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How does the toddler come into Silas Marner’s life? What justification does Silas offer for his wanting to keep the child? |
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Answer» • Molly Farren takes the last dose of opium and falls unconscious in the snow • The child slips slips from her clasp down into the snow. • It discovers a bright light coming across the night and toddles toward it. • The light comes from the open door of the weaver's cottage, where Silas stands unconscious, in one of his fits. • He has been told that to watch the new year in is good luck and may bring his money back, and he has been watching out the door for some sign of the gold. • When Silas recovers, he thinks for a moment that his gold has come back, for on the hearth he sees a blurred vision of a heap of coins. • When he touches them, he finds they are the golden hair of a sleeping child. • he feels he should keep her because it came to him, as if it were an act of fate or destiny that should bring them together • Feels a kinship with the child since they are both alone |
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