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It was the 30th of January, and he had been taking on flesh since October. "Well, when'd he blow in? Say, he's a ringer for Weary Waggles, all right." "Sometime in the night," replied the young man, tilting back in his swivel-chair. "Mrs. G. found him in the entryway when she went down for the milk, asleep in the Goldnagels' hall-rug.
Ivan Alexyevitch shuts his eyes and waggles his head. "I'm revoltingly happy," he says. "Just think; in a minute I shall go to my compartment. There on the seat near the window is sitting a being who is, so to say, devoted to you with her whole being. A little blonde with a little nose . . . little fingers. . . . My little darling! My angel! My little poppet! Phylloxera of my soul!
Man, however, is prone to indulge in vain glorification, and the secret was exploded by the triumphant waving of the long staff of the beadle, with the gilt knob at the end of it, just over the parapet of the wall, in token of victory. "It's Waggles! it's Waggles!" cried everybody "it's Waggles, the beadle!"
"You must never say 'can't, Jeremy," remarked Miss Jones. "There isn't such a word." "Oh, yes," said Mary eagerly, "there is; I've seen it in books." "You musn't contradict, Mary," said Miss Jones. "I only meant that you must behave as though there isn't, because nothing is impossible to one who truly tries." "My pencil waggles this way," said Jeremy politely.
"You made a very great mistake in doing that," said M. Francis, Monpavon's Francis, valet to that old dandy, whose only tooth waggles in the middle of his mouth whenever he says a word, but whom the young ladies look favorably upon all the same because of his fine manners. "Yes, you made a mistake.
Waggles meanwhile squatting pensively between his gaiters. When an hour later the Colonel presented himself at the Horn mansion, no trace of this encounter with Cobb was in his face nor in his manner. Men did not air their grievances in their own nor anyone's else home around Kennedy Square. Mrs. Horn met him with her hand extended.
It is held to be a good taunt, and somehow or other to clinch the question logically, when an old gentleman waggles his head and says: "Ah, so I thought when I was your age." It is not thought an answer at all, if the young man retorts: "My venerable sir, so I shall most probably think when I am yours." And yet the one is as good as the other: pass for pass, tit for tat, a Roland for an Oliver.
'Where's Ivan Alexyevitch now? you'll say. Yes; so in a minute I'm going to my compartment. There she is waiting for me with impatience . . . in joyful anticipation of my appearance. She'll have a smile to greet me. I sit down beside her and take her chin with my two fingers." Ivan Alexyevitch waggles his head and goes off into a chuckle of delight.
And he looked toward Waggles. "You will all, one day, be proud to say that he lived in our town. Richard is a genius, one of the most remarkable men of the day, and everybody outside of this place knows it; you will be compelled to admit it yet. I left him only half an hour ago, and he is just perfecting a motor, gentlemen, which will "
When the old man waggles his head and says, "Ah, so I thought when I was your age," he has proved the youth's case.
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