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National Geographic : 1974 Apr
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youth," Mrs. Goldwhite continued. "You can sense that by the number of young people from all over the world who come here. With his championship for underdogs, his hatred of injustice and of hypocrisy, he speaks to them of feelings they share." Dickens certainly must have known this shop well. It claims to be the oldest in Lon don, and his biographer-friend John Forster lived just around the corner at 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields. Forster's old home-a fine Pal ladian-fronted mansion-is still with us, its stylish windows staring haughtily across a public park. Dickens, who "borrowed" the house for the home of the sinister lawyer Mr. LONDONMUSEUM "Too stern and pompous... to be prepos sessing," Dickens wrote of Mr. Dombey, a merchant in Dombey and Son; sporting side burns, Basil Taylor (below) plays the part in Broadstairs' Dickens Festival. Gentle men of Dickens's day often went in for raffish entertainments: In a 19th-century painting, sportsmen crowd around a rat pit (left). Dickens despised the often cruel pastimes of many well-to-do. "What do you call it," asks Miss Petowker in Nicholas Nickleby, "when lords ... beat policemen, and play at coaches with other people's money, and all that sort of thing?... Ah! aristocratic." 463
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