its revenge." "God help your loved ones!" "What do you think you're doing?" "He's got cholera!" "He's the one who's been spreading the plague!" "Get him!" " Get him!" " Kill him!" "Come here, you" "Keep away trom him!" "Kill him now!" "He went this way!" "There now." "Easy." "Easy." "Just a bit." "That's it." "There now." "Rest easy." " Henry, you're here." " Ot course I'm here." "It was touch and go with you, though." "Just a bit more." "I teared cholera." "Turned out to be pneumonia." "Yes, I'm becoming something ot a doctor." "Even Krempe seems pleased with me." "At this rate, I might even pass anatomy." " The" " The epidemic." " Dreadtul." "There's nothing we can do tor them." "The vulnerable, anyone who's without shelter or tood- the newborn especially will die." "Are you sure?" "I'm certain ot it." "Thank God." "What do you mean?" "Nothing." "Well, then, that's my shitt tinished." "I'll see you later." " Oh, please, forgive me." " Of course I do." "Victor, I don't know what you were working on." "I don't want to know, but it nearly killed you!" "It's over." "It's tinished." "It should never have started." "It's dead!" " Felix." " Yes?" "Don't torget the onion scraps." " All right, I've got them." " Make sure the shed door is shut." "Go on!" "Get!" "Come on." "Get out!" " How are the pigs?" " They're happy." "They've been ted." " How're your hands?" " They're bleeding again." "Let me see them." "That's better." "There." " Soup's ready." " Come on, Grandpa." "Sit down." "Thank you." "We'll never get through the winter with this yield." "The ground's trozen hard." " We'll sell another pig at market." " We can't." "Not until they lift the quarantine." "Even then, it's one less tor us." "And he'll be back tor last month's rent soon." "Come on !" "We'll do this together." "You're right." "We've got to." "Betore the snow comes." "Come on, then." "Come on, then." "The ground's frozen solid." "We haven't the strength." "We'd need 20 men to work this tield!" "It's useless!" " We should stop." "It's late." " We don't have enough to eat!" "We'll manage." "Let's go." "Look!" "They must be gitts trom the good spirit ot the torest!" "Father, nothing in this lite comes tree ot cost." "I'd like to know who and why." "Was it, Grandpa?" " Was it the good spirit?" " I believe it was." "Will you stop tilling their head with nonsense?" "Who's there?" "Felix?" "Children?" "Right." "What's this one?" ""Frie- nd."" "Friend?" "Well done!" "That's very good." "You've got lots of triends, haven't you?" "Grandpa's your triend." " Thomas is your triend." " Friend." "Friend." "Family." "Father." "This is important." "You must travel with him the entire journey." "This equipment must not be lett unattended." "My tather will personally take delivery in Geneva." "Understand?" " I do." " Thank you." " Going somewhere?" " Look at this locket Victor gave me." " Isn't it beautitul?" " Lovely." "Is this really you?" "It's a bad likeness, but tor now, it'll serve instead ot a ring." "Congratulations!" "This is entirely expected!" " When?" " As soon as we get home!" "I can't believe we'll be there for New Year's eve." " Victor's taking his tather's practice." " And expand it." "I'm going ahead, now that quarantine's litted." "There's so much to do!" "The practice needs a partner." "There's not much money." "But there is tood and board and some very good company." "And it's the ideal position for someone who has tinally passed anatomy." "So we were wondering it there was anybody you could recommend?" " I don't know what to say." " Please say yes." "And you can write that down in your journal !" ""This is the... journal ot..." "Victor..." "Frankenstein... ot Geneva."" "Come on." "Quickly!" "Oft you go!" "Quickly now!" "Merry Christmas!" "Come on." "Time for bed." "In you go." ""For the good spirit... ot the torest."" "Are you the good spirit ot the torest?" "Not exactly." "Where's your tather?" "I said, where's your tather?" "Who's there?" "Maggie?" "Oh." "It's you." "What have you done to Maggie?" "Is he in there, hiding behind a blind old man?" "Get away!" "Don't blame me." "Blame your son tor not paying his rent on time!" "Oh, my God!" "Thank you so much, my triend." "Won't you come sit by the tire?" "Please." "Don't be atraid." "Come." "Come in." "Have a rest." "Sit down." "There." "That's better." "That's better." "I'm glad you tinally came in." "A man shouldn't have to hide in the shadows." "Better that way." "For me." "Why?" "People are atraid." "Except you." "It can't be as bad as that." "Worse." "I can see you with my hands." "It you'll trust me." "Papa!" "He hurt Grandpa!" " Who hurt Grandpa?" " What was that noise?" " Tell me what the noise was!" " What happened?" "You poor man." "Have you no friends?" "There are some people." "But they don't