'To any who had observed him before he lost his gold, it might have seemed that so withered and shrunken a life as his could hardly be susceptible of a bruise, could hardly endure any subtraction but such as would put an end to it altogether.' What does George Eliot describe metaphorically in this excerpt from her book, Silas Marner?

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'To any who had observed him before he lost his gold, it might have seemed that so withered and shrunken a life as his could hardly be susceptible of a bruise, could hardly endure any subtraction but such as would put an end to it altogether.' <br>What does George Eliot describe metaphorically in this excerpt from her book, <em>Silas Marner</em>?





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