Chapter 8
The creature wakes; Victor flees and falls ill
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1 Ingolstadt lies asleep under driving November rain at one in the morning.
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2 One in the morning in the attic workroom.
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3 By a guttering candle at one in the morning, the creature's dull yellow eye first opens
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4 From the rafters: the giant creature stirs into life on the long trestle table
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5 Victor wakes to find the creature standing over his bed, holding the curtain aside
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6 Victor wakes to find his creature leaning in under the lifted bed curtain
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7 Outside the Ingolstadt inn, Henry Clerval leaps from the diligence with arms flung wide
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8 Victor throws open the door of his rooms expecting the monster and stops on the threshold.
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9 A feverish vision seizes Victor at breakfast.
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10 Victor lies unconscious on the floorboards of his Ingolstadt room after his seizure.
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11 After a winter of fever, Victor turns his thin face to spring buds at the open window
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12 Victor is recovering in the spring sunlight when Clerval's gentle "one subject" stops his smile.
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