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Read this excerpt from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and complete the sentences that follow.
"What did you say?" inquired Oliver, looking up very quickly.
"A regular right-down bad 'un, Workus," replied Noah, coolly. "And it's a great deal better, Work'us, that she died when she did, or else she'd have been hard labouring in Bridewell,
or transported, or hung; which is more likely than either, isn't it?"
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Crimson with fury, Oliver started up: overthrew the chair and table; seized Noah by the throat; shook him, in the violence of his rage, till his teeth chattered in his head; and collecting
his whole force into one heavy blow, felled him to the ground.
A minute ago, the boy had looked the quiet child, mild, dejected creature that harsh treatment had made him. But his spirit was roused at last; the cruel insult to his dead mother had
set his blood on fire. His breast heaved; his attitude was erect; his eye bright and vivid; his whole person changed, as he stood glaring over the cowardly tormentor who now lay
crouching at his feet; and defied him with an energy he had never known before.
"He'll murder met blubbered Noah. "Charlotte! missis! Here's the new boy a murdering of me! Help! help! Oliver's gone mad! Char-lotte!"
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