The Jasper news., 1915-04-08
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after Manners money was stolen,
he found a golden haired child on
his hearth and her mother frozen to
death just outside the door. The
woman was the wife of Godfrey
Cass and on that night she had set
out to denounce Godfrey Cass to
the public, but being drug fiend
her senses became numbed from
her continuous use of it and she
fell in the snow and persisted The
child was kept by Mariner and the
woman was buried in pauper's
grave.
AS the years passed on changes
came in the lives of the people of
Raveloe. Godfrey Cass married
his childhood sweetheart, and
Eppic, Manners adopted child,
grew into a beautiful girl. Mar.
ner, whose life had been one of
desolate solitude before he had
found Eppie, was now lover of
his fellowmen. He had been
brought into contact with the life
of these people of Raveloe by the
finding of Eppie.
After Godfrey had been married
for several years a great calamity
fell upon his life. His brothers
skeleton had been found in the
stone pits and Mariners money was
found with it. He then realized
that "all things come to light soon
er or later" and told his wife of
his first marriage. She then want
ed to adopt Eppie, but that night
when they went to Manners cot
tage Eppie refused them saying
that they should have owned her
when she was first found by Silas.
Mariner lived to see Eppie grow
into womanhood and married to a
working man. childhood play
mate of Eppie's. His life was hap
Ply from the finding of Eppie and
he learned to love and trust his
fellowmen as he had in years gone
by. The people of Raveloe learn
ed to love and respect him, which
was quite different from the way
he had been treated, during the
first years of his life in Ravelore
Eppie and her husband lived II
the stone cottage with Silas ant
she said in the closing chapter o.
the story "Oh, father, what pref
ty home is ours thank nobody
could be happier than we are!'
Around these characters, God
frey Cass, Nancy Lemmeter, Sila!
Mariner and Eppie, has woven ;
story which gives us a clear in
sight into the lives and character.
of the English people in the early
part of the nineteenth century.
These characters are very natur
al because their language appears
to be the language of the simple
English peasantry. Under the cir
cumstances in which they are borr
and raised we little wonder at Their
ignorance and piety. This make!
us think the characters seem very
natural.
Godfrey Cass was a man will
high ideals but he couldn't live uE
TO these ideals. He was generous
and kind to his friends as we learn
by the way in which he treated
Mariner and also the tenants of his
fathers place. One incident of hi:
honesty is shown when he sold his
horssthat he might pay his father
some money he had collected from
a tenant. He did this to keep his
father from turning the tenant out
He was faithful to Nancy aud hi;
only bad characteristic was hi:
inability to reveal himself in hi'
real being. He was a coward NOR,
ally8or he was afraid to tell the
ne8reat secret of his life. From
his characteristics I come to the
conclusion that had it not beer
forsbis early marriage to such a
baARharacter, he was good type
of Tie English gentry in those