Silas Marner

Yazar

George Eliot

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Dejavu Publishing

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196

In the days when the spinning - wheels hummed busily in the farm houses - and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread - lace, had their toy spinning - wheels of polished oak - there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.
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