in India and had always been ill in one way or another .
I was bornbearat Blunderstone , in Suffolk , or ‘ there by ’ , as they say in Scotland .
She gave my mother such a turnturn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been bornbearon a Friday .
CHAPTER I — START IN LIFE I was bornbearin the year 1632 , in the city of York , of a good family , though not of that country , my father being a foreigner of Bremen , who settledsettlefirst at Hull .
Immediately and rather spunkily she had bornebearhim a son and , as if completely devitalized by the magnificence of this performance , she had thenceforth effaced herself within the shadowy dimensions of the nursery .
Casually glancingglanceover the hedge , Oak sawseecomingcomedown the incline before him an ornamental spring waggon , painted yellow and gaily marked , drawndrawby two horses , a waggoner walkingwalkalongside bearingbeara whip perpendicularly .
She had not wanted a little girl at all , and when Mary was bornbearshe handedhandher over to the care of an Ayah , who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible .
Here he was bornbear, and here he had lived the four years of his life .
I was bornbearwith a caul , which was advertisedadvertisefor sale , in the newspapers , at the low price of fifteen guineas .
" Walter Elliot , bornbearMarch 1 , 1760 , marriedmarry, July 15 , 1784 , Elizabeth , daughter of James Stevenson , Esq. of South Park , in the county of Gloucester , by which lady ( who dieddie1800 ) he has issueissueElizabeth , born June 1 , 1785 ; Anne , bornbearAugust 9 , 1787 ; a still-bornstillson , November 5 , 1789 ; Mary , bornbearNovember 20 , 1791 . "
At any rate , I was bornbeara gentleman , though I have been nothing but a poor travelling trader and hunter all my life .
Before this ugly edifice , and between it and the wheel-track of the street , was a grass-plot , much overgrown with burdock , pig-weed , apple-pern , and such unsightly vegetation , which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early bornebearthe black flower of civilised society , a prison .
— I — [ 1 ] Stately , plump Buck Mulligan camecomefrom the stairhead , bearingbeara bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed .
CHAPTER I TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORNbearAND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTHbirthAmong other public buildings in a certain town , which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning , and to which I will assign no fictitious name , there is one anciently common to most towns , great or small : to wit , a workhouse ; and in this workhouse was born ; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat , inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader , in this stage of the business at all events ; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter .
Jeff Margrave was bornbearto be a poet , a botanist -- or both -- but his folks persuadedpersuadehim to be a doctor instead .
I AM BORNbearWhether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life , or whether that station will be held by anybody else , these pages must show .