She loves Silas, she loves the villagers, and she’s getting to marry Aaron.

Nancy and Godfrey offer to adopt Eppie, but she refuses.

Second, Dunstan had stolen Silas’s money, and therefore the money has now been returned to Silas. He was lying drowned at rock bottom of the quarry, which has been drained as a close-by landowner improves his land. One day, Godfrey involves give Nancy some news: first, they’ve found Dunstan. But all isn’t swell at the Red House: Godfrey and Nancy are childless. She’s eighteen, adorable, and everybody loves her, above all Dolly Winthrop’s son Aaron. When Part Two opens, we meet a grown-up Eppie. subsequent sixteen years pass during a haze of neighborly good-feeling and childish hijinks. Silas takes advice from his neighbors, has her baptized, and stops hoarding for the sake of hoarding. Silas refuses to let anyone take the child: she’s his replacement for the gold. the kid wakes up and toddles off, accidentally-or miraculously?-deciding to cuddle up ahead of Silas’s heart. She takes some opium (dumb), sits down under a bush (dumber), and falls asleep (really, really dumb, but also sad). Dunstan is nowhere to be found and hasn’t been for a short time.ĭown near the Stone-Pits by Silas’s cottage, Molly trudges along the snow-covered road carrying a toddler. He’s depressed during Christmas, then New Year’s Day arrives. Silas, who can’t catch an opportunity and knows it, promptly sinks into depression. As Dustan is walking home, he spies Silas’s cottage and has the brilliant idea to steal the cash everyone suspects Silas has. Before getting the cash, Dunstan takes the horse off hunting, but he makes a stupid move and therefore the horse finishes up dead. When the most active of the story opens, Dunstan convinces Godfrey to sell his horse to pay a debt and even offers to sell it for him.

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