Outcasts (2016)
“My dreams were therefore undisturbed by reality; and I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life. But the latter obtained my undivided attention: wealth was an inferior object; but what glory would attend the discovery, if I could banish disease from the human frame, and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!
—Frankenstein, Volume II, Chapter I The fire had died down only a little, but the parlor had not warmed appreciably... during their dinner. Rain hit the windows fitfully, in a sullen rhythm. Cold fingers of wind played with the drawing room curtains. Their heavy velvet surfaces were damp here and there with rain that had been driven in through cracks in the window jambs, evidence of some neglect.
Polidori bowed Mary into a chair and then, at Byron’s order, went to fetch the mail and a newspaper from the library. Claire whispered with Byron, who seemed in a playful, if sardonic mood.
Mary drew her chair closer to the fire, but still a shiver went through her.MoreLess
—Frankenstein, Volume II, Chapter I The fire had died down only a little, but the parlor had not warmed appreciably... during their dinner. Rain hit the windows fitfully, in a sullen rhythm. Cold fingers of wind played with the drawing room curtains. Their heavy velvet surfaces were damp here and there with rain that had been driven in through cracks in the window jambs, evidence of some neglect.
Polidori bowed Mary into a chair and then, at Byron’s order, went to fetch the mail and a newspaper from the library. Claire whispered with Byron, who seemed in a playful, if sardonic mood.
Mary drew her chair closer to the fire, but still a shiver went through her.MoreLess
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