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          id: chapter-001
      author: None
       title: chapter-001
        date: None
       words: 1221
      flesch: 65
     summary: St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17�. These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillise the mind as a steady purpose�a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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        item: #2 of 28
          id: chapter-002
      author: None
       title: chapter-002
        date: None
       words: 1329
      flesch: 63
     summary: My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession. I have hired a vessel and am occupied in collecting my sailors; those whom I have already engaged appear to be men on whom I can depend and are certainly possessed of dauntless courage.
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        item: #3 of 28
          id: chapter-003
      author: None
       title: chapter-003
        date: None
       words: 306
      flesch: 76
     summary: This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage from Archangel; more fortunate than I, who may not see my native land, perhaps, for many years. July 7th, 17�.
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        item: #4 of 28
          id: chapter-004
      author: None
       title: chapter-004
        date: None
       words: 2764
      flesch: 71
     summary: Strange and harrowing must be his story, frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course and wrecked it�thus! Last Monday (July 31st) we were nearly surrounded by ice, which closed in the ship on all sides, scarcely leaving her the sea-room in which she floated.
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        item: #5 of 28
          id: chapter-005
      author: None
       title: chapter-005
        date: None
       words: 1808
      flesch: 68
     summary: And when, on the morrow, she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally and looked upon Elizabeth as mine�mine to protect, love, and cherish. When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub�a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.
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        item: #6 of 28
          id: chapter-006
      author: None
       title: chapter-006
        date: None
       words: 2226
      flesch: 62
     summary: If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded and that a modern system of science had been introduced which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical, under such circumstances I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies. By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
    keywords: agrippa; ardour; clerval; cornelius; delight; father; geneva; greatest; home; house; human; imagination; knowledge; laws; life; men; mind; natural; nature; new; parents; philosophy; real; science; secrets; soul; spirit; studies; things; violent; world; years
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        item: #7 of 28
          id: chapter-007
      author: None
       title: chapter-007
        date: None
       words: 2713
      flesch: 67
     summary: Chance�or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my father's door�led me first to M. Krempe, professor of natural philosophy. So saying, he stepped aside and wrote down a list of several books treating of natural philosophy which he desired me to procure, and dismissed me after mentioning that in the beginning of the following week he intended to commence a course of lectures upon natural philosophy in its general relations, and that M. Waldman, a fellow professor, would lecture upon chemistry the alternate days that he omitted.
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        item: #8 of 28
          id: chapter-008
      author: None
       title: chapter-008
        date: None
       words: 2552
      flesch: 58
     summary: One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life. Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed?
    keywords: ardour; creation; day; death; discovery; engaged; father; feelings; great; hope; human; life; light; mind; natural; nature; object; philosophy; progress; pursuit; science; secret; study; time; true; work
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        item: #9 of 28
          id: chapter-009
      author: None
       title: chapter-009
        date: None
       words: 2368
      flesch: 74
     summary: You may easily believe, said he, how great was the difficulty to persuade my father that all necessary knowledge was not comprised in the noble art of book-keeping; and, indeed, I believe I left him incredulous to the last, for his constant answer to my unwearied entreaties was the same as that of the Dutch schoolmaster in The Vicar of Wakefield: 'I have ten thousand florins a year without Greek, I eat heartily without Greek.' A meeting, which he anticipated with such joy, so strangely turned to bitterness.
    keywords: bed; black; clerval; dear; elizabeth; eyes; father; friend; good; henry; horror; ill; joy; length; life; long; monster; night; rest; room; thought; time; unable; wretch; yellow
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        item: #10 of 28
          id: chapter-010
      author: None
       title: chapter-010
        date: None
       words: 2756
      flesch: 68
     summary: D�n the fellow! cried he; why, M. Clerval, I assure you he has outstript us all. Young men should be diffident of themselves, you know, M. Clerval: I was myself when young; but that wears out in a very short time.
    keywords: affection; aunt; care; clerval; conversation; country; cousin; dear; eyes; favourite; feelings; friend; geneva; great; happy; health; henry; ill; justine; little; long; manners; moritz; mother; poor; pretty; spirits; subject; time; years; young
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        item: #11 of 28
          id: chapter-011
      author: None
       title: chapter-011
        date: None
       words: 3585
      flesch: 79
     summary: He then related that, the morning on which the murder of poor William had been discovered, Justine had been taken ill, and confined to her bed for several days. Victor says that he knows who was the murderer of poor William.
