Fagin, from the gallows : FAGIN: So Oliver Twist grew up in the Workhouse. If only the child had died at birth I might be alive tomorrow, but it was not to be and Oliver Twist grew up to be a pale and sickly youth of nine years of age. He grew up in the parish workhouse: what an institution: invented and organised for the systematic murder of poor children by gradual starvation! And they want to hang me for teaching a trade to poor urchins! Murdering hypocrites! They've got the wrong man! Notes: Workhouse: asile des pauvres Retour au texte urchin: gamin des rues Retour au texte