Possible Clues:

• Fellow expressing no regrets to speak of
• Weaver with sibling across the city
• - Marner, (George Eliot)
• Forename of miser is recalled by girl? Not quite
• Missionary has set up southern city, not northern town
• ___ Marner
• Uncle - (Le Fanu); - Marner (Eliot)
• Fiction's Marner
• Diplomat Deane of early America
• Sarah is bowled over by him