Silas Marner, Chapter 12 — краткое содержание

Что происходит

1. Molly carries her child toward the Red House, intending to expose Godfrey as her husband during the party.
2. She takes opium, becomes increasingly drowsy, and collapses beside a furze bush in the snow.
3. Her daughter wakes, follows the cottage’s firelight, and enters while Silas stands unconscious with the door open.
4. Silas mistakes the sleeping child’s curls for his missing gold, then recognizes a girl who recalls his dead sister.
5. He comforts and feeds the child, then removes her wet boots and realizes she has walked through snow.
6. Carrying her, Silas follows her footprints to the bushes and discovers a human body beneath the snow.

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Silas reaches for the money he longs to recover and instead encounters a living child. The discovery shifts his attention toward care and remembered affection.

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