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Answer the following in 120-150 words:

Describe how silas marnar is betrayed by his friend William Dane.

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Why and how did Griffin rob the Vicar's house?

 

Answer:

Silas Marner and Dane had become close friends, spending almost all their time in each other?s company. Silas had for some months been engaged to a young woman servant named Sarah. The two of them often used to meet each other and were quite often joined by William Dane whose presence they never resented. However, Dane had begun to feel jealous of Silas Marner because he had developed a liking for the girl and wanted to marry her.              Dane played a treachery on him. One night as Silas was watching the clergyman, he found that the deacon was dead and that Dane, had not come. Silas went out to inform the villagers and went home. Later, he was called to a meeting and charged with the theft of the deacon?s money from near his bed. Silas was shocked that Dane was his chief accuser. On search of Silas? cottage, the empty bag of money was found concealed in a corner. The chapel members were convinced for Mariners guilt. Everyone went against him.              The fact that Sarah broke off the engagement with him and married William a month later also points to the fact that the latter betrayed Silas in order to remove him from his way.

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It was four in the morning before dawn; Mrs. Bunting woke up suddenly on hearing the door of their bedroom open and close. The Vicar (priest) and his wife heard the noises in the house and went to investigate. They distinctly heard a fumbling going on at his study desk down stairs, and then a violent sneeze. Armed with poker, he descended the staircase as noiselessly as possible. Everything was still. Then something snapped, the drawer was opened, there was a rustle of papers. A match was struck and the study room was flooded with yellow light. A candle was lit on the desk, but there was no robber. They heard the sound of money, and realised that the robber had found the housekeeping reserve of gold. The money was gone from the drawer. As they rushed out in the passage, the kitchen door slammed. They entered the kitchen and found no one at the place. There was nobody to be found in the entire house.