Silas Marner
Characterize William Dane ?
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
He is Silas Marner's treacherous best friend when they were young men in the community of Lantern Yard. A zealous, confident contrast to the meek, self-doubting Marner. In order to steal Marner's promised wife, Sarah, Dane frames Marner in the theft of a pouch of church money.
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