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375 | 730_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Noah arrives at the workhouse and dramatically complains to Mr. Bumble that Oliver has almost murdered him. When he sees the gentleman in the white waistcoat walk by, he starts wailing even louder. Noah gets the foul called: the gentleman in the white waistcoat repeats his prophecy that Oliver will grow up to be hanged... | [
"Noah Claypole ran along the streets at his swiftest pace, and paused\nnot once for breath, until he reached the workhouse-gate. Having rested\nhere, for a minute or so, to collect a good burst of sobs and an\nimposing show of tears and terror, he knocked loudly at the wicket; and\npresented such a rueful face to t... |
376 | 730_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver is at the very edge of town, and it is now eight in the morning. He's so afraid of being caught by the parish authorities or the Sowerberrys that he runs, dodging between hedges, until noon. Oliver stops to rest by a milestone that says that he is seventy miles from London. Oliver remembers having heard about Lo... | [
"Oliver reached the stile at which the by-path terminated; and once more\ngained the high-road. It was eight o'clock now. Though he was nearly\nfive miles away from the town, he ran, and hid behind the hedges, by\nturns, till noon: fearing that he might be pursued and overtaken. Then\nhe sat down to rest by the s... |
377 | 730_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver wakes up the next morning to find that he's alone in the room with Fagin. Fagin's making coffee for breakfast, and seems to be nervous about something--he's continually looking around to make sure that he's alone, besides the Oliver. Oliver's only half awake, so Fagin thinks he's still sleeping. After checking, ... | [
"It was late next morning when Oliver awoke, from a sound, long sleep.\nThere was no other person in the room but the old Jew, who was boiling\nsome coffee in a saucepan for breakfast, and whistling softly to\nhimself as he stirred it round and round, with an iron spoon. He would\nstop every now and then to listen ... |
378 | 730_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver spends the next eight or ten days shut up in Fagin's room --picking the marks out of the handkerchiefs that the other boys bring back, and sometimes joining the "game" of practicing picking pockets . Oliver is getting cabin fever--he wants to go outside with the others. Of course, he doesn't know what they're up... | [
"For many days, Oliver remained in the Jew's room, picking the marks out\nof the pocket-handkerchief, (of which a great number were brought\nhome,) and sometimes taking part in the game already described: which\nthe two boys and the Jew played, regularly, every morning. At length,\nhe began to languish for fresh ai... |
379 | 730_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver is dragged to the magistrate, who is basically just a guy who administers justice without the inconvenience of a jury. Or fairness. Even though the old gentleman says he'd rather not press charges , the police officer says the magistrate has to see him. He gets thrown into a cell at the station house . Dickens s... | [
"The offence had been committed within the district, and indeed in the\nimmediate neighborhood of, a very notorious metropolitan police office.\nThe crowd had only the satisfaction of accompanying Oliver through two\nor three streets, and down a place called Mutton Hill, when he was led\nbeneath a low archway, and ... |
380 | 730_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver is taken to Mr. Brownlow's house, up in the suburb of Pentonville. The poor kid is so sick that he's unconscious for days. At least he's being taken care of for a change. He finally wakes up, and asks where he is. A motherly old lady immediately checks up on him, and tells him to be quiet, because he's been real... | [
"The coach rattled away, over nearly the same ground as that which\nOliver had traversed when he first entered London in company with the\nDodger; and, turning a different way when it reached the Angel at\nIslington, stopped at length before a neat house, in a quiet shady\nstreet near Pentonville. Here, a bed was ... |
381 | 730_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now we're back with the Dodger and Charley Bates. Charley thinks that the whole incident with Oliver was hilarious, and he can't stop laughing about it, but the Dodger's worried about what Fagin will say. The Dodger was right to worry--as soon as they tell Fagin what happened, he begins to shake the Dodger violently wh... | [
"'Where's Oliver?' said the Jew, rising with a menacing look. 'Where's\nthe boy?'",
"The young thieves eyed their preceptor as if they were alarmed at his\nviolence; and looked uneasily at each other. But they made no reply.",
"'What's become of the boy?' said the Jew, seizing the Dodger tightly by\nthe collar... |
382 | 730_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We're back with Oliver at Mr. Brownlow's house, now. Oliver has recovered from his fainting-fit, and wakes to see that Mr. Brownlow has taken the portrait out of his room entirely. Mrs. Bedwin explains that it's because seeing the portrait got him over-excited, and Oliver doesn't argue. To avoid talking about the portr... | [
"Oliver soon recovering from the fainting-fit into which Mr. Brownlow's\nabrupt exclamation had thrown him, the subject of the picture was\ncarefully avoided, both by the old gentleman and Mrs. Bedwin, in the\nconversation that ensued: which indeed bore no reference to Oliver's\nhistory or prospects, but was confi... |
383 | 730_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with a lengthy digression--Dickens starts out by describing how he's not going to talk about the kinds of people who don't help the poor, and the reasons they make up to defend themselves, and he spends so much time telling us exactly what he's not going to tell us about, that by the end, he has. And ... | [
"In the obscure parlour of a low public-house, in the filthiest part of\nLittle Saffron Hill; a dark and gloomy den, where a flaring gas-light\nburnt all day in the winter-time; and where no ray of sun ever shone in\nthe summer: there sat, brooding over a little pewter measure and a\nsmall glass, strongly impregna... |
384 | 730_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver, Sikes, and Nancy arrive in an open court, and Sikes tells Oliver to take Nancy's hand on one side, and his on the other. Then Sikes tells the dog to go for Oliver's throat if he makes any sound at all. The dog looks like it's tempted to jump on him whether he makes a sound or not. Oliver decides not to risk it.... | [
"The narrow streets and courts, at length, terminated in a large open\nspace; scattered about which, were pens for beasts, and other\nindications of a cattle-market. Sikes slackened his pace when they\nreached this spot: the girl being quite unable to support any longer,\nthe rapid rate at which they had hitherto... |
385 | 730_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter opens with another digression like the one starting Chapter Fifteen, but this time, Dickens is explaining that going back and forth from tragedy and suspense to comedy and more mundane stuff is just part of good story-telling, and that real life is like that, anyway. So the real action of the chapter begin... | [
"It is the custom on the stage, in all good murderous melodramas, to\npresent the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as\nthe layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon. The hero sinks\nupon his straw bed, weighed down by fetters and misfortunes; in the\nnext scene, his faithful but unc... |
386 | 730_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, the Dodger and Charley go out on "business," and Fagin gives Oliver a long lecture on ingratitude, winding up by telling him stories about all the other boys who had taken it into their heads to run away, and somehow ended up getting hanged for crimes they didn't commit. Oliver is understandably alarmed. ... | [
"About noon next day, when the Dodger and Master Bates had gone out to\npursue their customary avocations, Mr. Fagin took the opportunity of\nreading Oliver a long lecture on the crying sin of ingratitude; of\nwhich he clearly demonstrated he had been guilty, to no ordinary\nextent, in wilfully absenting himself fr... |
387 | 730_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fagin is walking through the streets in a seedy neighborhood of London, and walks up the steps to a house there. Bill Sikes meets him at the door, along with the growling dog. Fagin seems nervous when he sees Nancy--he's afraid she'll still be mad about Oliver, and he hasn't seen her since. Sikes offers Fagin a drink, ... | [
