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It was a cheerless morning when they got into the street. and the clouds looking dull and stormy. large pools of water had collected in the road: and the kennels were. There was a faint glimmering of the coming day in the sky. but it rather aggrevated than relieved the gloom of the scene: the sombre light only serving to...
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’Hallo!’ cried a loud, hoarse voice, as soon as they set foot in the passage.. ’Don’t make such a row,’ said Sikes, bolting the door. ‘There’s Bill Sikes in the passage with nobody to do the civil to him. A pair of slipshod feet shuffled, hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put. first, a...
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Corney, the matron of the workhouse to which our readers have been already introduced as the birthplace of Oliver Twist, sat herself down before a cheerful fire in her own little room, and glanced, with no small degree of complacency, at a small round table: on which stood a tray of corresponding size, furnished with all. As she glanced from...
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It was no unfit messanger of death, who had disturbed the quiet of the matron’s room. Alas! How few of Nature’s faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty! The cares, and sorrows, and hungerings, of the world, change them as they change hearts. It is a common thing for the countenances of the dead, even in that...
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Fagin sat in the old den—the same from which Oliver had been removed by the girl—. It being a cold night, the Dodger wore his hat, as, indeed, was often his custom within doors. Master Bates was also attentive to the play. ’That’s two doubles and the rub,’ said Mr. Either the master or the manner of this remark, which...
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but was still pressing onward, in the same wild and disordered manner, when the sudden dashing past of a carriage: and a boisterous cry from the foot passengers, who saw his danger: drove him back upon the pavement. Near to the spot on which Snow Hill and Holborn Hill meet, opens, upon the right hand as you come out of...
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As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so mighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and the skirts of his coat gathered up under his arms, until such time as it might suit his pleasure to relieve him. Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce,...
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As Sikes growled forth this imprecation, with the most desperate ferocity that his desperate nature was capable of, he rested the body of the wounded boy across his bended knee. There was little to be made out, in the mist and darkness. but the loud shouting of men vibrated through the air, and the barking of the neighbouring dogs, roused...
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HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH. Of the two ladies, one was well advanced in years. The younger lady was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood;. The very intelligence that shone in her deep blue eye, and was stamped upon her noble head, seemed scarcely of her age, or of the world....
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’Who’s that?’ inquired Brittles, opening the door a little way, with the chain up, and peeping out, shading the candle with his hand.. ’Open the door,’ replied a man outside. ‘it’s the officers from Bow Street, as was sent to to-day.’. ’Just send somebody out to relieve my mate, will you, young man?’ said the officer. ‘he’s in the gig,...
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OF THE HAPPY LIFE OLIVER BEGAN TO LEAD WITH HIS KIND FRIENDS. Oliver’s ailings were neither slight nor few. In addition to the pain and delay attendant on a broken limb, his exposure to the wet and cold had brought on fever and ague: which hung about him for many weeks, and reduced him sadly. But, at length, he began,...
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If the village had been beautiful at first it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the earlier months, had now burst into strong life and health. It was the prime and vigour of the year. creature that he had been when pain and suffering had...
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He had scarcely the power of understanding anything that had passed, until, after a long ramble in the quiet evening air, a burst of tears came to his relief, and he seemed to awaken, all at once, to a full sense of the joyful change that had occurred, and the almost insupportable load of anguish which had been taken from...
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When the inmates of the house, attracted by Oliver’s cries, hurried to the spot from which they proceeded, they found him, pale and agitated, pointing in the direction of the meadows behind the house, and scarcely able to articulate the words, ‘The Jew! the Jew!’. ’Then, they are in the ditch!’ said Harry. and in the course of a minute...
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IS A VERY SHORT ONE, AND MAY APPEAR OF NO GREAT IMPORTANCE IN ITS PLACE,. NOTWITHSTANDING, AS A SEQUEL TO THE LAST, AND A KEY TO ONE THAT WILL. ’And so you are resolved to be my travelling companion this morning. said the doctor, as Harry Maylie joined him and Oliver at the breakfast-table.. ‘Why, you are not in the...
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Bumble sat in the workhouse parlour, with his eyes moodily fixed on the cheerless grate, whence, as it was summer time, no brighter gleam proceeded, than the reflection of certain sickly rays of the sun, which were sent back from its cold and shining surface. Bumble’s gloom the only thing calculated to awaken a pleasing melancholy in the bosom of...
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Bumble, turning out of the main street of the town, directed their course towards a scattered little colony of ruinous houses, distant from it some mile and a-half, or thereabouts, and erected on a low unwholesome swamp, bordering upon the river.. and trudged on, a few paces in front, as though—the way being dirty—to give his wife the benefit of...
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On the evening following that upon which the three worthies mentioned in the last chapter, disposed of their little matter of business as therein narrated, Mr. Sikes propounded this question, was not one of those he had tenanted, previous to the Chertsey expedition, although it was in the same quarter of the town, and was situated at no great distance...
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The girl’s life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman’s original nature left in her still. and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the...
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While she felt the most eager and burning desire to penetrate the mystery in which Oliver’s history was enveloped, she could not but hold sacred the confidence which the miserable woman with whom she had just conversed, had reposed in her, as a young and guileless girl. They purposed remaining in London only three days, prior to departing for some...