Quijote siterer Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics) av Charles Dickens (side 184)
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'Why - dear me, how stupid I am,' replied Miss Petowker, hesitating. 'What do you call it when Lords break off door-knockers and beat policemen, and play at coaches with other people's money, and all that sort of thing?'
'Aristocratic? suggested the collector.
'Ah! Aristocratic,' replied Miss Petowker; something very aristocratic about him, isn't there?'
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To gonger (kap. 4 og 15) i Nicholas Nickleby viser Dickens til "young noblemen's penchant for wrenching off door-knockers". I Saint James's parish i London budde svært mange aristokratar.
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