In honor of Charles Dickens

In honor of the birthday of Charles Dickens, I’d like to share a passage from one of his novels. This passage is one of my most favorite in all of literature (that I’ve read so far).

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These observations, and indeed the greater part of the observations made that evening, were interrupted by Mrs. Micawber’s discovering that Master Micawber was sitting on his boots, or holding his head on with both arms as if he felt it loose, or accidentally kicking Traddles under the table, or shuffling his feet over one another, or producing them at distances from himself apparently outrageous to nature, or lying sideways with his hair among the wine-glasses, or developing his restlessness of limb in some other form incompatible with the general interests of society; and by Master Micawber’s receiving those discoveries in a resentful spirit.

-David Copperfield, page 527, by Charles Dickens