“He had a sense that the old man meant to be good-natured and neighbourly; but the kindness fell on him as sunshine falls on the wretched — he had no heart to taste it, and felt that it was very far off him.”

— George Eliot

Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 10 (at page 79)

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