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On
the
whole
island
there
were
but
three
miserable
huts
,
and
one
of
these
was
vacant
when
I
arrived
.
This
I
hired
.
It
contained
but
two
rooms
,
and
these
exhibited
all
the
squalidness
of
the
most
miserable
penury
.
The
thatch
had
fallen
in
,
the
walls
were
unplastered
,
and
the
door
was
off
its
hinges
.
I
ordered
it
to
be
repaired
,
bought
some
furniture
,
and
took
possession
,
an
incident
which
would
doubtless
have
occasioned
some
surprise
had
not
all
the
senses
of
the
cottagers
been
benumbed
by
want
and
squalid
poverty
.
As
it
was
,
I
lived
ungazed
at
and
unmolested
,
hardly
thanked
for
the
pittance
of
food
and
clothes
which
I
gave
,
so
much
does
suffering
blunt
even
the
coarsest
sensations
of
men
.
In
this
retreat
I
devoted
the
morning
to
labour
;
but
in
the
evening
,
when
the
weather
permitted
,
I
walked
on
the
stony
beach
of
the
sea
to
listen
to
the
waves
as
they
roared
and
dashed
at
my
feet
.
It
was
a
monotonous
yet
ever-changing
scene
.
I
thought
of
Switzerland
;
it
was
far
different
from
this
desolate
and
appalling
landscape
.
Its
hills
are
covered
with
vines
,
and
its
cottages
are
scattered
thickly
in
the
plains
.
Its
fair
lakes
reflect
a
blue
and
gentle
sky
,
and
when
troubled
by
the
winds
,
their
tumult
is
but
as
the
play
of
a
lively
infant
when
compared
to
the
roarings
of
the
giant
ocean
.
In
this
manner
I
distributed
my
occupations
when
I
first
arrived
,
but
as
I
proceeded
in
my
labour
,
it
became
every
day
more
horrible
and
irksome
to
me
.
Sometimes
I
could
not
prevail
on
myself
to
enter
my
laboratory
for
several
days
,
and
at
other
times
I
toiled
day
and
night
in
order
to
complete
my
work
.
It
was
,
indeed
,
a
filthy
process
in
which
I
was
engaged
.
During
my
first
experiment
,
a
kind
of
enthusiastic
frenzy
had
blinded
me
to
the
horror
of
my
employment
;
my
mind
was
intently
fixed
on
the
consummation
of
my
labour
,
and
my
eyes
were
shut
to
the
horror
of
my
proceedings
.
But
now
I
went
to
it
in
cold
blood
,
and
my
heart
often
sickened
at
the
work
of
my
hands
.
Thus
situated
,
employed
in
the
most
detestable
occupation
,
immersed
in
a
solitude
where
nothing
could
for
an
instant
call
my
attention
from
the
actual
scene
in
which
I
was
engaged
,
my
spirits
became
unequal
;
I
grew
restless
and
nervous
.
Every
moment
I
feared
to
meet
my
persecutor
.
Sometimes
I
sat
with
my
eyes
fixed
on
the
ground
,
fearing
to
raise
them
lest
they
should
encounter
the
object
which
I
so
much
dreaded
to
behold
.
I
feared
to
wander
from
the
sight
of
my
fellow
creatures
lest
when
alone
he
should
come
to
claim
his
companion
.
In
the
mean
time
I
worked
on
,
and
my
labour
was
already
considerably
advanced
.
I
looked
towards
its
completion
with
a
tremulous
and
eager
hope
,
which
I
dared
not
trust
myself
to
question
but
which
was
intermixed
with
obscure
forebodings
of
evil
that
made
my
heart
sicken
in
my
bosom
.
I
sat
one
evening
in
my
laboratory
;
the
sun
had
set
,
and
the
moon
was
just
rising
from
the
sea
;
I
had
not
sufficient
light
for
my
employment
,
and
I
remained
idle
,
in
a
pause
of
consideration
of
whether
I
should
leave
my
labour
for
the
night
or
hasten
its
conclusion
by
an
unremitting
attention
to
it
.
As
I
sat
,
a
train
of
reflection
occurred
to
me
which
led
me
to
consider
the
effects
of
what
I
was
now
doing
.
Three
years
before
,
I
was
engaged
in
the
same
manner
and
had
created
a
fiend
whose
unparalleled
barbarity
had
desolated
my
heart
and
filled
it
forever
with
the
bitterest
remorse
.
I
was
now
about
to
form
another
being
of
whose
dispositions
I
was
alike
ignorant
;
she
might
become
ten
thousand
times
more
malignant
than
her
mate
and
delight
,
for
its
own
sake
,
in
murder
and
wretchedness
.
He
had
sworn
to
quit
the
neighbourhood
of
man
and
hide
himself
in
deserts
,
but
she
had
not
;
and
she
,
who
in
all
probability
was
to
become
a
thinking
and
reasoning
animal
,
might
refuse
to
comply
with
a
compact
made
before
her
creation
.
They
might
even
hate
each
other
;
the
creature
who
already
lived
loathed
his
own
deformity
,
and
might
he
not
conceive
a
greater
abhorrence
for
it
when
it
came
before
his
eyes
in
the
female
form
?
She
also
might
turn
with
disgust
from
him
to
the
superior
beauty
of
man
;
she
might
quit
him
,
and
he
be
again
alone
,
exasperated
by
the
fresh
provocation
of
being
deserted
by
one
of
his
own
species
.
Even
if
they
were
to
leave
Europe
and
inhabit
the
deserts
of
the
new
world
,
yet
one
of
the
first
results
of
those
sympathies
for
which
the
daemon
thirsted
would
be
children
,
and
a
race
of
devils
would
be
propagated
upon
the
earth
who
might
make
the
very
existence
of
the
species
of
man
a
condition
precarious
and
full
of
terror
.
Had
I
right
,
for
my
own
benefit
,
to
inflict
this
curse
upon
everlasting
generations
?
I
had
before
been
moved
by
the
sophisms
of
the
being
I
had
created
;
I
had
been
struck
senseless
by
his
fiendish
threats
;
but
now
,
for
the
first
time
,
the
wickedness
of
my
promise
burst
upon
me
;
I
shuddered
to
think
that
future
ages
might
curse
me
as
their
pest
,
whose
selfishness
had
not
hesitated
to
buy
its
own
peace
at
the
price
,
perhaps
,
of
the
existence
of
the
whole
human
race
.
I
trembled
and
my
heart
failed
within
me
,
when
,
on
looking
up
,
I
saw
by
the
light
of
the
moon
the
daemon
at
the
casement
.
A
ghastly
grin
wrinkled
his
lips
as
he
gazed
on
me
,
where
I
sat
fulfilling
the
task
which
he
had
allotted
to
me
.
Yes
,
he
had
followed
me
in
my
travels
;
he
had
loitered
in
forests
,
hid
himself
in
caves
,
or
taken
refuge
in
wide
and
desert
heaths
;
and
he
now
came
to
mark
my
progress
and
claim
the
fulfillment
of
my
promise
.
As
I
looked
on
him
,
his
countenance
expressed
the
utmost
extent
of
malice
and
treachery
.
I
thought
with
a
sensation
of
madness
on
my
promise
of
creating
another
like
to
him
,
and
trembling
with
passion
,
tore
to
pieces
the
thing
on
which
I
was
engaged
.
The
wretch
saw
me
destroy
the
creature
on
whose
future
existence
he
depended
for
happiness
,
and
with
a
howl
of
devilish
despair
and
revenge
,
withdrew
.
