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Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXXV
CONTAINING THE UNSATISFACTORY
RESULT OF OLIVER’S ADVENTURE; AND A
CONVERSATION OF SOME IMPORTANCE
BETWEEN HARRY MAYLIE AND ROSE
When the inmates of the house, ...
from him to each other, seemed to fell satisfied of the accuracy of what he
said. Still, in no direction were there any appearances of the trampling of
men in hurried flight....
... at this time of the year, is it likely that anything would
occur to render necessary my immediate attendance among them.’
’Well,’ said the doctor, ‘you are a queer fellow. But of course they ... secret and explicit in his communications. Mr. Maylie took
leave of him, with many assurances of his regard and protection.
The doctor was in the chaise; Giles (who, it had been arranged,...
... victims of
similar infirmities. The remark is made, indeed, rather in his favour than
otherwise, and with a view of impressing the reader with a just sense of his
qualifications for office. ... opened, for the lucrative disposal of some secret in the
possession of his better half. He well remembered the night of old Sally’s
death, which the occurrences of that day had given...
...
and me to such a beating of eggs, sorting of currants, grating of spices,
compounding of Christmas cakes, chopping up of materials for mince-pies,
and solemnising of other culinary rites, as ... flow of
joy he could not sympathise. The event of the day that is, the return of
Diana and Mary pleased him; but the accompaniments of that event, the
glad tumult, the garrul...
... terror those cold people can put into the
ice of their questions? How much of the fall of the avalanche is in their
anger? of the breaking up of the frozen sea in their displeasure?
"No. ... which the kings of the
earth bring their glory and honour; which has no need of sun or moon to
shine in it, because the glory of God lightens it, and the Lamb is the light
there...
...
inspiration. The wondrous shock of feeling had come like the earthquake
which shook the foundations of Paul and Silas's prison; it had opened the
doors of the soul's cell and loosed ... situated in the midst of scenery
whose green hedges and large fields and low pastoral hills (how mild of
feature and verdant of hue compared with the stern North-Midland moors of...
... more
absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of
my Edward's society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do of
the pulsation of the heart that beats ... apple of his eye. He saw nature he saw books through
me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting into words
the effect of field, tree, town, river,...
... ‘So the only
proofs of the boy’s identity lie at the bottom of the river, and the old hag that
received them from the mother is rotting in her coffin.’ They laughed, and
talked of his success ... vice of the lowest
and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The
miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low
haunts, the ass...
... town, of course,’ said Mrs. Maylie, ‘while there remains the
slightest prospect of prosecuting this inquiry with a chance of success. I will
spare neither trouble nor expense in behalf of the ... be
cautiously informed of all that had occurred. These preliminaries adjusted,
Rose and Oliver returned home.
Rose had by no means overrated the measure of the good doctor’s wrath....
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CHAPTER XLVIII
THE FLIGHT OF SIKES
Of all bad deeds that, under cover of the darkness, had been committed with
wide London’s bounds since night hung over it, that was the worst. Of ... could hear the cry of Fire! mingled with the ringing of an alarm-bell, the
fall of heavy bodies, and the crackling of flames as they twined round some
new obstacle, and shot aloft as...