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Silas Marner is a weaver who once lived in a close religious community called Lantern Yard in a northern industrial city. His best friend, William Dane, falsely accuses him of stealing money from a dying deacon. The community draws lots to determine his guilt (a common Calvinist practice), and the lots go against Silas. He is expelled from the community, loses his fiancée Sarah (who marries Dane), and loses his faith in God and humanity. He moves to the rural village of Raveloe, where he lives as a recluse for fifteen years, his only pleasure being the gold coins he earns from weaving, which he counts and caresses obsessively each night. Meanwhile, Squire Cass's two sons live very different lives: Godfrey, the eldest, has secretly married Molly Farren, a lower-class opium addict, and has a child by her. His younger brother Dunstan (Dunsey) blackmails Godfrey, threatening to reveal the secret marriage. One foggy night, Dunsey stumbles upon Silas's cottage while Silas is out and steals his entire hoard of gold, then disappears (he falls into the Stone-pits and drowns, though this is not discovered for years). Silas is devastated by the loss. The community begins to show him sympathy. On New Year's Eve, Molly Farren, carrying her child Eppie, walks toward Raveloe to expose Godfrey at the Cass New Year's party. She collapses in the snow and dies of an opium overdose. The toddler Eppie wanders into Silas's cottage through the open door and falls asleep by his hearth. When Silas finds her, her golden curls remind him of his stolen gold. He adopts her, and the community rallies around him. Godfrey sees Molly's body but says nothing, secretly relieved to be free to marry Nancy Lammeter.
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Sixteen years have passed. Silas is now a respected member of the Raveloe community, transformed by his love for Eppie, who has grown into a warm, lively young woman. She is courted by Aaron Winthrop, the son of the kindly Dolly Winthrop who helped Silas raise her. Godfrey has married Nancy Lammeter but they are childless (their one child died in infancy), which Godfrey sees as divine punishment for his secret. When the Stone-pits are drained, Dunsey's skeleton is discovered alongside Silas's gold. This shock prompts Godfrey to finally confess to Nancy that Eppie is his daughter. Nancy, though hurt, agrees they should claim Eppie. They visit Silas and offer Eppie a life of wealth and status. In the novel's climactic scene, Eppie firmly refuses, choosing to stay with Silas: “I can't feel as I've got any father but one.” She marries Aaron Winthrop in a garden that Godfrey's money has paid for (his only remaining connection to her). Silas revisits Lantern Yard but finds it demolished and replaced by a factory — his past is irrecoverable, but he has found a new life in Raveloe.
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