The old home's gone; I've no home but this now. I shall never know
whether they got at the truth o' the robbery, nor whether Mr Paston
could ha' given me any light about the drawing o' the lots. It's
dark to me, Mrs Winthrop, that is; I doubt it'll be dark to the last.'
'Well, yes, Master Marner,' said Dolly, who sat with a placid
listening face, now bordered by grey hairs; 'I doubt it may. It's
the will o' Them above as a many things should be dark to us; but
there's some things as I've never felt i' the dark about, and
they're mostly what comes i' the day's work. You were hard done by
that once, Master Marner, and it seems as you'll never know the rights
of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master Marner,
for all it's dark to you and me.'
'No,' said Silas, 'no; that doesn't hinder. Since the time the
child was sent to me and I've come to love her as myself, I've had
light enough to trusten by; and, now she says she'll never leave me, I
think I shall trusten till I die.'
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION
THERE was one time of the year which was held in Raveloe to be
especially suitable for a wedding. It was when the great lilacs and
laburnums in the old-fashioned gardens showed their purple and
golden wealth above the lichen-tinted walls, and when there were
calves still young enough to want bucketfuls of fragrant milk.
People were not so busy then as they must become when the full
cheese-making and the mowing had set in; and besides, it was a time
when a light bridal dress could be worn with comfort and seen to
advantage.
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