Cass, Dunstan, called Dunsey

Squire Cass's second son, "a thick-set, heavy looking young man," fond of drink and betting. "People shook their heads at the courses of the second son, Dunstan, commonly called Dunsey Cass, whose taste for swopping and betting might turn out to be a sowing of something worse that wild oats. To be sure, the neighbours siad, it was no matter what became of Dunsey--a spiteful, jeering fellow, who seemed to enjoy his drink the more when other people went dry." He takes advantage of his knowledge of his brother Godfrey's secret marriage to extort money from him. Moved by a sudden impulse, he enters Silas Marner's unprotected cottage to borrow money, steals the weaver's savings, and disappears from Raveloe. Years later his skeleton and the money are found in a pit into which he had fallen after the robbery.

<em>Silas Marner</em>

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