1 There the boy remained, with a palpitating heart, for half an hour.
2 'It must be a piercer, if it finds its way through your heart,' said Mr. Sikes.
3 His heart beat quickly when he bethought himself of this; and he half resolved to turn back.
4 When I came back, she was dying; and all the blood in my heart has dried up, for they starved her to death.
5 'Dot a shoul,' replied Barney; whose words: whether they came from the heart or not: made their way through the nose.
6 'Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me,' replied Oliver: more as if he were talking to himself, than answering Noah.
7 But the girl's voice was in his ear, beseeching him in such tones of agony to remember her, that he had not the heart to utter it.
8 The regret of no recent separation was fresh in his mind; the absence of no loved and well-remembered face sank heavily into his heart.
9 Oliver leaned his head upon his hand when the old man disappeared, and pondered, with a trembling heart, on the words he had just heard.
10 Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.
11 Now,' said Sikes, as he resumed his seat, 'if you'll give us something to eat and drink while we're waiting, you'll put some heart in us; or in me, at all events.
12 Oliver's heart sank within him, when he thought of his good friends; it was well for him that he could not know what they had heard, or it might have broken outright.
13 I wish some well-fed philosopher, whose meat and drink turn to gall within him; whose blood is ice, whose heart is iron; could have seen Oliver Twist clutching at the dainty viands that the dog had neglected.
14 Wretched as were the little companions in misery he was leaving behind, they were the only friends he had ever known; and a sense of his loneliness in the great wide world, sank into the child's heart for the first time.
15 He had listened to their taunts with a look of contempt; he had borne the lash without a cry: for he felt that pride swelling in his heart which would have kept down a shriek to the last, though they had roasted him alive.
16 The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, forever, on my best affections.
17 But his heart was heavy, notwithstanding; and he wished, as he crept into his narrow bed, that that were his coffin, and that he could be lain in a calm and lasting sleep in the churchyard ground, with the tall grass waving gently above his head, and the sound of the old deep bell to soothe him in his sleep.
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