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"There is no place in politics for the wobbler." "Do you know," she went on, glancing away for a moment, "that my rooms are filled with people who fear you. The Labour Party, as it was understood here five or six years ago, never inspired that feeling. There was something of the tub-thumper about every one of them. I think it is your repression, Mr. Tallente, which terrifies them.
If you don't mind, will you please send the pound to me or to Professor Wobbler. I will send you his receipt if you pay him through me. Please do not mention the matter if it does not meet with your approval, as I should be very sorry to take the poor man's bread out of his mouth."
"He must have quieted down for good," says another. "The town ought to see that he keeps quiet." And they move on, and Pelle must move on, too anywhere, where no one can see him. "Cobbler, wobbler, groats in your gruel, Smack on your back goes the stick how cruel!" It is those accursed street-urchins. Pelle is by no means in a warlike humor; he pretends not to see them.
It seemed a plausible hypothesis and satisfied me for a time, but still not altogether, and now I believe I have made a discovery." "And it is?" "That Venus is a wobbler." "A wobbler?" "That she wobbles that she doesn't keep steady swings from side to side. You have seen a top, how stiff and erect it is when it is spinning fast, and how it wobbles when it is spinning slow, just before it falls.
'Well, I tell you what. Look here. You had better try the Secretarial Department, he said at last, sidling to the bell and ringing it. 'Jenkinson, to the mashed potatoes messenger, 'Mr Wobbler!
He entered that apartment, and found two gentlemen sitting face to face at a large and easy desk, one of whom was polishing a gun-barrel on his pocket-handkerchief, while the other was spreading marmalade on bread with a paper-knife. 'Mr Wobbler? inquired the suitor. Both gentlemen glanced at him, and seemed surprised at his assurance.
Bull-terriers is nice dogs, and I'm very partial to them, in their proper place, but that's not a hanging on to my wind pipe; at least that's my opinion. But I'm sorry if I spoke rough, which is not in my habits. Nobody can say that Job Wobbler is uncivil to his backers or his patrons." A speech which was perhaps rather lacking in dignity for a professor.
Of the permanent residents only the Duchess, always of High Church leanings, had of late yielded to his blandishments. She was fairly hooked. Madame Steynlin, a lady of Dutch extraction whose hats were proverbial, was uncompromisingly Lutheran. The men were past redemption, all save the Commissioner who, however, was under bad influences and an incurable wobbler, anyhow.
In the matter of dietary he had only bidden them refrain fro the flesh of warm-blooded beasts. Mr. Parker was always thinking things over and coming to the wrong conclusion. It was foolish of him. She knew him too well to say anything more for the moment. She would have to bide her time because Freddy, of whom she had made an exhaustive study, was a wobbler, and worse than a wobbler.
"He must have quieted down for good," says another. "The town ought to see that he keeps quiet." And they move on, and Pelle must move on, too anywhere, where no one can see him. "Cobbler, wobbler, groats in your gruel, Smack on your back goes the stick how cruel!" It is those accursed street-urchins. Pelle is by no means in a warlike humor; he pretends not to see them.
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