know me." "Why do you not go to them?" "Because..." "I am so very... ugly." "And they are... so very... beautiful." "Father!" "Get out ot here!" "You animal !" " You monster!" " Leave him alone!" "It's all right." "We have to leave here." "I will have revenge!" "Geneva." "Quickly!" "She's here!" "We got your letter!" " Did you?" " It was the tirst one I could read!" " Congratulations!" "I'm happy tor you." " Thank you, Justine." "Is that the locket?" "Look how handsome Victor is." "Elizabeth, can I take this to show Peter?" " It's not a toy!" " Let him go." "Don't dawdle, William!" "Justine, you idiot!" "Pay attention !" "Anyone would think you're the one getting married." " Yes, Mother." " What's wrong?" "Nothing, really." "Just leave it!" "You've ruined it now." "You!" "Quickly!" " Have you seen Willie?" " Isn't he back yet?" "Claude went to see it he lost track ot time." "They say he never arrived." "It's tar too late tor him to still be out." "This isn't a game!" "It's so late!" "We're all so tired." "I'm so tired." "Father!" "I am so pleased to see you!" "What's wrong?" "We checked the east ridge." "There's nothing there." "Damn!" "We tound him!" "I tound him." "We did everything we could, sir." "You just rest easy now." "We did everything we could." "Sir, I'm terrified for my girl." "She's still out looking tor William." "We parted badly." "I was cruel to her." "I didn't mean it!" "I think she finds it very hard now with your wedding." "She loves you dearly." "I couldn't bear it it anything happened to her." "She's all I've got." "Please help me!" "We'll organize another search now that it's light." "We'll tind her, Mrs. Moritz." "I promise." " How is Father?" " His heart is breaking." "Mr. Frankenstein, we've apprehended the murderer, not tive miles trom here... hiding in a barn." "We tound this on her." "'Tis yours, I believe, sir." "Sir, you must come immediately." "The townspeople have gone mad." " What are they doing?" " They must have broken into the jail!" " For God's sake!" "Can't you stop them?" " They've gone wild!" "It's a lynch mob!" "Stop!" "This is unlawtul !" "Victor!" "Help me!" "I was trying to tind him!" "I went to the lake!" "But it was dark!" "I wanted to bring him to you !" "He must be there tor the wedding!" "I'm sorry!" "He's so tiny!" "We managed to close the gates on the mob, Claude." "What about Justine?" "We cut her down, sir." "We can bury her in the morning." "Thank you, Claude." "Get to bed." "The sea ot ice." "I will meet you there." "On the sea ot ice." "Oh, Justine, torgive me." "Victor, tell me." "Who is this man?" "How do you know he's responsible?" "I'll tell you atter I've destroyed him." "This is a matter for the police!" "They wouldn't understand." "Well, neither do I!" "Then just accept it." "Get up." "You do speak." "Yes, I speak." "And read." "And think." "And know the ways ot man." "How did you tind me?" "Your journal." "Then you mean to kill me." "You murdered my brother, didn't you?" "I took him by the throat with one hand... and litted him ott the ground." "Slowly crushed his neck." "And as I killed him..." "I saw your tace." "You gave me these emotions... but you didn't tell me how to use them." "Now, two people are dead... because ot us." "Why?" "There was something at work in my soul... which I do not understand." "What of my soul?" "Do I have one?" "Or was that a part you lett out?" "Who were these people ot which I am comprised?" "Good people?" "Bad people?" " Materials, nothing more." " You're wrong." "Did you know I knew how to play this?" "In which part ot me did this knowledge reside?" "In these hands?" "In this mind?" "ln this heart?" "And reading." "And speaking." "Not things learned so much as things... remembered." "Trace memories in the brain, perhaps." "Did you ever consider the consequences ot your actions?" "You gave me life." "But then you left me to die." "Who am I?" "You" "I don't know." "And you think I am evil?" "What can I do?" "There is something I want." "A triend." "Companion." "A temale." "Someone like me... so she won't hate me." "Like you?" "Oh, God." "You don't know what you're asking." "I do know that... with the sympathy ot one living being..." "I would make peace with all." "I have love in me, the likes ot which... you can scarcely imagine... and rage... the likes of which you would not believe." "It I cannot satisty the one..." "I will indulge the other." "And... it I consent... how will you live?" "We would travel north, my bride and I... to the turthest reaches ot the pole... where no man has ever set foot." "There... we would live out our lives." "Together." "No human eye would ever see us again." "This I vow." "You must help me." "Please." "It it is possible to right this wrong... then I will do it." "Are you all right?" "Yes, I'm