Labels:text | coffee cup | sunflower | mug | flower OCR: UCERNE UCHE O OLIVER TWIST course and then to another, and again recoiling from all, as each OLIVER TWIST successive consideration presented itself to her mind; Rose passed a sleepless and anxious night. After more communing with herself which was Craven Street, in the Strand. She very soon determined next day, she arrived at the desperate conclusion of consulting upon turning the discovery to account. 'Quick!' she said. 'Tell them to fetch a hackney-coach, and be Harry. 'If it be painful to him,' she thought, 'to come back here, how ready to go with me. I will take you there directly, without a painful it will be to me! But perhaps he will not come; he may minute's loss of time. I will only tell my aunt that we are going out write, or he may come himself, and studiously abstain from meeting for an hour, and be ready as soon as you are.' Oliver needed no prompting to dispatch, and in little more than me - he did when he went away. I hardly thought he would; but it was better for us both.' And here Rose dropped the pen, and five minutes they were on their way to Craven Street. When they arrived there, Rose left Oliver in the coach, under pretence of pre- turned away, as though the very paper which was to be her paring the old gentleman to receive him; and sending up her card messenger should not see her weep. She had taken up the same pen, and laid it down again fifty by the servant, requested to see Mr Brownlow on very pressing business. The servant soon returned, to beg that she would walk times, and had considered and reconsidered the first line of her upstairs; and following him into an upper room, Miss Maylie was letter without writing the first word, when Oliver, who had been presented to an elderly gentleman of benevolent appearance, in a walking in the streets, with Mr Giles for a bodyguard, entered the bottle-green coat. At no great distance from whom, was seated room in such breathless haste and violent agitation, as seemed to another old gentleman, in nankeen breeches and gaiters; who did betoken some new cause of alarm. not Jook particularly benevolent, and who was sitting with his "What makes you look so flurried?' asked Rose, advancing to hands clasped on the top of a thick stick, and his chin propped meet him. thereupon. "I hardly know how; I feel as if I should be choked,' replied the 'Dear me,' said the gentleman, in the bottle-green coat, hastily boy. 'Oh dear! To think that I should see him at last, and you rising with great politeness, 'I beg your pardon, young lady - I should be able to know that I have told you all the truth!' imagined it was some importunate person who - I beg you will 'I never thought you had told us anything but the truth,' said excuse me. Be seated, pray.' Rose, soothing him. 'But what is this? - of whom do you speak?" 'Mr Brownlow, I believe, sir?' said Rose, glancing from the 'I have seen the gentleman,' replied Oliver, scarcely able to other gentleman to the one who had spoken. articulate, 'the gentleman who was so good to me- Mr Brownlow, "That is my name,' said the old gentleman. 'This is my friend, that we have so often talked about.' Mr Grimwig. Grimwig, will you leave us for a few minutes?' 'Where?' asked Rose. 'I believe,' interposed Miss Maylie, 'that at this period of our 'Getting out of a coach,' replied Oliver, shedding tears of interview, I need not give that gentleman the trouble of going delight, 'and going into a house. I didn't speak to him - I couldn't away. If I am correctly informed, he is cognizant of the business speak to him, for he didn't see me, and I trembled so, that I was on which I wish to speak to you.' not able to go up to him. But Giles asked, for me, whether he lived Mr Brownlow inclined his head. Mr Grimwig, who had made one there, and they said he did. Look here,' said Oliver, opening a very stiff bow, and risen from his chair, made another very stiff scrap of paper, 'here it is; here's where he lives - I'm going there bow, and dropped into it again. directly! Oh, dear me, dear me! What shall I do when I come to see 'I shall surprise you very much, I have no doubt,' said Rose, him and hear him speak again!' naturally embarrassed; 'but you once showed great benevolence With her attention not a little distracted by these and a great and goodness to a very dear young friend of mine, and I am sure many other incoherent exclamations of joy, Rose read the address, you will take an interest in hearing of him again.' 'Indeed!' said Mr Brownlow. 'May I ask his name?' 368 369
