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4 Why here's one man that, in consideration of his wife and large family, has a quartern loaf and a good pound of cheese, full weight.
Oliver TwistBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXIII
5 The family had left that part a week before; they had called in such trifling debts as were outstanding, discharged them, and left the place by night.
6 In the short time he had had to collect his senses, the boy had firmly resolved that, whether he died in the attempt or not, he would make one effort to dart upstairs from the hall, and alarm the family.
7 In great families, when an advantageous place cannot be obtained, either in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, for the young man who is growing up, it is a very general custom to send him to sea.
8 'Betwixt you and me, ma'am,' returned Mr. Bumble, 'that's the great principle; and that's the reason why, if you look at any cases that get into them owdacious newspapers, you'll always observe that sick families have been relieved with slices of cheese.'
Oliver TwistBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXIII
9 We only heard of the family the night before last,' said the beadle; 'and we shouldn't have known anything about them, then, only a woman who lodges in the same house made an application to the porochial committee for them to send the porochial surgeon to see a woman as was very bad.