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This is a Strange and Unusual podcast with Allison Horrocks.

And welcome to Frankenstein Part 2.

Chapters 2-4.

Chapter 2.

When I had attained the age of 17, my parents resolved that I should become a student at the University of Ingolstadt.

I adhered to attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country.

My departure was therefore fixed at an early date, but before the day resolved, upon could arrive, the first misfortune of my life occurred, an elmen as it were of my future misery.

Elizabeth had caught the scarlet fever, but her illness was not severe, and she quickly recovered.

During her confinement, many arguments had been urged to persuade my mother to refrain from attending upon her.

She had, at first, yielded to our entities, but when she heard that her favorite was recovering, she could no longer debar herself from her society and entered her chamber long before the danger of infection was passed.

The consequences of this imprudence were fatal.

On the third day my mother's second, her fever was very malignant, and the looks of her attendants prognosticated the worst event.

On her deathbed, the fortitude and benignity of this admirable woman did not desert her.

She joined the hands of Elizabeth and myself.

My children, she said, my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.

This expectation will now be the consolation of your father.

Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to your younger cousins. Alas, I regret that I am taken from you.

And happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to quit you all?

But these are not thoughts befitting me.

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