1 'She'll go, Fagin,' said Sikes.
2 'No, she won't, Fagin,' said Nancy.
3 'Yes, she will, Fagin,' said Sikes.
4 'I won't stand by and see it done, Fagin,' cried the girl.
5 'That it won't do; so it's no use a-trying it on, Fagin,' replied Nancy.
6 It's all passed safe through the melting-pot,' replied Fagin, 'and this is your share.
7 'I didn't know, my dear, I didn't know,' replied Fagin, humbly; for the Jew was the new comer.
8 It was answered by another Jew: younger than Fagin, but nearly as vile and repulsive in appearance.
9 Fagin will make something of you, though, or you'll be the first he ever had that turned out unprofitable.
10 'The boy's right,' remarked Fagin, looking covertly round, and knitting his shaggy eyebrows into a hard knot.
11 In about ten minutes' time, Mr. Fagin was seized with a fit of coughing; upon which Nancy pulled her shawl over her shoulders, and declared it was time to go.
12 This was, that the Dodger, and Charley Bates, and Fagin, and Mr. William Sikes, happened, one and all, to entertain a violent and deeply-rooted antipathy to going near a police-office on any ground or pretext whatever.
13 At his, Master Bates roared again: so loud, that Fagin himself relaxed, and even the Dodger smiled; but as the Artful drew forth the five-pound note at that instant, it is doubtful whether the sally of the discovery awakened his merriment.
14 Mr. Fagin was sufficiently well acquainted with the manners and customs of that particular species of humanity to which Nancy belonged, to feel tolerably certain that it would be rather unsafe to prolong any conversation with her, at present.
15 Barney looked timidly at Fagin, as if for permission; the Jew remaining silent, and not lifting his eyes from the ground, he retired; and presently returned, ushering in Nancy; who was decorated with the bonnet, apron, basket, and street-door key, complete.
16 Mr. Fagin concluded by drawing a rather disagreeable picture of the discomforts of hanging; and, with great friendliness and politeness of manner, expressed his anxious hopes that he might never be obliged to submit Oliver Twist to that unpleasant operation.
17 The Jew, perfectly understanding the hint, retired to fill it: previously exchanging a remarkable look with Fagin, who raised his eyes for an instant, as if in expectation of it, and shook his head in reply; so slightly that the action would have been almost imperceptible to an observant third person.
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