No," said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech-"there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing-it's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else.
( George Eliot )
[ Silas Marner ]
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