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Yet it is in your power to recompense me, and deliver them from

an evil which it only remains for you to make so great, that not

only you and your family, but thousands of others, shall be

swallowed up in the whirlwinds of its rage. Let your compassion

be moved, and do not disdain me. Listen to my tale; when you have

heard that, abandon or commiserate me, as you shall judge that I

deserve. But hear me. The guilty are allowed, by human laws,

bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are

condemned. Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder,

and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own

creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man! Yet I ask you

not to spare me; listen to me, and then, if you can, and if you

will, destroy the work of your hands."