1 Come, I know you; it won't do.
2 'I do, indeed,' answered Oliver.
3 'So do I,' rejoined the undertaker.
4 I do, when I'm at home, replied the boy.
5 Ah, bless 'em, that I do, dear as it is,' replied the nurse.
6 Come, none of your tricks here, you young vagabond; they won't do.
7 'That it won't do; so it's no use a-trying it on, Fagin,' replied Nancy.
8 Of which, to do her justice, she was wholly innocent, in thought, word, or deed.
9 Oliver wondered what picking the old gentleman's pocket in play, had to do with his chances of being a great man.
10 Poor Oliver tried to keep up with the coach a little way, but was unable to do it, by reason of his fatigue and sore feet.
11 You haven't marked them well, though, Charley; so the marks shall be picked out with a needle, and we'll teach Oliver how to do it.
12 He wants the stick, now and then: it'll do him good; and his board needn't come very expensive, for he hasn't been overfed since he was born.
13 But, making Oliver cry, Noah attempted to be more facetious still; and in his attempt, did what many sometimes do to this day, when they want to be funny.
14 Yes,' said the Jew; 'that is, unless they should unexpectedly come across any, when they are out; and they won't neglect it, if they do, my dear, depend upon it.
15 As Oliver was told that he might do what he liked with the old clothes, he gave them to a servant who had been very kind to him, and asked her to sell them to a Jew, and keep the money for herself.
16 Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instance, it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred.
17 Thus, to do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained, will justify; the amount of the right, or the amount of the wrong, or indeed the distinction between the two, being left entirely to the philosopher concerned, to be settled and determined by his clear, comprehensive, and impartial view of his own particular case.
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