1 'You're a lie, Brittles,' said Mr. Giles.
2 'You are afraid, Brittles,' said Mr. Giles.
3 'You're a falsehood, Mr. Giles,' said Brittles.
4 'So you did,' observed Brittles, in a low voice.
5 'You're a woman,' retorted Brittles, plucking up a little.
6 'I shouldn't wonder if it was,' exclaimed Brittles, catching at the idea.
7 'More like the noise of powdering a iron bar on a nutmeg-grater,' suggested Brittles.
8 'He looks as if he was a-going, miss,' bawled Brittles, in the same manner as before.
9 Brittles, who had got behind the door to open it, no sooner saw Oliver, than he uttered a loud cry.
10 Brittles is right,' said Mr. Giles, nodding his head, approvingly; 'from a woman, nothing else was to be expected.
11 At this point of the narrative the cook turned pale, and asked the housemaid to shut the door: who asked Brittles, who asked the tinker, who pretended not to hear.
12 Here, all eyes were turned upon Brittles, who fixed his upon the speaker, and stared at him, with his mouth wide open, and his face expressive of the most unmitigated horror.
13 It happened that about this time, Mr. Giles, Brittles, and the tinker, were recruiting themselves, after the fatigues and terrors of the night, with tea and sundries, in the kitchen.
14 Mr. Giles, as he spoke, looked at Brittles; but that young man, being naturally modest, probably considered himself nobody, and so held that the inquiry could not have any application to him; at all events, he tendered no reply.
15 Brittles obeyed; the group, peeping timorously over each other's shoulders, beheld no more formidable object than poor little Oliver Twist, speechless and exhausted, who raised his heavy eyes, and mutely solicited their compassion.
16 Mr. Giles acted in the double capacity of butler and steward to the old lady of the mansion; Brittles was a lad of all-work: who, having entered her service a mere child, was treated as a promising young boy still, though he was something past thirty.
17 She soon returned, with the direction that the wounded person was to be carried, carefully, upstairs to Mr. Giles's room; and that Brittles was to saddle the pony and betake himself instantly to Chertsey: from which place, he was to despatch, with all speed, a constable and doctor.
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