https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j en-us 2018-05-04 13:15:52 UTC 2025-04-24 10:08:05 UTC hello@padlet.com shope_williams_kyle https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258017678 We live in a world where we would rather judge and ridicule someone because they're not like us. Most people judge others as opposed to having mercy on them and getting to know them. ]]> 2018-05-04 13:20:00 UTC https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258017678 shope_williams_kyle https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258020652 " 'Great God!' exclaimed the old man. 'Who are you?'

"At that instant the cottage door was opened, and Felix, Safie, and Agatha entered. Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me? Agatha fainted, and Safie, unable to attend to her friend, rushed out of the cottage. Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick. I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. But my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. I saw him on the point of repeating his blow, when, overcome by pain and anguish, I quitted the cottage, and in the general tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel."]]> 2018-05-04 13:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258020652 shope_williams_kyle https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258022234 "...I was scarcely hid when a young girl came running towards the spot where I was concealed, laughing, as if she ran from someone in sport. She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river, when suddenly her foot slipped, and she fell into the rapid stream. I rushed from my hiding-place and with extreme labour, from the force of the current, saved her and dragged her to shore. She was senseless, and I endeavoured by every means in my power to restore animation, when I was suddenly interrupted by the approach of a rustic, who was probably the person from whom she had playfully fled. On seeing me, he darted towards me, and tearing the girl from my arms, hastened towards the deeper parts of the wood. I followed speedily, I hardly knew why; but when the man saw me draw near, he aimed a gun, which he carried, at my body and fired. I sank to the ground, and my injurer, with increased swiftness, escaped into the wood."]]> 2018-05-04 13:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258022234 shope_williams_kyle https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258024195 The huts, the neater cottages, and stately houses engaged my admiration by turns. The vegetables in the gardens, the milk and cheese that I saw placed at the windows of some of the cottages, allured my appetite. One of the best of these I entered, but I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted. The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, ]]> 2018-05-04 13:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258024195 shope_williams_kyle https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258024635 Love is one of humanity's greatest strengths. It is also one of our greatest weaknesses. It's a strength in the fact that it gives us the most important support systems in our lives! It weakens us by the fact it gives our enemies something to exploit to take us down.]]> 2018-05-04 13:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258024635 shope_williams_kyle https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258027831 "But I discovered no trace of him and was beginning to conjecture that some fortunate chance had intervened to prevent the execution of his menaces when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream. It came from the room into which Elizabeth had retired. As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fibre was suspended; I could feel the blood trickling in my veins and tingling in the extremities of my limbs. This state lasted but for an instant; the scream was repeated, and I rushed into the room. Great God! Why did I not then expire! Why am I here to relate the destruction of the best hope and the purest creature on earth? She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair. Everywhere I turn I see the same figure--her bloodless arms and relaxed form flung by the murderer on its bridal bier. Could I behold this and live? Alas! Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. For a moment only did I lose recollection; I fell senseless on the ground....  I escaped from them to the room where lay the body of Elizabeth, my love, my wife, so lately living, so dear, so worthy. She had been moved from the posture in which I had first beheld her, and now, as she lay, her head upon her arm and a handkerchief thrown across her face and neck, I might have supposed her asleep. I rushed towards her and embraced her with ardour, but the deadly languor and coldness of the limbs told me that what I now held in my arms had ceased to be the Elizabeth whom I had loved and cherished."]]> 2018-05-04 13:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258027831 shope_williams_kyle https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258032133  "My father and Ernest yet lived, but the former sunk under the tidings that I bore. I see him now, excellent and venerable old man! His eyes wandered in vacancy, for they had lost their charm and their delight--his Elizabeth, his more than daughter, whom he doted on with all that affection which a man feels, who in the decline of life, having few affections, clings more earnestly to those that remain. Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs and doomed him to waste in wretchedness! He could not live under the horrors that were accumulated around him; the springs of existence suddenly gave way; he was unable to rise from his bed, and in a few days he died in my arms."]]> 2018-05-04 13:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258032133 shope_williams_kyle https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258033307 "Mr. Kirwin, on hearing this evidence, desired that I should be taken into the room where the body lay for interment, that it might be observed what effect the sight of it would produce upon me. This idea was probably suggested by the extreme agitation I had exhibited when the mode of the murder had been described. I was accordingly conducted, by the magistrate and several other persons, to the inn. I could not help being struck by the strange coincidences that had taken place during this eventful night; but, knowing that I had been conversing with several persons in the island I had inhabited about the time that the body had been found, I was perfectly tranquil as to the consequences of the affair. I entered the room where the corpse lay and was led up to the coffin. How can I describe my sensations on beholding it? I feel yet parched with horror, nor can I reflect on that terrible moment without shuddering and agony. The examination, the presence of the magistrate and witnesses, passed like a dream from my memory when I saw the lifeless form of Henry Clerval stretched before me. I gasped for breath, and throwing myself on the body, I exclaimed, "Have my murderous machinations deprived you also, my dearest Henry, of life? Two I have already destroyed; other victims await their destiny; but you, Clerval, my friend, my benefactor--" The human frame could no longer support the agonies that I endured, and I was carried out of the room in strong convulsions."]]> 2018-05-04 13:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/shope_williams_kyle/4y1uvhhpfg1j/wish/258033307