1 It got her out of bed on a cold morning and sent her down the muddy path to worship it, whose mouthpiece was Streatfield.
2 Thou art an honest fellow," replied the robber, "I warrant thee; and we worship not St Nicholas so devoutly but what thy thirty zecchins may yet escape, if thou deal uprightly with us.
3 Clifford's strange business efficiency in a way over-awed her, and his declaration of private worship put her into a panic.
4 'This is the boy, your worship,' said Mr. Bumble.
5 'He doats on it, your worship,' replied Bumble; giving Oliver a sly pinch, to intimate that he had better not say he didn't.
6 'If we was to bind him to any other trade to-morrow, he'd run away simultaneous, your worship,' replied Bumble.
7 'I beg your worship's pardon,' said Mr. Bumble, incredulous of having heard aright.
8 His worship will be disengaged in half a minute.
9 'He's not charged at all, your worship,' replied the officer.
10 His worship knew this perfectly well; but it was a good annoyance, and a safe one.
11 'None, your worship,' replied the policeman.
12 'He says his name's Tom White, your worship,' said the kind-hearted thief-taker.
13 'Where he can, your worship,' replied the officer; again pretending to receive Oliver's answer.
14 'He says they died in his infancy, your worship,' replied the officer: hazarding the usual reply.
15 'I think he really is ill, your worship,' remonstrated the officer.