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Mr. Dick in Different Versions of David Copperfield

James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California

Note 2 to Chapter 8 of the author's Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter which Clarendon Press published in 1972. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author and of the Clarendon Press, which retains copyright.

In the original version, Mr. Dick was to have greeted David by running his tongue back and forth across the window and squinting at him "in a most terrible manner". Both the tongue and the squint were removed in proof; see Butt / Tillotson, p. 130.

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