“Sometimes, indeed, I felt a wish for happiness; and though, with melancholy delight, of my beloved cousin; or longed, with a devouring maladie du pays, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that has been so dear to me in early childhood.” (Shelley 117).
Maladie du pays means, in French, homesickness. (http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/V3notes/maladie.html)
Victor here misses his childhood home and its beautiful countryside, his “cousin” Elizabeth, and his old, carefree way of life, before the monster was made.
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