Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob

Unjustly rejected by his Chapel community, the weaver Silas Marner is regarded with suspicion by the inhabitants of his new home, Raveloe. Silas's only consolation is his growing hoard of gold - but even this is taken from him. His shaken trust in God and man is restored through the pure redemptive power of his sympathy and love for the golden-haired child who comes to him mysteriously out of the night.