| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1136 |
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there with a small pot of crimson paint and a little brush, and touch out the white line. While he was doing this he noticed and touched up a number of otherfaults; places where Slyme - in his haste to get the work done - had slobbered and smeared the face of the paper with fingermarks and paste. The same ghastly mess was made of several other `jobs' besides this one, and presently they adopted the plan of painting strips of colour on the wall in the places where the joints would come, so that if they opened the white wall would not show: but it was found that the paste on the back of the paper dragged the paint off the wall, and when the joints opened the white streaks showed all the same, so Misery abandoned all attempts to prevent joints showing, and if a customer complained, he sent someone to `touch it up': but the lining paper was never used, unless the customer or the architect knew enough about the work to insist upon it. In other parts of the same house the ceilings, the friezes, and the dados, were covered with `embossed' or `relief' papers. |
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