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396 | 730_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The night after the failed robbery, Oliver awakens delirious. He gets up and stumbles over to the same house Sikes tried to get him to rob. Inside, Mr. Giles and Mr. Brittles, two servants, regale the other servants with the details of the night's events, presenting themselves as intrepid heroes. Oliver's feeble knock ... | [
"'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 begins with a description of Mrs. Maylie, the mistress of the house at which Oliver is shot. She is a kindly, old-fashioned elderly woman. Her niece, Miss Rose, is an angelic beauty of seventeen. Mr. Losberne, the eccentric local bachelor surgeon, arrives in a fluster, stating his wonderment at the fact tha... | [
"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. | Upon seeing Oliver, Miss Rose exclaims that he cannot possibly be a burglar unless older, evil men have forced him into the trade. She begs her aunt not to send the child to prison. Mrs. Maylie replies that she intends to send him to prison nonetheless. They wait all day for Oliver to awake in order to determine whethe... | [
"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. | Duff and Blathers, the officers, examine the crime scene, while the surgeon and the women try to think of a way to conceal Oliver's part in the crime. The officers determine that two men and a boy were involved, judging from the footprints and the size of the window. Mr. Losberne tells them that Giles merely mistook Ol... | [
"'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. | Who can tell how scenes of peace and quietude sink into the minds of pain-worn dwellers in close and noisy places, and carry their own freshness deep into their jaded hearts. Over a period of weeks, Oliver slowly begins to recover. He begs for some way to repay his benefactors' kindness. They tell him he can do so afte... | [
"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. | Without warning, Rose falls ill with a serious fever. Mrs. Maylie sends Oliver to mail a letter requesting Losberne's assistance. On his return journey, Oliver stumbles against a tall man wrapped in a cloak. The man curses Oliver, asks what he is doing there, and then falls violently to the ground, "writhing and foamin... | [
"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. | Giles and Harry Maylie, Mrs. Maylie's son, arrive to see Rose. Harry is angry that his mother has not written him sooner. Mrs. Maylie replies that Rose needs long-lasting love rather than the whims of a youthful suitor. Mrs. Maylie tells her son that he must consider the public opinion in his desire to marry Rose for l... | [
"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 and Giles rush to Oliver's aid. Upon hearing about Fagin and the man, they search the fields around the house but find no trace of them. They circulate a description of Fagin but find no clues to his whereabouts. Harry declares his love to Rose. Although she returns his love, she says she cannot marry him owing t... | [
"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. | Before Harry and Losberne depart, Harry asks that Oliver secretly write him a letter every two weeks, telling him everything Oliver and the ladies do and say. From a window, Rose tearfully watches the coach carry Harry and Losberne away | [
"'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. | The narrator tells us that Mr. Bumble has married Mrs. Corney and become the master of the workhouse. He regrets giving up his position as beadle, but regrets giving up his bachelorhood even more. After a morning of bickering with his wife, he stops in a pub for a drink. A man in a dark cape is sitting there, and he re... | [
"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. | During a storm, Mr. and Mrs. Bumble travel to a sordid section of town near a swollen river to meet Monks in a decaying building. While Mr. Bumble shivers in fear, Mrs. Bumble coolly bargains with Monks. They settle on a price of twenty-five pounds for her information. Mrs. Bumble relates how Old Sally robbed Oliver's ... | [
"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. | Bill Sikes is ill with a fever. Nancy nurses him anxiously, despite his surly attitude. Fagin and his friends drop in to deliver wine and food. Sikes demands that Fagin give him money. Nancy and Fagin travel to Fagin's haunt. He is about to delve into his store of cash when Monks arrives and asks to speak to Fagin alon... | [
"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. | Pity us, lady--pity us for having only one feeling of the woman left and for having that turned. from a comfort and a pride into a new means of violence and suffering. Nancy confesses to Rose that she is the one who kidnapped Oliver on his errand for Mr. Brownlow. She relates that she overheard Monks tell Fagin that he... | [
"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. | Not long after Nancy and Rose's meeting, Oliver tells Rose that he saw Mr. Brownlow on the street. Oliver and Mr. Giles have ascertained Brownlow's address, so Rose immediately takes Oliver there. Mr. Grimwig is visiting when they arrive. Rose tells Brownlow that Oliver wants to thank him. Once Rose and Brownlow are al... | [
"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. | Noah Claypole and Charlotte flee to London after robbing Mr. Sowerberry. They stop at the Three Cripples inn, where they meet Fagin and Barney. Fagin invites Noah to join his gang, assigning him to rob children | [
