早餐

讀著佐野洋子描述的日式早餐，突然好想念阿嬤第一次住院開刀，在舊三總一樓的台式早餐。

那時我每天負責輪大夜班，睡不好而且因為護士一大早就會來巡房，六點左右就得收拾好行軍床，沒辦法再睡。

台式早餐，有稀飯（或飯）、醬菜、肉鬆，這是我記得的。睡眠不足、再加上照顧病人的緊張感（那時我還很怕血，光是想像傷口與縫線就會昏倒），在體內形成一股頑固的冰冷。起床後，渴求那份溫暖豐富的早餐。

雖然現在任何時刻進到店裡，只要菜單上有西式早餐（English Breakfast)，我都會不由自主地點來吃，可是當年離我去英國的日子還有五年，對豐盛的英式早餐並不癡迷，更何況試過後舊三總的西式早餐好像還不如美而美。

每天早上等到阿姨來換班，我總是先到餐廳報到，讓那份早餐緩緩地驅散身體裡的寒意。彷彿是藉此擺脫醫院的陰影，回到人間。

那大概是我一生中唯一吃得下早餐，有吃早餐習慣的一段日子了。

EMMA

p.34   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER III〕
She loved every body, was interested in every body's happiness, quicksighted to every body's merits; thought herself a most fortunate creature, and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother, and so many good neighbours and friends, and a home that wanted for nothing. The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself.

p.62   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER V〕
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

p.66   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER V〕
Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied it.


p.160   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER XI〕
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

p.238   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER XVI〕
Perhaps it was not fair to expect him to feel how very much he was her inferior in talent, and all the elegancies of mind. The very want of such equality might prevent his perception of it.

p.258   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER XVIII〕
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do, if he chuses, and that is, his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution.


p.260   〔VOLUME 1,  CHAPTER XVIII〕
If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

p.308   〔VOLUME 2,  CHAPTER III〕
one never does form a just idea of any body beforehand. One takes up a notion, and runs away with it.

p.354   〔VOLUME 2,  CHAPTER VI〕
I assure you the utmost stretch of public fame would not make me amends for the loss of any happiness in private life.

p.564   〔VOLUME 3,  CHAPTER II〕
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

p.712   〔VOLUME 3,  CHAPTER X〕

If a woman can ever be excused for thinking only of herself, it is a situation like Jane Fairfax's.-Of such, one may almost say, that 'the world is not their's, nor the world's law.'