explore how the peasants of raveloe regard strange ( weavers ) in Silas Marner

They were looked on with curiosity and suspicion,

"Raveloe boys, who would often leave off their nutting or birds'-nesting to peep in at the window of the stone cottage, counterbalancing a certain awe at the mysterious action of the loom, by a pleasant sense of scornful superiority, drawn from the mockery of its alternating noises, along with the bent, tread-mill attitude of the weaver."