When Molly tried to reach his father’s New Year party to announce her being his wife, she loses her balance in the snow, leaving her two-year-old daughter to wander through the snow. Although it had not caused any harm to him, it had stopped him from marrying Nancy Lammeter, another middle-class lady, he loved the most. On the other hand, his brother, Godfrey Cass, suspected something, though, he had his own secret – his marriage to Molly Farren, an opium addict.

However, nobody in the village suspected Dunstan as he stayed disappeared for days. Silas took this theft to his heart and found himself cornered. Sadly Dunstan Cass, a son of the local squire, stole the bags and escaped. Over time, he collected enough gold coins. Soon he was immersed in his work and earnings. He was isolated in the area after which he felt distraught and left it for good to another area where he assumes a new identity.Īfter traveling to Midlands, Silas reached Raveloe, a village in Warwickshire, he passed a word about his profession and settled down, keeping a very low profile with no contacts with the locals except his work. He was berated in the area where his fiancée refuses to marry him, while the social relations turn their back toward him. Instead of locating the act of stealing and investigating the issue, it is put to God to establish the truth of the crime despite the proof that Silas was not the culprit. However, there was also a suspicion that William Dane, his best friend, had framed him for the theft because William lend his penknife to Silas before the theft took place. Sadly, the people, finding faults in him, accusing him of two reasons that he used a pocket knife for stealing the funds and that the bag containing the money was recovered from his house. However, someone, having ill will against him, accusing him of stealing funds of the congregation that he denies. Earning his livelihood by weaving linen of the locals had become his source of bread and butter.

Set at the beginning of the 19 th century’s rural England, Silas Marner, a simple weaver, living in Lantern Yard joined the Calvinist congregation.

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