Quotes Flashcards
How is Raveloe described?
“districts far away among the lane” Chpt 1
“Raveloe was a village where many of the old echoes lingered, undrowned by new voices” Chpt 1
“Aloof from the currents of industrial energy”
Godfrey Cass
“good-humoured, affectionate-hearted Godfrey, was fast becoming a bitter man” Chpt 3
“Dunstan felt sure he could worry Godfrey into anything” Chpt 4
“the father would be much happier without owning the child” Chpt 13
“He would not forget it; he would see that it was well provided for. That was a father’s duty”
“We can take Eppie now” Chpt 18
“I have a claim on you, Eppie - the strongest of all claims” Chpt 19
Dunstan Cass
“Dunstan felt sure he could worry Godfrey into anything” Chpt 4
“he walked in and seated himself by it [the hearth] at once” Chpt 4
“Dunstan’s mind was as dull as the mind of a possible felon usually is” Chpt 4
“Dunstan felt round the hole, to be certain that it held no more” Chpt 4
“He’ll never be hurt - he’s made to hurt other people” Chpt 8
“Godfrey had ceased to see the shadow of Dunsey across his path” Chpt 15
The robbery
“kindness fell on him as sunshine falls on the wretched” Chpt 10
“His heart had been a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken” Chpt 10
Money and wealth
“their bright faces”
“The child was being taken care of, and would be happy, as people in humble situations often were - happier, perhaps, than those who were brought up in luxury”
“It takes no hold of me now” Chpt 19
Silas Marner
“so withered and shrunken a life” Chpt 10
Silas’s relationship with Eppie
“If any help came to him it must come from without”
“The little child had once more come to link him with the rest of the whole world”
“reawakening his senses with her fresh life”
“warming him into joy because she had joy”
“and now she says she’ll never leave me, I think I shall trusten till I die” Chpt 21
“it’s a lone thing - and I’m a lone thing”
“But she’ll be my little un, she’ll be nobody else’s”
“his new treasure on his hearth” Chpt 16
“When a man turns a blessing from his door, it fall to them as take it in”
The Raveloe villagers
“let’s have no accusing o’ the innicent” Chpt 7 (this line is repeated to emphasise point)
Lantern Yard
Nancy Lammeter
Religion and faith
“He was quite unable to identify the Raveloe religion with his old faith”
“delivered unquestioned doctrine” (minister at Lantern Yard)
Silas’s eyes - repeating motif
“large protuberant eyes”
“short sighted”
“nothing very distinctly”
“as if they had been made to see only one kind of thing that was very small, like tiny grain”
In Part 2:
“his eyes seemed to have gathered a longer vision”
“a more answering look”
The Hearth
“Sitting in the warmth of a hearth not his own” Chpt 7
“bred up in a home where the hearth had no smiles” Chpt 3
“He saw himself with all his happiness centred on his own hearth, where Nancy would smile on him as he played with his children” Chpt 15
“The gods of the hearth exist for us still”
Family
“Everyone breakfasted at a different hour in the Red House” Chpt 9
“I shall do what I choose” - the Squire to Godfrey ignoring his request about wanting to speak to Nancy himself. Chpt 9
Silas’s redemption
“Silas began to look for the once familiar herbs again” Chpt 14
“No child was afraid of approaching Silas when Eppie was with him”
“Now Silas was met with open smiling faces” Chpt 14
“the mild passiveness of love-crowned age in his face” Chpt 16
“it grew more and more easy to him to open his mind to Dolly Winthrop”
“His soul was utterly desolate till she was sent to him” Chpt 19