"It was a chill, damp, windy night, when the Jew: buttoning his\ngreat-coat tight round his shrivelled body, and pulling the collar up\nover his ears so as completely to obscure the lower part of his face:\nemerged from his den. He paused on the step as the door was locked and\nchained behind him; and having liste... |
388 | 730_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning Oliver finds that he's been given a new pair of boots, and wonders why--he hopes that it's because they're going to let him go. At breakfast, Fagin tells him it's because he's going to Bill Sikes's house, but not permanently. Oliver asks why he's going, and Fagin won't tell him. Fagin stays quiet the r... | [
"When Oliver awoke in the morning, he was a good deal surprised to find\nthat a new pair of shoes, with strong thick soles, had been placed at\nhis bedside; and that his old shoes had been removed. At first, he was\npleased with the discovery: hoping that it might be the forerunner of\nhis release; but such thought... |
389 | 730_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's rainy at 5 a.m. when Sikes and Oliver set out, and the "kennels" are overflowing . London is just starting to wake up now. Farmers are coming in with their vegetables and things, and laborers are going to work. As they approach the main part of the city, everything is bustling. They cut across Smithfield , and it'... | [
"It was a cheerless morning when they got into the street; blowing and\nraining hard; and the clouds looking dull and stormy. The night had\nbeen very wet: large pools of water had collected in the road: and the\nkennels were overflowing. There was a faint glimmering of the coming\nday in the sky; but it rather a... |
390 | 730_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bill Sikes and Oliver walk into the old house, and are greeted in the dark by Toby Crackit, who throws things at the sleeping Barney until he wakes up enough to light a candle. Toby is wearing fancy-looking but cheaply-made clothes, and is stretched out on a table, smoking a long pipe. Oliver is quickly introduced to T... | [
"'Hallo!' cried a loud, hoarse voice, as soon as they set foot in the\npassage.",
"'Don't make such a row,' said Sikes, bolting the door. 'Show a glim,\nToby.'",
"'Aha! my pal!' cried the same voice. 'A glim, Barney, a glim! Show the\ngentleman in, Barney; wake up first, if convenient.'",
"The speaker appea... |
391 | 730_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The second book opens with Mrs. Corney , the matron at the workhouse where Oliver was born, making herself a comfortable cup of tea on a cold and bitter night. She's in the middle of reflecting on how lonely she is when there's a knock at the door. She assumes it's one of the workhouse paupers, come to tell her that so... | [
"The night was bitter cold. The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a\nhard thick crust, so that only the heaps that had drifted into byways\nand corners were affected by the sharp wind that howled abroad: which,\nas if expending increased fury on such prey as it found, caught it\nsavagely up in clouds, and, whir... |
392 | 730_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The old lady who came to get Mrs. Corney is withered and ugly, but Dickens launches into a long explanation of why so many people are withered and ugly--it's because they have so much to stress about, but no worries--everyone's face looks better when they're dead! When Mrs. Corney gets to the room where the sick woman ... | [
"It was no unfit messenger of death, who had disturbed the quiet of the\nmatron's room. Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with\npalsy; her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the\ngrotesque shaping of some wild pencil, than the work of Nature's hand.",
"Alas! How few of Nature's face... |
393 | 730_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fagin's back in the old den, thinking about something in front of the fire. The Artful Dodger, Charley, and Chitling are playing whist , and the Dodger is surreptitiously looking at Chitling's hand. Unsurprisingly, the Dodger wins every time. Chitling has finally had enough, and seems amazed at the Dodger's luck. Fagin... | [
"While these things were passing in the country workhouse, Mr. Fagin sat\nin the old den--the same from which Oliver had been removed by the\ngirl--brooding over a dull, smoky fire. He held a pair of bellows upon\nhis knee, with which he had apparently been endeavouring to rouse it\ninto more cheerful action; but ... |
394 | 730_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fagin cools his pace after almost getting run over in the street, and turns and heads up to another neighborhood, where there are lots of second-hand shops where people buy and sell stolen goods. Fagin seems to know the place well. He sees a tradesman that he recognizes, and asks if anyone they know is up at the "Cripp... | [
"The old man had gained the street corner, before he began to recover\nthe effect of Toby Crackit's intelligence. He had relaxed nothing of\nhis unusual speed; but was still pressing onward, in the same wild and\ndisordered manner, when the sudden dashing past of a carriage: and a\nboisterous cry from the foot pas... |
395 | 730_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter returns us to Mr. Bumble, who has been waiting patiently in Mrs. Corney's room all this time. He's counted all the silver several times, and decides it's time to go through the drawers of her dresser. He finds clothes tidily folded, and a locked box that jingles with coins when shaken. Mr. Bumble is very p... | [
"As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so\nmighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and\nthe skirts of his coat gathered up under his arms, until such time as\nit might suit his pleasure to relieve him; and as it would still less\nbecome his station, or his gallant... |
396 | 730_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | And we're back with Oliver again, finally. Sikes is in the middle of the chase, pausing to rest while carrying the unconscious Oliver. He can hear them coming after him. He tries to get Toby to help carry the boy, but Toby's only interested in looking out for himself. Sikes reluctantly leaves Oliver in the ditch where ... | [
"'Wolves tear your throats!' muttered Sikes, grinding his teeth. 'I wish\nI was among some of you; you'd howl the hoarser for it.'",
"As Sikes growled forth this imprecation, with the most desperate\nferocity that his desperate nature was capable of, he rested the body\nof the wounded boy across his bended knee; ... |
397 | 730_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens in the breakfast room of the house where Oliver ended up. The two ladies are sitting and eating their breakfast, and are described for the first time: the older lady is very upright and elegant, and the young lady is around sixteen or seventeen, and very lovely. They ask Giles how long Brittles has be... | [
"In a handsome room: though its furniture had rather the air of\nold-fashioned comfort, than of modern elegance: there sat two ladies\nat a well-spread breakfast-table. Mr. Giles, dressed with scrupulous\ncare in a full suit of black, was in attendance upon them. He had\ntaken his station some half-way between ... |
398 | 730_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rose and Mrs. Maylie still don't know that the thief is just a boy, so the doctor decides to let them look for themselves at the kind of thief they're harboring--but only after assuring them that although the thief "hasn't shaved in a while," he's really not so scary. When they get to the room, Oliver's asleep on the b... | [
"With many loquacious assurances that they would be agreeably surprised\nin the aspect of the criminal, the doctor drew the young lady's arm\nthrough one of his; and offering his disengaged hand to Mrs. Maylie,\nled them, with much ceremony and stateliness, upstairs.",
"'Now,' said the doctor, in a whisper, as he... |
399 | 730_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Brittles answers the door, and the two Bow-street officers, named Duff and Blathers, come right on in and make themselves at home. Well--Blathers makes himself at home. Duff doesn't seem to be all that comfortable in such fancy surroundings, so he's a little more awkward. They sit down with Mrs. Maylie, Rose, and Mr. L... | [
"'Who's that?' inquired Brittles, opening the door a little way, with\nthe chain up, and peeping out, shading the candle with his hand.",
"'Open the door,' replied a man outside; 'it's the officers from Bow\nStreet, as was sent to to-day.'",
"Much comforted by this assurance, Brittles opened the door to its ful... |
