 Extrait 3
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
urchin : gamin des rues
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