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Oliver Twist

CHAPTER XXVI
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I'll pound it, that Barney's managing properly.

Let him alone for that.' 'Will _he_ be here to-night ?' asked the Jew, laying the same emphasis on the pronoun as before.
'Monks, do you mean ?' inquired the landlord, hesitating.
'Hush!' said the Jew.

'Yes.' 'Certain,' replied the man, drawing a gold watch from his fob; 'I expected him here before now.

If you'll wait ten minutes, he'll be--' 'No, no,' said the Jew, hastily; as though, however desirous he might be to see the person in question, he was nevertheless relieved by his absence.

'Tell him I came here to see him; and that he must come to me to-night.


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