It's said Dickens based the character "Harold Skimpole" in Bleak House on his friend Leigh Hunt. It must have hurt. Skimpole is naieve, feckless, uncaring of others, sponges money endlessly from everyone and anyone. I wonder how they patched that one up afterward. (Hunt was not Skimpole: Dickens took his ideas and magnified them into the character but it can't have felt good)