1 'So-so, Mrs. Mann,' replied the beadle.
2 'Make a bow to the gentleman, Oliver,' said Mrs. Mann.
3 'That's when they're ill, Mrs. Mann,' said the beadle.
4 'Now, just a leetle drop,' said Mrs. Mann persuasively.
5 'I'll fetch him directly,' said Mrs. Mann, leaving the room for that purpose.
6 Well, well, Mrs. Mann,' he replied in a calmer tone; 'it may be as you say; it may be.
7 'Now don't you be offended at what I'm a going to say,' observed Mrs. Mann, with captivating sweetness.
8 Mrs. Mann, not very well knowing what the beadle meant, raised her hands with a look of sympathy, and sighed.
9 'I think you will,' said Mrs. Mann, who had noticed the tone of the refusal, and the gesture that had accompanied it.
10 Mr. Bumble produced some silver money rolled up in paper, from his pocket-book; and requested a receipt: which Mrs. Mann wrote.
11 'I'm sure Mr. Bumble, that I was only a telling one or two of the dear children as is so fond of you, that it was you a coming,' replied Mrs. Mann with great humility.
12 Mrs. Mann ushered the beadle into a small parlour with a brick floor; placed a seat for him; and officiously deposited his cocked hat and cane on the table before him.
13 Mrs. Mann gave him a thousand embraces, and what Oliver wanted a great deal more, a piece of bread and butter, less he should seem too hungry when he got to the workhouse.
14 There was so much determination and depth of purpose about the menacing manner in which Mr. Bumble delivered himself of these words, that Mrs. Mann appeared quite awed by them.
15 He merely returned their salutations with a wave of his hand, and relaxed not in his dignified pace, until he reached the farm where Mrs. Mann tended the infant paupers with parochial care.
16 'Why, it's what I'm obliged to keep a little of in the house, to put into the blessed infants' Daffy, when they ain't well, Mr. Bumble,' replied Mrs. Mann as she opened a corner cupboard, and took down a bottle and glass.
17 Oliver was about to say that he would go along with anybody with great readiness, when, glancing upward, he caught sight of Mrs. Mann, who had got behind the beadle's chair, and was shaking her fist at him with a furious countenance.
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