"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. | Noah meets Fagin at his home. The Artful Dodger has been arrested for attempting to pick a pocket. Noah's first job is to go to the police station to watch the Dodger's trial. The Dodger, joking all the while, is convicted and sentenced to transportation. Noah hurries back to tell Fagin | [
"'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. | Fagin is visiting Sikes when Nancy tries to leave for London Bridge at eleven on Sunday. Sikes drags her into another room and restrains her for an hour. When he departs, Fagin asks that Nancy conduct him downstairs. He whispers to her that he will help her leave the brute Sikes if she wants. Fagin imagines that Nancy ... | [
"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. | Fagin tells Noah that he will pay him a pound to follow Nancy. The following Sunday, when Sikes is away, he takes Noah to Sikes's residence. At eleven, Nancy leaves the apartment. Noah follows at a discreet distance | [
"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. | Nancy meets Mr. Brownlow and Rose on London Bridge and leads them to a secluded spot. Noah hears Nancy beg them to ensure that none of her associates get into trouble because of her choice to help Oliver. They agree, and Nancy tells them when they will most likely see Monks visiting the public house. They hope to catch... | [
"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. | When Sikes delivers stolen goods to Fagin that night, Fagin and Noah relate the details of Nancy's trip. Fagin does not tell Sikes that Nancy insisted that her associates not get into trouble. In a rage, Sikes rushes home and beats Nancy to death while she begs for mercy | [
"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. | He threw himself upon the road--on his back upon the road. At his head it stood, silent, erect, and still--a living grave-stone, with its epitaph in blood. In the morning, Sikes flees London, seeing suspicious looks everywhere. He stops at a country inn to eat. Seeing a bloodstain on Sikes's hat, a salesman grabs it to... | [
"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 has captured Monks and brought him to the Brownlow home. Monks's real name is Edward Leeford. Brownlow was a good friend of Monks's father, Mr. Leeford. Mr. Leeford was a young man when his family forced him to marry a wealthy older woman. The couple eventually separated but did not divorce, and Edward and... | [
"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. | Toby Crackit and Tom Chitling flee to a squalid island after Fagin and Noah are captured by the authorities. Sikes's dog shows up at the house that serves as their hiding place. Sikes arrives soon after. Charley Bates arrives and attacks the murderer, calling for the others to help him. The search party and an angry mo... | [
"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. | Oliver and his friends travel to the town of his birth, with Monks in tow, to meet Mr. Grimwig. There, Monks reveals that he and his mother found a letter and a will after his father's death, both of which they destroyed. The letter was addressed to Agnes Fleming's mother, and it contained a confession from Leeford abo... | [
"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. | Fagin is sentenced to death for his many crimes. On his miserable last night alive, Brownlow and Oliver visit him in his jail cell to find out the location of papers verifying Oliver's identity, which Monks had entrusted to Fagin | [
"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. | Chapter 53 ithout strong affection and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is Mercy and whose great attribute is Benevolence. happiness can never be attained. Noah is pardoned because he testifies against Fagin. Charley turns to an honest life and becomes a successful grazier, a person who feeds... | [
"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... |
440 | 730_chapters_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter1: An unknown woman was found lying in the street and brought into the workhouse. She delivered a sickly child who had trouble breathing. The woman, without a word of who she was, died and left her new born boy, Oliver, to the drunken nurse that stood by. Chapter2: The State gave Oliver to Mrs. Mann who housed 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... |
372 | 730_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The board decides that the best thing to do with Oliver is send him out to sea as a cabin boy. They figure that the sailors will take the best care of him, by which they mean treat him the worst and probably kill him. As Mr. Bumble is looking into this new arrangement, he runs into Mr. Sowerberry, the undertaker. Mr. B... | [
"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. | A pounding on the door the following morning woke Oliver from his sleep in the coffin room. The person outside was yelling and kicking the door to be let in. Oliver opened the door and was introduced to Noah Claypole who also worked for Mr. Sowerberry and who was a higher rank than Oliver was. He pointed this out to Ol... | [
"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. | Noah took a joy in making Oliver cry, and one day in attempt to do so, asked Oliver about his mother. Since his mother was a very sensitive subject to him, Oliver became upset. Noah continued to taunt him and insult his mother until Oliver snapped and attacked Noah. Noah surprised screamed and called out to Charlotte a... | [
