'I never saw a sharper lad.

Here's a shilling for you.

If you go on, in this way, you'll be the greatest man of the time.

And now come here, and I'll show you how to take the marks out of the handkerchiefs.' Oliver wondered what picking the old gentleman's pocket in play, had to do with his chances of being a great man.

But, thinking that the Jew, being so much his senior, must know best, he followed him quietly to the table, and was soon deeply involved in his new study..