Lammeter, Mr.

Nancy's father; a grave and dignified man. "That grave and orderly senior was not going to bate a jot of his dignity by seeming elated at the notion of a match between his family and the Squire's . . . His spare but healthy person, and high-featured, firm face, that looked as if it had never been flushed by excess, was in strong contrast not only with the Squire's, but with the appearance of the Raveloe farmers generally — in accordance with a favourite saying of his own, that 'breed was stronger than pasture'."

<em>Silas Marner</em>

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