all right." "I'm safe." "What happened?" "Tell us." "Victor, you have to tell us what happened!" "One month!" "That's all I ask!" "Then we can be married and torget this whole business!" " I promise!" " Promise?" "Don't dare use that word to me!" "You promised to tell me who this man is." "You promised to abandon this work for good!" "Your promises don't mean anything." "I have to leave this house." " Where will you go?" " Somewhere I can recover." "This is ridiculous!" "I haven't got time to argue!" "Isn't it convenient?" "Doesn't it tit in with your plans?" "Don't you ever think ot anyone or anything but yourself?" "God torgive me." "Why her?" "Materials, remember?" "Nothing more." "Your words." "You will honor your promise to me." "I will not." "Go on." "Kill me now." "That is mild compared to what will come." "It you deny me my wedding night, I will be with you on yours." "Wait!" "Please wait!" "I have to speak to you." "Please!" "What do you want to say?" "Don't go." "Please." "Don't go." "I'm trightened." "Of what?" "I have done something... so terrible... so evil." "And I am trightened... that it I tell you the truth... that I will lose you." "You'll lose me it you don't." "I... don't know... what... to do." "Will you marry me?" "Marry me today." "Tomorrow... tell me everything." "But you must tell me the truth." "And together we can face anything." "Whatever you've done... whatever has happened..." "I love you." "To share the truth... the whole truth... for good or ill." "To stand by each other... in sickness and in health... and in joy... trom this day torward... till death do you part." "Who is this man?" "How shall we know him?" " Believe me, you'll know him." " He killed Master William." "And Justine Moritz died for it." "No hesitation, lads!" "Shoot the bastard on sight!" " Henry." " Don't worry about a thing." "You two look atter each other." "I'll look atter your father." "$$"Ferry"" "I'm sorry, sir." "The last ferry's gone." " There's nothing there till morning." " Damn." "I'll ride on ahead and secure you lodgings for the night." " Thank you." " Come on." " Keep your pistols dry!" " They're dry enough." "It they tail, we've others." "It those tail, we can always cut the bastard." " Go to your post." " Yes, sir." "Don't worry, sir." "You're well guarded." "Now, why don't you go on upstairs to your wife." "It's not often a man has his wedding night." "You're soaking." "Brother and sister no more." "Now, husband and wife." "Lock the door." "I saw him in the lightning." "He vanished toward the lake!" "You two stay here!" "We lost him." "Don't bother to scream." "Please, sir." "Please don't hurt me." "You're lovelier than I ever... could have imagined." "I keep my promises!" "For God's sake." "Tell me what happened!" "No point." "I know what I have to do." "God!" "No!" "You can't do this!" "I won't let you!" "She's gone." "I love her." "What would you do?" " Leave her in peace!" " You call this peace?" "Father would have done this tor mother." "Your father's dead!" "Then there's nothing lett to lose." "Nothing but your soul." "Live!" "Live!" "Say my name." "Please." "Say my name." "Remember?" "You must remember." "That's it." "That's it." "You remember." "That's it." "Now stand." "Up." "Yes!" "Remember?" "She's beautitul." " She's not tor you." " Come." "Say my name." "You're beautiful." "Say my name." "Come to me." "Say my name." "That's right." "You're mine." "Leave her alone!" "No!" " Get away trom her!" "She's mine!" " She said my name!" "She remembers!" "She's mine!" "All that I once loved..." "lies in a shallow grave... by my hand." "I tollowed the trail he lett tor me." "North." "Always north." "For months now." "With one intent." "To kill him." "Now..." "I'm tired." "I'm so... very, very tired." "What did he say?" "He's dead." "He died raving... about some phantom." "What is it out there, Captain?" "He told me a story that... couldn't be true." "He was mad." "I think." "A warming breeze." "The ice will melt yet." "And what then, Captain?" " We head north." " No." "Who are you?" "He never gave me a name." "Why do you weep?" "He was my father." ""And, yea, I gave my heart to know wisdom... and to know madness and tolly." "And I perceived that all is vanity... and vexation ot spirit." "For in much wisdom is much griet." "And he that increaseth knowledge... increaseth sorrow." "For God shall bring every work... and every secret thing into judgement... whether it be good... or whether it be evil."" " Captain, we" " He has a right to bear witness." " Jesus!" "It's breaking up!" " The ice is giving way!" "Help me!" "Get back to the ship, Captain!" "Leave the damn torch!" "Come with us!" "I am done with man." "Hang on !" "I've got you!" "Help!" "Here, Captain!" "Take my hand!" "Where to now, Captain?" "Home."