1 'I hope so,' replied the child.
2 'Nobody but me,' replied the child.
3 This was no very great consolation to the child.
4 The child made a strong effort, but it was an unsuccessful one.
5 Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery.
6 The patient shook her head, and stretched out her hand towards the child.
7 'I heard the doctor tell them I was dying,' replied the child with a faint smile.
8 Kiss me, said the child, climbing up the low gate, and flinging his little arms round Oliver's neck.
9 A minute ago, the boy had looked the quiet child, mild, dejected creature that harsh treatment had made him.
10 'You needn't mind sending up to me, if the child cries, nurse,' said the surgeon, putting on his gloves with great deliberation.
11 Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.
12 A child was weeding one of the little beds; as he stopped, he raised his pale face and disclosed the features of one of his former companions.
13 As Mr. Bumble paused to take breath, after delivering this address in an awful voice, the tears rolled down the poor child's face, and he sobbed bitterly.
14 Sevenpence-halfpenny's worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable.
15 Wretched as were the little companions in misery he was leaving behind, they were the only friends he had ever known; and a sense of his loneliness in the great wide world, sank into the child's heart for the first time.
16 It was not until he was left alone in the silence and stillness of the gloomy workshop of the undertaker, that Oliver gave way to the feelings which the day's treatment may be supposed likely to have awakened in a mere child.
17 The blessing was from a young child's lips, but it was the first that Oliver had ever heard invoked upon his head; and through the struggles and sufferings, and troubles and changes, of his after life, he never once forgot it.
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