【资料下载】雾都孤儿 （英语原版）

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'Ten shillings too much,' said the gentleman in the white

waistcoat.

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'Come!' said Gamfield; 'say four pound, gen'l'men.  Say four

pound, and you've got rid of him for good and all.  There!'

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'Three pound ten,' repeated Mr. Limbkins, firmly.

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'Come!  I'll split the diff'erence, gen'l'men, urged Gamfield.

'Three pound fifteen.'

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'You're desperate hard upon me, gen'l'men, said Gamfield,

wavering.

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'Pooh!  pooh!  nonsense!' said the gentleman in the white

waistcoat.  'He'd be cheap with nothing at all, as a premium.

Take him, you silly fellow!  He's just the boy for you.  He wants

the stick, now and then:  it'll do him good; and his board

needn't come very expensive, for he hasn't been overfed since he

was born.  Ha!  ha!  ha!'

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Mr. Gamfield gave an arch look at the faces round the table, and,

observing a smile on all of them, gradually broke into a smile

himself.  The bargain was made.  Mr. Bumble, was at once

instructed that Oliver Twist and his indentures were to be

conveyed before the magistrate, for signature and approval, that

very afternoon.

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In pursuance of this determination, little Oliver, to his

excessive astonishment, was released from bondage, and ordered to

put himself into a clean shirt.  He had hardly achieved this very

unusual gymnastic performance, when Mr. Bumble brought him, with

his own hands, a basin of gruel, and the holiday allowance of two

ounces and a quarter of bread. At this tremendous sight, Oliver

began to cry very piteously:  thinking, not unaturally, that the

board must have determined to kill him for some useful purpose,

or they never would have begun to fatten him up in that way.

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'Don't make your eyes red, Oliver, but eat your food and be

thankful,' said Mr. Bumble, in a tone of impressive pomposity.

'You're a going to be made a 'prentice of, Oliver.'

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'A prentice, sir!' said the child, trembling.