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Pickwick gradually worked himself to the boiling-over point; and so excited was he with his reflections on this subject, that he had burst into the room to which he had been directed, before he had any distinct recollection, either of the place in which he was, or of the object of his visit.
The threatened boiling-over process was abruptly checked, as if a lid had been lifted. "Oh!" said Peterson weakly. He gazed at a fragment of roast beef on his plate. It might have been some sort of strange insect. He frowned at it. And then his eyes blazed steadily and brightly. He did not look at Harboro again for a long time.
Eight days after the burial of Lady Catheron, several events, occurred that wrought the seething excitement of Chesholm to boiling-over point events talked of for many an after year, by cottage fireside and manor hearth. The first of these, was Miss Catheron's examination before the police magistrate, and her committal to jail, until the assizes.
As the object concluded these precociously philosophical remarks, it looked up in its mother's face with an earnest inquiring gaze. The mother looked down at it with an equally earnest look though there was a twinkle in each eye and a small dimple in each cheek that indicated a struggle with gravity and said "I could stop the big pot from boiling-over without taking it off the fire."
"How?" inquired Two-feet-ten eagerly. "By letting it boil over till it put the fire out." The object opened its eyes very wide, and pursed its mouth very tight; then it relaxed, grinned a little with an air of uncertainty, and was about to laugh, but checked itself, and, with a look of perplexity, said "Eh?" "Ay, my boy," resumed the mother, "just you try the boiling-over plan next time.
The cook did so, and made a wry face. "Baking soda!" he gasped; "and I spoiled my stew." "And burnt it in the bargain," laughed Max, remembering the boiling-over episode; "but there's plenty to eat besides. So pitch in, boys, and after we get through we'll see what sort of luck you had this morning." "Look at Steve!" It was Owen who muttered these three words in the ear of his cousin.
With a last desperate effort the latter twisted himself sufficiently to allow his free arm to again swing the handcuffs, and this time they caught the wachtmeister neatly on the nose, setting that organ bleeding profusely, and raising the big Teuton's angry passions to a boiling-over point.
'I said to that boiling-over old Christian, Mr Pancks pursued, appearing greatly to relish this descriptive epithet, 'that I had got a little project on hand; a hopeful one; I told him a hopeful one; which wanted a certain small capital. I proposed to him to lend me the money on my note.
The captain, who was always in a boiling-over condition, and never felt quite happy except when in the act of planning or carrying out some scheme for the increase of general happiness, soon discovered that Netta was discussing the details of a little treat which she meant to give to the boys and girls of a Sunday-school which she and her mother superintended.
Carthage was no longer quiet. It simmered to the boiling-over point. Once it had been Mrs. Budlong's pride to be the social leader of Carthage. She began to read New York society notes with expectancy, as one cons the Baedeker of a town one is approaching. She lay awake nights wondering what she should wear at Mrs. Stuyvesant Square's next party and at Mrs. Astor House's sociable.
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