Victor makes a devil's bargain and is haunted with remorse, for this new creature may be more vicious, cruel, and inhuman than the first.

Mary Shelley, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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Chapter 7. Part 6 of 8 by Mary Shelley Chapter 17 The being finished speaking

and fixed his looks upon me in expectation of a reply,

but I was bewildered, perplexed,

and unable to arrange my ideas sufficiently to understand the

full extent of his proposition, he continued,

"'You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies

necessary for my being. This you alone can do, and I demand it of you as

a right which you must not refuse to concede."

The latter part of his tale had kindled anew in me the anger that had died away while he

narrated his peaceful life among the cottagers. And as he said this,

I could no longer suppress the rage that burned within me. I do refuse it, I replied,

and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me. You may render me the most miserable of men,

but you shall never make me base in my own eyes.

Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world?

Begone!

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