"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 found Mr. Bumble and told him that Oliver had tried to murder him, Charlotte, and Mrs. Sowerberry. Mr. Bumble and the man in white waistcoat were horrified, and Noah exclaimed that Oliver had intended to murder Mr. Sowerberry also. Mr. Bumble went with Noah to thrash Oliver and when they arrived, Mrs. Sowerberry h... | [
"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. | Chapter 8: liver began his walk to London. He had very little food and had to beg for it on his way. He walked for seven days and had very little luck getting food or shelter from people in the towns he went through. He sat with bleeding feet on a doorstep one morning when a curious looking young gentleman around his a... | [
"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 awoke the next morning to see Fagin examining several watches and rings in a wooden box. When he discovered Oliver was awake he questioned him on what he had seen, and admired him for his bravery. Jack, or Dodger, then came in with another boy from the previous evening, Charles Bates, and they showed the old Jew... | [
"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 spent more time with the Jew, and the other boys each day learning more and more of how to unmark handkerchiefs, and playing the game of picking Fagin's pockets. After a while, Oliver wanted to go out with the boys and do the work they do, and finally Fagin allowed it. On their first day out, Oliver began to get... | [
"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 policeman searched Oliver, locked him up, and then dragged him before the local drunken magistrate. The gentlemen, Mr. Brownlow, began an argument with the magistrate and tried to explain that he was not sure if Oliver committed the crime. He also thought that Oliver's face looked familiar to him but he couldn't pl... | [
"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. | Mr. Brownlow took Oliver to his house, where he was unconscious for days. Oliver awakes from his illness to find a sweet old woman, Mrs. Bedwin, taking care of him. She nurses him back to health and Mr. Brownlow comes to visit him to inquire after his health. Oliver begins to get his strength back and is very grateful ... | [
"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 yells at the boys until they tell him the tail of Oliver being caught. This upsets Fagin even more and makes him start to beat on the boys. They in turn retaliate and just as a full on fight is starting, in walks Mr. Sikes with his big white dog. The Jew then stops beating on the children, and tries to accommodat... | [
"'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 awakened from his fainting spell, he found that they had removed the painting of the mysterious woman. Oliver then expressed his like for it and Mrs. Bedwin said she would put it back up. Once Oliver was well enough to put on his clothing, Mr. Brownlow bought him a new suit, cap, and shoes. Oliver had never... | [
"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. | Nancy reports that where Oliver had been taken and tells them of his illness. They go out to search for him, and as he is returning the books, he runs into Nancy. She made a loud ruckus and explained to everyone that he was her runaway little brother. He protested but she and the others dragged him out of the street wi... | [
"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 and Mr. Sikes drag Oliver to another of the thieves' hideouts. When they entered, Fagin, Dodger, and Charlie Bates were there. They were happy to see Oliver and astonished at his clothing. Once they figured out he had five pounds on him and valuable books under his arms, Fagin and Mr. Sikes began fighting over wh... | [
"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. | Meanwhile, the beadle, Mr. Bumble, visits Mrs. Mann on his way to London to pay her the stipend for her care of the orphans. While he is there, Mrs. Mann tells him that a few more of the children in her care have passed away, and Mr. Bumble seems unconcerned but asks after little Dick who has been sickly. Mrs. Mann bri... | [
"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 chastised Oliver the next day and locked him back in his room for a few more days. After that period of time passed, he was allowed to wander around the house by himself when no one was home all day with nothing to do but think. One night, Dodger asked Oliver to shine his shoes for him, and happy to have 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. | Fagin left the house where the boys slept and went to visit Mr. Sikes. Upon arrival, he found Nancy along with the other thief. He was not happy she was there just because he was afraid she would go nuts on him again. Sikes and he discussed a job they had been planning, and Sikes said it was doomed to fail because thei... | [
"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. | Oliver awoke to find a new pair of shoes at his bedside for which he is thankful. Then he sat down to breakfast and Fagin told him he is going to go work for Mr. Sikes for a time, but will come back to them soon. Oliver is apprehensive but does not press to know why he is going to Mr. Sikes. Fagin leaves him with a can... | [
"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. | Mr. Sikes drags Oliver across London on foot going at a relentless pace. They catch a ride with a man in a cart and they travel with him as far as he will take them. They stop at a tavern where they get some food and Oliver quickly falls asleep from exhaustion. Another man in the tavern agrees to give them a ride as fa... | [
