Silas Marner

6. With no horse and no money, where does Dunstan go to look for money? What possibility does he imagine he might leave his larceny undetected? (Consider the thoughts that precede the italicized question on page 43.) How is he able to find the money?

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Thinking Silas is dead, Dunstan goes to Marner's cabin to steal the money.

Dunstan's own recent difficulty in making his way suggested to him that the weaver had perhaps gone outside his cottage to fetch in fuel, or for some such brief purpose, and had slipped into the Stone-pit. That was an interesting idea to Dunstan, carrying consequences of entire novelty. If the weaver was dead, who had a right to his money? Who would know where his money was hidden? Who would know that anybody had come to take it away? He went no farther into the subtleties of evidence: the pressing question, "Where is the money?" now took such entire possession of him as to make him quite forget that the weaver's death was not a certainty.

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