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Show Dickens, the Aristocrat No little consternation will be cansed among the admirers of Charles Dickens, who have always regarded him as an out-and-out Democrat, a lover of common com-mon things and simple people, by the discovery that in the later years of his life he adopted an imposing ar-moral ar-moral device to which he had no hereditary or legal right. Waj it snobbery or merely whimsical fancy that induced him to embellish his entire en-tire library with a crest, depicting a lion holding In its paws a Maltese cross? Perhaps the noble crest on his dinner service helped him to forget the labels on those Interminable rows of blacking bottles at Hungerford market. mar-ket. Dickens' crest remains Dickens' secret. London Morninji Post |