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Everything is ticking along nicely.  Godfrey is wooing Nacey Lammeter during the Cass family New Years Eve party.  Then the story takes a sudden new twist.

"Do you want me to go? Said Godfrey, looking at Nancy, who was now standing up by Priscilla's order.
"As you like," said Nancy, trying to recover all her former coldness, and looking carefully at the hem of her gown.
"Then I like to stay," said Godfrey, with a reckless determination to get as much of  this joy as he could tonight, and think nothing of the morrow.
Chapter Twelve
"While Godfrey Cass was taking draughts of forgetfulness from the sweet presence of Nancy, willingly losing all sense of that hidden bond which at other moments galled and fretted him so as to mingle irritation with the very sunshine, Godfrey's wife was walking with slow uncertain steps through the snow-covered Raveloe lanes, carrying her child in her arms. 

Dolly, kind Dolly, who later becomes Ebbie's mother-in-law, comforts Silas after the theft of his money.  She visits with her young son, and a gift of landicake.

Dolly sighed gently as she held out the cakes to Silas, who thanked her kindly, and looked very close at them, absently, being accustomed to look so at everything he took into his hand - eyed all the while by the wondering bright orbs of the small Aaron, who had made an outwork of his mother's chair, and was peeping round from behind it.
"There's letters pricked on 'em," said Dolly.  "I can't read 'em myself, and there's nobody, not Mr Macey himself, rightly knows what they mean; but they've a good meaning, for they're the same as is on the pulpit-cloth at church. What are they Aaron my dear?"

And then, as the story meanders on into country straw chewing, The draining of the stone pits revieals the skeleton of Godfreys younger brother Dunstan or 'Duncey'. He has his brother horse whip, and he two bags of Marners Gold. For 16 years his absence was put down to him leaving town after the death of his brothers horse.  Actually after steeling the money in the dark and the rain, he fell head long into the pit, and drowned, right next to Marners cottage. I guess his body was weighed down with he money, so not discovered, though a smell should be expected.