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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Frankenstein: Chapter 8

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Phoebe reads a chapter a day of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. Donate to Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.5

Chapter 8

0:40.0

We passed a few sad hours until 11 o'clock when the trial was to commence.

0:44.7

My father and the rest of the family, being obliged to attend his witnesses, I accompanied

0:49.4

them to the court.

0:51.8

In the whole of this wretched mockery of justice, I suffered living torture.

0:56.0

It must be decided whether the result of my curiosity and lawless devices would cause

1:01.6

the death of two of my fellow beings.

1:04.5

One, a smiling babe full of innocence and joy.

1:08.6

The other, far more dreadfully murdered, with every aggravation of infamy that could

1:13.5

make the murder memorable in horror.

1:17.5

Christine also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which promised to render her life

1:22.8

happy.

1:23.8

Now, always to be obliterated and I, the cause.

1:28.6

A thousand times rather what I have confessed myself guilty of the crime, ascribed to

1:33.6

Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such declaration would have been considered

1:38.6

as the ravings of a madman.

1:41.7

The appearance of Justine was calm.

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