| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1138 |
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finished yet? We're losing money over this "job"! If you chaps don't wake up and move a bit quicker, I shall see if I can't get somebody else who will.' These costly embossed decorations were usually finished in white; but instead of carefully coating them with specially prepared paint of patent distemper, which would need two or three coats, they slobbered one thick coat of common whitewash on to it with ordinary whitewash brushes. This was a most economical way to get over it, because it made it unnecessary to stop up the joints beforehand - the whitewash filled up all the cracks: and it also filled up the hollow parts, the crevices and interstices of the ornament, destroying the sharp outlines of the beautiful designs and reducing the whole to a lumpy, formless mass. But that did not matter either, so long as they got it done. The architect didn't notice it, because he knew that the more Rushton & Co. made out of the `job', the more he himself would make. The man who had to pay for the work didn't notice it; he had the fullest confidence in the architect. |
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