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Oliver Twist

CHAPTER II
8/18

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.' 'Why, you're quite a literary character, sir!' said Mrs.Mann.
'Well, well,' said the beadle, evidently gratified with the compliment; 'perhaps I may be.

Perhaps I may be, Mrs.Mann.' He finished the gin-and-water, and added, 'Oliver being now too old to remain here, the board have determined to have him back into the house.

I have come out myself to take him there.

So let me see him at once.' 'I'll fetch him directly,' said Mrs.Mann, leaving the room for that purpose.


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