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Updated: June 12, 2025
I thought, when I heard these words, that the pillars of the earth sank beneath me, and that the roof of the house was carried away in a whirlwind. The drums of my ears crackit, blue starns danced before my sight, and I was fain to leave the house and hie me home to the manse, where I sat down in my study, like a stupified creature, awaiting what would betide.
He had scarcely spoken since his arrival; but now, under cover of the talk of Mother Atterson, the driver of the furniture van, and Sister, he began one of his old-time monologues: "Old, old nothing to look forward to then the prospect opens up just like light breaking through the clouds after a storm let's see; I want a piece of bread bread's on Sister's side I can reach it hum! no Crackit to-night fool jokes silly fellow ah! the butter Where's the butterknife?
Who's that knocking? Crackit intimated, by a motion of his hand as he left the room, that there was nothing to fear; and directly came back with Charley Bates behind him. Sikes sat opposite the door, so that the moment the boy entered the room he encountered his figure. 'Toby, said the boy falling back, as Sikes turned his eyes towards him, 'why didn't you tell me this, downstairs?
Old Fagin heard it, though it was no new sound to him; for Field Lane, where he kept his "fence," lies a very little way off, little more than a stone's throw, and when, in the morning, I dressed at an early hour and hurried to the place of execution, I saw Charley Bates, and the Dodger, and Nancy, and Toby Crackit, and the rest, shying men's hats in the air, and looking out for the "wipes" and the "tickers."
Quickening their pace, they turned up a road upon the left hand. After walking about a quarter of a mile, they stopped before a detached house surrounded by a wall: to the top of which, Toby Crackit, scarcely pausing to take breath, climbed in a twinkling. 'The boy next, said Toby. 'Hoist him up; I'll catch hold of him.
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