Oliver Twist
CHAPTER XLI
CONTAINING FRESH
DISCOVERIES, AND
SHOWING THAT SUPRISES,
LIKE MISFORTUNES,
SELDOM COME ALONE
H
er situation was, indeed, one of no common trial and
difficulty.
While she felt the most eager and burning desire to
penetrate the mystery in which Oliver’s history was envel-
oped, she could not but hold sacred the confidence which
the miserable woman with whom she had just conversed,
had reposed in her, as a young and guileless girl. Her words
and manner had touched Rose Maylie’s heart; and, mingled
with her love for her young charge, and scarcely less intense
in its truth and fervour, was her fond wish to win the out-
cast back to repentance and hope.
They purposed remaining in London only three days,
