Oliver Twist-CHAPTER XIX Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ dành cho trẻ em nổi tiếng của nhà văn Charles Dicken với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | Oliver Twist Charles Dickens CHAPTER XIX IN WHICH A NOTABLE PLAN IS DISCUSSED AND DETERMINED ON It was a chill damp windy night when the Jew buttoning his great-coat tight round his shrivelled body and pulling the collar up over his ears so as completely to obscure the lower part of his face emerged from his den. He paused on the step as the door was locked and chained behind him and having listened while the boys made all secure and until their retreating footsteps were no longer audible slunk down the street as quickly as he could. The house to which Oliver had been conveyed was in the neighborhood of Whitechapel. The Jew stopped for an instant at the corner of the street and glancing suspiciously round crossed the road and struck off in the direction of the Spitalfields. The mud lay thick upon the stones and a black mist hung over the streets the rain fell sluggishly down and everything felt cold and clammy to the touch. It seemed just the night when it befitted such a being as the Jew to be abroad. As he glided stealthily along creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved crawling forth by night in search of some rich offal for a meal. He kept on his course through many winding and narrow ways until he reached Bethnal Green then turning suddenly off to the left he soon became involved in a maze of the mean and dirty streets which abound in that close and densely-populated quarter. The Jew was evidently too familiar with the ground he traversed to be at all bewildered either by the darkness of the night or the intricacies of the way. He hurried through several alleys and streets and at length turned into one lighted only by a single lamp at the farther end. At the door of a house in this street he knocked having exchanged a few muttered words with the person who opened it he walked upstairs. A dog growled as he touched the handle of a .
