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You can't do it without me, I know; but it's best to be on the safe side when one deals with you. 'As you like, my dear, as you like' replied the Jew. 'Is there no help wanted, but yours and Toby's? 'None, said Sikes. 'Cept a centre-bit and a boy. The first we've both got; the second you must find us. 'A boy! exclaimed the Jew. 'Oh! then it's a panel, eh?
The Jew looked blank at this information. After ruminating for some minutes with his chin sunk on his breast, he raised his head and said, with a deep sigh, that if flash Toby Crackit reported aright, he feared the game was up. 'And yet, said the old man, dropping his hands on his knees, 'it's a sad thing, my dear, to lose so much when we had set our hearts upon it. 'So it is, said Mr. Sikes.
Sikes tried a little blasphemy: and finding that mode of treatment wholly ineffectual, called for assistance. 'What's the matter here, my dear? said Fagin, looking in. 'Lend a hand to the girl, can't you? replied Sikes impatiently. 'Don't stand chattering and grinning at me! With an exclamation of surprise, Fagin hastened to the girl's assistance, while Mr.
The night was very dark. A damp mist rose from the river, and the marshy ground about; and spread itself over the dreary fields. It was piercing cold, too; all was gloomy and black. Not a word was spoken; for the driver had grown sleepy; and Sikes was in no mood to lead him into conversation.
'That's it! observed Mr. Sikes, approvingly; 'women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out. And now that he's thoroughly up to it, let's have some supper, and get a snooze before starting.
At first, he was pleased with the discovery: hoping that it might be the forerunner of his release; but such thoughts were quickly dispelled, on his sitting down to breakfast along with the Jew, who told him, in a tone and manner which increased his alarm, that he was to be taken to the residence of Bill Sikes that night. 'To to stop there, sir? asked Oliver, anxiously. 'No, no, my dear.
'Yes, I do mean to tell you so, replied Sikes. 'The old lady has had 'em these twenty years; and if you were to give 'em five hundred pound, they wouldn't be in it. 'But do you mean to say, my dear, remonstrated the Jew, 'that the women can't be got over? 'Not a bit of it, replied Sikes. 'Not by flash Toby Crackit? said the Jew incredulously. 'Think what women are, Bill,
Losberne followed, leading Rose; and the council was, for the present, effectually broken up. Upon the night when Nancy, having lulled Mr. Sikes to sleep, hurried on her self-imposed mission to Rose Maylie, there advanced towards London, by the Great North Road, two persons, upon whom it is expedient that this history should bestow some attention.
Sikes, finding that he was walking a short part of her way himself, expressed his intention of accompanying her; they went away together, followed, at a little distant, by the dog, who slunk out of a back-yard as soon as his master was out of sight.
With its first stroke, his two conductors stopped, and turned their heads in the direction whence the sound proceeded. 'Eight o' clock, Bill, said Nancy, when the bell ceased. 'What's the good of telling me that; I can hear it, can't I! replied Sikes. 'I wonder whether THEY can hear it, said Nancy. 'Of course they can, replied Sikes.
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