    keywords: anguish; brother; child; clerval; dear; elizabeth; ernest; father; fear; friend; geneva; god; hands; hope; house; justine; lake; letter; mind; mother; mountains; murderer; night; picture; poor; return; storm; tears; town; victor; welcome; william; words
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        item: #12 of 28
          id: chapter-012
      author: None
       title: chapter-012
        date: None
       words: 3116
      flesch: 76
     summary: It was to be decided whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause the death of two of my fellow beings: one a smiling babe full of innocence and joy, the other far more dreadfully murdered, with every aggravation of infamy that could make the murder memorable in horror. Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.
    keywords: cause; child; court; cousin; dear; death; elizabeth; guilty; heart; hope; horror; hours; house; innocence; innocent; judges; justine; lady; murder; night; poor; tears; trial; unhappy; victim; voice; witnesses
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        item: #13 of 28
          id: chapter-013
      author: None
       title: chapter-013
        date: None
       words: 2247
      flesch: 72
     summary: No one could love a child more than I loved your brother�tears came into his eyes as he spoke�but is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly�if I except some bat, or the frogs, whose harsh and interrupted croaking was heard only when I approached the shore�often, I say, I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities for ever.
    keywords: chamounix; dark; death; despair; elizabeth; events; eyes; father; fear; fiend; grief; heart; house; human; justine; lake; life; look; love; mind; new; peace; remorse; sensations; valley; victor
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        item: #14 of 28
          id: chapter-014
      author: None
       title: chapter-014
        date: None
       words: 2369
      flesch: 79
     summary: The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial Nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking, reverberated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands. Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.
    keywords: air; compassion; creator; creature; day; glacier; hands; ice; joy; life; man; miserable; mountains; opposite; path; rage; rain; rest; rock; scene; sight; tale; thee; thou; valley; vast
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        item: #15 of 28
          id: chapter-015
      author: None
       title: chapter-015
        date: None
       words: 2915
      flesch: 72
     summary: I reflected on this, and by touching the various branches, I discovered the cause and busied myself in collecting a great quantity of wood, that I might dry it and have a plentiful supply of fire. But I was enchanted by the appearance of the hut; here the snow and rain could not penetrate; the ground was dry; and it presented to me then as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandæmonium appeared to the dæmons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire.
    keywords: appearance; berries; branches; cold; cottage; day; dry; eyes; fire; food; girl; great; ground; hunger; light; man; morning; old; open; pleasure; sensations; small; sounds; time; trees; wood; young
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        item: #16 of 28
          id: chapter-016
      author: None
       title: chapter-016
        date: None
       words: 2079
      flesch: 69
     summary: I found that the youth spent a great part of each day in collecting wood for the family fire, and during the night I often took his tools, the use of which I quickly discovered, and brought home firing sufficient for the consumption of several days. I remember, the first time that I did this, the young woman, when she opened the door in the morning, appeared greatly astonished on seeing a great pile of wood on the outside.
    keywords: agatha; cheerful; cottagers; day; earth; felix; food; garden; gentle; little; man; manners; morning; night; old; pleasure; sounds; time; wood; words; young; youth
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        item: #17 of 28
          id: chapter-017
      author: None
       title: chapter-017
        date: None
       words: 2055
      flesch: 69
     summary: The next morning Felix went out to his work, and after the usual occupations of Agatha were finished, the Arabian sat at the feet of the old man, and taking his guitar, played some airs so entrancingly beautiful that they at once drew tears of sorrow and delight from my eyes. She appeared affected by different feelings; wiping a few tears from her lovely eyes, she held out her hand to Felix, who kissed it rapturously and called her, as well as I could distinguish, his sweet Arabian.
    keywords: agatha; arabian; conversation; cottagers; days; delight; eyes; father; feelings; felix; friends; gentle; knowledge; language; lovely; man; old; safie; smiles; sorrow; stranger; sweet; words
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        item: #18 of 28
          id: chapter-018
      author: None
       title: chapter-018
        date: None
       words: 1857
      flesch: 62
     summary: He quickly arranged with the Turk that if the latter should find a favourable opportunity for escape before Felix could return to Italy, Safie should remain as a boarder at a convent at Leghorn; and then, quitting the lovely Arabian, he hastened to Paris and delivered himself up to the vengeance of the law, hoping to free De Lacey and Agatha by this proceeding. The plot of Felix was quickly discovered, and De Lacey and Agatha were thrown into prison.
