NIcholas Nickleby, by Charles DIckens

Read just a page or two this morning as I enjoyed a spinach and asparagus omelet. Here's a quote from p. 12 about the idiotic debates in Parliament (the satirical Dickens at his best):

"Mr Ralph Nickleby seconded the resolution and another gentleman having moved that it be amended by the insertion of the words and crumpet after the word muffin whenever it occurred it was carried triumphantly only one man in the crowd cried No and he was promptly taken into custody and straightway borne off."

"Nicholas Nickleby" by Charlles DIckens

 "... There was a great bustle in Bishopsgate Street Within as they drew up and (it being a windy day) half a dozen men were tacking across the road under a press of paper bearing gigantic announcements that a Public Meeting would be holden at one o clock ..."
(p. 11)

I read a few pages this morning at the breakfast table. Dickens goes well with hard boiled eggs, spinach, and fine coffee. I especially like the sailing metaphor in this passage.