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1These feelings dictated my answer to my father. I expressed a wish to visit England, but concealing the true reasons of
2this request, I clothed my desires under a guise which excited no suspicion, while I urged my desire with an earnestness
3that easily induced my father to comply. After so long a period of an absorbing melancholy that resembled madness in its
4intensity and effects, he was glad to find that I was capable of taking pleasure in the idea of such a journey, and he
5hoped that change of scene and varied amusement would, before my return, have restored me entirely to myself. The
6duration of my absence was left to my own choice; a few months, or at most a year, was the period contemplated. One
7paternal kind precaution he had taken to ensure my having a companion. Without previously communicating with me, he had,
8in concert with Elizabeth, arranged that Clerval should join me at Strasburgh. This interfered with the solitude I
9coveted for the prosecution of my task; yet at the commencement of my journey the presence of my friend could in no way
10be an impediment, and truly I rejoiced that thus I should be saved many hours of lonely, maddening reflection. Nay,
11Henry might stand between me and the intrusion of my foe. If I were alone, would he not at times force his abhorred
12presence on me to remind me of my task or to contemplate its progress? To England, therefore, I was bound, and it was
13understood that my union with Elizabeth should take place immediately on my return. My father's age rendered him
14extremely averse to delay. For myself, there was one reward I promised myself from my detested toils--one consolation
15for my unparalleled sufferings; it was the prospect of that day when, enfranchised from my miserable slavery, I might
16claim Elizabeth and forget the past in my union with her. I now made arrangements for my journey, but one feeling
17haunted me which filled me with fear and agitation. During my absence I should leave my friends unconscious of the
18existence of their enemy and unprotected from his attacks, exasperated as he might be by my departure. But he had
19promised to follow me wherever I might go, and would he not accompany me to England? This imagination was dreadful in
20itself, but soothing inasmuch as it supposed the safety of my friends. I was agonised with the idea of the possibility
21that the reverse of this might happen. But through the whole period during which I was the slave of my creature I
22allowed myself to be governed by the impulses of the moment; and my present sensations strongly intimated that the fiend
23would follow me and exempt my family from the danger of his machinations. It was in the latter end of September that I
24again quitted my native country. My journey had been my own suggestion, and Elizabeth therefore acquiesced, but she was
25filled with disquiet at the idea of my suffering, away from her, the inroads of misery and grief. It had been her care
26which provided me a companion in Clerval--and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances which call forth a
27woman's sedulous attention. She longed to bid me hasten my return; a thousand conflicting emotions rendered her mute as
28she bade me a tearful, silent farewell. I threw myself into the carriage that was to convey me away, hardly knowing
29whither I was going, and careless of what was passing around. I remembered only, and it was with a bitter anguish that I
30reflected on it, to order that my chemical instruments should be packed to go with me. Filled with dreary imaginations,
31I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes, but my eyes were fixed and unobserving. I could only think of the
32bourne of my travels and the work which was to occupy me whilst they endured. After some days spent in listless
33indolence, during which I traversed many leagues, I arrived at Strasburgh, where I waited two days for Clerval. He came.
34Alas, how great was the contrast between us! He was alive to every new scene, joyful when he saw the beauties of the
35setting sun, and more happy when he beheld it rise and recommence a new day. He pointed out to me the shifting colours
36of the landscape and the appearances of the sky. "This is what it is to live," he cried; "now I enjoy existence! But
37you, my dear Frankenstein, wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful!" In truth, I was occupied by gloomy thoughts and
38neither saw the descent of the evening star nor the golden sunrise reflected in the Rhine. And you, my friend, would be
39far more amused with the journal of Clerval, who observed the scenery with an eye of feeling and delight, than in
40listening to my reflections. I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment. We had
41agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasburgh to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London. During
42this voyage we passed many willowy islands and saw several beautiful towns. We stayed a day at Mannheim, and on the
43fifth from our departure from Strasburgh, arrived at Mainz. The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more
44picturesque. The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms. We saw
45many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices, surrounded by black woods, high and inaccessible. This part of
46the Rhine, indeed, presents a singularly variegated landscape. In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles
47overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory,
48flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene. We travelled
49at the time of the vintage and heard the song of the labourers as we glided down the stream. Even I, depressed in mind,
50and my spirits continually agitated by gloomy feelings, even I was pleased. I lay at the bottom of the boat, and as I
51gazed on the cloudless blue sky, I seemed to drink in a tranquillity to which I had long been a stranger. And if these
52were my sensations, who can describe those of Henry? He felt as if he had been transported to Fairy-land and enjoyed a
53happiness seldom tasted by man. "I have seen," he said, "the most beautiful scenes of my own country; I have visited the
54lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpendicularly to the water, casting black and
55impenetrable shades, which would cause a gloomy and mournful appearance were it not for the most verdant islands that
56relieve the eye by their gay appearance; I have seen this lake agitated by a tempest, when the wind tore up whirlwinds
57of water and gave you an idea of what the water-spout must be on the great ocean; and the waves dash with fury the base
58of the mountain, where the priest and his mistress were overwhelmed by an avalanche and where their dying voices are
59still said to be heard amid the pauses of the nightly wind; I have seen the mountains of La Valais, and the Pays de
60Vaud; but this country, Victor, pleases me more than all those wonders. The mountains of Switzerland are more majestic
61and strange, but there is a charm in the banks of this divine river that I never before saw equalled. Look at that
62castle which overhangs yon precipice; and that also on the island, almost concealed amongst the foliage of those lovely
63trees; and now that group of labourers coming from among their vines; and that village half hid in the recess of the
64mountain. Oh, surely the spirit that inhabits and guards this place has a soul more in harmony with man than those who
65pile the glacier or retire to the inaccessible peaks of the mountains of our own country." Clerval! Beloved friend! Even
66now it delights me to record your words and to dwell on the praise of which you are so eminently deserving. He was a
67being formed in the "very poetry of nature." His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of
68his heart. His soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that
69the worldly-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination. But even human sympathies were not sufficient to
70satisfy his eager mind. The scenery of external nature, which others regard only with admiration, he loved with
71ardour:--
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