Chapter 53
'Within the altar of the old village church there stands a white marble tablet, which bears as yet but one word: "AGNES."'--the haunting final image of the novel.
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From Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The novel ends not with Oliver's happiness but with a meditation on the white marble tablet in the village church bearing one word--'AGNES'--commemorating his fallen mother.
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