400 | 730_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver really is sick--it isn't just the broken arm from being shot, he also caught a nasty fever from spending the night in a ditch. As he's first recovering, he spends a lot of energy trying to express his gratitude to Rose and Mrs. Maylie. He says that once he's well, he'll work for them night and day running errand... | [
"Oliver's ailings were neither slight nor few. In addition to the pain\nand delay attendant on a broken limb, his exposure to the wet and cold\nhad brought on fever and ague: which hung about him for many weeks,\nand reduced him sadly. But, at length, he began, by slow degrees, to\nget better, and to be able to s... |
401 | 730_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Spring is over, and now it's summer. Ah, summer. One day, after a particularly long walk, Rose gets really emotional while playing the piano. She tries to hide her tears from Mrs. Maylie and from Oliver. Obviously she's not sad , and she denies that she's sick. But she is. She's very, very sick. She has some kind of a ... | [
"Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came. If the village had been\nbeautiful at first it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its\nrichness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the\nearlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and\nstretching forth their green arms over the ... |
402 | 730_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver can hardly believe that Rose will get better, so he goes for a walk and cries about it in private. He comes back with an armful of flowers for Rose's room just as night is falling. A post-chaise passes him on the road at full gallop. The passengers see him, and call for the driver to stop. One of the passengers ... | [
"It was almost too much happiness to bear. Oliver felt stunned and\nstupefied by the unexpected intelligence; he could not weep, or speak,\nor rest. He had scarcely the power of understanding anything that had\npassed, until, after a long ramble in the quiet evening air, a burst of\ntears came to his relief, and ... |
403 | 730_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harry realizes immediately what must have happened , and grabs a heavy stick and runs out of the house to pursue the intruders. Oliver and Mr. Giles follow, and Mr. Losberne does as well once he realizes what's going down. They aren't able to find even the tracks of the two men, though. Oliver insists that he wasn't dr... | [
"When the inmates of the house, attracted by Oliver's cries, hurried to\nthe spot from which they proceeded, they found him, pale and agitated,\npointing in the direction of the meadows behind the house, and scarcely\nable to articulate the words, 'The Jew! the Jew!'",
"Mr. Giles was at a loss to comprehend what ... |
404 | 730_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Harry leaves the cottage with Mr. Losberne, who comments on the fact that Harry's changed his mind about whether to stay or to go several times. Harry says that he's not hurrying away because any of the "great nobs" have written to him, but because he just has to. For some reason. He doesn't really give a definite reas... | [
"'And so you are resolved to be my travelling companion this morning;\neh?' said the doctor, as Harry Maylie joined him and Oliver at the\nbreakfast-table. 'Why, you are not in the same mind or intention two\nhalf-hours together!'",
"'You will tell me a different tale one of these days,' said Harry,\ncolouring w... |
405 | 730_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Bumble is sitting in the workhouse parlor, being moody. He's no longer the beadle--he's now the master of the workhouse, because he married Mrs. Corney, who was the mistress of the workhouse. He sighs to himself about it--he's clearly unhappy--and Mrs. Corney walks in and hears him. Mr. Bumble gets in some trouble ... | [
"Mr. Bumble sat in the workhouse parlour, with his eyes moodily fixed on\nthe cheerless grate, whence, as it was summer time, no brighter gleam\nproceeded, than the reflection of certain sickly rays of the sun, which\nwere sent back from its cold and shining surface. A paper fly-cage\ndangled from the ceiling, to ... |
406 | 730_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. and Mrs. Bumble are walking along the river to get to a little "colony of ruinous houses" , scattered by the bank. They arrive at the agreed-upon house, and Mr. Bumble hesitates slightly. A man appears at an upper window, and calls to them that he'll come down to meet them. Mrs. Bumble warns Mr. Bumble not to say t... | [
"It was a dull, close, overcast summer evening. The clouds, which had\nbeen threatening all day, spread out in a dense and sluggish mass of\nvapour, already yielded large drops of rain, and seemed to presage a\nviolent thunder-storm, when Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, turning out of the\nmain street of the town, directed t... |
407 | 730_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with Sikes grumpily asking what time it is. He's not in the same room he'd rented before the failed housebreaking attempt of a few months earlier, but it's in the same dodgy part of town. There's not a lot of furniture, or much in the way of spare clothes in the room--apparently Sikes is pretty strapp... | [
"On the evening following that upon which the three worthies mentioned\nin the last chapter, disposed of their little matter of business as\ntherein narrated, Mr. William Sikes, awakening from a nap, drowsily\ngrowled forth an inquiry what time of night it was.",
"The room in which Mr. Sikes propounded this quest... |
408 | 730_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, Sikes is too busy eating and drinking with the money Fagin had sent to notice anything unusual about Nancy's behavior. Nancy is waiting for Sikes to drink himself asleep when he finally asks her what she's thinking to make her eyes all wild and her skin so flushed. He wants to know if she's caught his fev... | [
"The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most\nnoisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the\nwoman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light\nstep approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered,\nand thought of the wide contr... |
409 | 730_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rose doesn't know what to do, but she really, really wants to save Nancy from her life in the streets. The Maylies are planning on staying in London for only three days on their way to the seashore, and Rose doesn't know how to deal with the information Nancy's given her in only that time. She doesn't want to tell Mr. ... | [
"Her situation was, indeed, one of no common trial and difficulty. While\nshe felt the most eager and burning desire to penetrate the mystery in\nwhich Oliver's history was enveloped, she could not but hold sacred the\nconfidence which the miserable woman with whom she had just conversed,\nhad reposed in her, as a ... |
410 | 730_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The same night Nancy drugs Sikes and goes to see Rose Maylie, a man and woman are walking towards London along the Great North Road. The man is tall and lanky, and the woman is sturdy, and carrying a huge bag. The man keeps urging her to hurry up, even though he's not carrying anything himself. It's our old friends, No... | [
"Upon the night when Nancy, having lulled Mr. Sikes to sleep, hurried on\nher self-imposed mission to Rose Maylie, there advanced towards London,\nby the Great North Road, two persons, upon whom it is expedient that\nthis history should bestow some attention.",
"They were a man and woman; or perhaps they would be... |
411 | 730_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Noah realizes that Fagin was his own friend, as it were, and agrees to work for the gang. Fagin has to explain to him that they're all responsible for each other, and that if one of them gets caught, they all get caught. This is hard for Noah to understand, because he's remarkably selfish. Fagin illus... | [
"'And so it was you that was your own friend, was it?' asked Mr.\nClaypole, otherwise Bolter, when, by virtue of the compact entered into\nbetween them, he had removed next day to Fagin's house. ''Cod, I\nthought as much last night!'",
"'Every man's his own friend, my dear,' replied Fagin, with his most\ninsinua... |
412 | 730_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Although Nancy is sure that she's done the right thing by going to Rose Maylie, she's still pretty conflicted about the idea of betraying Sikes and Fagin. She's so stressed out about it that she loses sleep, and becomes "pale and thin" in just a few days. Everyone notices the change in her, but they don't know the caus... | [
"Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the\ngirl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of\nthe step she had taken, wrought upon her mind. She remembered that\nboth the crafty Jew and the brutal Sikes had confided to her schemes,\nwhich had been hidden from all othe... |
413 | 730_chapter_45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Fagin gives a secret mission to Noah Claypole . Before giving him the details, Fagin flatters him on how well he's been doing at robbing little kids. You know the expression, "easy as taking candy from a baby"? Yeah, well, that's pretty much Noah's job, and he's awfully good at it. Fagin tells him tha... | [
"The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for\nthe appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed\ninterminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious\nassault on the breakfast.",
"'Bolter,' said Fagin, drawing up a chair and seating himself opposite\nMorr... |
414 | 730_chapter_46 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's 11:45 at night, and two people are walking on London Bridge. One of them is a woman, who looks as though she's expecting to meet someone. The other is a man, who is following the woman, and keeping pace with her--stopping when she stops, and starting again when she moves. She almost sees him when she doubles back,... | [
"The church clocks chimed three quarters past eleven, as two figures\nemerged on London Bridge. One, which advanced with a swift and rapid\nstep, was that of a woman who looked eagerly about her as though in\nquest of some expected object; the other figure was that of a man, who\nslunk along in the deepest shadow h... |
415 | 730_chapter_47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with Fagin looking like hell--bloodshot eyes and pale--sitting up in the middle of the night. Noah is sleeping on the floor nearby. He's thinking about what Noah has told him, and is torn between rage at Nancy for daring to tell secrets to strangers, and distrust at her promise to them that she would ... | [
"It was nearly two hours before day-break; that time which in the autumn\nof the year, may be truly called the dead of night; when the streets\nare silent and deserted; when even sounds appear to slumber, and\nprofligacy and riot have staggered home to dream; it was at this still\nand silent hour, that Fagin sat wa... |
416 | 730_chapter_48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens by saying that of all the crimes ever committed in London, this was the worst. The sun streams in the window--the body of the murdered woman looks "ghastly" in the bright light of day. He hadn't moved since he'd finished it--once the body had moaned and moved, and he'd beaten it in terror until it sto... | [
"Of all bad deeds that, under cover of the darkness, had been committed\nwithin wide London's bounds since night hung over it, that was the\nworst. Of all the horrors that rose with an ill scent upon the morning\nair, that was the foulest and most cruel.",
"The sun--the bright sun, that brings back, not light al... |
417 | 730_chapter_49 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Brownlow gets out of a hired coach at his own house, and knocks on the door. After the front door is opened, two other men get out of the cab, and help a third man climb out. It's Monks. Monks is obviously hesitant to enter the house. Brownlow says that if Monks refuses to go in, the other two men should drag him i... | [
"The twilight was beginning to close in, when Mr. Brownlow\nalighted from a hackney-coach at his own door, and knocked softly. The\ndoor being opened, a sturdy man got out of the coach and stationed\nhimself on one side of the steps, while another man, who had been\nseated on the box, dismounted too, and stood upo... |
418 | 730_chapter_50 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with a description of a dodgy neighborhood on the bank of the Thames that really existed in Dickens day--a muddy maze of streets surrounded by a tidal ditch that was sometimes filled with high water. The houses are all in rough shape, falling into each other, or into the river. Toby Crackit, Tom Chitl... | [
"Near to that part of the Thames on which the church at Rotherhithe\nabuts, where the buildings on the banks are dirtiest and the vessels on\nthe river blackest with the dust of colliers and the smoke of\nclose-built low-roofed houses, there exists the filthiest, the\nstrangest, the most extraordinary of the many l... |
419 | 730_chapter_51 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two days later, Oliver, Mrs. Maylie, Rose, Mrs. Bedwin, Mr. Losberne are traveling to Oliver's native town . Mr. Brownlow and some nameless additional person are following in a separate carriage. Oliver, Rose, and Mrs. Maylie have been told about what Monks admitted . Mr. Brownlow decided that the delicate and innocent... | [
"The events narrated in the last chapter were yet but two days old, when\nOliver found himself, at three o'clock in the afternoon, in a\ntravelling-carriage rolling fast towards his native town. Mrs. Maylie,\nand Rose, and Mrs. Bedwin, and the good doctor were with him: and Mr.\nBrownlow followed in a post-chaise... |
420 | 730_chapter_52 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens in a courtroom. A huge crowd is staring at "the Jew" at the front of the court. He's watching the jury members' facial expressions--they're about to discuss amongst themselves to decide on the verdict. He sees people out in the gallery craning their necks to look at him, and they look at him with hate... | [
"The court was paved, from floor to roof, with human faces. Inquisitive\nand eager eyes peered from every inch of space. From the rail before\nthe dock, away into the sharpest angle of the smallest corner in the\ngalleries, all looks were fixed upon one man--Fagin. Before him and\nbehind: above, below, on the rig... |
421 | 730_chapter_53 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Three months later, Rose and Harry are married at the church where Harry's going to be the new clergyman. Mrs. Maylie moves in with them, and they're all very happy together. Turns out that there wasn't much money left in Monks's father's estate, because Monks had squandered most of it. Even though it should all go to ... | [
"The fortunes of those who have figured in this tale are nearly closed.\nThe little that remains to their historian to relate, is told in few\nand simple words.",
"Before three months had passed, Rose Fleming and Harry Maylie were\nmarried in the village church which was henceforth to be the scene of\nthe young c... |
422 | 730_chapters_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the workhouse of an unidentified place, on an unspecified date, a child is born. As the infant struggles for survival, the pretty young mother's life is ebbing. An old pauper has assisted the attending surgeon, supported by the contents of a green bottle. She explains to the doctor that the young woman was unknown a... | [
"Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons\nit will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will\nassign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns,\ngreat or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on\na day and date which I need n... |
423 | 730_chapters_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For a week, Oliver remains a solitary prisoner except for the rituals of being flogged every other day before the assembled boys and being exhibited at prayer time as an example of consummate wickedness. One morning, a passing chimney sweep, Gamfield, catches sight of the notice posted to rid the workhouse of Oliver. S... | [
"For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of\nasking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and\nsolitary room to which he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of\nthe board. It appears, at first sight not unreasonable to suppose,\nthat, if he had entertained a becomi... |
424 | 730_chapters_5-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver goes to sleep in a very dejected frame of mind. He is awakened the next morning by the clatter of someone kicking at the outside door. Investigating, he learns that the noise maker is a repulsive youth attired in yellow "smalls" . This is Noah Claypole, who informs Oliver that he outranks Oliver. After Oliver su... | [
"Oliver, being left to himself in the undertaker's shop, set the lamp\ndown on a workman's bench, and gazed timidly about him with a feeling\nof awe and dread, which many people a good deal older than he will be\nat no loss to understand. An unfinished coffin on black tressels,\nwhich stood in the middle of the sho... |
