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'Another good way to deal with 'em, said Harlow, 'would be to allow them double pay, so as they could drink themselves to death. We could do without the likes of them. 'Call the next case, said Philpot. 'This 'ere abundance that you're always talking about, said Crass, you can't be sure that it would be possible to produce all that. You're only assoomin' that it could be done.
Crass was one of the loudest in his expression of astonishment and indignation, but he rather overdid it and only succeeded in confirming the secret suspicion of the others that he had had something to do with Hunter's action. The result of the discussion was that they decided to submit to Misery's terms for the time being, until they could see a chance of getting work elsewhere.
My doctor was severely scientific and frightfully sceptical. He thought me an absurd visionary." "And what did you think him?" "I'm afraid I thought him a crass materialist. He had doctored the body until he was able to believe only in the body. He referred everything back to the body.
Scenario writers, producers, photoplay actors, endowers of exquisite films, sects using special motion pictures for a predetermined end, all you who are taking the work as a sacred trust, I bid you God-speed. Let us resolve that whatever America's to-morrow may be, she shall have a day that is beautiful and not crass, spiritual, not material.
'You're wot I call a bloody windbag, continued Crass; 'you've got a 'ell of a lot to say, but wen it comes to the point you don't know nothin'. 'Why, even 'ere in Mugsborough, chimed in Sawkins who though still lying on the dresser had been awakened by the shouting 'We're overrun with 'em! Nearly all the waiters and the cook at the Grand Hotel where we was working last month is foreigners.
'Fancy going away like that! 'More fool 'im, growled Crass. 'There was no need for it: the man's all right. The Besotted Wretch gulped his beer down as quickly as he could, with his eyes fixed greedily on Philpot's glass. He had just finished his own and was about to suggest that it was a pity to waste the porter when Philpot unexpectedly reappeared. 'Hullo!
'Slyme was talking last week about leaving the place 'e's lodging at, but I don't know whether 'e's got another place to go to. You might ask him. I don't know of anyone else. 'I'll speak to 'im, replied Easton. 'What's the time? it must be nearly on it. 'So it is: just on eight, exclaimed Crass, and drawing his whistle he blew a shrill blast upon it to apprise the others of the fact.
It was not till the chairman had made several urgent appeals for more questions that Crass brightened up: a glad smile slowly spread over and illuminated his greasy visage: he had at last thought of a most serious and insurmountable obstacle to the establishment of the Co-operative Commonwealth.
Hearing these half-suppressed sounds of merriment, Philpot, who was working alone in a room close by, put his head out of the doorway. 'Wot's the game? he inquired in a low voice. 'Ole Crass ain't arf wild about Owen doin' that room, replied Harlow, and repeated the substance of Crass's remarks.
Mr Sweater had bought another house; Rushton had to do it up, and they were all to be kept on to start this other work as soon as 'The Cave' was finished. Crass knew no more than anyone else and he maintained a discreet silence, but the fact that he did not contradict the rumour served to strengthen it.
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