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All the thin incapacity of that shadowy figure was pitilessly displayed; the desperate narrowness in that long, pale face; the wambling look of those pale, well-kept hands all that made him such a ghost of a man. But his nasal, dogmatic voice rose and rose. "There's nothing for it but bracing up! We must cut away all this State support; we must teach them to rely on themselves.
With the assistance of Tanis's Bunch, the Doppelbraus, and other companions in forgetfulness, there was not an evening for two weeks when he did not return home late and shaky. With his other faculties blurred he yet had the motorist's gift of being able to drive when he could scarce walk; of slowing down at corners and allowing for approaching cars. He came wambling into the house.
'And he's certainly taller, said Martin, letting his glance run over Stephen's form from bottom to top. 'I was thinking 'a was exactly the same height, Worm replied. 'Bless thy soul, that's because he's bigger round likewise. And the united eyes all moved to Stephen's waist. 'I be a poor wambling man, but I can make allowances, said William Worm.
The magistrates consulted, and the second one said that the bench was of opinion that twelve feet nine inches from a man on his oath was admissible. Stubberd, with a suppressed gaze of victorious rectitude at the old woman, continued: "Was standing myself. She was wambling about quite dangerous to the thoroughfare and when I approached to draw near she committed the nuisance, and insulted me."
'Ay, sir, a weak wambling man am I; and the frying have been going on in my poor head all through the long night and this morning as usual; and I was so dazed wi' it that down fell a piece of leg-wood across the shaft of the pony-shay, and splintered it off.
'Oh, doan't I, sir hee, hee! Maybe I'm but a poor wambling thing, sir, and can't read much; but I can spell as well as some here and there. Doan't ye mind, sir, that blustrous night when ye asked me to hold the candle to ye in yer workshop, when you were making a new chair for the chancel? 'Yes; what of that?
'Well, some folks noticed that Andrey walked with rather wambling steps to church that morning; the truth o't was that his nearest neighbour's child had been christened the day before, and Andrey, having stood godfather, had stayed all night keeping up the christening, for he had said to himself, "Not if I live to be thousand shall I again be made a godfather one day, and a husband the next, and perhaps a father the next, and therefore I'll make the most of the blessing."
William Worm, for example, was deaf. His deafness took an unusual form; he heard fish frying in his head, and he was not reticent upon the subject of his infirmity. He usually described himself by the epithet 'wambling, and protested that he would never pay the Lord for his making, a degree of self-knowledge which many have arrived at but few have the courage to confess.
All the thin incapacity of that shadowy figure was pitilessly displayed; the desperate narrowness in that long, pale face; the wambling look of those pale, well-kept hands all that made him such a ghost of a man. But his nasal, dogmatic voice rose and rose. "There's nothing for it but bracing up! We must cut away all this State support; we must teach them to rely on themselves.
I know I am only a poor wambling man that 'ill never pay the Lord for my making, sir; but I can show the way in, sir.
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