When there are two parties to a bargain, it is only reasonable that the interests of both should be consulted; is it, my good friend ?' 'What then ?' demanded Monks.
'I saw it was not easy to train him to the business,' replied the Jew; 'he was not like other boys in the same circumstances.' 'Curse him, no!' muttered the man, 'or he would have been a thief, long ago.' 'I had no hold upon him to make him worse,' pursued the Jew, anxiously watching the countenance of his companion.

'His hand was not in.

I had nothing to frighten him with; which we always must have in the beginning, or we labour in vain.

What could I do?
Send him out with the Dodger and Charley?
We had enough of that, at first, my dear; I trembled for us all.' '_That_ was not my doing,' observed Monks.
'No, no, my dear!' renewed the Jew.

'And I don't quarrel with it now; because, if it had never happened, you might never have clapped eyes on the boy to notice him, and so led to the discovery that it was him you were looking for.