'a good 'spectable chimbley-sweepin' bisness,' said Mr. Gamfield, 'I wants a 'prentis, and I am ready to take him.''Wa...
In great families, when an advantageous place cannot be obtained, either in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, for the young man who is ...
Oliver, being left to himself in the undertaker's shop, set the lamp down on a workman's bench, and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of ...
The month's trial over, Oliver was formally apprenticed.It was a nice sickly season just at this time.In commercial phrase, coffins were looking u...
Noah Claypole ran along the streets at his swiftest pace, and paused not once for breath, until he reached the workhouse-gate. Having rested here, for...
Oliver reached the stile at which the by-path terminated; and once more gained the high-road.It was eight o'clock now. Though he was nearly five m...
It was late next morning when Oliver awoke, from a sound, long sleep. There was no other person in the room but the old Jew, who was boiling some coff...
For many days, Oliver remained in the Jew's room, picking the marks out of the pocket-handkerchief, (of which a great number were brought home,) a...
The offence had been committed within the district, and indeed in the immediate neighborhood of, a very notorious metropolitan police office. The crow...
The coach rattled away, over nearly the same ground as that which Oliver had traversed when he first entered London in company with the Dodger; and, t...