When Dunstan Cass left the cottage, Silas Marner was only a hundred meters away. He was walking home from the village, where he had 1 _______ to buy what he needed 2 _______ his next day's work. His legs were tired, but he felt almost happy. He was looking forward to 3 _______ ,when he would bring out his gold. Tonight he had an extra reason to hurry home. He was going to eat hot meat, which was 4 _______ for him. And it would 5 him nothing, because someone had given him a piece of meat as a present. He left it 6 _______ over the fire. The door key was needed to hold it safe in place, but Cass was not at all 7 _______ about leaving his gold in the cottage with the door 8 _______. He could not imagine that a thief would 9 _______ his way through the mist, rain and darkness to the little cottage by the quarry (釆石场).
