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Silas leaves at that time for Raveloe, and in the first part of this chapter we are told that he has been there fifteen years, which takes us to somewhere between 1804 and 1807. The significant events here are placed in the six weeks from the middle of November until the New Year's Eve party; we are told that it is 'one late November afternoon ' when Godfrey and Dunsey have their quarrel. The next day Dunsey sells Wildfire, foolishly rides him and 37 stakes him, steals Silas's money and disappears; the New Year's Eve party sees the death of Molly, the relief of Godfrey, and the coming of Eppie into Silas's life.
At the very end of the chapter the omniscient voice hearkens back once more to the motto and embodies the theme of the novel in what seems to this reader to be a rather cloying extension of the text, 'In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction . ' . The sentiment is admirable but unnecessary; the chapter has already made it plain that Eppie's 'remedial influence' on Silas has been spiritual as well as human, and no gloss by the author can add anything to the interaction between the tremulous man and his 'little 'un'.
He asserts that 'she 'll be my little 'un', though Dolly follows up her practical advice by telling him that Eppie ought to be christened. Silas wants to do everything right by the child, but can't 'identify the Raveloe religion with his old faith ' . warming him into joy because she had joy'. The central theme of the novel, foreshadowed as we have seen by the motto on the title page, is now fully explored and developed ; the child's needs are simple and unremitting, but they are human needs not mechanical ones.