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And it being time to go back to Weston, all the boys started off in that direction, leaving Mr Wobbler to tramp backwards and forwards between his milestones in solitude. Of course some kind friend told all this to Saurin, and it exasperated him still more, if that was possible. One thing he was determined upon, Crawley must be repaid the money he had given to the Italian figure-seller at once.
The room in which Professor Wobbler had given his boxing lessons had a table fitted up in it, and on this table the wheel-of-fortune, with its black and red compartments, and its little ivory ball to rattle round and finally fall into one of them, was placed, with a cloth marked in compartments answering to those in the wheel for the gamblers to stake their money upon.
Mr Wobbler recovered his equanimity, and affably condescended to apologise for his remarks. "I'm almost afeard as I swore, gents," he observed, and his fear was certainly well founded. "I was a trifled startled, you see, and expressed myself as I felt, strong.
'I want to know and Arthur Clennam again mechanically set forth what he wanted to know. 'Can't inform you, observed Mr Wobbler, apparently to his lunch. 'Never heard of it. Nothing at all to do with it. Better try Mr Clive, second door on the left in the next passage. 'Perhaps he will give me the same answer. 'Very likely. Don't know anything about it, said Mr Wobbler.
A worse resident than Mr Wobbler the pedestrian took up his abode at Slam's, and this was no other than his son, Josiah Slam, who had gone to London as the only field wide enough for his talents ten years before, and had only been occasionally heard of since.
Tom Buller entered. "I have got something I want to tell you, Crawley," he said. "I have just found out that Saurin has been taking lessons in boxing." "Oh! of whom? Stubbs, Edwards, or someone equally formidable?" "No; of Wobbler the pedestrian, who was once a pugilist, and who has been giving boxing lessons at Slam's." "Oh! I see, that is what has screwed his courage up to the proper pitch.
And they won his money in a small way, and laughed at his jokes, and took interest in his bragging stories, and went into ecstasies over his songs, and really liked and admired him in their fashion. So the departure of Mr Wobbler did not keep him away, and he went to the yard as much as ever.
'Called him Lovely, said the other gentleman. 'Said the Dog was the perfect picture of the old aunt from whom he had expectations. Found him particularly like her when hocussed. 'Mr Wobbler? said the suitor. Both gentlemen laughed for some time.
Instructors of any sort, whether they are professors of mathematics, or Hebrew, or of dancing, or boxing, have this in common, that they are sure to take a special interest in apt pupils; and so Mr Wobbler paid more attention to Saurin than to the others, and showed him certain tricks, feints, and devices which he did not favour everybody with.
"Thanks, " said Tracy, involuntarily. "Thanks?" "I mean for explaining it to me. Go on, please." "As I was saying, fool is printed all over the face." "A body can even read the details." "What do they say?" "Well, added up, he is a wobbler." "A which?" "Wobbler.
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