"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. | Two of Mr. Sikes cohorts are waiting inside, Toby Crackit and Barney. They eat dinner and go to sleep for a time. At one they wake up and set out to rob the house they planned. Mr. Sikes threatens Oliver more and they explain to him his job of going through the small window and opening the door. Once Oliver realizes th... | [
"'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 stopped by to see Mrs. Corney, the matron of the workhouse where Oliver Twist was born. He brought her a bottle of wine, and accepted a cup of tea from her. As they were sitting around the round table, Mr. Bumble kept scooting his chair closer to the old woman. Finally, he grabbed and kissed her. Then came a... | [
"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 matron went down to the room of the sick old woman. The apocrathy's apprentice was there but there was nothing he could do for the old woman and soon left. The two crones who were the woman's best friends hovered around her, and the matron decided that she would leave before the woman awoke again. As Mrs. Corney wa... | [
"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, Charlie Bates, the Dodger, and Tom were all sitting in the hideout late one evening. The boys began teasing Tom about his affection for Betsy, and Fagin began discussing it as well. They heard that someone was at the front door, and were very careful in answering it. When they discovered that the visitor was Tob... | [
"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 wandered the streets and went to the market place where the thieves sell their wares. He asked for information on Sikes and not finding any, went to a place called The Cripples. Again he asked for information of Sikes and found none. Finally, he went to Sikes house and found it occupied by only Nancy. He expresse... | [
"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. | While Mrs. Corney was out, the beadle stood waiting in her residence examining it. When she returned, flustered from her visit to the dying woman, the beadle took care of her. After she settled down, he proposed marriage to her. She accepted, and said that after she was married to him, she would tell him what happened ... | [
"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. | As they ran through the fields, Sikes had tried to bring Oliver with him. After Toby abandoned them however, it became impossible and stays alive at the same time, so he wrapped his shawl around Oliver's wound and left him in the field. Then, diverting the attention of the pursuers to him and not Oliver, he fired his p... | [
"'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. | Giles, dressed in his butler attire, was serving breakfast to the two ladies of the house. The elder, Mrs. Maylie was the aunt of the beautiful young girl, Rose. He tells them a bit about shooting Oliver, for which he was praised, but waits to tell the whole tale until after Dr. Losberne could attend. When the doctor a... | [
"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. | The doctor brought them into the room, and when Rose saw Oliver she sat at his side and wept on his face lamenting that one so young and innocent looking could not be evil. She pleaded with the doctor and her aunt to not do harm to Oliver, or put him in prison. They agreed that nothing would be decided about what to do... | [
"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. | Blathers and Duff, the Bow Street Runners, come into the house and ask questions about the crime to Mrs. Maylie and Dr. Losberne. Losberne recounts the circumstances to them, and they ask about the injured boy they heard the servants speaking of. Losberne tells them that Oliver had nothing to do with the crime and that... | [
"'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 caught a fever, but under the good care of his new friends, he recovered. He offered to work for the family if they would let him stay and they assented easily. When Oliver was recovered, Dr. Losberne took him to the residence of Mr. Brownlow who Oliver wanted to see so he could tell them what happened. On the w... | [
"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. | One evening as they were taking a particularly long walk, Rose sat down to play the piano as usual. That night however, she began crying during her playing, and Mrs. Maylie and Oliver were very distressed. Rose ended up falling very ill, and they feared she was going to die. Mrs. Maylie gave Oliver a letter to deliver ... | [
"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 was overjoyed at the news that she would recover, and was gathering flowers along the road for her sickroom when a post chaise came upon him. The voice of Giles called out to him and asked him of news, and he told him that she would live. A young gentleman then exited the coach and further questioned Oliver. He ... | [
"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. | Oliver's cries brought Harry and Giles to him, and after he told them what happened, they set off to pursue the Jew and his companion. Dr. Losberne joined them in the chase, but to no avail. The next day they searched more but found nothing to indicate their presence. They gave up the search and one afternoon Harry wen... | [
"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, Losberne, and Oliver sat at breakfast discussing the departure of the former two. Losberne was headed to London, and Harry asked to escort him there. Harry asked Oliver to write him every other Monday so that he could know what was happening with Rose and his mother. Oliver was delighted that he could do somethi... | [
