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Among other things they point out that a politician should not be 'a waterweed which wobbles hither and thither according to the motion of the stream. Nor should he 'like a ghost without legs drift along before the wind. 'Your conduct, they say, 'has been both of a waterweed and a ghost, and we purpose in a little time to give you proof of our true Japanese spirit. That member will very likely be mobbed in his 'rickshaw and prodded to inconvenience with sword-sticks; for the constituencies are most enlightened.
He spent the entire week in the most fatiguing toil he could find, and in that week had no word from Constance Joy except a very brief and coldly-formed note thanking him for his flowers. On the following Saturday morning Gresham walked into the Bronx offices with a particularly smug satisfaction. "I've come to close up the Wobbles transfer with you," he stated.
"Eugene Wobbles' friend, Birchard," stated Johnny, who kept himself well posted on Wobbles affairs. "He's always either with Gresham or a Wobbles, and he travels for a living, I believe." And Johnny suddenly rose.
Besides, if it wanted shaking, I was the proper person to shake it. I felt much as I should had he started whacking my dog. He said: "This front wheel wobbles." I said: "It doesn't if you don't wobble it." It didn't wobble, as a matter of fact nothing worth calling a wobble. He said: "This is dangerous; have you got a screw-hammer?"
She's loaded to the muzzle with men that's come away around the Horn in her; and the only reason she stopped in here at all is to get a new thing-um-a-jig of some sort that she had lost or busted or something." "Well, I don't like my happy home while she wobbles so," said Johnny. "I'm going to be seasick, as usual. But for heaven's sake, Yank, tell us where you came from, and all about it.
The skeleton sank backwards like a drunken man; the lamps began to sway on their chains, the salt-cellar was spilt on the table. "Ohioh!" cried Alcibiades, "Tralall! Ha! Ha! Ha! The table wobbles, the sofa rocks; am I drunk, or is the room drunk?" All were alarmed, but Socrates commanded quiet. "A god is near! The earth shakes, and I hear ... does it thunder? No! That is an earthquake."
"It follows that you are a higher Buddhist, and that you willed I should come out. Your theory of sitting on the door-mat, is it? wobbles a bit in practice, because I really ran downstairs to tell Mrs. Devar something I had forgotten previously. Not finding her, I decided on a stroll. Instead of crossing the road I walked up to the left a couple of blocks.
And the individual counterbalance tanks must constantly shift their load according to the motions of the crew and their masses of equipment that were constantly being shifted during installation. For already the observatory was hard at work, and its time must not be stolen by inappropriate wobbles of the hub.
Birchard never has represented the Wobbles family in this matter?" Johnny managed to ask. "Certainly not," answered Gresham, widening his eyes. "I have his signed authorization to act for them in the matter," declared Johnny, remembering that circumstance with happy relief. "You have?" inquired Gresham with great apparent surprise. "Will you allow me to look at the paper?"
"Why should I assign my own personal property to you?" "Because your personal property is mine," Johnny informed him. "I don't owe you any explanation, Gresham, but I'll make one. You helped Birchard forge his power of attorney from the Wobbles brothers, and you were with him in taxi 23406 when he collected my million from the First National.
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