Be this as it may, however, it was his ninth birthday; and he was keeping it in the coal-cellar with a select party of two other young gentleman, who, after participating with him in a sound thrashing, had been locked up for atrociously presuming to be hungry, when Mrs. Mann, the good lady of the house, was unexpectedly startled by the apparition of Mr. Bumble, the beadle, striving to undo the wicket of the garden-gate.
Nog af, det var hans nionde födelsedag, och han firade den nere i kolkällaren i ett utvaldt sällskap af två andra unga herrar, som först hade deltagit med honom i ett uppfriskande slagsmål och sedan blifvit inspärrade i källaren, emedan de varit nog fräcka att påstå, att de voro hungriga.ParaCrawl Corpus ParaCrawl Corpus