Note 15 — Section 181. A LETTER FROM DR. HENRY DANSON TO MR. JOHN FORSTER, ON CHARLES DICKENS’S SCHOOL-LIFE. III.
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‘to be quite staggered’, here ganz verblüfft da´stehen; by — demand = through the impudent demand; to explode with laughter, vor Lachen fast bersten; to take to one’s heels, schnell davon laufen; and — heels = and ran then quickly away.