Oliver Aroused. The cruel insult to his dead mother had set his blood on fire. The cowardly tormentor lay crouching at his feet. He'll murder me! blubbered Noah. Charlotte! and missis! Here's the new boy a murdering of me! Help! help! Oliver's gone mad!. Illustration by Harry Furniss for the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, from The Testimonial Edition, published 1910.