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'If it is a mistake, added Somerset, 'I should regret putting my draughtsman's portrait into the hands of the police, since it might injure his character; indeed, it would be unfair to him. So I wish to keep the likeness in my own hands, and merely to show it to Mr. Haze. That's why I prefer not to send it.
Thereupon Escombe, the individual addressed, carefully wiped his drawing pen upon a duster, methodically laid the instrument in its proper place in the instrument case, closed the latter, and, descending from his high stool, made his way into the chief draughtsman's room, closing the door behind him.
Under one arm the stranger carried a draughtsman's board and a book. A strap over one shoulder held a field-glass case. "Where in blazes have I seen that chap before?" wondered Captain Jack Benson, staring hard. "For I have seen him somewhere. I'd declare that under oath." "By the great turret gun! He's skulking for a reason!" muttered Benson. "Is he spying on the mine-planting? I wonder? Yes!
Thereupon Gus produced a long board, held up one end and rested the other on a stake, while Bill went to work with a six-foot rule, a straight edge and a draughtsman's degree scale. Bill elucidated: "Now, then, to get out of figuring, which is always hard to understand, we'll just lay the triangulation out by scale, which is easily understood. One-eighth of an inch equals one foot.
It is incredible that it should be avoided in the future, however elaborate be the safeguards which the draughtsman's ingenuity can devise. But friction, in any case inevitable, becomes a peril to every community where the rival assemblies can appeal to nationalist sentiment. The sore gets poisoned.
Leaning still closer, to his companion's face, he thrust his lips forward, speaking eagerly, earnestly, yet somehow at the same time, horribly: "And we want my aunt would ask your draughtsman's skill, or at any rate your memory afterwards, to establish the outline of anything that comes." He waited for the answer, still keeping his face uncomfortably close. Henriot drew back a little.
Smart individualistic "business experience" has been at the draughtsman's elbow. A man in an individualistic system does not escape from class ideas and prejudices by becoming an official. There is profound and bitter wisdom in the deep distrust felt by British labour for both military and industrial conscription.
Two or three were seamed across with cracks, hastily recalled sentences to destruction; and here and there remained tokens of a draughtsman's over-generous struggle to confer upon some of the smooth-shaven faces additional manliness in the shape of sweeping moustaches, long beards, goatees, mutton-chops, and, in the case of one gentleman of a blond, delicate and tenor-like beauty, neck-whiskers; decorations in many instances so deeply and damply pencilled that subsequent attempts at erasure had failed of great success.
"Then he will end badly," observed Toto. "Let us go and drink. It is better." "Let us go and drink," repeated Gigi. "You have a sensible thought sometimes. I think this man is an engineer, or an architect. He wants a draughtsman's table." "Evil befall his little dead ones, whatever he is," returned the other, by way of welcome to the young man who had moved into the palace.
But before he could arrive at a decision on this point he was in the presence of Mr Richards, and a single glance at the chief draughtsman's face now that it could be seen clearly and unveiled by a pall of smoke sufficed to assure Harry Escombe that in this case at least he had nothing in the nature of censure to fear.
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