... opened for the purpose of explaining the nature and properties
of the various implements it contained, and the peculiar beauties of their
construction, than he fell over the box upon the floor, ...
The Jew was evidently too familiar with the ground he traversed to be at all
bewildered, either by the darkness of the night, or the intricacies of the way.
H...
... turn red with gore; and the words upon them, to be sounded
in his ears, as if they were whispered, in hollow murmers, by the spirits of
the dead.
In a paroxysm of fear, the boy closed the book, ... in their
horror they had confessed their guilt, and yelled for the gibbet to end their
agony. Here, too, he read of men who, lying in their beds at dead of night,
had b...
... but the loud
shouting of men vibrated through the air, and the barking of the
neighbouring dogs, roused by the sound of the alarm bell, resounded in
every direction.
’Stop, you white-livered ... over the prostrate form of Oliver, the cape in which he had been
hurriedly muffled; ran along the front of the hedge, as if to distract the
attention of those...
... unexpected! In
the silence of the night, too!’
The doctor seemed expecially troubled by the fact of the robbery having
been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the
established ... INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF
THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH
OLIVER RESORTED
In a handsome room: though its furniture had rather the air of old-fashioned
c...
... hit the robber; for there was traces of blood, all the way to some palings
a good distance off; and there they lost ‘em. However, he had made off with
the blunt; and, consequently, the name of ... and the other half, that poor Mr. Chickweed had gone mad
with grief.’
’What did Jem Spyers say?’ inquired the doctor; who had returned to the
room shortly after the commencem...
... distance in the country, and took Oliver with them.
Who can describe the pleasure and delight, the peace of mind and soft
tranquillity, the sickly boy felt in the balmy air, and among the green ... boundaries of their daily walks; even they, with the hand of death
upon them, have been known to yearn at last for one short glimpse of
Nature’s face; and, carried far fro...
... trembling in the balance! Oh! the racking
thoughts that crowd upon the mind, and make the heart beat violently, and
the breath come thick, by the force of the images they conjure up before it;
the ... tolling for the funeral service. A group of humble
mourners entered the gate: wearing white favours; for the corpse was young.
They stood uncovered by a grave; a...
... sing, in their old places; and the
sweetest wild flowers that could be found, were once more gathered to
gladden Rose with their beauty. The melancholy which had seemed to the
sad eyes of the anxious ... mother.
’And ever will!’ said the young man. The mental agony I have suffered,
during the last two days, wrings from me the avowal to you of a passion
which, as you w...
... the doctor. ‘Blathers and Duff, themselves, could make
nothing of it.’
Notwithstanding the evidently useless nature of their search, they did not
desist until the coming on of night rendered ... what was the matter.
On they all went; nor stopped they once to breathe, until the leader, striking
off into an angle of the field indicated by Oliver, began to search, narr...
... the eye, the vehicle wound its way along the
road, almost hidden in a cloud of dust: now wholly disappearing, and now
becoming visible again, as intervening objects, or the intricacies of the ... short dialogue by
one or two remarks that would have staggered the doctor not a little; but he
contented himself with saying, ‘We shall see,’ and pursued the subject no
farth...