"'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. | Upon marrying the workhouse matron, the beadle became master of the workhouse. Two months had gone by and Mr. Bumble already did not like his newly acquired matrimonial state. He and Mrs. Bumble argued and she bested him, forcing him to wander the streets for a time. Deciding he was thirsty, he stopped into an almost e... | [
"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. | The Bumbles walked to the address that Monks gave the night before and let them in out of the rain. They were in a bad part of town in a worn down building next to the river. Mrs. Bumble negotiated with Monks and got him to give her twenty-five pounds for the information she was about to tell him. When he agreed to the... | [
"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. | Sikes was ill and confined to his apartment where Nancy was nursing him. Fagin, Dodger, and Charlie Bates came to see him, and Sikes wanted some money from Fagin. They agreed that Nancy was to go get the money and bring it back. They left, and Monks showed up at Fagin's house saying that every thing was done. Nancy, lo... | [
"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. | Nancy told Rose what she had had learned about Oliver from eavesdropping on Fagin. The proof of Oliver's parentage had been destroyed, and Monks referred to the boy as his brother and wanted Oliver's identity to forever remain a secret. Nancy revealed that she was the woman who had stolen Oliver out of the street long ... | [
"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 pondered what to do with the information when Oliver came in and happily informed her that they had spotted Mr. Brownlow in the street, and now knew where he lived. Rose decided that the best thing to do was to talk to Mr. Brownlow so she and Oliver went there directly. Rose was received well, and when she told th... | [
"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. | Noah Claypole and Charlotte left the Sowerberry's, stole money, and were on their way to London. They stop at the Three Cripples for the night. One of the thieves, Barney was at the bar, and showed the strangers to Fagin when he wandered in. Fagin decided that he liked the look of Noah, and Noah told Charlotte that he ... | [
"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. | Fagin got the news that the Artful Dodger, Jack Dawkins, had been arrested and taken to Newgate. Noah Claypole, renamed by Fagin as Morris Bolter, was sent on his first assignment to find out what was going on with the boy there. The evidence was strong against him, and though he tried to fight it, the Dodger would be ... | [
"'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. | Fagin was visiting Sikes when the clock struck eleven on Sunday evening. Nancy put on her bonnet and prepared to go out, but Sikes stopped her. They began fighting, and finally Sikes won and she did not go out. Fagin thought it peculiar that she would throw such a fit about taking a walk so he assumed that she had anot... | [
"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. | Fagin informs Noah that he wants him to spy on Nancy for him. He wants to know everywhere she goes, and whom she is with. Noah agrees and waits for the time when Fagin wants him to go. The time is the next Sunday evening, and Fagin takes him and shows him Nancy. She leaves and Noah begins to follow her | [
"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. | Nancy met Rose and Mr. Brownlow on the bridge. They went down the steps at the side so they could talk without being seen, and Noah went down the other side to listen to their conversation. Nancy told them the appearance of Monks and the others, and where to find them. Rose stated that she recognized the Monks as the o... | [
"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. | Bill Sikes entered Fagin's residence early that morning only to be told of what had transpired between Nancy, Rose, and Mr. Brownlow. She had revealed where they were located and what they looked like and Fagin made Noah tell the story to Bill. He was furious, and left intending to kill her as he would any other person... | [
"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. | Sikes flees London but everywhere he goes he is reminded of the murder of Nancy. Sikes imagines that she is haunting him and that everyone around knows his crime. Finally, he decides to go back to London, thinking that no one will think to look for him there. He realizes then that his white dog is a signature of him an... | [
"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 apprehends Monks and threatens him with persecution if he does not cooperate. Monks real name is Edward Leeford and Mr. Brownlow was a close friend of his father, Mr. Leeford. As a child, Mr. Leeford was forced to marry a woman who he despised and she was the mother of Edward. Due to the hatred between the... | [
"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. | At the third of the thieves hideouts, Toby Crackit, Tom Chitling, and another thief Kags waited in the dark. The police had taken Fagin, and the thieves had narrowly escaped. Much to their surprise, Sikes white dog came to the hideout. They wondered where Sikes was but did not want to see him because of the murder. Thr... | [
"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. | Everyone went to the town of Oliver's birth, and that night Mr. Brownlow explained, with Monks help the rest of the tale. After finding out he was ill, Oliver's father wrote a letter to Agnes that told her of his marriage. It also stated his intentions for the inheritance. If the child were a girl, the money would go t... | [
