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Bill has not done it this time, he will
another : he has done many a good job for
you, and will do many more when he can;
and when he cant, he wont, and so no
oe a boy dear?” said
“ Regardi is boy, my ™ sal
is Sour nász the palms at aa eee
nervously together.
“The boy must take his chance with
the rest,” interrupted Nancy hastily ;
“and I say again, I hope he is dead,
and out of ’s way, and out of yours,
sad, it tee tet doe ok ial ae
c e"s pretty
sure to, ar b agszas two of him any
time,"
“And about what I was saying, my
dear?” observed the Jew, keeping his
glistening eye steadily upon her.
“ You must say it all over again if it’s
any thing you want me to do,” rejoined
Nancy ; “ and if it is, you had better wait
till to-morrow. You put me up for a
minute, but now I’m stupid again.”
Fagin put several questions, all
with the same drift of ascertaining whe¬
ther the girl had ted by his unguard¬
ed hints; but answered them so
readily, and was withal so utterly un¬
Original impression more
acts foille te lenoor wo fly combined.
Miss Nancy, indeed, was not exempt from
a failing which was very common among
the Jew’s female mere oe in which in
their tender years were rather en¬
couraged than chec Her disordered
a and a wholesome perfume of
a which pervaded the apartment,
affording strong confirmatory evidence of
the justice of the Jew’s supposition; and
when, after i ing in the temporary
display of violence e described, she
wards into a compound of feeli under
Sedans, © ee eae
minute, and in the next gave utterance to
various exclamations of “ Never say die!”
and divers calculations as to what might
be the amount of the odds so as a
lady or gentleman were , Mr. Fa¬
gin, who had had considerable experience
of such matters in his time, saw with
great satisfaction that she was very far
gone indeed.
Having eased his mind by this discovery,
and accomplished his two-fold object of
imparting to the girl what he had that
night heard, and ascertaining with his
own eyes that Sikes had not returned,
|
ward, pws j his
with her upon the table.
panion, slackening ag feri as he
spoke. “On your business all night.”
“Oh, of course!” said the stranger,
with a sneer. “ Well; and what "s come
gh 5 REL] said the J
es " sal ew,
“Nothing bad, I hope!" said the
stranger, stopping short, and ing a
startled look upon his companion.
Fagin looked as i
ingly excused himself from taking
a visitor at that unseasonable hour, and
muttered something about having no fire ;
but, his companion repeating his az pere
in a peremptory manner, he unlocked the
door, and reguested him to close ít softly,
while he got a light.
“It’s as dark as the grave,” said the
“* Make
man, groping forward a few steps.
ha e , agin
the end of the passage. As he spoke, it
closed with a loud noise.
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