Is the teaboard still there, Lucie?

Mr. Koch yesterday defended those undertakings as reasonable, and suggested that the current controversy was "a tempest in a teaboard."

With this laconic threat, which he accompanied with a snarl that gave him the appearance of being particularly in earnest, Mr Quilp bade her clear the teaboard away, and bring the rum.

In the meantime the youngest Miss Pecksniff brought from the kitchen a smoking dish of ham and eggs, and, setting the same before her father, took up her station on a low stool at his feet; thereby bringing her eyes on a level with the teaboard.