... boy of
Ned, the chimbley-sweeper’s! He kept him small on purpose, and let him out
by the job. But the father gets lagged; and then the Juvenile Delinquent
Society comes, and takes the boy away ... opened for the purpose of explaining the nature and properties
of the various implements it contained, and the peculiar beauties of their
construction, than he fell over the...
... so maddened the murderers with the sight, that in their
horror they had confessed their guilt, and yelled for the gibbet to end their
agony. Here, too, he read of men who, lying in their beds ... night,
had been tempted (so they said) and led on, by their own bad thoughts, to
such dreadful bloodshed as it made the flesh creep, and the limbs quail, to
think of. The terrible...
... pursuers.
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 by the sound of the alarm ... on these terms; and the party being somewhat re-
assured by the discovery (made on throwing open the shutters) that it was
now broad day, took their way upstairs; w...
... unexpected! In
the silence of the night, too!’
The doctor seemed expecially troubled by the fact of the robbery having
been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the
established ... drove up to the garden-gate: out of
which there jumped a fat gentleman, who ran straight up to the door: and
who, getting quickly into the house by some mysterious...
... rose from the chair by the bedside, and remarked, that if the
officers had any doubts upon the subject, they would perhaps like to step
into the next room, and have Brittles before them.
Acting ... and the other half, that poor Mr. Chickweed had gone mad
with grief.’
’What did Jem Spyers say?’ inquired the doctor; who had returned to the
room shortly after the commen...
... too; like all the other days
in that most happy time! There was the little church, in the morning, with the
green leaves fluttering at the windows: the birds singing without: and the
sweet-smelling ... wakened up within them by the sight of the sky, and hill and
plain, and glistening water, that a foretaste of heaven itself has soothed their
quick decline, and they ha...
... balance! Oh! the racking
thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and
the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it;
the DESPERATE ... tolling for the funeral service. A group of humble
mourners entered the gate: wearing white favours; for the corpse was young.
They stood uncovered by a grave; and there was...
... coldly, mother,’ said the young man.
’Not coldly,’ rejoined the old lady; ‘far from it.’
’How then?’ urged the young man. ‘She has formed no other attachment?’
’No, indeed,’ replied his mother; ...
days. The birds were once more hung out, to sing, in their old places; and the
sweetest wild flowers that could be found, were once more gathered to
gladden Rose with their beauty....
... 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 ... what was the matter.
On they all went; nor stopped they once to breathe, until the leader, striking
off into an angle of the field indicated by Oliver, began to search, narrowl...
... at the election before Christmas, and these sudden
shiftings and changes are no bad preparation for political life. There’s
something in that. Good training is always desirable, whether the ... short dialogue by
one or two remarks that would have staggered the doctor not a little; but he
contented himself with saying, ‘We shall see,’ and pursued the subject no
farther. The po...