... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XIX
IN WHICH A NOTABLE PLAN IS DISCUSSED AND
DETERMINED ON
It was a chill, damp, ... involved in a maze of the mean and dirty streets which abound in
that close and densely-populated quarter.
The Jew was evidently too familiar with the ground he traversed to be at all
bewildered,
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XX
WHEREIN OLVER IS DELIVERED OVER TO MR.
WILLIAM SIKES
When Oliver awoke in the morning, ... meaning.
He could think of no bad object to be attained by sending him to Sikes,
which would not be equally well answered by his remaining with Fagin; and
after meditating for a long time, concluded ... by their own bad thoughts, to
such dreadful b...
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXIX
HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF
THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH
OLIVER RESORTED ... which she sat, was not more upright than she. Dressed with
the utmost nicety and precision, in a quaint mixture of by-gone costume,
with some slight concessions to the prevailing taste, which ... attentively upon her young
companion.
The younger lady w...
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXXI
INVOLVES A CRITICAL POSITION
’Who’s that?’ inquired Brittles, opening the door ... belief that the burglarious attempt had originated with the Family Pet;
and the former being equally disposed to concede the full merit of it to the
great Mr. Conkey Chickweed.
Meanwhile,
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXXII
OF THE HAPPY LIFE OLIVER BEGAN TO
LEAD WITH HIS KIND FRIENDS
Oliver’s ailings ...
beneath it.
It was a lovely spot to which they repaired. Oliver, whose days had been
spent among squalid crowds, and in the midst of noise and brawling, seemed
to enter on a new existence there. ... as usual, and many
calls at the clean houses of the lab...
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXXIII
WHEREIN THE HAPPINESS OF OLIVER AND
HIS FRIENDS, EXPERIENCES A SUDDEN
CHECK
...
of soul and spirit, which the sad remembrance of our helplessness produces;
what tortures can equal these; what reflections or endeavours can, in the full
tide and fever of the time, allay them!
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXIV
CONTAINS SOME INTRODUCTORY
PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO A YOUNG
GENTLEMAN WHO NOW ARRIVES ... made a great many other remarks, no less illustrative of his humility,
which were received with equal favour and applause, and were, withal, as
original and as much to the purpose, as the remarks
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXXV
CONTAINING THE UNSATISFACTORY
RESULT OF OLIVER’S ADVENTURE; AND A
CONVERSATION OF ... market-town, in the hope of seeing or hearing something of the men
there; but this effort was equally fruitless. After a few days, the affair began
to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when