... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER IX
CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS
CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD
GENTLEMAN, ... safety. At least half a dozen more
were severally drawn forth from the same box, and surveyed with equal
pleasure; besides rings, brooches, bracelet, and other articles of jewellery, of
such magnificent
... among her sisters as worthy of being mistress of Hunsford Parsonage,
and of assisting to form a quadrille table at Rosings, in the absence of more
eligible visitors. The idea soon reached to ... consequence of any
reply. Mr. Collins might never make the offer, and till he did, it was useless
to quarrel about him.
... So then we laid in with Jim the
second night, and tore up the sheet all in little strings and twisted them
together, and long before daylight we had a lovely rope that you could a
hung a person ... kinder blue around the gills, and it all
amounted to a considerable state of things for about a quarter of a minute or
as much as that, and I would a sold out for half price if there was a bid...
... should let our
thoughts dwell accordingly. Though it is warm here, we should remember
that at the equator the line of perpetual frost is at an altitude of fifteen
thousand feet. Between the latitudes ... that you're only fit to
be the companion of a sleeping mud-turtle, I'll give you a square deal. And
that's more than your parents did when they turned you loose in the wor...
... whom we had
secured.
But it was not our prisoner to whom Holmes was giving his
attention. Squatted on the doorstep, he was engaged in most
carefully examining that which the man had brought ... in and have some
refreshment."
However, Lestrade was anxious to get his man into safe quarters,
so within a few minutes our cab had been summoned and we were
all four upon our way
... limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to
fetid puddle. I was your equal at eighteen quite your equal. Nature meant
me to be, on the whole, a good man, Miss Eyre; one of the better ... at night.
During this interval, even Adele was seldom sent for to his presence, and all
my acquaintance with him was confined to an occasional rencontre in the
hall, on the stairs, or in...
... whom as yet I knew not. The cards of address
alone remained to nail on: they lay, four little squares, in the drawer. Mr.
Rochester had himself written the direction, "Mrs. Rochester, Hotel, ... your plebeian bride in the attributes of a
peeress. I though how I would carry down to you the square of
unembroidered blond I had myself prepared as a covering for my low-born
head, and ask...
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER X
OLIVER BECOMES BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH
THE CHARACTERS OF HIS NEW ASSOCIATES;
AND PURCHASES ... on the part of the Dodger.
They were just emerging from a narrow court not far from the open square
in Clerkenwell, which is yet called, by some strange perversion of terms,
‘The Green’: when ... good
citizens.
Although Oliver had been brought...
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XI
TREATS OF MR. FANG THE POLICE
MAGISTRATE; AND FURNISHES A SLIGHT ... of the scene.
Mr. Fang was a lean, long-backed, stiff-necked, middle-sized man, with no
great quantity of hair, and what he had, growing on the back and sides of his
head. His face was stern,