The stone hut was made a soft nest for her, lined with downy patience: and also in the world that lay beyond the stone hut she knew nothing of frowns and denials.
石屋为她变成了柔软的巢,里面铺着羽绒般温柔的耐心;即使在石屋以外的世界,她也不曾遇到冷脸与拒绝。
— George Eliot · Silas Marner · Chapter XIV —