silas gets blamed for a crime his "best Friend" does. He moves to raveloe. In raveloe the ,ost popular familay is the Casses. The father is Squire Cass and he's the most famous. Dunstan Cass is the youngest brother and he steals his brother's, Godfrey, horse before killing it in a riding accident. Godfrey is the oldest and he secretly marries a girl name Molly against his wishes. later he marries Nancy, but on the night of their engagement Molly dies in the snow with Godfrey's 2 year old daughter in her hands. Silas finds the girl and adopts her naming her Eppie. Sixteen years later Godfrey tells Nancy, they try to get eppie to live with them but she won't. Silas takes Eppie back to lantern yard, where he was to begin with, but it's gone. Eppie marries Aaron Winthorp. Godfrey confesses to the world in his will that Eppie is his daughter.
Sorry to say this... I like Silas Marner... the simple plot and transparent morality thread aside, the book is well written, and entertaining... without people like Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell, and of course the Brontes, all we would have in Eng Lit would be shakespeare and (the gods help us all!!) the sub-Mills and Boon rubbish of jane Austen...