1 'The crack failed,' said Toby faintly.
2 'Nothing, sir,' replied the child faintly.
3 'I never saw you before,' said Rose faintly.
4 Sometimes Mr. Claypole faints himself, but the result is the same.
5 'I heard the doctor tell them I was dying,' replied the child with a faint smile.
6 Seeing the faint light of early day without, the girl rose to undraw the curtain.
7 Oliver availed himself of the kind permission, and fell to the floor in a fainting fit.
8 'Peppermint,' exclaimed Mrs. Corney, in a faint voice, smiling gently on the beadle as she spoke.
9 He uttered these words in a feeble voice, being very faint and weak; but they were overheard at once.
10 'No, no,' replied the matron, inclining her head to catch the words, as they came more faintly from the dying woman.
11 But not the less my niece,' cried Mrs. Maylie, folding the fainting girl in her arms; 'not the less my dearest child.
12 Oliver knew not the cause of this sudden exclamation; for, not being strong enough to bear the start it gave him, he fainted away.
13 He tottered across the lawn; climbed the steps; knocked faintly at the door; and, his whole strength failing him, sunk down against one of the pillars of the little portico.
14 The lady faints away at the doors of charitable publicans, and the gentleman being accommodated with three-penny worth of brandy to restore her, lays an information next day, and pockets half the penalty.
15 There was a faint glimmering of the coming day in the sky; but it rather aggravated than relieved the gloom of the scene: the sombre light only serving to pale that which the street lamps afforded, without shedding any warmer or brighter tints upon the wet house-tops, and dreary streets.
16 The girl said nothing more; but, tearing her hair and dress in a transport of passion, made such a rush at the Jew as would probably have left signal marks of her revenge upon him, had not her wrists been seized by Sikes at the right moment; upon which, she made a few ineffectual struggles, and fainted.
17 At any other time, this remonstrance, and the tone in which it was delivered, would have had the desired effect; but the girl being really weak and exhausted, dropped her head over the back of the chair, and fainted, before Mr. Sikes could get out a few of the appropriate oaths with which, on similar occasions, he was accustomed to garnish his threats.
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