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Let us set ourselves and all our allies, he explained to the duller-witted among the devils, to make their hearts a shop, some of them, you know, are shopkeepers; a bank, some of them are bankers; a farm, some of them are farmers; a study, some of them are students; a pulpit, some of them like to preach; a table, some of them are gluttons; a drawing-room, some of them are busybodies who forget their own misery in retailing other people's misery from house to house.
Sometimes I do get hungry though, so hungry! Then I look in at the windows and play at bein' rich." They crossed the Bridge, the boy's big eyes seeming to take note of everything, the man, duller-witted, listening to his chatter. Several times the boy tried to say good-night, but Fagin would not be shaken off. "I'm goin' to see you to your door, Charley lad," he said each time.
To have plenty of brains, and an indefinite amount of spare time to use them in; to desire ardently to hasten along the road towards fortune and happiness, and to be forced to sit idly by whilst others, duller-witted, perchance, and with less capacity for work, are amassing wealth under your very nose when this is achieved by sheer luck, or good interest, or any other of those inadequate causes which get people on in life independent of talent and industry that is what makes a radical of a man.
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