Silas Marner
The book "Silas Marner" opens in the English countryside where it was common to sometimes come across weavers, who were pale, thin men who looked like "the remnants of a disinherited race". The people viewed all types of skill and cleverness as suspicious. So, the weavers developed eccentric habits that resulted from loneliness. Silas Marner, a linen-weaver lived in a stone cottage in the village of Raveloe. The boys of the village would go and look through his window. Silas would usually scare them away by glaring at them.. The boys' parents said that Silas had the ability to cure rheumatism by the power of the devil. In the fifteen years Silas had lived in Raveloe, he had not invited any guests into his home, or made any effort to befriend other villagers. One of the townspeople swears he once saw Silas in a sort of fit, standing with his limbs stiff and his eyes "set like a dead man's." Mr. Macey, the parish clerk, suggested that Silas's soul was leaving his body to go with the devil. Even with all these rumors, Silas was never bothered because the townspeople feared him, and he was the only weaver in the village. Before Silas came to Raveloe he lived in a town to the north, where he was thought of as a young man "of
Silas tells Eppie how much he loves her, and says the money has simply been "kept till it was wanted for you. 18 Godfrey returns from his walk, and tells Nancy to sit down. Silas removes the bricks and finds the hole under the floorboards empty. Silas, however, wanting to find a culprit, clings to the thought of the peddler's guilt. Godfrey waits outside the cottage realizing that if Molly is dead he is free to marry Nancy, but that if Molly lives he has to confess everything. He looks very old for a man of fifty-five. Eppie also says that Aaron has offered Silas a place to live in their house if they get married. Silas then leaves with Dowlas and the landlord to go to see the constable. Silas expected God to clear him of the crime, but when the church members eventually found him guilty and he was excommunicated. Around this time Silas notices Sally Oates, suffering the symptoms of heart disease and dropsy. Instead of looking at him with repulsion, the townspeople now give Silas advice and encouragement. Silas says that he will not argue anymore, and leaves the decision up to Eppie. Silas goes to the Rainbow Inn and tavern but, to his disappointment all the of the "select society" was at a Mrs. Troubled by this suggestion, Silas asked his fiancee, a young servant named Sarah, if she wished to call off their engagement.
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