"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. | Fagin was condemned to hang in court and was taken to a cell where he was confined until the day he died. On the last day, Oliver and Mr. Brownlow came to visit to find out the location of papers they needed from him. Oliver says goodbye to Fagin | [
"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. | Harry and Rose were married and moved to their happy home. Oliver and Monks split the inheritance and Monks takes his share to the New World where he squanders it and eventually dies in prison. Mr. Brownlow adopts Oliver and imparts much knowledge on him. Noah is pardoned for his help in catching the murderers, and Cha... | [
"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... |
441 | 77_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Old Pyncheon Family: The House of the Seven Gables is a rusty, wooden house halfway down Pyncheon Street in a New England town. The house, also known as Pyncheon House, has a long and weighty history. It was not the first house in its location; when Pyncheon Street was once Maule's Lane, there was a small hut built... | [
"HALFWAY down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty\nwooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various\npoints of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The\nstreet is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an\nelm-tree, of wide circumf... |
442 | 77_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Little Shop-Window: Hepzibah Pyncheon was an old maid living alone in the old house, with the exception of a respectable and orderly young artist who had been a lodger in a remote gable. Miss Hepzibah had dwelt in strict seclusion for nearly twenty-five years. She opens a secret drawer, looking for a certain miniat... | [
"IT still lacked half an hour of sunrise, when Miss Hepzibah\nPyncheon--we will not say awoke, it being doubtful whether the poor\nlady had so much as closed her eyes during the brief night of\nmidsummer--but, at all events, arose from her solitary pillow, and\nbegan what it would be mockery to term the adornment o... |
443 | 77_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The First Customer: While sitting in her shop, a bell alarms Hepzibah. Her first customer arrives, a slender young man in his early twenties with a grave expression but a physical vigor. This customer, Mr. Holgrave, is the daguerreotype artist who is a boarder in the house. He wishes her well on her shop, but she cries... | [
"MISS HEPZIBAH PYNCHEON sat in the oaken elbow-chair, with her hands\nover her face, giving way to that heavy down-sinking of the heart which\nmost persons have experienced, when the image of hope itself seems\nponderously moulded of lead, on the eve of an enterprise at once\ndoubtful and momentous. She was suddenl... |
444 | 77_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Day Behind the Counter: A dignified elderly gentleman, large and portly, stops outside the shop. He had a gravity and an appearance of influence and authority. He does not enter the shop, however. This man, Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon, disturbs Hepzibah, his cousin. The small child who bought gingerbread early that mornin... | [
"TOWARDS noon, Hepzibah saw an elderly gentleman, large and portly, and\nof remarkably dignified demeanor, passing slowly along on the opposite\nside of the white and dusty street. On coming within the shadow of the\nPyncheon Elm, he stopt, and (taking off his hat, meanwhile, to wipe the\n perspiration from ... |
445 | 77_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | May and November: Phoebe Pyncheon slept in a chamber that looked down on the garden of the old house. She quietly awoke and did not recognize where she was. Phoebe possessed the gift of practical arrangement, a kind of natural magic that enables people to bring out the hidden capabilities of things around them. She rea... | [
"PHOEBE PYNCHEON slept, on the night of her arrival, in a chamber that looked down on the garden of the old house. It fronted towards the east, so that at a very seasonable hour a glow of crimson light came flooding through the window, and bathed the dingy ceiling and paper-hangings in its own hue. There were curta... |
446 | 77_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maule's Well: After an early tea, Phoebe goes into the garden, which had fallen into decay. There are vegetables which make Phoebe wonder who had planted them, for it was surely not Hepzibah. She looks at the hen-coop, where the only hens remaining are no larger than pigeons and move oddly. Their race had degenerated. ... | [
"AFTER an early tea, the little country-girl strayed into the garden.\nThe enclosure had formerly been very extensive, but was now contracted\nwithin small compass, and hemmed about, partly by high wooden fences,\n and partly by the outbuildings of houses that stood on another street.\n In its centre wa... |
447 | 77_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Guest: Phoebe awoke and found Hepzibah already in the kitchen, preparing breakfast. She and Phoebe prepare food, despite Hepzibah's lack of a natural inclination for cookery. While they prepare food, there is a constant tremor in Hepzibah's frame, a powerful agitation that seemed an ecstasy of delight, but Hepzibah... | [
"WHEN Phoebe awoke,--which she did with the early twittering of the\nconjugal couple of robins in the pear-tree,--she heard movements below\nstairs, and, hastening down, found Hepzibah already in the kitchen. She stood by a window, holding a book in close contiguity to her nose,\n as if with the hope of gaining ... |
