These are useless complaints: I first became acquainted with him
on board a whale vessel:
I shall certainly find no friend on
the wide ocean.
My lieutenant, for instance, is a man
of wonderful courage and enterprise;
I easily engaged him to assist in
my enterprise.
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excerpt from Frankenstein
by Mary Shelly
Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find
no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel,
among merchants and seamen. Yet some feelings,
unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in
these rugged bosoms. My lieutenant, for instance, is a
man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly
desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more
characteristically, of advancement in his profession. He is
an Englishman, and in the midst of national and
professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation,
retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity. I
first became acquainted with him on board a whale
vessel: finding that he was unemployed in this city,
easily engaged him to assist in my enterprise.
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