425 | 730_chapters_8-9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | By devious routes, Oliver gets a few miles away from town by noon. A stone marker informs him that he is seventy miles from London. The fugitive decides to proceed to that renowned metropolis, where he believes that he can find safety. Without food or money, Oliver undergoes extreme hardships on the road. He begs when ... | [
"Oliver reached the stile at which the by-path terminated; and once more\ngained the high-road. It was eight o'clock now. Though he was nearly\nfive miles away from the town, he ran, and hid behind the hedges, by\nturns, till noon: fearing that he might be pursued and overtaken. Then\nhe sat down to rest by the s... |
426 | 730_chapters_10-11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver remains in Fagin's room for many days, picking the marks out of handkerchiefs and sometimes entering into the curious game of extracting objects from the old man's pockets. When the other boys return empty-handed, they may be denied supper or rewarded with blows. The naive Oliver interprets these actions of Fagi... | [
"For many days, Oliver remained in the Jew's room, picking the marks out\nof the pocket-handkerchief, (of which a great number were brought\nhome,) and sometimes taking part in the game already described: which\nthe two boys and the Jew played, regularly, every morning. At length,\nhe began to languish for fresh ai... |
427 | 730_chapters_12-13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Brownlow brings Oliver to his house near Pentonville, and the sick boy is put to bed. For many days, Oliver remains unconscious and feverish. Eventually he awakens, wasted and feeble; Brownlow's housekeeper, Mrs. Bedwin, is at his bedside. Following a visit by a doctor and after a decent meal, the boy enjoys a nigh... | [
"The coach rattled away, over nearly the same ground as that which\nOliver had traversed when he first entered London in company with the\nDodger; and, turning a different way when it reached the Angel at\nIslington, stopped at length before a neat house, in a quiet shady\nstreet near Pentonville. Here, a bed was ... |
428 | 730_chapters_14-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver is disappointed to note that the portrait has been removed from the wall; it was done to spare him further agitation, Mrs. Bedwin says. The boy now spends happy days in clean, calm, and orderly surroundings, such as he has never before known. Mr. Brownlow outfits him with his first new suit, and Oliver throws aw... | [
"Oliver soon recovering from the fainting-fit into which Mr. Brownlow's\nabrupt exclamation had thrown him, the subject of the picture was\ncarefully avoided, both by the old gentleman and Mrs. Bedwin, in the\nconversation that ensued: which indeed bore no reference to Oliver's\nhistory or prospects, but was confi... |
385 | 730_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dickens discusses the ways tragedy and comedy may follow one another in close succession in life, just as on the stage. Similarly, in books, abrupt transitions in time and place are to be expected. This explanation is a way of leading up to a shift of scene back to Oliver's birthplace. Mr. Bumble strolls down the stree... | [
"It is the custom on the stage, in all good murderous melodramas, to\npresent the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as\nthe layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon. The hero sinks\nupon his straw bed, weighed down by fetters and misfortunes; in the\nnext scene, his faithful but unc... |
429 | 730_chapters_18-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The day after Oliver's return to the thieves' den, Fagin scolds the boy for his ingratitude to those who had helped him. Fagin makes it plain that such conduct may oblige him to betray the offender into the hands of the hangman. Oliver is given time to ponder the theme of Fagin's sermon when he is locked up by himself ... | [
"About noon next day, when the Dodger and Master Bates had gone out to\npursue their customary avocations, Mr. Fagin took the opportunity of\nreading Oliver a long lecture on the crying sin of ingratitude; of\nwhich he clearly demonstrated he had been guilty, to no ordinary\nextent, in wilfully absenting himself fr... |
430 | 730_chapters_20-22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver wakes the next morning to find a new pair of shoes by his bed. Fagin soon informs the lad that he is to be taken to Bill Sikes. Accustomed as he is to an unpredictable life, Oliver feels little curiosity. Before Fagin leaves in the evening, he sharply warns Oliver to obey Sikes without question because Sikes is ... | [
"When Oliver awoke in the morning, he was a good deal surprised to find\nthat a new pair of shoes, with strong thick soles, had been placed at\nhis bedside; and that his old shoes had been removed. At first, he was\npleased with the discovery: hoping that it might be the forerunner of\nhis release; but such thought... |
431 | 730_chapters_23-24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "Bleak, dark, and piercing cold," it is a night "for the homeless, starving wretch to lay him down and die." But within the workhouse where Oliver was born, Mrs. Corney, the matron, is preparing to enjoy the good cheer of her tea. The ritual is interrupted by the arrival of one taking shelter from the "anti-porochial w... | [
"The night was bitter cold. The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a\nhard thick crust, so that only the heaps that had drifted into byways\nand corners were affected by the sharp wind that howled abroad: which,\nas if expending increased fury on such prey as it found, caught it\nsavagely up in clouds, and, whir... |
432 | 730_chapters_25-26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fagin sits brooding while Dawkins, Bates, and Chitling play cards. By carefully studying Chitling's hand, the Dodger is able to win consistently, putting an end to the game. The others banter Chitling about being in love with Betsy. Tom grants that he served a jail sentence to protect the girl, whereas if "the poor hal... | [
"While these things were passing in the country workhouse, Mr. Fagin sat\nin the old den--the same from which Oliver had been removed by the\ngirl--brooding over a dull, smoky fire. He held a pair of bellows upon\nhis knee, with which he had apparently been endeavouring to rouse it\ninto more cheerful action; but ... |
395 | 730_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Returning to Mr. Bumble, we find him still waiting in Mrs. Corney's room. To occupy the time, he repeats his survey of the widow's property. Since no one is approaching, Bumble extends his investigation to a chest of drawers. Among the good quality contents, there is a locked box that, when shaken, emits a comforting m... | [
"As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so\nmighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and\nthe skirts of his coat gathered up under his arms, until such time as\nit might suit his pleasure to relieve him; and as it would still less\nbecome his station, or his gallant... |
433 | 730_chapters_28-31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dickens goes back to pick up the chronicle of Oliver's adversities. Toby Crackit is the first to advocate abandoning the boy. As the pursuers gain, Sikes drops his burden and disappears over a hedge. Simultaneously, the members of the manhunt lose their zest for the chase and turn back. The group consists of Mr. Giles,... | [
"'Wolves tear your throats!' muttered Sikes, grinding his teeth. 'I wish\nI was among some of you; you'd howl the hoarser for it.'",
"As Sikes growled forth this imprecation, with the most desperate\nferocity that his desperate nature was capable of, he rested the body\nof the wounded boy across his bended knee; ... |
400 | 730_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver's broken arm is healing as he recovers from the illness brought on by his terrible experience. He is particularly determined to convince Rose Maylie of his gratitude and ardent desire to demonstrate his sincerity by deeds. Rose promises that he will have ample opportunity, for her aunt intends to take Oliver to ... | [
"Oliver's ailings were neither slight nor few. In addition to the pain\nand delay attendant on a broken limb, his exposure to the wet and cold\nhad brought on fever and ague: which hung about him for many weeks,\nand reduced him sadly. But, at length, he began, by slow degrees, to\nget better, and to be able to s... |
434 | 730_chapters_33-36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One warm evening, after Oliver and the ladies have returned from their customary stroll, Rose is overcome by a fit of uncontrollable weeping. She makes a courageous effort to compose herself but is soon forced to admit: "I fear I am ill, aunt." Yet as the girl goes to her room, she seems to have rallied somewhat. Never... | [
