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One eccentric gentleman of my acquaintance persists in predicting that any day there may be a general blow-up, and the whole concern, engineers, financiers, priests, soldiers, and flunkies, all go to smash. He evidently wishes to see it, though, as far as personal comfort goes, one would rather be out of the way at such a time.
Poor Tommy held it out, and roared lustily at the first blow, wringing his fingers with the smart. "Now your left hand, sir; fair play is a jewel; always carry the dish even." Tommy received a blow on his left hand, which was followed up with similar demonstrations of suffering. "There sir you may go now," said Mr O'Gallagher, "and mind you don't do it again; or else there'll be a blow-up.
They also suggested war and torpedoes. At that time I had not reflected on the nature of war. I merely knew it to be a science, cultivated chiefly by the human race, and that in its practice explosives are largely used. To "blow-up" effectively, whether in a literal or figurative sense, is difficult. To improve this power in war, and in the literal sense, I set myself to work.
"Well, Ma'am, you won't believe it, But it's gospel fact and true, But these words is all she whispered, 'Why, where is the powder blew?" For other examples refer to "The Ode to Malthus" and "The Blow-up," which pain the sides while they cheer the heart. Again, we find the grotesque through Hood's writings in union with the fantastic and the fanciful.
I sat down at the table and produced a couple of glass flasks, tightly corked. "Here you are," I said. "This is ordinary gunpowder, and this other one's my stuff. It looks harmless enough, doesn't it?" Joyce took both flasks and examined them with interest. "You've not brought very much of it," she said. "I was hoping we were going to have a really big blow-up."
They were unprovided with valves, gauge-cocks, or any other safety, all of which are now so well understood that nothing but carelessness can cause a blow-up.
This latter speech was addressed to a pastrycook's boy, with a large sugar temple and many conical papers containing delicacies for dessert. "Mind the hice is here in time; or there'll be a blow-up with your governor," and John struggled back, closing the door on the astonished Colonel. "Upon my life, they actually shut the door in our faces," said the poor gentleman. "The man is very busy, sir.
You'd think a Scotchman and his money was soon parted, but I heard him say it from the heart out. And yet Ellabelle never does seem to get him. Only a year ago, when I was at this here rich place down from San Francisco where they got the new marble palace, there was a lovely blow-up and Ellabelle says to me in her hysteria: 'Once a Scotchman, always a Scotchman! Oh, she was hysteric all right!
You, Timothy Ruddel, you'll just teach this young Master Keene his whole alphabet, and take care, at the same time, that you know your own lessons, or it will end in a blow-up; and you, Master Keene, if you have not larnt your whole alphabet perfect by dinner time, why you'll have a small taste of Number 2, just as a hint to what's coming next.
"Thane," he finally said, with deliberation, "the executive council of the Department of the Outside just doesn't like your methods. You've put through some really brilliant maneuvers but you've done it alone, taking chances. I've tried to go along with you but the last report from Elron caused a real blow-up at the council.
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