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Select the correct text in the passage.

Which part of this excerpt from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens hints that Oliver was not expected to live very long?

It cannot be expected that this system of farming would produce any very extraordinary or luxuriant crop. Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale

thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference. But nature or inheritance had

implanted a good sturdy spirit in Oliver's

breast. It had had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance

may be attributed his

having any ninth birth-day at all. 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.