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- Fagin nodded an expressive approval of this mode of treatment.Chapter 44 — The Time Arrives for Nancy to Redeem Her Pledge to Rose.... (58% in)
- It was very unlike their general mode of doing business, if they had; but still, as he had no particular wish to revive the rumour, he twisted his cap in his hands, and walked slowly from the table.Chapter 3 — Relates How Oliver Twist was Very Near Getting a Palce.... (42% in)
- But Oliver's thoughts, like those of most other people, although they were extremely ready and active to point out his difficulties, were wholly at a loss to suggest any feasible mode of surmounting them; so, after a good deal of thinking to no particular purpose, he changed his little bundle over to the other shoulder, and trudged on.Chapter 8 — Oliver Walks to London. He encounters on the Road a.... (12% in)
- Mr. Dawkin's appearance did not say a vast deal in favour of the comforts which his patron's interest obtained for those whom he took under his protection; but, as he had a rather flightly and dissolute mode of conversing, and furthermore avowed that among his intimate friends he was better known by the sobriquet of 'The Artful Dodger,' Oliver concluded that, being of a dissipated and careless turn, the moral precepts of his benefactor had hitherto been thrown away upon him.Chapter 8 — Oliver Walks to London. He encounters on the Road a.... (65% in)
- CHAPTER XI TREATS OF MR. FANG THE POLICE MAGISTRATE; AND FURNISHES A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF HIS MODE OF ADMINISTERING JUSTICE The offence had been committed within the district, and indeed in the immediate neighborhood of, a very notorious metropolitan police office.Chapter 11 — Treats of Mr. Fang the Police Magistrate; and Furnishes a.... (1% in)
- The same remark he considered to apply to the regulation mode of cutting the hair: which he held to be decidedly unlawful.Chapter 18 — How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of.... (86% in)
- Now, Mrs. Corney that was, had tried the tears, because they were less troublesome than a manual assault; but, she was quite prepared to make trial of the latter mode of proceeding, as Mr. Bumble was not long in discovering.Chapter 37 — In Which the Reader May Perceive a Contrast, Not Uncommon.... (30% in)
- Not knowing, very well, what to do, in this uncommon emergency; for Miss Nancy's hysterics were usually of that violent kind which the patient fights and struggles out of, without much assistance; Mr. Sikes tried a little blasphemy: and finding that mode of treatment wholly ineffectual, called for assistance.Chapter 39 — Introduces Some Respectable Characters with Whom the.... (15% in)
- By the provisions of his father's will, Oliver would have been entitled to the whole; but Mr. Brownlow, unwilling to deprive the elder son of the opportunity of retrieving his former vices and pursuing an honest career, proposed this mode of distribution, to which his young charge joyfully acceded.Chapter 53 — And Last (14% in)
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