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Probably, it appreciates Dickens's interest in excluded persons, from thieves to child beggars to prostitutes, an interest that extends to the world of Dickens's novels, which seek to enlarge our sympathy with and tolerance of others. The petrified socialite in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, Georgiana Podsnap-whose arms are manipulated open and shut "like a pair of compasses"3-resonates with Lear's overwhelmed Young Lady of Dorking, who, having bought a new bonnet for walking, finds "its colour and size, / So bedazzled her eyes, / That she very soon went back to Dorking" (CN, p. 96). The characters of Lear's nonsense often make a spectacle of what they most want to hide; consider the Young Person in red who "carefully covered her head / With a bonnet of leather, and three lines of feather," a gesture of modesty that involves wearing a theatrical cap (CN, p. 343). Lear's Old Man of the Isles is "pervaded" by smiles (CN, p. 82), much like Dickens's Mrs. Guppy-a person so convulsed with silent laughter that she communicates using her elbows, hands, and shoulders in preference to speech.5 Both writers' characters are often defined by the energy they create or absorb: