1 Mr. Sowerberry came down soon after.
2 'Nothing, my dear, nothing,' said Mr. Sowerberry.
3 'No one else, Mr. Sowerberry,' replied the beadle.
4 'Not at all, my dear,' said Mr. Sowerberry humbly.
5 'It's only about young Twist, my dear,' said Mr. Sowerberry.
6 The board presented it to me on Newyear's morning, Mr. Sowerberry.
7 Here, there was another hysterical laugh, which frightened Mr. Sowerberry very much.
8 Mr. Sowerberry remarked it and, without allowing time for any observation on the good lady's part, proceeded.
9 There's an expression of melancholy in his face, my dear,' resumed Mr. Sowerberry, 'which is very interesting.
10 Mr. Sowerberry was much tickled at this: as of course he ought to be; and laughed a long time without cessation.
11 Here, Charlotte,' said Mr. Sowerberry, who had followed Oliver down, 'give this boy some of the cold bits that were put by for Trip.
12 It at once reduced Mr. Sowerberry to begging, as a special favour, to be allowed to say what Mrs. Sowerberry was most curious to hear.
13 'I say you'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' repeated Mr. Bumble, tapping the undertaker on the shoulder, in a friendly manner, with his cane.
14 Mr. Sowerberry was a tall gaunt, large-jointed man, attired in a suit of threadbare black, with darned cotton stockings of the same colour, and shoes to answer.
15 'You'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' said the beadle, as he thrust his thumb and forefinger into the proffered snuff-box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin.
16 As Mr. Sowerberry said this, with the becoming indignation of an ill-used man; and as Mr. Bumble felt that it rather tended to convey a reflection on the honour of the parish; the latter gentleman thought it advisable to change the subject.
17 Mr. Bumble had been despatched to make various preliminary inquiries, with the view of finding out some captain or other who wanted a cabin-boy without any friends; and was returning to the workhouse to communicate the result of his mission; when he encountered at the gate, no less a person than Mr. Sowerberry, the parochial undertaker.
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