"Spring flew swiftly by, and summer came. If the village had been\nbeautiful at first it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its\nrichness. The great trees, which had looked shrunken and bare in the\nearlier months, had now burst into strong life and health; and\nstretching forth their green arms over the ... |
435 | 730_chapters_37-38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Bumble sits gloomily in the workhouse parlor. He has married Mrs. Corney and succeeded to the post of master, but in spite of his elevation, he sorely misses his cocked hat with its connotations of the authority that belongs to the minor parish official known as the beadle. Bumble and the widow have been married fo... | [
"Mr. Bumble sat in the workhouse parlour, with his eyes moodily fixed on\nthe cheerless grate, whence, as it was summer time, no brighter gleam\nproceeded, than the reflection of certain sickly rays of the sun, which\nwere sent back from its cold and shining surface. A paper fly-cage\ndangled from the ceiling, to ... |
436 | 730_chapters_39-41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the evening after Monks had his meeting with the Bumbles, Sikes wakes up from a nap in his usual vicious temper. He is living in slum-like rooms near his former home. He is marked by the ravages of illness compounded with extreme poverty. Nancy is present, and she is "pale and reduced with watching and privation." A... | [
"On the evening following that upon which the three worthies mentioned\nin the last chapter, disposed of their little matter of business as\ntherein narrated, Mr. William Sikes, awakening from a nap, drowsily\ngrowled forth an inquiry what time of night it was.",
"The room in which Mr. Sikes propounded this quest... |
437 | 730_chapters_42-43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the night that Nancy has her secret meeting with Rose, a familiar couple are approaching London from the north. The man, a gangling sort of creature, is carrying a small package, while the sturdy young woman behind him trudges along under a heavy bundle. They are Noah Claypole and Charlotte. The tired woman hopes so... | [
"Upon the night when Nancy, having lulled Mr. Sikes to sleep, hurried on\nher self-imposed mission to Rose Maylie, there advanced towards London,\nby the Great North Road, two persons, upon whom it is expedient that\nthis history should bestow some attention.",
"They were a man and woman; or perhaps they would be... |
438 | 730_chapters_44-46 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Because Fagin and Sikes trust Nancy, she is well informed regarding their crimes. In spite of her grudge against Fagin, she would not willingly be the instrument of his undoing. In her conversation with Rose, Nancy said nothing that could injure Sikes. Still, she is worried and distracted by the burden of her thoughts.... | [
"Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the\ngirl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of\nthe step she had taken, wrought upon her mind. She remembered that\nboth the crafty Jew and the brutal Sikes had confided to her schemes,\nwhich had been hidden from all othe... |
439 | 730_chapters_47-48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is two hours before daybreak, and Noah is sleeping off his earlier activities. Fagin sits up, seething with diabolical rage at what he has learned. Sikes comes in and offers the loot from his past night's work. Even he is frightened by Fagin's maniacal appearance. When he is able to command his voice, Fagin announce... | [
"It was nearly two hours before day-break; that time which in the autumn\nof the year, may be truly called the dead of night; when the streets\nare silent and deserted; when even sounds appear to slumber, and\nprofligacy and riot have staggered home to dream; it was at this still\nand silent hour, that Fagin sat wa... |
417 | 730_chapter_49 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At twilight, Mr. Brownlow gets out of a coach at his door. Two husky men with him usher a fourth passenger into the house. The reluctant member of the group is Monks. At the door of a back room, Monks balks and Brownlow delivers an ultimatum. So far, Monks has agreed to be picked up and brought to the house. Brownlow g... | [
"The twilight was beginning to close in, when Mr. Brownlow\nalighted from a hackney-coach at his own door, and knocked softly. The\ndoor being opened, a sturdy man got out of the coach and stationed\nhimself on one side of the steps, while another man, who had been\nseated on the box, dismounted too, and stood upo... |
418 | 730_chapter_50 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the south side of the Thames, in the grungiest district on the river, there is an inlet with an island -- Jacob's Island. At high tide, Jacob's Island is surrounded by the muddy water of Folly Ditch. On the island are crumbling warehouses and abandoned dwellings. The whole area is disfigured by "every repulsive line... | [
"Near to that part of the Thames on which the church at Rotherhithe\nabuts, where the buildings on the banks are dirtiest and the vessels on\nthe river blackest with the dust of colliers and the smoke of\nclose-built low-roofed houses, there exists the filthiest, the\nstrangest, the most extraordinary of the many l... |
419 | 730_chapter_51 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two days later, a carriage is traveling toward Oliver's birthplace. Oliver is riding in the vehicle with Mrs. Maylie, Rose, Mr. Losberne, and Mrs. Bedwin. Mr. Brownlow is following with another person in a post-chaise. The results of Brownlow's activities have been revealed to Oliver and the ladies, but there are still... | [
"The events narrated in the last chapter were yet but two days old, when\nOliver found himself, at three o'clock in the afternoon, in a\ntravelling-carriage rolling fast towards his native town. Mrs. Maylie,\nand Rose, and Mrs. Bedwin, and the good doctor were with him: and Mr.\nBrownlow followed in a post-chaise... |
420 | 730_chapter_52 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The courtroom is packed with people, "a firmament, all bright with gleaming eyes" -- and every one fixed on Fagin. As the judge delivers his charge to the jury, the accused searches their faces in vain for signs of hope. Looking about at the spectators, he discerns nothing but unanimous desire for his being convicted. ... | [
"The court was paved, from floor to roof, with human faces. Inquisitive\nand eager eyes peered from every inch of space. From the rail before\nthe dock, away into the sharpest angle of the smallest corner in the\ngalleries, all looks were fixed upon one man--Fagin. Before him and\nbehind: above, below, on the rig... |
421 | 730_chapter_53 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Within three months, Rose Fleming and Harry Maylie are married in the bridegroom's church. They immediately occupy their country parsonage, and Mrs. Maylie comes to live with them. The property remaining in Monks's possession would, if divided equally, yield three thousand pounds a year for each share. Although Oliver ... | [
"The fortunes of those who have figured in this tale are nearly closed.\nThe little that remains to their historian to relate, is told in few\nand simple words.",
"Before three months had passed, Rose Fleming and Harry Maylie were\nmarried in the village church which was henceforth to be the scene of\nthe young c... |
369 | 730_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver Twist is born a sickly infant in a workhouse. The parish surgeon and a drunken nurse attend his birth. His mother kisses his forehead and dies, and the nurse announces that Oliver's mother was found lying in the streets the night before. The surgeon notices that she is not wearing a wedding ring | [
"Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons\nit will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will\nassign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns,\ngreat or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on\na day and date which I need n... |
370 | 730_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | So they established the rule that all poor people should have the alternative. of being starved by a gradual process in the house, or by a quick one out of it. Authorities at the workhouse send Oliver to a branch-workhouse for "juvenile offenders against the poor-laws. The overseer, Mrs. Mann, receives an adequate sum ... | [
