id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt eliot-silas-1861 eliot eliot-silas-1861 1861 .txt text/plain 73465 2560 73 They had, perhaps, heard their fathers and mothers hint that Silas Marner could cure folks' rheumatism if he had a mind, and add, still more darkly, that if you could only speak the devil fair enough, he might save you the cost of the doctor. It was fifteen years since Silas Marner had first come to Raveloe; he was then simply a pallid young man, with prominent short-sighted brown eyes, whose appearance would have had nothing strange for people of average culture and experience, but for the villagers near whom he had come to settle it had mysterious peculiarities which corresponded with the exceptional nature of his occupation, and his advent from an unknown region called North'ard. cache/eliot-silas-1861.txt txt/eliot-silas-1861.txt