The  robbery (4)

 

'Why don's you become one?' Charley asked him. 'We all are here - both of us, and Fagin, Sikes, Nancy,,, all of us.'

 

'I don't want to be ,' replied Oliver. ' I wish they'd let me go.'

 

'But it's a good life,' the Dodger said, taking some coins from his pocket and throwing them up in the air. 'What does it matter where the money comes from?' he said , larghing. 'If you don't steal it , someone else will. You can be sure of that!'

 

Fagin entered at this point, with two young men, and joined in the conversation. One of the young men had just come out of prison, and there were many cheeful joeerful jokes about his very short hair-cut . Everybody sat around the fire, talking and laughing for hours. Fagin told Oliver how good the Dodger was at his job, and what a friendly boy Charley was, It was , without doubt, an interesting evening for Olver, after so many days locked up alone.