... myself off to sleep, when I heerd the noise again,
distinct.’
’What sort of a noise?’ asked the cook.
’A kind of a busting noise,’ replied Mr. Giles, looking round him.
’More like the noise of ... expressive of the most
unmitigated horror.
’I tossed off the clothes,’ said Giles, throwing away the table-cloth, and
looking very hard at the cook and housemaid, ‘got softly out of...
...
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXIX
HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF
THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH
OLIVER RESORTED
In a handsome room: though its furniture had rather the air of old-fashioned ... never heard of such a thing!’ exclaimed the fat gentleman. ‘My dear Mrs.
Maylie—bless my soul—in the silence of the night, too—I NEVER heard of
such a thing!’
With these expr...
... gravestones, but full of humble
mounds, covered with fresh turf and moss: beneath which, the old people of
the village lay at rest. Oliver often wandered here; and, thinking of the
wretched grave ... the parlour, without a word of
parley.
He looked anxiously round; not an article of furniture; not a vestige of
anything, animate or inanimate; not even the position of the cu...
...
chamber! How often did a tremble shake his frame, and cold drops of terror
start upon his brow, when a sudden trampling of feet caused him to fear that
something too dreadful to think of, had even ... much of brightness and
mirth in the sunny landscape; such blithesome music in the songs of the
summer birds; such freedom in the rapid flight of the rook, careering
overhead; so...
... excessive disgust. ‘Here! Cut me off
a piece of that pie, one of you boys, to take the taste of that out of my mouth,
or it’ll choke me dead.’
’Don’t be out of temper, my dear,’ urged Fagin, ... great-coat, by
way of dressing-gown, and displaying a set of features in no degree
improved by the cadaverous hue of illness, and the addition of a soiled
nightcap, and a stiff...
... a good way of business; that’s where it is!’ responded Noah,
winking one of his little eyes.
’The top of the tree; employs a power of hands; has the very best society in
the profession.’
’Regular ...
him an opportunity of asserting his innocence of any theft, and would greatly
facilitate his chances of escape. Of course, he entered at this juncture, into
no explanation...
... the dense mass
of roofs and gables, and frowned sternly upon water too black to reflect even
their lumbering shapes. The tower of old Saint Saviour’s Church, and the
spire of Saint Magnus, ... bell of St. Paul’s tolled
for the death of another day. Midnight had come upon the crowded city. The
palace, the night-cellar, the jail, the madhouse: the chambers of birth and
death,...
... overthrow of his notable scheme;
hatred of the girl who had dared to palter with strangers; and utter distrust of
the sincerity of her refusal to yield him up; bitter disappointment at the loss
of ...
of before,’ replied Noah.
’What more of him?’ cried Fagin. ‘What more of the man she had told them
of before? Tell him that, tell him that.’
’Why, that she couldn’t very ea...
... a stout leg of the necessary ligature. This
preparation for bonds, and the additional ignominy it inferred, took a little of
the excitement out of me.
"Don't take them off," ... festoons and
falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed
was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a
blush of pink in...
... thought, equally attractive. She boasted of
beautiful paintings of landscapes and flowers by them executed; of songs
they could sing and pieces they could play, of purses they could net, of
French ...
addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness. This
state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I
was to a life of ceaseles...