Oliver Twist
CHAPTER XXVI
IN WHICH A MYSTERIOUS
CHARACTER APPEARS
UPON THE SCENE;
AND MANY THINGS,
INSEPARABLE FROM THIS
HISTORY, ARE DONE
AND PERFORMED
T
he old man had gained the street corner, before he be-
gan to recover the effect of Toby Crackit’s intelligence.
He had relaxed nothing of his unusual speed; but was still
pressing onward, in the same wild and disordered manner,
when the sudden dashing past of a carriage: and a boister-
ous cry from the foot passengers, who saw his danger: drove
him back upon the pavement. Avoiding, as much as was
possible, all the main streets, and skulking only through
