Oliver Twist-CHAPTER XVI 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 XVI RELATES WHAT BECAME OF OLIVER TWIST AFTER HE HAD BEEN CLAIMED BY NANCY The narrow streets and courts at length terminated in a large open space scattered about which were pens for beasts and other indications of a cattlemarket. Sikes slackened his pace when they reached this spot the girl being quite unable to support any longer the rapid rate at which they had hitherto walked. Turning to Oliver he roughly commanded him to take hold of Nancy s hand. Do you hear growled Sikes as Oliver hesitated and looked round. They were in a dark corner quite out of the track of passengers. Oliver saw but too plainly that resistance would be of no avail. He held out his hand which Nancy clasped tight in hers. Give me the other said Sikes seizing Oliver s unoccupied hand. Here Bull s-Eye The dog looked up and growled. See here boy said Sikes putting his other hand to Oliver s throat if he speaks ever so soft a word hold him D ye mind The dog growled again and licking his lips eyed Oliver as if he were anxious to attach himself to his windpipe without delay. He s as willing as a Christian strike me blind if he isn t said Sikes regarding the animal with a kind of grim and ferocious approval. Now you know what you ve got to expect master so call away as quick as you like the dog will soon stop that game. Get on young un Bull s-eye wagged his tail in acknowledgment of this unusually endearing form of speech and giving vent to another admonitory growl for the benefit of Oliver led the way onward. It was Smithfield that they were crossing although it might have been Grosvenor Square for anything Oliver knew to the contrary. The night was dark and foggy. The lights in the shops could scarecely struggle through the heavy mist which thickened every moment and shrouded the streets and houses in gloom rendering the strange place still stranger in Oliver s eyes and making his uncertainty the more dismal and depressing. They had hurried on a few paces .
