The quote that you refer to actually comes in Chapter 5 of
this great novel, so I have edited your question accordingly. It is in this chapter that
Silas Marner returns to his cottage to find that his beloved gold has been taken from
him. Because his gold was what he lived for and based his life around, its loss is an
incredible blow to Silas Marner, and one which he struggles to
accept:
Again
he put his trembling hands to his head, and gave a wild ringing scream, the cry of
desolation. For a few moments after, he stood motionless; the the cry had relived him
from the first maddening pressure of the
truth.
The word "desolation"
can be defined as "the state of being abandoned or forsaken" or "wretchedness," and so
we can see how Silas Marner felt having lost his gold. This has been his reason for
existence for so long since he came to Raveloe, running away from broken relations in
his past, and thus to have it taken from him so suddenly and unexpectedly would have
made him feel forsaken and wretched.
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