Dunstan hatches a scheme to collect his money anyway. But Dunstan then uses Wildfire in the hunt, in the course of which he impales Wildfire on a hedge-stake, killing the horse. He thus spends his days drinking away his sorrows, seeing Nancy when he can and putting off his seemingly inevitable fall from grace.ĭunstan sells Wildfire. Godfrey is hopelessly miserable, because not only does he loathe his decision to marry Molly, he is also deprived of marrying Nancy. This woman over time has turned into a laudanum addict and an alcoholic. Some time before, he rashly married a barmaid named Molly Farrell, who lives in a town to the north. The next day, while Godfrey attends a dance with Nancy Lammeter, the love of his life, Dunstan will sell Wildfire at a hunt.īut Godfrey has bigger problems than making good on the embezzling debt. In order to replace the money they stole, Godfrey, a weak-willed pawn of his younger brother, agrees to sell his magnificent horse, Wildfire. The Squire threatens to evict the tenant unless he can pay his rent. Dunstan recently talked his older brother into embezzling rent money from one of the Squire's tenants. Squire Cass has two sons, Godfrey Cass and Dunstan Cass, who tend to cause trouble. Its most wealthy and distinguished family are the Casses. Meanwhile, Raveloe is the home of other wealthy citizens. He spends as little as he can in order to save more coins, which he hides in two leather bags in a hole in his cottage floor. The gold coins that he earns at his loom represent for him all the meaning that he has lost, and the faces printed on the coins serve as his only company. Marner, for his part, is content to live a life of almost total solitude in his simple cottage beside the Stone-pits. Marner seems to have supernatural powers-he is able to heal a local woman using herbal arts he learned from his mother-but the villagers of Raveloe do not know his background and thus find his knowledge diabolical and threatening. The villagers appreciate Marner's trade but find him strange and unapproachable. Marner eventually settles at the outskirts of Raveloe, a provincial village in the English Midlands.
After the lots proclaim Marner guilty, he flees from Lantern Yard, utterly crushed, leaving behind his faith in God and in humankind. The community of Lantern Yard draws lots to determine Marner's guilt or innocence in the crime.
Marner suffers from cataleptic fits which leave him as insensible as stone and vulnerable to Dane's frame-up. Marner's supposed best friend, Willam Dane, frames him for the theft of a pouch of coins. Silas Marner, a weaver, is an eager and promising young member of a Puritan religious community, Lantern Yard.
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