The little maid whose evidence cleared Kit of the terrible charge against him lived to marry Dick Swiveller, the clerk of Brass, the lawyer, while meek Mrs. Quilp, after her husband's drowning, married a clever young man and lived a pleasant life on the dead dwarf's money.
The fate of the others, whose wickedness has been a part of this story, was not so pleasant. The two gamblers who tempted the old man to steal Mrs. Jarley's strong box were detected in another crime and sent to jail. Brass became a convict, condemned to walk on a treadmill, chained to a long line of other evil men, and dragging wherever he went a heavy iron ball. After he was released he joined his wicked sister, Sally, and the two sank lower and lower till they might even be seen on dark nights on narrow London streets searching in refuse boxes for bits of food, like twin spirits of wickedness and crime.
When Kit had grown to be a man and had children of his own, he often took them to the spot where stood what had been The Old Curiosity Shop and told them over and over the story of little Nell. And he always ended by saying that if they were good like her they might go some time where they could see and know her as he had done when he was a boy.
THE ADVENTURES OF OLIVER TWIST
Published 1837
| Scene: | London and Neighboring Towns |
| Time: | 1825 to 1837 |
CHARACTERS
| Oliver Twist | A foundling |
| Mr. Bumble | The master of the poorhouse |
| Mrs. Bumble | The mistress of the poorhouse |
| Monks | Oliver's half-brother and his enemy |
| Mr. Brownlow | Oliver's benefactor |
| Mrs. Maylie | Oliver's benefactress |
| Miss Rose | Mrs. Maylie's adopted niece |
| In reality Oliver's aunt | |
| Fagin | A Jew |
| Leader of a gang of thieves in London | |
| Bill Sikes | A burglar |
| Nancy | Sikes's partner in crime |
| "The Artful Dodger" | A youthful pickpocket |