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He was very quiet as he stood by the fireplace and swung the big kettle outward. He dipped out the potatoes with an iron spoon. Tom and Dennis came in, both somewhat grumpy. They had not brought back a single squirrel. Only Johnny seemed in good spirits. He whispered in Mathilda's ear. They both began to giggle.
This paragraph is an elaboration of the description of her aunt's coldness as found in F of F B. There is only one sentence in F of F A. The description of Mathilda's love of nature and of animals is elaborated from both rough drafts. For the theme of loneliness in Mary Shelley's work, see Nitchie, Mary Shelley, pp. 13-17. This paragraph is a revision of F of F B, which is fragmentary.
The sickly society tone was no longer in evidence. Mathilda's voice was shrill and furious; it rose higher with every second. Peter shouted; he struggled with the bed-clothes. Meanwhile his wife appeared to be having a fit. Had a grounded wire poured an electric shock into her body she could not have clung to the instrument with more desperate tenacity.
She's our only daughter and our only support, see? We can't bear to let her go. If you'd only help me to the 'phone " The retort that came back was shrewish, but the next instant Mathilda's voice became as honey. "How DO you do, Mr. Wharton?" she was bubbling. "I didn't mean to keep you waiting, but I couldn't imagine ... Yes, this is Lorelei's mother.
Mary has here added detail and contrast to the description in F of F A, in which the passage "save a few black patches ... on the plain ground" does not appear. The addition of "I am alone ... withered me" motivates Mathilda's state of mind and her resolve to write her history. Mathilda too is the unwitting victim in a story of incest.
She hoped and waited and was very certain that sometime, in one year or in another Miss Mathilda would come back, and then of course would want her, and then she could take all good care of her again. Anna kept all Miss Mathilda's things in the best order. The boarders were well scolded if they ever made a scratch on Miss Mathilda's table.
Symbolic of Mathilda's subsequent life. Illusion, or the Trances of Nourjahad, a melodrama, was performed at Drury Lane, November 25, 1813. It was anonymous, but it was attributed by some reviewers to Byron, a charge which he indignantly denied.
In an effort to purge her own emotions and to acknowledge her fault, she poured out on the pages of Mathilda the suffering and the loneliness, the bitterness and the self-recrimination of the past months. The biographical elements are clear: Mathilda is certainly Mary herself; Mathilda's father is Godwin; Woodville is an idealized Shelley.
Although the main narrative, that of the father's incestuous love for his daughter, his suicide, and Mathilda's consequent withdrawal from society to a lonely heath, is not in any real sense autobiographical, many elements in it are drawn from reality.
These two paragraphs are not in F of F B; portions of them are in S-R fr. There are no corresponding S-R fr to show the process of revision. With the ideas expressed here cf. See also White, Shelley, II, 378. This solecism, copied from F of F B, is not characteristic of Mary Shelley. This paragraph prepares for the eventual softening of Mathilda's feeling.
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