The Frankenstein Monster by Lynn Shepherd

Author:Lynn Shepherd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hera
Published: 2022-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

I write out these words from memory; the note itself I cast into the fire in disgust, within a moment of reading it.

Of that interment, I wish not to speak. The rain driving in off the sea, the black-suited clergyman racing through the service that he might return to the comfort of his own fat fireside, and the bodies, three of them, sewn into their rough sacks, heaved one by one into the tainted pit of a paupers’ grave. I did not even know which one was hers.

A vile journey I endured home, with none of the comforts of my own private carriage, the public coach crowded, and the heavy wheels jarring and jolting on the dirty road. Fraser, I knew, had already returned to London, so I spent all that long expanse of hours cast in my own thoughts, and debating whether I could, in conscience, continue with Godwin’s commission, given the base opinion I now entertained of he who had hired me. I understood his terror of the press; I had sympathy with his wish to avoid further needless scandal, but I could not – and do not – forgive him for having abandoned that poor child to be buried alone and nameless, and with no one who loved her by. I have discovered since that he and his wife contrived to conduct themselves so calmly – so coldly indeed – in the face of this tragedy that not one person in their household had the smallest apprehension of the truth; I have discovered likewise that they continue, even now, to give out all manner of spurious accounts to explain the young woman’s supposed absence, and even after so many weeks have passed one of her step-brothers still has not the slightest notion of her death.

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