She knew that she was the cause of her husband's utter ruin; and she strung herself to bear the consequences. The reproaches which agony extorted; or worse, cureless, uncomplaining depression, when his mind was sunk in a torpor, not the less painful because it was silent and moveless.
1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Last Man. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […]