... he was to
despatch, with all speed, a constable and doctor.
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXVIII
LOOKS AFTER OLIVER, AND PROCEEDS
WITH HIS ADVENTURES
’Wolves tear your throats!’ ... remind them of his superior position in society. But, death, fires, and
burglary, make all men equals; so Mr. Giles sat with his legs stretched out
before the kitchen fender, leaning his left
... attentively upon her young
companion.
The younger lady was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood;
at that age, when, if ever angels be for God’s good purposes enthroned in
mortal forms, ...
permit me? Not the slightest fear, I pledge you my honour”
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXIX
HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF
THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH
OLIVER RES...
...
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
buoyed him up, and sustained him, ... forced away, had
calls at the clean houses of the labouring men; and at night, Oliver read a
chapter or two from the Bible, which he had been studying all the week, and
in the performance ....
...
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! ... think what change could have driven her away. He learnt that
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXXIII
WHEREIN THE HAPPINESS OF OLIVER AND
HIS FRIENDS, EXPERIENCES A SUDDEN
CHECK
... grinning at me!’
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXXIX
INTRODUCES SOME RESPECTABLE
CHARACTERS WITH WHOM THE READER
IS ALREADY ACQUAINTED, AND SHOWS
HOW MONKS AND THE JEW LAID THEIR ... it was
in the same quarter of the town, and was situated at no great distance from
his former lodgings. It was not, in appearance, so desirable a habitation as
his old quarters: being a mean...
... a child fallen down and hurt itself. Ha! ha! ha!’
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XLII
AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE OF OLIVER’S,
EXHIBITING DECIDED MARKS OF GENIUS,
BECOMES A PUBLIC CHARACTER ... doubtful; but as he recollected that, in the
event of his refusal, it was in the power of his new acquaintance to give him
up to justice immediately (and more unlikely things had come to pass)...
... dear,’ said the gentleman.
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XLVI
THE APPOINTMENT KEPT
The church clocks chimed three quarters past eleven, as two figures emerged
on London Bridge.
... house before he had heard enough. ‘You followed
her?’
’Yes.’
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XLVII
FATAL CONSEQUENCES
It was nearly two hours before day-break; that time which in
... know that had I been a sanguine,
brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child though equally
dependent and friendless Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more
complacently; her ... bracing me with its bitter vigour; I had to stem a rapid rush of
retrospective thought before I quailed to the dismal present.
All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud...
... candle, so cruel that I think I
shall never forget it."
JANE EYRE
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Chapter 3
The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a
frightful nightmare, ... appalling, her details of certain accomplishments attained by
these same young ladies were, I thought, equally attractive. She boasted of
beautiful paintings of landscapes and flowers by...