 'What do you suppose caused all the dining and repining?He has been sponsor to Dickens's child "in company with Count D'Orsay" and accordingly the "novus homo" glories in the praenomia Alfred d'Orsay Tennyson Dickens ... You observe Alfred is common to both the godfather and the devil-father ...When you remember what the form of sponsorship is, to what it pledges you in the Church of England - and then remember that Mr. Dickens is an enlightened Unitarian - you will get a curious notion of the man, I fancy.'