Make Your Way 6, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Murderer! I’ll turn you in myself, I will”. For some minutes they struggled together on the floor, but finally Sikes got his knee on the boy’s throat. Crackit pulled him away and pointed in alarm at the window. There were lights below, there were loud voices, there was the sound of large numbers of feet crossing the nearest bridge. There was one man on horseback and the noise of a horse on the pavement. The lights increased, the footsteps became louder, and then a loud knocking on the door and the murmuring sound of many angry voices. “Help!” screamed the boy. “He’s here. Break down the door!” And in answer there came a louder knocking and louder shouts from the crowd. Sikes threw open the window and called out to them. “Damn you all!” he screamed, “You’ll never get in this house and you’ll never take me.” Some of the crowd shouted for the house to be set on fire, some for the police to shoot him down. The man on the horse, his voice rising above the others, forced his way through the crowd. “Twenty guineas to the man who brings a ladder” he said. With a look of hatred and fear Sikes crawled through the window and onto the roof. For a moment the crowd fell silent, but then they rushed forward again and doubled their attack on the door. The houses on the other side of the road had also been entered by the mob. There were now faces at every window and people on every roof. Each of the three bridges which crosses from roof to roof were bent under the weight of the mob on them. Now there was another roar as the door to the house was finally opened and the crowd in the street rushed in. Sikes climbed further onto the roof. Then he tied a rope around the chimney. With the other end he made a loop, which he began to pass over his head. But then he looked around at the crowd on the roof opposite and as he did so, his foot slipped on the wet roof and he fell over the edge of the roof. The rope was around his neck and as he fell, it tightened. He finally stopped with a jerk. There he hung, swinging from side to side. The crowd were as silent as death. The only noise was the desperate howling of a dog. (Adapted and simpli ed from “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens) hollow cheeks: eingefallene Wangen I’ll turn you in myself: Ich selbst liefere dich (bei der Polizei) ab with a jerk: mit einem Ruck 1 a Fagin was killed by a mob. b Fagin escaped. c Fagin was arrested. d Fagin killed a policeman. 2 a Sikes’ dog died of a heart attack. b Sikes’ dog had come a long way. c Sikes’ dog was with Sikes. d Sikes’ dog had gone blind. 3 a Charley Bates told the mob where Sikes was. b Charley Bates killed Sikes. c Charley Bates was killed by Sikes. d Charley Bates led the mob to the house. 5 a Sikes was arrested and hanged. b Sikes was shot off the roof. c Sikes committed suicide by jumping off the roof and dying. d Sikes fell off the roof and died by accident. 4 a The mob were unable to break into the house at first. b The mob were unable to break into the house at all. c The mob set fire to the house. d The mob got ladders to reach Sikes. 48 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv