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CHAPTER XXIV



           CONTAINS SOME

           INTRODUCTORY

           PARTICULARS RELATIVE

           TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN

           WHO NOW ARRIVES UPON

           THE SCENE; AND A NEW

           ADVENTURE WHICH

           HAPPENED TO OLIVER






             t  was  almost  too  much  happiness  to  bear.  Oliver  felt
           Istunned and stupefied by the unexpected intelligence; he
            could not weep, or speak, or rest. He had scarcely the power
            of understanding anything that had passed, until, after a
            long ramble in the quiet evening air, a burst of tears came
           to his relief, and he seemed to awaken, all at once, to a full

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