How do people react to Elizabeth and how does Victor feel about her in Frankenstein?Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Elizabeth is a constant joy to the Frankenstein family; in
fact, the parents have always hoped that Victor would marry this lovely girl who comes
to the defence of Justine Moritz, the accused murderer of William Frankenstein.  Even
Victor, who knows that Justine is innocent is not as willing as Elizabeth to defend
her.  That he dissembles around Elizabeth is, indeed, an indictment against the
integrity of Victor.  In Chapter 7 he tells Elizabeth

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'She [Justine]is innocent, my Elizabeth...and
that shall be prove; fear nothing, but let your spirits be cheered by the assurance of
her acquittal.'

Yet,
selfishly, Victor Frankenstein does not come forward with the truth; instead, he leads
Elizabeth to believe that he is "kind and generous."

This
selfishness is also blatantly evident after the creature tells Frankenstein will be with
him on his wedding night, and Victor refrains from telling sweet Elizabeth anything. 
Fatefully, she becomes a sacrificial victim to the ego of Victor Frankenstein. At the
end of Chapter 7 Victor even accuses himself:

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Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by
remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the grave of
William and Justine the first hapless victims to my unhallowed
arts.

Elizabeth, the lovely
girl who "possesses a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend
can,"--he loves her --becomes a sacrificial victim for the creature of Victor, "the
author of unalterable evil."