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'Where's Oliver?' said the Jew, rising with a menacing look. 'Where's the boy?'
The young thieves eyed their preceptor as if they were alarmed at his violence; and looked uneasily at each other. But they made no reply.
'What's become of the boy?' said the Jew, seizing the Dodger1 tightly by the collar, and threatening him with horrid2 imprecations. 'Speak out, or I'll throttle3 you!'
Mr. Fagin looked so very much in earnest, that Charley Bates, who deemed it prudent4 in all cases to be on the safe side, and who conceived it by no means improbable that it might be his turn to be throttled5 second, dropped upon his knees, and raised a loud, well-sustained, and continuous roar--something between a mad bull and a speaking trumpet6.
'Will you speak?' thundered the Jew: shaking the Dodger so much that his keeping in the big coat at all, seemed perfectly7 miraculous8.
'Why, the traps have got him, and that's all about it,' said the Dodger, sullenly9. 'Come, let go o' me, will you!' And, swinging himself, at one jerk, clean out of the big coat, which he left in the Jew's hands, the Dodger snatched up the toasting fork, and made a pass at the merry old gentleman's waistcoat; which, if it had taken effect, would have let a little more merriment out than could have been easily replaced.
The Jew stepped back in this emergency, with more agility11 than could have been anticipated in a man of his apparent

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