secludes

Updated: May 2, 2025

He dines at his employer's table; but his supper, which is nothing but rye-bread, he carries home with him, and, at all those times when disengaged from employment, he secludes himself in his hut, or wanders nobody knows whither." This was the substance of Inglefield's intelligence. I gleaned from it some satisfaction.

Charles Brockden Brown - Edgar Huntly : or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker