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'Ay, my man, said the gentleman in the white waistcoat, with a condescending smile. 'What of him? 'If the parish vould like him to learn a right pleasant trade, in a good 'spectable chimbley-sweepin' bisness, said Mr. Gamfield, 'I wants a 'prentis, and I am ready to take him. 'Walk in, said the gentleman in the white waistcoat. Mr.
Gamfield, knowing what the dietary of the workhouse was, well knew he would be a nice small pattern, just the very thing for register stoves. So, he spelt the bill through again, from beginning to end; and then, touching his fur cap in token of humility, accosted the gentleman in the white waistcoat. 'This here boy, sir, wot the parish wants to 'prentis, said Mr. Gamfield.
'And he will be a sweep, will he? inquired the old gentleman. 'If we was to bind him to any other trade to-morrow, he'd run away simultaneous, your worship, replied Bumble. 'And this man that's to be his master you, sir you'll treat him well, and feed him, and do all that sort of thing, will you? said the old gentleman. 'When I says I will, I means I will, replied Mr. Gamfield doggedly.
Gamfield, with a partially washed face, on the other; while two or three bluff-looking men, in top-boots, were lounging about. The old gentleman with the spectacles gradually dozed off, over the little bit of parchment; and there was a short pause, after Oliver had been stationed by Mr. Bumble in front of the desk. 'This is the boy, your worship, said Mr. Bumble.
It was very unlike their general mode of doing business, if they had; but still, as he had no particular wish to revive the rumour, he twisted his cap in his hands, and walked slowly from the table. 'So you won't let me have him, gen'l'men? said Mr. Gamfield, pausing near the door. 'No, replied Mr.
Gamfield gave an arch look at the faces round the table, and, observing a smile on all of them, gradually broke into a smile himself. The bargain was made. Mr. Bumble, was at once instructed that Oliver Twist and his indentures were to be conveyed before the magistrate, for signature and approval, that very afternoon.
'Decidedly not, added the other members. As Mr. Gamfield did happen to labour under the slight imputation of having bruised three or four boys to death already, it occurred to him that the board had, perhaps, in some unaccountable freak, taken it into their heads that this extraneous circumstance ought to influence their proceedings.
'Young boys have been smothered in chimneys before now, said another gentleman. 'That's acause they damped the straw afore they lit it in the chimbley to make 'em come down again, said Gamfield; 'that's all smoke, and no blaze; vereas smoke ain't o' no use at all in making a boy come down, for it only sinds him to sleep, and that's wot he likes.
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