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His tale is connected and told with an appearance of the simplest

truth, yet I own to you that the letters of Felix and Safie,

which he showed me, and the apparition of the monster seen from

our ship, brought to me a greater conviction of the truth of his

narrative than his asseverations, however earnest and connected.

Such a monster has, then, really existence! I cannot doubt it,

yet I am lost in surprise and admiration. Sometimes I endeavoured

to gain from Frankenstein the particulars of his creature's

formation, but on this point he was impenetrable.

"Are you mad, my friend?" said he. "Or whither does your

senseless curiosity lead you? Would you also create for yourself

and the world a demoniacal enemy? Peace, peace! Learn my miseries

and do not seek to increase your own."