I was hungry, but before I had swallowed a morsel, he began a running sum that lasted all through the breakfast. “Seven?” “And four?” “And eight?” “And six?” “And two?” “And ten?” And so on. And after each figure was disposed of, it was as much as I could do to get a bite or a sup, before the next came; while he sat at his ease guessing nothing, and eating bacon and hot roll, in (if I may be allowed the expression) a gorging and gormandizing manner.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 8. Breakfast at Uncle Pumblechook’s, where Pip is staying before his first visit to Satis House, is not quite what Pip expected. While his host eats a lavish breakfast, the boy is left to go hungry, with Pumblechook droning on about math and sums as Pip is left waiting for a morsel. Pumblechook’s insensitive nature is satirized here and we also see a good example of situational irony.