For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant… - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.