Mrs. Mann.' (He drew it towards him.) 'You feel as a mother,

Mrs. Mann.' (He stirred the gin-and-water.) 'I--I drink your

health with cheerfulness, Mrs. Mann'; and he swallowed half of

'And now about business,' said the beadle, taking out a leathern

pocket-book. 'The child that was half-baptized Oliver Twist, is

'Bless him!' interposed Mrs. Mann, inflaming her left eye with

'And notwithstanding a offered reward of ten pound, which was

afterwards increased to twenty pound. Notwithstanding the most