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In this manner I distributed my occupations when I first arrived , but as I proceeded in my labour , it became every day more horrible and irksome to me . Sometimes I could not prevail on myself to enter my laboratory for several days , and at other times I toiled day and night in order to complete my work . It was , indeed , a filthy process in which I was engaged . During my first experiment , a kind of enthusiastic frenzy had blinded me to the horror of my employment ; my mind was intently fixed on the consummation of my labour , and my eyes were shut to the horror of my proceedings . But now I went to it in cold blood , and my heart often sickened at the work of my hands . Thus situated , employed in the most detestable occupation , immersed in a solitude where nothing could for an instant call my attention from the actual scene in which I was engaged , my spirits became unequal ; I grew restless and nervous . Every moment I feared to meet my persecutor . Sometimes I sat with my eyes fixed on the ground , fearing to raise them lest they should encounter the object which I so much dreaded to behold . I feared to wander from the sight of my fellow creatures lest when alone he should come to claim his companion . In the mean time I worked on , and my labour was already considerably advanced . I looked towards its completion with a tremulous and eager hope , which I dared not trust myself to question but which was intermixed with obscure forebodings of evil that made my heart sicken in my bosom . Chapter 20 I sat one evening in my laboratory ; the sun had set , and the moon was just rising from the sea ; I had not sufficient light for my employment , and I remained idle , in a pause of consideration of whether I should leave my labour for the night or hasten its conclusion by an unremitting attention to it . As I sat , a train of reflection occurred to me which led me to consider the effects of what I was now doing . Three years before , I was engaged in the same manner and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart and filled it for ever with the bitterest remorse . I was now about to form another being of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant ; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight , for its own sake , in murder and wretchedness . He had sworn to quit the neighbourhood of man and hide himself in deserts , but she had not ; and she , who in all probability was to become a thinking and reasoning animal , might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation . They might even hate each other ; the creature who already lived loathed his own deformity , and might he not conceive a greater abhorrence for it when it came before his eyes in the female form ? She also might turn with disgust from him to the superior beauty of man ; she might quit him , and he be again alone , exasperated by the fresh provocation of being deserted by one of his own species .
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