At the end of fifteen years the Raveloe men said just the same things about Silas Marner as at the beginning: they did not say them quite so often, but they believed them much more strongly when they did say them.

十五年过去，拉维洛人谈起西拉斯·马南，说的仍是最初那些话：他们说得没有那么频繁了，可每次说起，却信得更加坚定。