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The night was bitter cold.The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a hard thick crust, so that only the heaps that had drifted into byways and corners ...

It was no unfit messenger of death, who had disturbed the quiet of the matron's room.Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; her ...

While these things were passing in the country workhouse, Mr. Fagin sat in the old den--the same from which Oliver had been removed by the girl--brood...

The old man had gained the street corner, before he began to recover the effect of Toby Crackit's intelligence.He had relaxed nothing of his unusu...

As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so mighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and the skirts of...

'Wolves tear your throats!' muttered Sikes, grinding his teeth. 'I wish I was among some of you; you'd howl the hoarser for it.' A...

In a handsome room:though its furniture had rather the air of old-fashioned comfort, than of modern elegance:there sat two ladies at a well-spread bre...

With many loquacious assurances that they would be agreeably surprised in the aspect of the criminal, the doctor drew the young lady's arm through...

'Who's that?' inquired Brittles, opening the door a little way, with the chain up, and peeping out, shading the candle with his hand. '...

Oliver's ailings were neither slight nor few.In addition to the pain and delay attendant on a broken limb, his exposure to the wet and cold had br...