Oliver Twist
CHAPTER XLII
AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE
OF OLIVER’S, EXHIBITING
DECIDED MARKS OF
GENIUS, BECOMES A
PUBLIC CHARACTER
IN THE METROPOLIS
U
pon the night when Nancy, having lulled Mr. Sikes
to sleep, hurried on her self-imposed mission to Rose
Maylie, there advanced towards London, by the Great North
Road, two persons, upon whom it is expedient that this his-
tory should bestow some attention.
They were a man and woman; or perhaps they would be
better described as a male and female: for the former was
one of those long-limbed, knock-kneed, shambling, bony
people, to whom it is difficult to assign any precise age,—
looking as they do, when they are yet boys, like undergrown
