好可爱的Dickens!

"I have a sneaking fondness for the story about Dickens in his difficult London youth one day walking behind a workingman who was carrying a big-headed child across his shoulder. As the man walked on, without turning, with Dickens behind him, the child across the man's shoulder looked at Dickens, and Dickens, who was eating cherries out of a paper bag as he walked, silently popped one cherry after another into the silent child's mouth without anybody being the wiser."
--- on Bleak House (Lectures on Literature, Vladimir Nabokov)