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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....
... 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...
...
existed proofs—proofs long suppressed— of his birth and parentage. Those
proofs were destroyed by you, and now, in your own words to your
accomplice the Jew, ‘THE ONLY PROOFS OF THE BOY’S ... knew nothing of that; I was going to
inquire the truth of the story when you overtook me. I didn’t know the cause.
I thought it was a common quarrel.’
’It was the partial disclosure of yo...
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CHAPTER LI
AFFORDING AN EXPLANATION OF MORE
MYSTERIES THAN ONE, AND
COMPREHENDING A PROPOSAL OF
MARRIAGE WITH NO WORD OF
SETTLEMENT OR PIN-MONEY
The events narrated in the last chapter ... Mr. Brownlow. ‘You were present on the
occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and indeed are the more guilty
of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that...
... tranquil remainder of her days, the greatest felicity that age and
worth can know—the contemplation of the happiness of those on whom the
warmest affections and tenderest cares of a well-spent ... investigation, that if the wreck of property
remaining in the custody of Monks (which had never prospered either in his
hands or in those of his mother) were equally divided betwee...
...
"With pleasure? Are you fond of it?"
"I like Revelations, and the book of Daniel, and Genesis and Samuel, and a
little bit of Exodus, and some parts of Kings and Chronicles, and Job ...
sound of the piano or the harp played below, to the passing to and fro of the
butler and footman, to the jingling of glass and china as refreshments were
handed, to the broke...
... possessed of that very useful appendage, a
voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.
As Oliver gave this first proof of the free and proper action of his lungs, ... inasmuch as it can be of no
possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events;
the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chap...
... by the enemies of ‘the system,’ that, during the period
of his solitary incarceration, Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the
pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation. ... the impious and profane offence of
asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary
room to which he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of th...
... the work of my own hands:
freely pencilled houses and trees, picturesque rocks and ruins, Cuyp-like
groups of cattle, sweet paintings of butterflies hovering over unblown roses,
of birds picking ...
the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a
kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest "
"Hush, Jane! you think too much of the lo...