Select the correct text in the passage. Which sentence in this excerpt from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein suggests that Frankenstein was distant as a young boy?
We were brought up together; there was not quite a year difference in our ages. I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion
or dispute. Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together.
Elizabeth was of calmer and more concentrated disposition; but, with all my ardour, I was capable of a more intense application and was more
deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge. She busied herself with following the aerial creations of the poets; and in the majestic and wondrous
scenes which surrounded our Swiss home -the sublime shapes of the mountains, the changes of the seasons, tempest and calm, the silence of
winter, and the life and turbulence of our Alpine summers-she found ample scope for admiration and delight. While my companion contemplated
with
serious and satisfied spirit the magnificent appearances of things, I delighted in investigating their causes. The world was to me secret
which I desired to divine. Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are
among the earliest sensations I can remember.
On the birth of a second son, my junior by seven years, my parents gave up entirely their wandering life and fixed themselves in their native
country. We possessed a house in Geneva, and a campagne on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league
from the city. We resided principally in the latter, and the in lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion. It was my temper to avoid
crowd and to attach myself fervently to a few. I was indifferent, therefore, to my school-fellows in general; but I united myself in the bonds of the
closest friendship to one among them. Henry Clerval was the son of a merchant of Geneva. He was a boy of singular talent and fancy. He loved
enterprise, hardship, and even danger for its own sake. He was deeply read in books of chivalry and romance. He composed heroic songs and
began to write many a tale of enchantment and knightly adventure. He tried to make us act plays and to enter into masquerades, in which the
characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to
redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.