"For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic\ncourse of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. The\nhungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported\nby the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities. The parish\nauthorities inquired with dignity of... |
371 | 730_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the parish, Oliver has been flogged and then locked in a dark room as a public example. Mr. Gamfield, a brutish chimney sweep, offers to take Oliver on as an apprentice. Because several boys have died under his supervision, the board considers five pounds too large a reward, and they settle on just over three pounds... | [
"For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of\nasking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and\nsolitary room to which he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of\nthe board. It appears, at first sight not unreasonable to suppose,\nthat, if he had entertained a becomi... |
372 | 730_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The workhouse board considers sending Oliver out to sea as a cabin boy, expecting that he would die quickly in such miserable conditions. However, Mr. Sowerberry, the parish undertaker, takes Oliver on as his apprentice. Mr. Bumble informs Oliver that he will suffer dire consequences if he ever complains about his situ... | [
"In great families, when an advantageous place cannot be obtained,\neither in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, for the\nyoung man who is growing up, it is a very general custom to send him to\nsea. The board, in imitation of so wise and salutary an example, took\ncounsel together on the expediency ... |
373 | 730_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the morning, Noah Claypole, Mr. Sowerberry's apprentice, wakes Oliver. Noah and Charlotte, the maid, taunt Oliver during breakfast. Oliver accompanies Sowerberry to prepare for a pauper's burial. The husband of the deceased delivers a tearful tirade against his wife's death. She has starved to death, and although he... | [
"Oliver, being left to himself in the undertaker's shop, set the lamp\ndown on a workman's bench, and gazed timidly about him with a feeling\nof awe and dread, which many people a good deal older than he will be\nat no loss to understand. An unfinished coffin on black tressels,\nwhich stood in the middle of the sho... |
374 | 730_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A measles epidemic arrives, and Oliver gains extensive experience in undertaking. His master dresses him well so that he can march in the processions. Oliver notes that the relatives of deceased, wealthy, elderly people quickly overcome their grief after the funeral. Noah becomes increasingly jealous of Oliver's speedy... | [
"The month's trial over, Oliver was formally apprenticed. It was a nice\nsickly season just at this time. In commercial phrase, coffins were\nlooking up; and, in the course of a few weeks, Oliver acquired a great\ndeal of experience. The success of Mr. Sowerberry's ingenious\nspeculation, exceeded even his most ... |
375 | 730_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Noah rushes to fetch Mr. Bumble, sobbing so that his injuries from his confrontation with Oliver appear much worse than they are. Mr. Bumble informs Mrs. Sowerberry that feeding meat to Oliver gives him more spirit than is appropriate to his station in life. Still enraged, Oliver kicks at the cellar door. Sowerberry re... | [
"Noah Claypole ran along the streets at his swiftest pace, and paused\nnot once for breath, until he reached the workhouse-gate. Having rested\nhere, for a minute or so, to collect a good burst of sobs and an\nimposing show of tears and terror, he knocked loudly at the wicket; and\npresented such a rueful face to t... |
376 | 730_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver decides to walk the seventy miles to London. Hunger, cold, and fatigue weaken him over the next seven days. In one village, signs warn that beggars will be thrown in jail. Finally, Oliver limps into a small town just outside London and collapses in a doorway. He is approached by a boy about his own age named Jac... | [
"Oliver reached the stile at which the by-path terminated; and once more\ngained the high-road. It was eight o'clock now. Though he was nearly\nfive miles away from the town, he ran, and hid behind the hedges, by\nturns, till noon: fearing that he might be pursued and overtaken. Then\nhe sat down to rest by the s... |
377 | 730_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Fagin takes out a box full of jewelry and watches. He notices Oliver observing him. Fagin grabs a bread knife and asks Oliver if he was awake an hour before. Oliver says he was not, and Fagin regains his kindly demeanor. The Artful Dodger returns with another boy, named Charley Bates. Fagin asks if th... | [
"It was late next morning when Oliver awoke, from a sound, long sleep.\nThere was no other person in the room but the old Jew, who was boiling\nsome coffee in a saucepan for breakfast, and whistling softly to\nhimself as he stirred it round and round, with an iron spoon. He would\nstop every now and then to listen ... |
378 | 730_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For days, Fagin keeps Oliver indoors practicing the art of picking pockets. Oliver notices that Fagin punishes the Dodger and Charley if they return home empty-handed. Finally, Fagin sends Oliver out with the Dodger and Charley to "work. After some time, the Dodger notices a wealthy gentleman absorbed in reading at a b... | [
"For many days, Oliver remained in the Jew's room, picking the marks out\nof the pocket-handkerchief, (of which a great number were brought\nhome,) and sometimes taking part in the game already described: which\nthe two boys and the Jew played, regularly, every morning. At length,\nhe began to languish for fresh ai... |
379 | 730_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The officer locks Oliver in a jail cell to await his appearance before Mr. Fang, the district magistrate. Mr. Brownlow, the gentleman, protests that he does not want to press charges. He thinks he recognizes something in Oliver's face, but cannot put his finger on it. Oliver faints in the courtroom, and Mr. Fang senten... | [
"The offence had been committed within the district, and indeed in the\nimmediate neighborhood of, a very notorious metropolitan police office.\nThe crowd had only the satisfaction of accompanying Oliver through two\nor three streets, and down a place called Mutton Hill, when he was led\nbeneath a low archway, and ... |
380 | 730_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver is delirious with a fever for days. When he awakes, Brownlow's kindly housekeeper, Mrs. Bedwin, is watching over him. He says that he feels as if his mother has come to sit by him. The story of Oliver's pitiful life brings tears to Mrs. Bedwin's eyes. Once Oliver is strong enough to sit up, Mrs. Bedwin carries h... | [
"The coach rattled away, over nearly the same ground as that which\nOliver had traversed when he first entered London in company with the\nDodger; and, turning a different way when it reached the Angel at\nIslington, stopped at length before a neat house, in a quiet shady\nstreet near Pentonville. Here, a bed was ... |
381 | 730_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fagin erupts into a rage when the Dodger and Charley return without Oliver. Fagin tosses a pot of beer at Charley, but the pot hits Bill Sikes instead. Sikes is a rough, cruel man who makes his living by robbing houses. They resolve to find Oliver before he reveals their operation to the authorities, and persuade Nancy... | [
"'Where's Oliver?' said the Jew, rising with a menacing look. 'Where's\nthe boy?'",
"The young thieves eyed their preceptor as if they were alarmed at his\nviolence; and looked uneasily at each other. But they made no reply.",
"'What's become of the boy?' said the Jew, seizing the Dodger tightly by\nthe collar... |
382 | 730_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Oliver next enters the housekeeper's room, he notices that the portrait of the lady whom he resembles is gone. Mrs. Bedwin says that Brownlow removed it because it seemed to worry Oliver. One day, Brownlow sends for Oliver to meet him in his study. Assuming that Brownlow means to send him away, Oliver begs to rema... | [
"Oliver soon recovering from the fainting-fit into which Mr. Brownlow's\nabrupt exclamation had thrown him, the subject of the picture was\ncarefully avoided, both by the old gentleman and Mrs. Bedwin, in the\nconversation that ensued: which indeed bore no reference to Oliver's\nhistory or prospects, but was confi... |
