Read this excerpt from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens: This was rather too violent exercise to last long. When they were all we
aried out, and could tear and beat no longer, they dragged Oliver, struggling and shouting, but nothing daunted, into the dust-cellar, and there locked him up. This being done, Mrs. Sowerberry sunk into a chair, and burst into tears. “Bless her, she's going off!” said Charlotte. “A glass of water, Noah, dear. Make haste!” “Oh! Charlotte,” said Mrs. Sowerberry: speaking as well as she could, through a deficiency of breath, and a sufficiency of cold water, which Noah had poured over her head and shoulders. “Oh! Charlotte, what a mercy we have not all been murdered in our beds!” “Ah! mercy indeed, ma'am,” was the reply. “I only hope this'll teach master not to have any more of these dreadful creatures, that are born to be murderers and robbers from their very cradle. Poor Noah! He was all but killed, ma'am, when I come in.” Complete the paragraph. In this excerpt, Charlotte and Mrs. Sowerberry are reacting to what the reader sees as Oliver's . Noah most likely pours water on Mrs. Sowerberry because he . Charlotte's reference to creatures "born to be murderers and robbers" suggests that she . NextReset
