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- AND IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE REVERTS TO THE MERRY OLD GENTLEMAN AND HIS YOUTHFUL FRIENDS.Chapter 12 — In Which Oliver is Taken Better Care of than He Ever was.... (1% in)
- CHAPTER IV OLIVER, BEING OFFERED ANOTHER PLACE, MAKES HIS FIRST ENTRY INTO PUBLIC LIFE In great families, when an advantageous place cannot be obtained, either in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, for the young man who is growing up, it is a very general custom to send him to sea.Chapter 4 — Oliver, Being Offered Another Place, Makes His First.... (1% in)
- Which, never failing to revert to his kind friends, and the opinion they must long ago have formed of him, were sad indeed.Chapter 18 — How Oliver Passed His Time in the Improving Society of.... (18% in)
- CHAPTER XXV WHEREIN THIS HISTORY REVERTS TO MR. FAGIN AND COMPANY 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—brooding over a dull, smoky fire.Chapter 25 — Wherein this History Reverts to Mr. Fagin and Company (0% in)
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