Oliver Twist: The Original 1838 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Charles Dickens Classics)

by Charles Dickens

So did the Jew himself, toasting-fork in hand.

Mixture of emotions & images - seems like a refuge, atmosphere covers up evil and malevolence, ‘Devil’ with a ‘great-coat’ on, compared to the devil, Fagin’s toasting fork → devil’s pitching fork