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1  'Nothing,' replied Mrs. Corney.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  'It's very comforting,' said Mrs. Corney.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  That's the rule now, Mrs. Corney, all over the country.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  Mrs. Corney rose to get another cup and saucer from the closet.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  In fact, Mrs. Corney was about to solace herself with a cup of tea.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  'Cold night, Mrs. Corney,' said this young gentleman, as the matron entered.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  'I'm better now,' said Mrs. Corney, falling back, after drinking half of it.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  'We are all weak creeturs,' said Mrs. Corney, laying down a general principle.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  'Peppermint,' exclaimed Mrs. Corney, in a faint voice, smiling gently on the beadle as she spoke.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  It might have been the latter; for Mrs. Corney looked at it as she spoke; and took it up afterwards.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  He fixed his eyes on Mrs. Corney as he said this; and if ever a beadle looked tender, Mr. Bumble was that beadle at that moment.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
12  Mrs. Corney,' said the beadle, smiling as men smile who are conscious of superior information, 'out-of-door relief, properly managed: properly managed, ma'am: is the porochial safeguard.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  He was still placidly engaged in this latter survey, when Mrs. Corney, hurrying into the room, threw herself, in a breathless state, on a chair by the fireside, and covering her eyes with one hand, placed the other over her heart, and gasped for breath.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  The apothecary's apprentice, having completed the manufacture of the toothpick, planted himself in front of the fire and made good use of it for ten minutes or so: when apparently growing rather dull, he wished Mrs. Corney joy of her job, and took himself off on tiptoe.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  Thinking begets thinking; as there were no sounds of Mrs. Corney's approach, it occured to Mr. Bumble that it would be an innocent and virtuous way of spending the time, if he were further to allay his curiousity by a cursory glance at the interior of Mrs. Corney's chest of drawers.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
16  At this intelligence, the worthy Mrs. Corney muttered a variety of invectives against old women who couldn't even die without purposely annoying their betters; and, muffling herself in a thick shawl which she hastily caught up, briefly requested Mr. Bumble to stay till she came back, lest anything particular should occur.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
17  Mr. Bumble had re-counted the teaspoons, re-weighed the sugar-tongs, made a closer inspection of the milk-pot, and ascertained to a nicety the exact condition of the furniture, down to the very horse-hair seats of the chairs; and had repeated each process full half a dozen times; before he began to think that it was time for Mrs. Corney to return.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
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