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Charles Dickens, in a note now lying before me, alluding to an examination I once made of the mechanism of „Barnaby Rudge,“ says — „By the way, are you aware that Godwin wrote his ‚Caleb Williams‘ backwards? He first involved his hero in a web of difficulties, forming the second volume, and then, for the first, cast about him for some mode of accounting for what had been done.“