Like many other days, he just walks outside his door and keeps
wondering whether the lost treasure has come back.
Silas Marner had lost his God and close friend long back. In Raveole he knows no one, nor does he try to know and he kept himself busy by working on his loom whole day and counting his savings of gold coins in the night. But now that gold too was gone. So he unknowingly goes out of the house in the evening, standing there and waiting for the treasure to come back.
He stands outside for some time and comes inside and sits on the chair. He sees some thing shining near the hearth. Is it his treasure? He bends and touches this gold. But instead of hard metal what touches his fingers is soft curls. A small child is sleeping there. And now the child wakes up and starts crying "mammy".
The "mammy" was completely intoxicated and lying outside his house in the snow. Silas goes and brings the doctor. But the woman is already dead. Silas declares that he will take care of the child himself.
This new treasure changes the life of Silas Marner. The people of Raveole who were hostile to him, are now sympathetic to this old man trying to take care of a toddler. The women folk offer advices about bringing up child. And elderly people enquire him about the child.
He adores the child. No matter how mischievous it gets, he never punishes it.
The story of Silas Marner is good. But the author - George Eliot has sketched the story in such a way that you find yourself in that era.
A must read book!!!
Silas Marner had lost his God and close friend long back. In Raveole he knows no one, nor does he try to know and he kept himself busy by working on his loom whole day and counting his savings of gold coins in the night. But now that gold too was gone. So he unknowingly goes out of the house in the evening, standing there and waiting for the treasure to come back.
He stands outside for some time and comes inside and sits on the chair. He sees some thing shining near the hearth. Is it his treasure? He bends and touches this gold. But instead of hard metal what touches his fingers is soft curls. A small child is sleeping there. And now the child wakes up and starts crying "mammy".
The "mammy" was completely intoxicated and lying outside his house in the snow. Silas goes and brings the doctor. But the woman is already dead. Silas declares that he will take care of the child himself.
This new treasure changes the life of Silas Marner. The people of Raveole who were hostile to him, are now sympathetic to this old man trying to take care of a toddler. The women folk offer advices about bringing up child. And elderly people enquire him about the child.
He adores the child. No matter how mischievous it gets, he never punishes it.
The story of Silas Marner is good. But the author - George Eliot has sketched the story in such a way that you find yourself in that era.
A must read book!!!
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