Select the correct text in the passage. Read the excerpt from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Which sentence in this excerpt highights the story's setting?
We were brought up together; there was not
quite a year difference in our ages, t need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion
or dispute. Harmony was the soul our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted it
together. Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrated disposition; but, with
characters drew us nearer
alt my ardour, t was capable of a more intense application and
was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge. She busied herself with following the aerial creations of the poets; and in the majestic
and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home
calm. the silence of winter, and the life and
-the sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the seasons, tempest and
turbulence of our Alpine summers--she found ample scope for admiration and delight. While
my world was to me a secret which I desired to divine. Curtosity, companion contemplated with a serious and satisfied spirit the magnificent appearances of things, I delighted in investigating their causes. The
carnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as
they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.
On the birth of a second son, my junior
by seven years, my parents
country. we possessed a house in Geneva, and a campagne
gave up entirely their wandering life and fixed themselves in their native
on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a
league from the city. We resided principally in the latter, and
the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion. It was my temper to
avold a crowd and to attach myself fervently to a few, I was indifferent, therefore, to my school-fellows in general; but I united myself in the
bonds of the closest friendship to one among them. Henry Clerval was the son of a merchant of Geneva. He was a
fancy. He loved enterprise, hardship, and even danger for its own sake. He was deeply read in books of chivalry and romance. He composed boy of singular talent and
heroic songs and began to write many a tale of enchantment and knightly adventure. He tried to make us act plays and to enter into
who s masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train