The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-03-03

of filthy creation: my eye-balls were
starting from their sockets in attend
ing to the details of my employment
The disseeting room and the slaughter
house furnished many of my materials
4 and often did my human nature turn
with Ioathing from my occupation
while, still urga on by an eagerness
which perpetually increased. brought
my work near to conclusion.
1t was on dreary night of Novem-
Der that I beheld the accomplishment
of my tolls. With an anxiety that al
most amounted to agony, I collected
the instruments OF life around me, that
I might infuse a, spark of being into
/ the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
1t was already one in the morning; the
rain battered disnally against the
panes, and my candle was nearly burnt
/ out, when, by the glimmer of the half
/ extinguished light, I saw the dull
/ yellow eye of the creature open; it
breath hard, and conclusive motion
agitated its limbs
How can / describe my emotions at
this catastrophe, or how delineate the
wretch whom with such infinite pains
and care / had endeavored to form
| His limbs We're in proportion, and I
/ had selected his features as beautiful.
BeautifaI!--Great God! His yellow
SKIN scarcely covered the work of
muscles and arteries beneath: his hair
was of lustrous black, and flowing;
! his teeth of al pearly whiteness; but
| these luxuriances only formed more
horrid contrast with his watery eyes,
| that seemed almost of the same color
as the dun-wf1ite sockets in which they
were set his shriveled complexion, and
straight black lips.
The different accidents of life are
not SO changeabIe as the feelings of
human nature. had worked hard for
nearly two years, for the sole purpose
of infusing life into an inanimate
body. For this I had deprived myself
of rest and health. / had desired it
with an ardor that far exceeded mod
Grafton, but now that had finished,
the beauty of the dream vanished, and
breathIess horror and disgust filled my
heart.
Unable to endure the aspect of the
being had created, rushed out of the
room, and continued long time ira
versing my bedchamber, unable to
compose my mind to sleep. At length
lassitude succeeded to the tumuIt had
before endured; and / YEARLY threw
myself on rhe bed in my clothes, en-
deavoring to seek a few moments of
forgetfulness.
But it was in vain: I slept, indeed,
but I was disturbed by the widest
dreams. 1 thought / saw Elizabeth, in
the bloom of health, walking in the
streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and
surprised, I embraced her; but as I
imprinted the first kiss on her lips,
they became livid with the hue of
death; her features appeared to change
and I thought that I held the corpse of
my dead mother in my arms; q, shroud
enveloped her form, and I saw the
graveworms crawling in the folds of
the flannel.
J. + started from my sleep with horror;
cold dew covered my forehead, my
teeth chartered, and every limb became
convulsed; when, by the dim and yell
low light of the moon, as it forced it's
way through the window-shutters,
beheld the wretch-the miserable mon
ster whom I had created. He held up
the curtain of the bed; and his eyes,
If eyes they may be called, were fixed
on me. His jaws opened. and he NUT
tered some inarticulate sounds, while
a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might
have spoken, but I did not hear; one
hand was stretched out, seemingly to
detain me, but I escaped, and rushed
downstairs.
took refuge in the courtyard be-
longing to the house which I Inhabited;
where I remained during the rest of
the night, walking UP and down in the
greatest agitation, listening attentive
ly, catching and fearing each sound as
IL 1t were to announce the approach
of the demoniacaI corpse to which
had so miserabIy given life.
Oh! no mortal could support the hor-
ror of that countenancs A mummy
again endued with animation could not
be so hideous as that wretch. I had
gazed on him while unfinished; he was
ugly then; but when those muscles and
joints were rendered capable of mo-
ton, it became thing such as even
Dante could not have conceived.
I passed the night wretchedly. Some
times my pulse best so quickly and
hardly that / felt the palpitation OF
every artery, at Others I nearly sank
to the ground through languor and ex
treme weakness. Mingled with this
horror. I felt the bitterness of disap-
pointment; dreams that had been my
food and pleasant rest for so long a
space were now become a hell to me;
and the change was so rapid, the over
throw SO complete!
Morning, dismal and wet, at length
dawned, and discovered to my sleep
less and aching eyes the church Of In
golstadt, its white steeple and clock.
which indicated the sixth hour. The