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Oliver Twist

CHAPTER XXXV
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I saw them both, as plainly as I see you now.' 'Who was the other ?' inquired Harry and Mr.Losberne, together.
'The very same man I told you of, who came so suddenly upon me at the inn,' said Oliver.

'We had our eyes fixed full upon each other; and I could swear to him.' 'They took this way ?' demanded Harry: 'are you sure ?' 'As I am that the men were at the window,' replied Oliver, pointing down, as he spoke, to the hedge which divided the cottage-garden from the meadow.

'The tall man leaped over, just there; and the Jew, running a few paces to the right, crept through that gap.' The two gentlemen watched Oliver's earnest face, as he spoke, and looking from him to each other, seemed to feel satisfied of the accuracy of what he said.

Still, in no direction were there any appearances of the trampling of men in hurried flight.

The grass was long; but it was trodden down nowhere, save where their own feet had crushed it.


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