AuthorChapter 25
The wedding and the voyage to Evian
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1 Paris spreads under a low overcast morning sky, with the grey Seine curving between its stone quays.
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2 In Paris, feverish Victor springs up and calls the heavens to witness his guilt
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3 Victor looks up from Elizabeth's letter, remembering the creature's wedding-night threat
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4 Victor sits in the worn armchair by the small Paris hearth, still gaunt from fever.
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5 Victor comes home to Geneva, and Elizabeth hurries across the sitting room to meet him.
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6 In the Geneva sitting room, Elizabeth sits beside Victor and lays her hand on his arm
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7 By the firelit hearth, Victor smiles and clasps his father's hand as he agrees to marry in ten days.
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8 On the wedding morning, the overjoyed father directs servants with flowers and boxes
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9 The wedding boat crosses the sunlit Lake of Geneva between the Jura and Mont Blanc
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10 In the shade of the canopy, Victor takes Elizabeth's hand and asks her for one quiet day
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11 At sunset, Victor steps onto the Evian shore and reaches back for Elizabeth's hand
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