448 | 77_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Pyncheon of To-Day: The little boy who had bought gingerbread from Hepzibah on the first day returns on an errand for his mother. This little urchin was the very emblem of Father Time, in his all-devouring appetite for gingerbread men and things and because he looked almost as youthful as if he had just been made. ... | [
"PHOEBE, on entering the shop, beheld there the already familiar face of\nthe little devourer--if we can reckon his mighty deeds aright--of Jim\nCrow, the elephant, the camel, the dromedaries, and the locomotive. Having expended his private fortune, on the two preceding days, in the\npurchase of the above unheard-o... |
449 | 77_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clifford and Phoebe: For years Hepzibah had looked forward to the point at which she now found herself. She had asked for nothing but the opportunity to devote herself to the brother she so loved. She adored giving attention to Clifford, but she also troubled Clifford through innumerable sins of emphasis. The worst bur... | [
"TRULY was there something high, generous, and noble in the native composition of our poor old Hepzibah! Or else,--and it was quite as probably the case,--she had been enriched by poverty, developed by sorrow, elevated by the strong and solitary affection of her life, and thus endowed with heroism, which never coul... |
450 | 77_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Pyncheon Garden: Phoebe would often read to Clifford in the garden. Holgrave would supply her works of fiction and poetry; the fiction did not interest Clifford, either because he lacked experience to test the fiction or because his grief was a touchstone of reality that few feigned emotions could withstand. He pre... | [
"CLIFFORD, except for Phoebe's More active instigation would ordinarily\nhave yielded to the torpor which had crept through all his modes of\nbeing, and which sluggishly counselled him to sit in his morning chair\ntill eventide. But the girl seldom failed to propose a removal to the\ngarden, where Uncle Venner and... |
451 | 77_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Arched Window: Clifford seemed content to spend one day after another interminably in the way previously described, but Phoebe often would suggest that he should look to life outside of the house. Clifford was the most inveterate of conservatives. All antique fashions were dear to him. One afternoon a scissor-grind... | [
"FROM the inertness, or what we may term the vegetative character, of\nhis ordinary mood, Clifford would perhaps have been content to spend\none day after another, interminably,--or, at least, throughout the\nsummer-time,--in just the kind of life described in the preceding\npages. Fancying, however, that it might ... |
452 | 77_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Daguerreotypist: When Clifford slept, Phoebe was free to follow her own tastes for the remainder of the day and evening. This freedom was essential to Phoebe's health, for the old house had dry-rot in its walls and was not good to breathe. Phoebe began to understand Clifford better, and Clifford liked that she was ... | [
"IT must not be supposed that the life of a personage naturally so\nactive as Phoebe could be wholly confined within the precincts of the\nold Pyncheon House. Clifford's demands upon her time were usually\nsatisfied, in those long days, considerably earlier than sunset. Quiet\nas his daily existence seemed, it neve... |
453 | 77_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice Pyncheon: This chapter, narrated by Holgrave, is a flashback to the years following the construction of the House of the Seven Gables. It has been forty years since the house was built. Scipio, the black servant of Gervayse Pyncheon, brings a message to young Matthew Maule, the grandson of the old wizard of the s... | [
"THERE was a message brought, one day, from the worshipful Gervayse\nPyncheon to young Matthew Maule, the carpenter, desiring his immediate\npresence at the House of the Seven Gables.",
"\"And what does your master want with me?\" said the carpenter to Mr.\nPyncheon's black servant. \"Does the house need any rep... |
454 | 77_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Phoebe's Goodbye: Holgrave finishes his story and finds Phoebe to appear as if she were in a trance. To a person like Holgrave, there is no temptation greater than the opportunity to acquire empire over the human spirit, but he also possesses a high quality of reverence for another's individuality. He makes a gesture w... | [
"HOLGRAVE, plunging into his tale with the energy and absorption natural\nto a young author, had given a good deal of action to the parts capable\nof being developed and exemplified in that manner. He now observed\nthat a certain remarkable drowsiness (wholly unlike that with which the\n reader possibly feel... |
455 | 77_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Scowl and Smile: Without Phoebe, Clifford is cut off from whatever enjoyment he once had. An easterly storm sets in, preventing him from taking walks in the garden. Hepzibah seems to be possessed by the east wind, grim and disconsolate. The shop loses customers because of a story that she soured her small beer by s... | [
"SEVERAL days passed over the Seven Gables, heavily and drearily enough.\nIn fact (not to attribute the whole gloom of sky and earth to the one\n inauspicious circumstance of Phoebe's departure), an easterly storm had\nset in, and indefatigably apply itself to the task of making the black\nroof and walls of ... |
