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She hesitated, and then, slightly confused, thought, "Perhaps I'd better go back to the archway and knock at the office door." In the inner office, among art-lustre ware, ink-stained wood, dusty papers, and dirt, Jim Horrocleave banged down a petty-cash book on to Louis' desk.
I say get me some water, will you? I don't know how it is, but I'm as thirsty as a dog." The heroic martyr to the affirmation that he had not hurt himself had handsomely saved his honour. He could afford to relax a little now the rigour of consistency in conduct. With twinges and yawns he permitted Louis to help him with the boot and to put an art-lustre cup to his lips.
The recent Act of Parliament, making a crime of secret commissions to customers' employees, had been a blow to the trade in art-lustre ware, and it was no secret in the inner office that Horrocleave, resenting its interference with the natural course of business, had more than once discreetly flouted it, and thus technically transgressed the criminal law.
His confidence in the theory that things could indeed be made to "do" was usually justified, but the steps from the painting-shop a gimcrack ladder with hand-rail, attached somehow externally to a wall had at length betrayed it. That the accident had happened to himself, and not to a lad balancing a plankful of art-lustre ware on one shoulder, was sheer luck.
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