The Invisible Girl

by Mary Shelley

Some years before, in the afternoon of a September day, which, though tolerably fair, gave many tokens of a tempestuous evening, a gentleman arrived at a little coast town about ten miles from this place; he expressed his desire to hire a boat to carry him to the town of about fifteen miles further on the coast. The menaces which the sky held forth made the fishermen loathe to venture, till at length two, one the father of a numerous family, bribed by the bountiful reward the stranger promised -- the other, the son of my hostess, induced by youthful daring, agreed to undertake the voyage. The wind was fair, and they hoped to make good way before nightfall, and to get into port ere the rising of the storm. They pushed off with good cheer, at least the fishermen did; as for the stranger, the deep mourning which he wore was not half so black as the melancholy that wrapt his mind. He looked as if he had never smiled -- as if some unutterable thought, dark as night and bitter as death, had built its nest within his bosom, and brooded therein eternally; he did not mention his name; but one of the villagers recognized him as Henry Vernon, the son of a baronet who possessed a mansion about three miles distant from the town for which he was bound.

Use the passage from “The Invisible Girl” by Mary Shelley to answer the question.

Which detail does the author leave uncertain in this excerpt?

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Responses

the identity of the stranger who arrived in the town
the identity of the stranger who arrived in the town

why the stranger was brooding and in mourning
why the stranger was brooding and in mourning

where the stranger was headed on his voyage
where the stranger was headed on his voyage

why the fishermen did not want to transport the stranger