Chapter 2 Leaving by an early train, I got to Limmeridge in time for dinner. The house was oppressively empty and dull. I had expected that good Mrs. Vesey would have been company for me in the absence of the young ladies, but she was confined to her room by a cold. The servants were […]
Chancery Lane, Solicitor I write these lines at the request of my friend, Mr. Walter Hartright. They are intended to convey a description of certain events which seriously affected Miss Fairlie’s interests, and which took place after the period of Mr. Hartright’s departure from Limmeridge House.There is no need for me to say whether my
Chapter 3 Half an hour later I was back at the house, and was informing Miss Halcombe of all that had happened.She listened to me from beginning to end with a steady, silent attention, which, in a woman of her temperament and disposition, was the strongest proof that could be offered of the serious manner
Chapter 2 “She has escaped from my Asylum!”I cannot say with truth that the terrible inference which those words suggested flashed upon me like a new revelation. Some of the strange questions put to me by the woman in white, after my ill-considered promise to leave her free to act as she pleased, had suggested
Clement’s Inn, Teacher of Drawing This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influences of oil
Silas Marner, a weaver, is an eager and promising young member of a Puritan religious community, Lantern Yard. Marner’s supposed best friend, Willam Dane, frames him for the theft of a pouch of coins. Marner suffers from cataleptic fits which leave him as insensible as stone and vulnerable to Dane’s frame-up. The community of Lantern
Chapter 8 The next morning, having dodged Godfrey’s challenge to Eppie, Marner tells his daughter about a plan he has been hatching for some time: to return to Lantern Yard for a visit with Mr. Paston, the minister of his old faith. Marner wants to know whether anything turned up in the years since he
Chapter 7 Godfrey, having returned from his walk, tells Nancy some truly shocking news: Dunstan’s remains have been found at the bottom of the drained stone-pits. With Dunstan’s body, Marner’s gold has been recovered. Godfrey also makes another painful revelation. He finally tells Nancy that the woman found dead in the snow outside of Marner’s
Chapter 6 Silas Marner returns to the village after sixteen years, just as a Sunday service is ending. Godfrey Cass looks fuller in the flesh but still handsome, and his wife, Nancy, has lost the bloom of youth and looks somewhat vexed, though she is still quite beautiful and visibly firm in her principles. Silas
Chapter 5 While Godfrey Cass carries on his tentative flirtation with Nancy, his wife, Molly Farren, slowly makes her way towards the Red House, walking through the snow in rags with their baby girl in her arms. Molly has been planning for a long time to surprise Godfrey and the assembled society on the night
Chapter 4 There is a confrontation between Godfrey and his father, the Squire. True to his decision, Godfrey decides to forgo the opportunity to confess his secret marriage, instead electing to tell his father merely about the death of Wildfire and the innocence of Mr. Fowler.Godfrey approaches his father at breakfast, much to the surprise
Chapter 3 At the Rainbow tavern, while the personages of Raveloe attend Mrs. Osgood’s dance, some of the less lofty villagers drink and talk. Among these is the landlord, Mr. Snell, whose outlook on most matters is neutral, and whose position in most arguments is that of a mediator, befitting one who needs to sell
Chapter 2 Squire Cass is the richest man in Raveloe and the only noble in the village. Godfrey, his older son, is a big, muscular youth and a moral coward. He spends much of his time dwelling on mistakes he has made in the past, hesitating about what to do next, or drinking to forget
Chapter 1 The novel opens with a discussion of the superstitious attitude of provincial English peasants towards the “wandering” tradesmen at the fringes of their society. Such outsiders include weavers. Eliot suggests that villagers in the nineteenth-century England prefer simple, direct experience to the mysterious histories and abilities of weavers. Because such men are generally
Part 8 SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1944Dearest Kitty,“There’s just one bad thing after another. When will it all end?” You can sure say that again. Guess what’s happened now? Peter forgot to unbolt the front door. As a result, Mr. Kugler and the warehouse employees couldn’t get in. He went to Keg’s, smashed in our office
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