The Only Use of
stealth
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- I admired virtue and good feelings and loved the gentle manners and amiable qualities of my cottagers, but I was shut out from intercourse with them, except through means which I obtained by stealth, when I was unseen and unknown, and which rather increased than satisfied the desire I had of becoming one among my fellows.†
p. 123.7
Definition:
hard to see or detect; or done in a manner to avoid detection