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CHAPTER XXXV

CONTAINING THE

UNSATISFACTORY RESULT

OF OLIVER’S ADVENTURE;

AND A CONVERSATION

OF SOME IMPORTANCE

BETWEEN HARRY

MAYLIE AND ROSE

hen the inmates of the house, attracted by Oliver’s
Wcries, hurried to the spot from which they proceeded,
they found him, pale and agitated, pointing in the direction
of the meadows behind the house, and scarcely able to ar-
ticulate the words, ‘The Jew! the Jew!’
Mr. Giles was at a loss to comprehend what this outcry
meant; but Harry Maylie, whose perceptions were some-
thing quicker, and who had heard Oliver’s history from his

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