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1  'I hope I am, sir,' said Mr. Gamfield, with an ugly leer.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  'When I says I will, I means I will,' replied Mr. Gamfield doggedly.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  This here boy, sir, wot the parish wants to 'prentis,' said Mr. Gamfield.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  Mr. Gamfield gave an arch look at the faces round the table, and, observing a smile on all of them, gradually broke into a smile himself.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Mr. Limbkins was standing in front of the desk on one side; and Mr. Gamfield, with a partially washed face, on the other; while two or three bluff-looking men, in top-boots, were lounging about.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Mr. Gamfield growled a fierce imprecation on the donkey generally, but more particularly on his eyes; and, running after him, bestowed a blow on his head, which would inevitably have beaten in any skull but a donkey's.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Having witnessed the little dispute between Mr. Gamfield and the donkey, he smiled joyously when that person came up to read the bill, for he saw at once that Mr. Gamfield was exactly the sort of master Oliver Twist wanted.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  Mr. Gamfield having lingered behind, to give the donkey another blow on the head, and another wrench of the jaw, as a caution not to run away in his absence, followed the gentleman with the white waistcoat into the room where Oliver had first seen him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  Mr. Bumble shook his head with gloomy mystery, and said he wished he might come to good; whereunto Mr. Gamfield replied, that he wished he might come to him; which, although he agreed with the beadle in most matters, would seem to be a wish of a totally opposite description.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  As Mr. Gamfield did happen to labour under the slight imputation of having bruised three or four boys to death already, it occurred to him that the board had, perhaps, in some unaccountable freak, taken it into their heads that this extraneous circumstance ought to influence their proceedings.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  Mr. Gamfield's most sanguine estimate of his finances could not raise them within full five pounds of the desired amount; and, in a species of arithmetical desperation, he was alternately cudgelling his brains and his donkey, when passing the workhouse, his eyes encountered the bill on the gate.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  It chanced one morning, while Oliver's affairs were in this auspicious and comfortable state, that Mr. Gamfield, chimney-sweep, went his way down the High Street, deeply cogitating in his mind his ways and means of paying certain arrears of rent, for which his landlord had become rather pressing.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  Mr. Gamfield smiled, too, as he perused the document; for five pounds was just the sum he had been wishing for; and, as to the boy with which it was encumbered, Mr. Gamfield, knowing what the dietary of the workhouse was, well knew he would be a nice small pattern, just the very thing for register stoves.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III