383 | 730_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Oliver takes a wrong turn on the way to the bookstall. Suddenly, Nancy appears. She tells everyone on the street that Oliver is her runaway brother who joined a band of thieves, and that she is taking him back home to their parents. Everyone ignores Oliver's protests. Bill Sikes runs out of a beer shop, and he and Nanc... | [
"In the obscure parlour of a low public-house, in the filthiest part of\nLittle Saffron Hill; a dark and gloomy den, where a flaring gas-light\nburnt all day in the winter-time; and where no ray of sun ever shone in\nthe summer: there sat, brooding over a little pewter measure and a\nsmall glass, strongly impregna... |
384 | 730_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Nancy, Sikes, and Oliver arrive at a dilapidated house in a squalid neighborhood. Fagin, the Dodger, and Charley laugh hysterically at the fancy clothing Oliver is wearing. Oliver calls for help and flees, but Sikes threatens to set his vicious dog, Bull's-eye, on him. Nancy leaps to Oliver's defense, saying that they ... | [
"The narrow streets and courts, at length, terminated in a large open\nspace; scattered about which, were pens for beasts, and other\nindications of a cattle-market. Sikes slackened his pace when they\nreached this spot: the girl being quite unable to support any longer,\nthe rapid rate at which they had hitherto... |
385 | 730_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Brownlow publishes an advertisement offering a reward of five guineas for information about Oliver's whereabouts or his past. Mr. Bumble notices it in the paper while traveling to London. He quickly goes to Brownlow's home. Mr. Bumble states that, since birth, Oliver has displayed nothing but "treachery, ingratitud... | [
"It is the custom on the stage, in all good murderous melodramas, to\npresent the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation, as\nthe layers of red and white in a side of streaky bacon. The hero sinks\nupon his straw bed, weighed down by fetters and misfortunes; in the\nnext scene, his faithful but unc... |
386 | 730_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fagin leaves Oliver locked up in the house for days. During the daytime, Oliver has no human company. The Dodger and Charley ask him why he does not just give himself over to Fagin, since the money comes quickly and easily in their "jolly life. Fagin gradually allows Oliver to spend more time in the other boys' company... | [
"About noon next day, when the Dodger and Master Bates had gone out to\npursue their customary avocations, Mr. Fagin took the opportunity of\nreading Oliver a long lecture on the crying sin of ingratitude; of\nwhich he clearly demonstrated he had been guilty, to no ordinary\nextent, in wilfully absenting himself fr... |
387 | 730_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sikes plans to rob a house, but he needs a small boy for the job. Fagin offers Oliver's services. Sikes warns Oliver that he will kill him if he shows any signs of hesitation during the robbery. Sikes arranges to have Nancy deliver Oliver to the scene. Fagin watches Nancy for any signs of hesitation. Despite her earlie... | [
"It was a chill, damp, windy night, when the Jew: buttoning his\ngreat-coat tight round his shrivelled body, and pulling the collar up\nover his ears so as completely to obscure the lower part of his face:\nemerged from his den. He paused on the step as the door was locked and\nchained behind him; and having liste... |
388 | 730_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fagin informs Oliver that he will be taken to Sikes's residence that night. He gives Oliver a book to read. Oliver waits, shivering in horror at the book's bloody tales of famous criminals and murderers. Nancy arrives to take him away. Oliver considers calling for help on the streets. Reading his thoughts on his face, ... | [
"When Oliver awoke in the morning, he was a good deal surprised to find\nthat a new pair of shoes, with strong thick soles, had been placed at\nhis bedside; and that his old shoes had been removed. At first, he was\npleased with the discovery: hoping that it might be the forerunner of\nhis release; but such thought... |
389 | 730_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sikes takes Oliver on a long journey to the town of Shepperton. They arrive after dark | [
"It was a cheerless morning when they got into the street; blowing and\nraining hard; and the clouds looking dull and stormy. The night had\nbeen very wet: large pools of water had collected in the road: and the\nkennels were overflowing. There was a faint glimmering of the coming\nday in the sky; but it rather a... |
390 | 730_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sikes leads Oliver to a ruinous house where his partners in crime, Toby Crackit and Barney, are waiting. At half past one, Sikes and Crackit set out with Oliver. They arrive at the targeted house and climb over the wall surrounding it. Only then does Oliver realize that he will be made to participate in a robbery. Horr... | [
"'Hallo!' cried a loud, hoarse voice, as soon as they set foot in the\npassage.",
"'Don't make such a row,' said Sikes, bolting the door. 'Show a glim,\nToby.'",
"'Aha! my pal!' cried the same voice. 'A glim, Barney, a glim! Show the\ngentleman in, Barney; wake up first, if convenient.'",
"The speaker appea... |
391 | 730_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Bumble visits Mrs. Corney, the widowed matron of the workhouse, to deliver some wine. Mrs. Corney offers him tea. Mr. Bumble slowly moves his chair closer to Mrs. Corney's and kisses her on the lips. An old pauper woman interrupts them to report that Old Sally, a woman under Mrs. Corney's care, is close to death an... | [
"The night was bitter cold. The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a\nhard thick crust, so that only the heaps that had drifted into byways\nand corners were affected by the sharp wind that howled abroad: which,\nas if expending increased fury on such prey as it found, caught it\nsavagely up in clouds, and, whir... |
392 | 730_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Corney enters Old Sally's room. The dying woman awakens and asks that her other bedside companions be sent away. She then confesses that she once robbed a woman in her care. The woman had been found pregnant on the road, and Sally had attended the childbirth. The woman had given Sally a gold locket, saying it migh... | [
"It was no unfit messenger of death, who had disturbed the quiet of the\nmatron's room. Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with\npalsy; her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the\ngrotesque shaping of some wild pencil, than the work of Nature's hand.",
"Alas! How few of Nature's face... |
393 | 730_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Crackit arrives at Fagin's. Fagin has learned from the newspapers that the robbery has failed. Crackit informs Fagin that Oliver has been shot and claims that the entire population of the area then came after them. Crackit says that he and Sikes fled, leaving Oliver in a ditch | [
"While these things were passing in the country workhouse, Mr. Fagin sat\nin the old den--the same from which Oliver had been removed by the\ngirl--brooding over a dull, smoky fire. He held a pair of bellows upon\nhis knee, with which he had apparently been endeavouring to rouse it\ninto more cheerful action; but ... |
394 | 730_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fagin rushes into a pub called the Three Cripples to look for a man named Monks. Not finding him, he hurries to Sikes's residence. At Sikes's residence, he finds Nancy, who, in a drunken stupor, reports that Sikes is hiding. Fagin relates Oliver's misfortune, and Nancy cries that she hopes Oliver is dead, because she b... | [
"The old man had gained the street corner, before he began to recover\nthe effect of Toby Crackit's intelligence. He had relaxed nothing of\nhis unusual speed; but was still pressing onward, in the same wild and\ndisordered manner, when the sudden dashing past of a carriage: and a\nboisterous cry from the foot pas... |
395 | 730_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Corney, flustered, returns to her room. She and Mr. Bumble drink spiked peppermint together. They flirt and kiss. Bumble mentions that the current master of the workhouse is on his deathbed. He hints that he could fill the vacancy and marry Mrs. Corney. She blushes and consents. Bumble travels to inform Sowerberry... | [
"As it would be, by no means, seemly in a humble author to keep so\nmighty a personage as a beadle waiting, with his back to the fire, and\nthe skirts of his coat gathered up under his arms, until such time as\nit might suit his pleasure to relieve him; and as it would still less\nbecome his station, or his gallant... |
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