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Fagin wants Bill to kidnap Oliver from Lord Brownlow?s, but Bill
is too drunk and Nancy offers to go in his place?
NANCY: Allo, Dodger! Allo, Fagin! I've come to steal my man, Fagin. You can't have him. BILL: I thought you was supposed to be whoring tonight? NANCY: I'm sick of those greasy paws on me. I'm taking the night off to be with my Bill. FAGIN: I'm afraid, my dear, your Bill's busy tonight. He has an appointment in Pentonville. DODGER: Bill and I are droppin' in on a Lord Brownlow. If you please. NANCY: Oh not a burglary tonight, Bill. It's not safe - there's too much pale moonlight. BILL: It's not a burglary, Nancy. It's a kidnapping. One Oliver Twist. FAGIN: One of my boys, Nancy, he's been dragged away. Bill here means to rescue him. He?s such a wonderful charitable man! BILL: It's to save 'is filthy neck, and mine too. Come on Dodger. We better go now! NANCY: Bill, listen to me, that old devil is going to be the death of you! (TO Fagin:) How can he work tonight? Don?t let him go! Can't you see he's too drunk? Bill: I?m not deaf!! This drink fires me!! What?s it to you, anyway? Come on, Dodger! (DODGER throws him a stick, he misses it and collapses drunk). NANCY: Bill! Bill! Get up, get up, you drunkard! Fagin, for god?s sake, look at the state of him!! He can?t go anywhere like that! FAGIN: Well, the Dodger will go with him? DODGER: I?m not going out with him tonight? FAGIN: You will! DODGER: I won?t!! NANCY: Stop it, Fagin! He doesn?t have to go. I?ll go. FAGIN: You? NANCY: Yes, me. I?ll get your precious Oliver Twist for you ? after all , Dodger, he?s my little brother, ain?t he! Dodger: Who? NANCY: Oliver Twist, my little brother who ran away from home: ?Oliver, Oliver, come back to the bosom of your family?? Notes: to whore: se prostituer Retour au texte greasy paws: mains sales Retour au texte If you please!: dans ce contexte, pour marquer l??art social entre eux et Brownlow Retour au texte To save your neck: sauver son cou (ici, littœGalement) Retour au texte the drink fires me: l?alcool me donne des forces Retour au texte |