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1  'Very happy, sir,' replied Oliver.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  If I thought it, I should never be happy again.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  They were happy days, those of Oliver's recovery.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  'He seems in high spirits and happy,' she said, at length.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  He felt calm and happy, and could have died without a murmur.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  I have been very happy with her for some years: too happy, perhaps.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  Oliver looked up at the windows, with tears of happy expectation coursing down his face.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  It had been bright day, for hours, when Oliver opened his eyes; he felt cheerful and happy.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  I suppose it was,' replied Oliver, 'because heaven is a long way off; and they are too happy there, to come down to the bedside of a poor boy.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  The days were peaceful and serene; the nights brought with them neither fear nor care; no languishing in a wretched prison, or associating with wretched men; nothing but pleasant and happy thoughts.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  Oliver was but too glad to make himself useful; too happy to have some faces, however bad, to look upon; too desirous to conciliate those about him when he could honestly do so; to throw any objection in the way of this proposal.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  Mr. Brownlow, seeming to apprehend that his singular friend was about to say something disagreeable, asked Oliver to step downstairs and tell Mrs. Bedwin they were ready for tea; which, as he did not half like the visitor's manner, he was very happy to do.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  He was walking along, thinking how happy and contented he ought to feel; and how much he would give for only one look at poor little Dick, who, starved and beaten, might be weeping bitterly at that very moment; when he was startled by a young woman screaming out very loud.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  But, although this happy change had a visible effect on the little circle; and although cheerful voices and merry laughter were once more heard in the cottage; there was at times, an unwonted restraint upon some there: even upon Rose herself: which Oliver could not fail to remark.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
15  The noise of Charley's laughter, and the voice of Miss Betsy, who opportunely arrived to throw water over her friend, and perform other feminine offices for the promotion of her recovery, might have kept many people awake under more happy circumstances than those in which Oliver was placed.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
16  It is a common thing for the countenances of the dead, even in that fixed and rigid state, to subside into the long-forgotten expression of sleeping infancy, and settle into the very look of early life; so calm, so peaceful, do they grow again, that those who knew them in their happy childhood, kneel by the coffin's side in awe, and see the Angel even upon earth.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
17  The very intelligence that shone in her deep blue eye, and was stamped upon her noble head, seemed scarcely of her age, or of the world; and yet the changing expression of sweetness and good humour, the thousand lights that played about the face, and left no shadow there; above all, the smile, the cheerful, happy smile, were made for Home, and fireside peace and happiness.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
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