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How kind of artists and poets to devise the festivities beforehand, and serve them pat at the proper time! We ought to be grateful to them, as to the cook who gets up at midnight and sets the pudding a-boiling, which is to feast us at six o'clock.
When the end of a book was reached, there came the long and wearing process of its revision. Then interviews with publishers, the correction of proof sheets, the excogitation of writings for magazines fuel for the fire that kept my pot a-boiling. There were intervals of acute mental weariness, and there were intervals of acute bodily distress.
"And you'll avenge me?" he cried savagely, his Southern blood a-boiling. "You'll not let him leave the ground alive?" "Not unless my opponent commits the indiscretion of killing me first. Who seconds M. de Canaples?" "The Marquis de St. Auban and M. de Montmedy." "And who is the third in our party?" "I have none. I thought that perhaps you had a friend." "I! A friend?" I laughed bitterly.
It had taken him and his party five days to make the trip from Sheridan to Columbia. February 26: This from my log: "Clear, no wind, temperature 57° below zero." Listen! I will tell you about it. At seven A. M. we quit trying to sleep and started the pot a-boiling.
Then we hung up in a distinct pause, and my aunt rescued me. "George," she said in a confidential undertone, "keep the pot a-boiling." And then audibly, "I say, will you both old trot about with tea a bit?" "Only too delighted to TROT for you, Mrs. Ponderevo," said the clergyman, becoming fearfully expert and in his elements; "only too delighted."
I've got a potato on a-boiling. When she had gone to attend to the potatoes the children looked at each other. Could it be that old Nurse had so changed that she no longer cared that they should have been away from home for twenty-four hours all night in fact without any explanation whatever? But the Psammead put its head out of its basket and said 'What's the matter? Don't you understand?
And, as far as I can see, I was better off when I was at Scrimble and Grutts. I did get my salary regular." Mr. Brown was at this time in tears, and as he wept he lifted up hands. "My children, my children!" said he. "That's all very well, father," said Maryanne. "But whimpering won't keep anybody's pot a-boiling.
Grady must go out too, and leave me the kettle a-boiling for tea. It was of no use, I couldn't keep away from it. Washed it all down, sir, by Jove. And it's my belief I had some more, too, afterwards at that infernal little thieves' den." "What, were you there too?" Strong asked, "and before you came to Grosvenor Place? That was beginning betimes."
Yet though he's down to zero in fellow-men's esteem, this fellow is a hero and that's no winter dream. Year after year he's toiling, as toiled the slaves of Rome, to keep the pot a-boiling in his old mother's home.
By the bright bow of Heaven, I will have their ill-gotten gains from them, even though I hang for it as high as e'er a forest tree in Sherwood!" "Why, how now, master," quoth Little John, "what heat is this? Thou dost set thy pot a-boiling, and mayhap no bacon to cook! Methinks yon fellow's hair is overlight for Norman locks. He may be a good man and true for aught thou knowest."
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