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The sentence in the excerpt from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens that reflect the authors’ satirical tone is, ‘Are you aweer, Mrs. Mann, that you are, as I may say, a porochial delegate, and a stipendiary?’. Mr. bumble is a church warden however he also receives a specific amount of cash which was, at that time, is unlikely for a church warden.
"Do you think this respectful or proper conduct, Mrs. Mann," inquired Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane, "to keep the parish officers a waiting at your garden-gate,
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when they come here upon porochial business with the porochial orphans? Are you aweer, Mrs. Mann, that you are, as I may say, a porochial delegate, and a stipendiary?
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when they come here upon porochial business with the porochial orphans? Are you aweer, Mrs. Mann, that you are, as I may say, a porochial delegate, and a stipendiary?