456 | 77_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Clifford's Chamber: Hepzibah felt that she, Clifford and Judge Pyncheon were on the brink of adding another disturbing incident to the house. She cannot rid herself of the sense of something unprecedented occurring. She had never adequately estimated how powerful Jaffrey was in intellect and energy of will and had neve... | [
"NEVER had the old house appeared so dismal to poor Hepzibah as when she\ndeparted on that wretched errand. There was a strange aspect in it. As she trode along the foot-worn passages, and opened one crazy door\nafter another, and ascended the creaking staircase, she gazed wistfully\nand fearfully around. It would ... |
457 | 77_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Flight of Two Owls: Hepzibah and Clifford began their strange expedition away from the house. They attracted a great deal of notice as they reached the train station, but got on the train unhindered. Hepzibah wonders if this is a dream, but Clifford says that he has never been so awake before. The train was a novel... | [
"SUMMER as it was, the east wind set poor Hepzibah's few remaining teeth chattering in her head, as she and Clifford faced it, on their way up Pyncheon Street, and towards the centre of the town. Not merely was it the shiver which this pitiless blast brought to her frame (although her feet and hands, especially, ha... |
458 | 77_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Governor Pyncheon: Judge Pyncheon remains in the House of the Seven Gables, dead but with his eyes open. He continues to hold his watch, which continues to move without him. It was supposed to be a busy day for Jaffrey, and he currently is missing all that he had planned. He was to visit a family physician, whom the Ju... | [
"JUDGE PYNCHEON, while his two relatives have fled away with such\nill-considered haste, still sits in the old parlor, keeping house, as\nthe familiar phrase is, in the absence of its ordinary occupants. To\nhim, and to the venerable House of the Seven Gables, does our story now\nbetake itself, like an owl, bewild... |
459 | 77_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alice's Posies: Uncle Venner was the first person to stir the day after the storm. He traveled down Pyncheon street, where one mystic branch hung down before the main entrance of the Seven Gables. This golden branch was like the branch that gained Aeneas and the Sibyl admittance into Hades. Uncle Venner observes the po... | [
"UNCLE VENNER, trundling a wheelbarrow, was the earliest person stirring\nin the neighborhood the day after the storm.",
"Pyncheon Street, in front of the House of the Seven Gables, was a far\npleasanter scene than a by-lane, confined by shabby fences, and\nbordered with wooden dwellings of the meaner class, coul... |
460 | 77_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Flower of Eden: Holgrave, looking paler than ordinary, grasps Phoebe's hand. He smiles at her with genuine warmth. He tells her that they are alone in the house: a terrible event has occurred. He shows her a daguerreotype of Judge Pyncheon. He had taken it within the last hour. He tells her that the Judge is dead a... | [
"PHOEBE, coming so suddenly from the sunny daylight, was altogether\nbedimmed in such density of shadow as lurked in most of the passages of\nthe old house. She was not at first aware by whom she had been\nadmitted. Before her eyes had adapted themselves to the obscurity, a\nhand grasped her own with a firm but gen... |
461 | 77_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Departure: The sudden death of Judge Pyncheon created a sensation that did not immediately subside. Among the talk of how excellent the judge was lingers a hidden stream of private talk that would shock all decency to speak aloud. Judge Pyncheon was in his youth a wild and brutish man. When he was searching through... | [
"THE sudden death of so prominent a member of the social world as the\nHonorable Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon created a sensation (at least, in the\n circles more immediately connected with the deceased) which had hardly\nquite subsided in a fortnight.",
"It may be remarked, however, that, of all the events whic... |
441 | 77_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a New England town, on a street called Pyncheon Street, there is an old house with seven gables belonging to the Pyncheon family. Before the street became Pyncheon Street, it was called Maule's Lane. Our narrator takes us back in time about 150 years, to the late 1600s. In the early days of the Puritan settlement, M... | [
"HALFWAY down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty\nwooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various\npoints of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The\nstreet is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an\nelm-tree, of wide circumf... |
442 | 77_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon, the elderly unmarried cousin of Judge Pyncheon, gets out of bed early one midsummer morning. Hepzibah is a recluse, which means she doesn't go out and socialize with other people at all. She's alone in the house except for a lodger, an artist who lives in a distant part of the house. This partic... | [
"IT still lacked half an hour of sunrise, when Miss Hepzibah\nPyncheon--we will not say awoke, it being doubtful whether the poor\nlady had so much as closed her eyes during the brief night of\nmidsummer--but, at all events, arose from her solitary pillow, and\nbegan what it would be mockery to term the adornment o... |
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