Reading and Writing Module 1 Question 6

Unlike the gold which needed nothing—which was hidden away from the daylight—Eppie was a creature of endless claims and every-growing desires, seeking and loving sunshine, and living sounds, and living movements. The gold had kept his thoughts in an ever-repeated circle, leading to nothing beyond itself; but Eppie was an object compacted of changes and hopes that forced his thoughts onward. The gold had asked that he should sit weaving longer and longer, deafened and blinded more and more to all things except the repetition of his web; but Eppie called him away from his weaving, and made him think all its pauses a holiday.