Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus (Large Print)

This aroused the stranger's attention, and he asked a multitude of questions concerning the route which the dæmon, as he called him, had pursued. Soon after, when he was alone with me, he said, "I have, doubtless, excited your curiosity, as well as that of these good people; but you are too considerate to make inquiries.""Certainly; it would indeed be very impertinent and inhuman in me to trouble you with any inquisitiveness of mine.""And yet you rescued me from a strange and perilous situation; you have benevolently restored me to life."