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Character
Beaufort
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A proud, unbending merchant and once close friend of Alphonse Frankenstein, who fell from prosperity into poverty through numerous mischances. He paid his debts honourably and retreated in secret with his daughter Caroline to live in wretched obscurity in Lucerne, where Alphonse found him ten months later; he lay sick for three months and died in Caroline's arms, leaving her an orphan and a beggar.
Actions
- was a merchant who fell from a flourishing state into poverty through numerous mischances. · revealed ch.5
- paid his debts in the most honourable manner and retreated with his daughter to Lucerne to live unknown and in wretchedness. · revealed ch.5
- took effectual measures to conceal himself, and was found by Alphonse Frankenstein ten months later in a mean street near the Reuss in Lucerne. · revealed ch.5
Nothing has been revealed about Beaufort yet at this point in the book.