muerto, a salvo de todo mal y lejos del tuyo... es decir, a condición de que a Bill no le pase nada. Y si Toby logró escapar, es casi seguro que Bill esté a salvo; porque Bill vale por dos Toby en cualquier momento.
—¿Y acerca de lo que te estaba diciendo, querida? —observó el judío, sin apartar de ella su brillante mirada.
—Tienes que volver a contármelo todo, si hay algo que quieras que haga —replicó Nancy—; y si es así, más te vale esperar hasta mañana. Me encendiste por un minuto; pero ahora vuelvo a estar atontada.
Fagin put several other questions: all with the same drift of ascertaining whether the girl had profited by his unguarded hints; but, she answered them so readily, and was withal so utterly unmoved by his searching looks, that his original impression of her being more than a trifle in liquor, was confirmed.
Nancy, indeed, was not exempt from a failing which was very common among the Jew’s female pupils; and in which, in their tenderer years, they were rather encouraged than checked.
Her disordered appearance, and a wholesale perfume of Geneva which pervaded the apartment, afforded strong confirmatory evidence of the justice of the Jew’s supposition; and when, after indulging in the temporary display of violence above described, she subsided, first into dullness, and afterwards into a compound of feelings: under the influence of which she shed tears one minute, and in the next gave utterance to various exclamations of “Never say die!” and divers calculations as to what might be the amount of the odds so long as a lady or gentleman was happy, Mr. Fagin, who had had considerable experience of such matters in his time, saw, with great satisfaction, that she was very far gone indeed.
Habiéndose calmado con este descubrimiento; y habiendo cumplido con su doble objetivo de transmitir a la muchacha lo que había