Oliver Twist
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
I
t was almost too much happiness to bear. Oliver felt
stunned 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
