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I WAS now in the twenty-third year of my residence in this island, and was so naturalised to the place and the manner of living, that, could I but hav...
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HAVING now brought all my things on shore and secured them, I went back to my boat, and rowed or paddled her along the shore to her old harbour, where...
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AFTER I had been two or three days returned to my castle, I thought that, in order to bring Friday off from his horrid way of feeding, and from the re...
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UPON the whole, I was by this time so fixed upon my design of going over with him to the continent that I told him we would go and make one as big as ...
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IN a little time, however, no more canoes appearing, the fear of their coming wore off; and I began to take my former thoughts of a voyage to the main...
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WHILE we were thus preparing our designs, and had first, by main strength, heaved the boat upon the beach, so high that the tide would not float her o...
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HAVING done all this I left them the next day, and went on board the ship. We prepared immediately to sail, but did not weigh that night. The next mor...
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BUT never was a fight managed so hardily, and in such a surprising manner as that which followed between Friday and the bear, which gave us all, thoug...
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Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿 - Chapter 1
2023-12-05Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fi...
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Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿 - Chapter 2
2023-12-05For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception.He was brought up by hand.The hungry and des...