Chapter 5
Agrippa, the lightning, and the seeds of ruin
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1 The small villa at Belrive looks tiny beside the shining Lake of Geneva and the Alps
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2 On the lawn at Belrive, young Henry Clerval raises a wooden sword to challenge Victor
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3 In the garden at Belrive, Elizabeth rests a hand on sullen, book-bent Victor's sleeve
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4 At a rainy inn near Thonon, thirteen-year-old Victor holds out his Cornelius Agrippa
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5 At dusk, young Victor holds up an incantation, waiting for a spirit that never comes
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6 The morning after the storm, a boy lifts a pale ribbon of wood from the blasted oak stump
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7 Victor bends quietly over his geometry at the round table while his parents read and sew.
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