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1  'Bow to the board,' said Bumble.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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2  'No, she can't,' replied Mr. Bumble.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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3  Beadles are but men: and Mr. Bumble smiled.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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4  Compose yourself, Bumble, and answer me distinctly.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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5  Mr. Bumble had a great idea of his oratorical powers and his importance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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6  Nor a drop, said Mr. Bumble, waving his right hand in a dignified, but placid manner.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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7  Mr. Bumble wiped from his forehead the perspiration which his walk had engendered, glanced complacently at the cocked hat, and smiled.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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8  Mr. Bumble, was at once instructed that Oliver Twist and his indentures were to be conveyed before the magistrate, for signature and approval, that very afternoon.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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9  'I'm sure Mr. Bumble, that I was only a telling one or two of the dear children as is so fond of you, that it was you a coming,' replied Mrs. Mann with great humility.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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10  He had hardly achieved this very unusual gymnastic performance, when Mr. Bumble brought him, with his own hands, a basin of gruel, and the holiday allowance of two ounces and a quarter of bread.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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11  To these interrogations Mr. Bumble returned very brief and snappish replies; for the temporary blandness which gin-and-water awakens in some bosoms had by this time evaporated; and he was once again a beadle.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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12  'Why, it's what I'm obliged to keep a little of in the house, to put into the blessed infants' Daffy, when they ain't well, Mr. Bumble,' replied Mrs. Mann as she opened a corner cupboard, and took down a bottle and glass.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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13  With the slice of bread in his hand, and the little brown-cloth parish cap on his head, Oliver was then led away by Mr. Bumble from the wretched home where one kind word or look had never lighted the gloom of his infant years.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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14  Now, Mr. Bumble was a fat man, and a choleric; so, instead of responding to this open-hearted salutation in a kindred spirit, he gave the little wicket a tremendous shake, and then bestowed upon it a kick which could have emanated from no leg but a beadle's.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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15  As for exercise, it was nice cold weather, and he was allowed to perform his ablutions every morning under the pump, in a stone yard, in the presence of Mr. Bumble, who prevented his catching cold, and caused a tingling sensation to pervade his frame, by repeated applications of the cane.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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16  He had no time to think about the matter, however; for Mr. Bumble gave him a tap on the head, with his cane, to wake him up: and another on the back to make him lively: and bidding him to follow, conducted him into a large white-washed room, where eight or ten fat gentlemen were sitting round a table.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
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17  Oliver had not been within the walls of the workhouse a quarter of an hour, and had scarcely completed the demolition of a second slice of bread, when Mr. Bumble, who had handed him over to the care of an old woman, returned; and, telling him it was a board night, informed him that the board had said he was to appear before it forthwith.
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