【资料下载】雾都孤儿 （英语原版）

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'Do you give the children Daffy, Mrs. Mann?' inquired Bumble,

following with this eyes the interesting process of mixing.

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'Ah, bless 'em, that I do, dear as it is,' replied the nurse. 'I

couldn't see 'em suffer before my very eyes, you know sir.'

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'No'; said Mr. Bumble approvingly; 'no, you could not.  You are a

humane woman, Mrs. Mann.'  (Here she set down the glass.)  'I

shall take a early opportunity of mentioning it to the board,

Mrs. Mann.'  (He drew it towards him.)  'You feel as a mother,

Mrs. Mann.'  (He stirred the gin-and-water.) 'I--I drink your

health with cheerfulness, Mrs. Mann'; and he swallowed half of

it.

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'And now about business,' said the beadle, taking out a leathern

pocket-book.  'The child that was half-baptized Oliver Twist, is

nine year old to-day.;

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'Bless him!' interposed Mrs. Mann, inflaming her left eye with

the corner of her apron.

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'And notwithstanding a offered reward of ten pound, which was

afterwards increased to twenty pound.  Notwithstanding the most

superlative, and, I may say, supernat'ral exertions on the part

of this parish,' said Bumble, 'we have never been able to

discover who is his father, or what was his mother's settlement,

name, or con--dition.'

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Mrs Mann raised her hands in astonishment; but added, after a

moment's reflection, 'How comes he to have any name at all,

then?'

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The beadle drew himself up with great pride, and said, 'I

inwented it.'

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'You, Mr. Bumble!'

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'I, Mrs. Mann.  We name our fondlings in alphabetical order. The

last was a S,--Swubble, I named him. This was a T,--Twist, I

named HIM.  The next one comes will be Unwin, and the next

Vilkins.  I have got names ready made to the end of the alphabet,

and all the way through it again, when we come to Z.'