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1"I do refuse it," I replied; "and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me. You may render me the most miserable
2of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes. Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness
3might desolate the world. Begone! I have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent." "You are in the
4wrong," replied the fiend; "and instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you. I am malicious because I am
5miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember
6that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me? You would not call it murder if you could precipitate me
7into one of those ice-rifts and destroy my frame, the work of your own hands. Shall I respect man when he condemns me?
8Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness, and instead of injury I would bestow every benefit upon him with
9tears of gratitude at his acceptance. But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union. Yet
10mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery. I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause
11fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care; I will
12work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth." A
13fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to
14behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded-- "I intended to reason. This passion is detrimental to me, for
15you do not reflect that you are the cause of its excess. If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should
16return them a hundred and a hundredfold; for that one creature's sake I would make peace with the whole kind! But I now
17indulge in dreams of bliss that cannot be realised. What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of
18another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall
19content me. It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached
20to one another. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel. Oh! My
21creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you for one benefit! Let me see that I excite the sympathy of some
22existing thing; do not deny me my request!" I was moved. I shuddered when I thought of the possible consequences of my
23consent, but I felt that there was some justice in his argument. His tale and the feelings he now expressed proved him
24to be a creature of fine sensations, and did I not as his maker owe him all the portion of happiness that it was in my
25power to bestow? He saw my change of feeling and continued, "If you consent, neither you nor any other human being shall
26ever see us again; I will go to the vast wilds of South America. My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb
27and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. My companion will be of the same
28nature as myself and will be content with the same fare. We shall make our bed of dried leaves; the sun will shine on us
29as on man and will ripen our food. The picture I present to you is peaceful and human, and you must feel that you could
30deny it only in the wantonness of power and cruelty. Pitiless as you have been towards me, I now see compassion in your
31eyes; let me seize the favourable moment and persuade you to promise what I so ardently desire." "You propose," replied
32I, "to fly from the habitations of man, to dwell in those wilds where the beasts of the field will be your only
33companions. How can you, who long for the love and sympathy of man, persevere in this exile? You will return and again
34seek their kindness, and you will meet with their detestation; your evil passions will be renewed, and you will then
35have a companion to aid you in the task of destruction. This may not be; cease to argue the point, for I cannot
36consent." "How inconstant are your feelings! But a moment ago you were moved by my representations, and why do you again
37harden yourself to my complaints? I swear to you, by the earth which I inhabit, and by you that made me, that with the
38companion you bestow, I will quit the neighbourhood of man and dwell, as it may chance, in the most savage of places. My
39evil passions will have fled, for I shall meet with sympathy! My life will flow quietly away, and in my dying moments I
40shall not curse my maker." His words had a strange effect upon me. I compassionated him and sometimes felt a wish to
41console him, but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened and my
42feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. I tried to stifle these sensations; I thought that as I could not
43sympathise with him, I had no right to withhold from him the small portion of happiness which was yet in my power to
44bestow. "You swear," I said, "to be harmless; but have you not already shown a degree of malice that should reasonably
45make me distrust you? May not even this be a feint that will increase your triumph by affording a wider scope for your
46revenge?" "How is this? I must not be trifled with, and I demand an answer. If I have no ties and no affections, hatred
47and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing of
48whose existence everyone will be ignorant. My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor, and my virtues
49will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal. I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being and
50become linked to the chain of existence and events from which I am now excluded." I paused some time to reflect on all
51he had related and the various arguments which he had employed. I thought of the promise of virtues which he had
52displayed on the opening of his existence and the subsequent blight of all kindly feeling by the loathing and scorn
53which his protectors had manifested towards him. His power and threats were not omitted in my calculations; a creature
54who could exist in the ice-caves of the glaciers and hide himself from pursuit among the ridges of inaccessible
55precipices was a being possessing faculties it would be vain to cope with. After a long pause of reflection I concluded
56that the justice due both to him and my fellow creatures demanded of me that I should comply with his request. Turning
57to him, therefore, I said, "I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe for ever, and every other place
58in the neighbourhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you in your exile."
59"I swear," he cried, "by the sun, and by the blue sky of heaven, and by the fire of love that burns my heart, that if
60you grant my prayer, while they exist you shall never behold me again. Depart to your home and commence your labours; I
61shall watch their progress with unutterable anxiety; and fear not but that when you are ready I shall appear." Saying
62this, he suddenly quitted me, fearful, perhaps, of any change in my sentiments. I saw him descend the mountain with
63greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost among the undulations of the sea of ice.
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