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On the contrary, who her mother was, and how she came to die in that forlornness, were questions that often pressed on Eppie's mind. Her knowledge of Mrs.
Childlike, they had both practically forgotten the fear that had hung over Eppie's head early in the summer, and were happily unconscious that the little home in the woods was already another's. Forest Glen School stood near the road; so near, indeed, that the porch actually encroached upon the Queen's Highway. But there was plenty of room behind the building.
She ran down the path to meet him, brushing the dew from the border of mignonette with her light gown. "What a glorious day Eppie's going to have!" she cried, plucking a rosy sweet-pea that nodded over the gate. "I wish it was our day," Charles Stuart said enviously. "Two years more to wait, Lizzie." She smiled up at him hopefully. "But we'll make them beautiful years," she whispered.
The one series, which concerns itself with Marner, may be traced back to the unmerited wrong which he suffered in his youth; and the other series, which concerns itself with Eppie, may be traced back to the clandestine marriage of Eppie's father, Godfrey Cass.
Jarvis how I felt that it seemed as if we both had profited at Eppie's expense, and that as she had allowed Eppie to be turned out of her home, I felt as if she were responsible as well as myself. And so I came away. I couldn't live that kind of life after seeing Eppie's home and what she was almost driven to. Oh, Aunt Margaret, can't you understand that I couldn't!"
Eppie's lips began to tremble a little at the last words. She retreated to her father's chair again, and held him round the neck: while Silas, with a subdued sob, put up his hand to grasp hers. The tears were in Nancy's eyes, but her sympathy with Eppie was, naturally, divided with distress on her husband's account. She dared not speak, wondering what was going on in her husband's mind.
"And yourn's the same Bible, you're sure o' that, Master Marner the Bible as you brought wi' you from that country it's the same as what they've got at church, and what Eppie's a-learning to read in?" "Yes," said Silas, "every bit the same; and there's drawing o' lots in the Bible, mind you," he added in a lower tone.
There had been a softening of feeling to him in the village since the day of his robbery, and now an active sympathy was aroused amongst the women. The child was christened Hephzibah, after Marner's mother, and was called Eppie for short. IV Eppie's Decision Eppie had come to link Silas Marner once more with the whole world.
After managin' to withstand the women o' foreign lands for a' thae years, he gaed fair skeer aboot this stocky at Tilliedrum. She's juist seventeen years auld, an' the auld fule sits wi' his airm round her in Eppie's hoose, though they've been mairit this fortnicht." "The doited fule," said Jess.
But her chief feeling was one of joy at the sight of him, and keeping hold of Eppie's hand she went round to the side of the horse where he stood. Elizabeth was shy and frightened in the presence of strangers, unless some unusual encouragement brought her older self to the fore, when she could converse with the ease of an accomplished society woman.
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