Just finished Nicholas Nickleby, and I have to say I really enjoyed this.
Came across this passage in the book which given when the book was written, I thought echoed down the ages.
"one gentlemen in the rear did not scruple to remark aloud, that for his purpose it savoured rather too much of a 'gammon' tendency.
The meaning the that term - gammon,' said Mr Gregsbury, 'is unknown to me. If it means that I grow a little too fervid or perhaps even hyperbolical, in extolling my native land, I admit the full justice of my remark. I am proud of this free and happy country. My form dilates, my eye glistens, my breast heaves, my heart swells, my bosom burns, when I call to mind her greatness and her glory.'
Came across this passage in the book which given when the book was written, I thought echoed down the ages.
"one gentlemen in the rear did not scruple to remark aloud, that for his purpose it savoured rather too much of a 'gammon' tendency.
The meaning the that term - gammon,' said Mr Gregsbury, 'is unknown to me. If it means that I grow a little too fervid or perhaps even hyperbolical, in extolling my native land, I admit the full justice of my remark. I am proud of this free and happy country. My form dilates, my eye glistens, my breast heaves, my heart swells, my bosom burns, when I call to mind her greatness and her glory.'
