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Going to one knee, I set the lantern down and crouch next to the Inimitable, the creator of fools such as the Dedlocks and the Barnacles and the Dombeys and Grewgious, but also of such villains and parasites and dark souls as the Fagins and Artful Dodgers and Squeerses and Casbys and Slymes and Pecksniffs and Scrooges and Vholeses and Smallweeds and Weggs and Fledgebys and Bumbles and Lammles and Hawks and Fangs and Tiggs and…
Ich stelle die Laterne ab und knie mich vor den Unnachahmlichen, den Schöpfer von Narren wie den Dedlocks, den Barnacles, den Dombeys und Grewgious, aber auch von Schurken und Schmarotzern wie den Fagins, Squeers, Casbys, Slymes, Pecksniffs, Scrooges, Vholes. Weggs und …
One night over wine, Dickens had described the friendly Dane (who spoke very little English, which must have made his long stay with the Dickens family even more stressful) as “a cross between my character Pecksniff and the Ugly Duckling, Wilkie.
Eines Abends beim Wein beschrieb Dickens den freundlichen Dänen – der kaum ein Wort Englisch sprach, was sein langes Verweilen bei der Familie Dickens sicher nicht leichter machte – als »eine Mischung zwischen meiner Figur Pecksniff und dem hässlichen Entlein.
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