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        item: #19 of 28
          id: chapter-019
      author: None
       title: chapter-019
        date: None
       words: 3025
      flesch: 72
     summary: I tenderly love these friends; I have, unknown to them, been for many months in the habits of daily kindness towards them; but they believe that I wish to injure them, and it is that prejudice which I wish to overcome.' They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings, that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection.
    keywords: agatha; amiable; books; cottage; creatures; day; different; door; feelings; felix; food; friends; god; ground; heart; hovel; kindness; language; life; love; man; moment; months; old; person; plutarch; protectors; safie; sorrows; time; true; unfortunate; werter
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        item: #20 of 28
          id: chapter-020
      author: None
       title: chapter-020
        date: None
       words: 3227
      flesch: 76
     summary: The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food; but a circumstance that happened when I arrived on the confines of Switzerland, when the sun had recovered its warmth and the earth again began to look green, confirmed in an especial manner the bitterness and horror of my feelings. I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery.
    keywords: agony; child; companion; cottage; day; deep; despair; earth; eyes; father; feelings; felix; hiding; horror; human; life; like; man; miserable; night; path; place; rage; revenge; sun; thought; time; wood; wound
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        item: #21 of 28
          id: chapter-021
      author: None
       title: chapter-021
        date: None
       words: 1939
      flesch: 74
     summary: You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes. You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?
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        item: #22 of 28
          id: chapter-022
      author: None
       title: chapter-022
        date: None
       words: 2877
      flesch: 68
     summary: We saw Tilbury Fort and remembered the Spanish Armada, Gravesend, Woolwich, and Greenwich�places which I had heard of even in my country. I trembled violently at his exordium, and my father continued� I confess, my son, that I have always looked forward to your marriage with our dear Elizabeth as the tie of our domestic comfort and the stay of my declining years.
    keywords: beautiful; change; clerval; country; day; days; dear; delay; elizabeth; england; family; father; friend; gloomy; idea; immediate; journey; man; marriage; mind; misery; mountains; pleasure; promise; return; rhine; river; scene; strasburgh; task; time; union; wish
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        item: #23 of 28
          id: chapter-023
      author: None
       title: chapter-023
        date: None
       words: 2625
      flesch: 66
     summary: Sometimes I could not prevail on myself to enter my laboratory for several days, and at other times I toiled day and night in order to complete my work. If this journey had taken place during my days of study and happiness, it would have afforded me inexpressible pleasure.
    keywords: city; clerval; companion; country; days; edinburgh; friend; happiness; heart; henry; journey; labour; lakes; little; london; men; mind; miserable; moment; months; mountains; natural; new; oxford; scene; scotland; self; soul; switzerland; thought; time; work
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        item: #24 of 28
          id: chapter-024
      author: None
       title: chapter-024
        date: None
       words: 3550
      flesch: 73
     summary: Mr. Kirwin is a magistrate, and you are to give an account of the death of a gentleman who was found murdered here last night. The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew.
    keywords: boat; death; despair; door; eyes; feelings; fiend; heart; hours; land; life; little; man; misery; mon; moon; night; place; promise; revenge; room; scene; sea; shore; sound; sun; thought; time; town; wind; words
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        item: #25 of 28
          id: chapter-025
      author: None
       title: chapter-025
        date: None
       words: 3766
      flesch: 69
     summary: I was spared the disgrace of appearing publicly as a criminal, as the case was not brought before the court that decides on life and death. I lay for two months on the point of death; my ravings, as I afterwards heard, were frightful; I called myself the murderer of William, of Justine, and of Clerval.
    keywords: agitation; appearance; body; chair; clerval; corpse; death; dream; eyes; father; friend; geneva; henry; kind; kirwin; life; magistrate; man; miserable; misery; murderer; night; nurse; old; place; presence; prison; return; room; shore; thought; witnesses; woman
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        item: #26 of 28
          id: chapter-026
      author: None
       title: chapter-026
        date: None
       words: 3442
      flesch: 72
     summary: I fear, my beloved girl, I said, little happiness remains for us on earth; yet all that I may one day enjoy is centred in you. Do not let this letter disturb you; do not answer tomorrow, or the next day, or even until you come, if it will give you pain.
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        item: #27 of 28
          id: chapter-027
      author: None
       title: chapter-027
        date: None
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      flesch: 74
     summary: I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always experienced relief from mental torment in bodily exercise. A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness; no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man.
    keywords: arms; cursed; day; dreadful; elizabeth; eyes; fiend; great; head; hope; horror; lake; lay; life; magistrate; man; mind; moment; night; pistol; rain; room; state; tale; time; wife
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        item: #28 of 28
          id: chapter-028
      author: None
       title: chapter-028
        date: None
       words: 8313
      flesch: 76
     summary: I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed me with strength and composure; it moulded my feelings and allowed me to be calculating and calm at periods when otherwise delirium or death would have been my portion. How I have lived I hardly know; many times have I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain and prayed for death.
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