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Updated: May 1, 2025
"Most people will work at that pitch, and the Company has powers. There are stages of unpleasantness in the work stoppage of food and a man or woman who has refused to work once is known by a thumb-marking system in the Company's offices all over the world. Besides, who can leave the city poor? To go to Paris costs two Lions.
He makes some suggestions. "Frankly," he says, "I think you have escaped from some island. How you got so far as here I can't imagine, or what you think you'll do.... But anyhow, there's the stuff for your thumbs." He points to the thumb-marking apparatus and turns to attend to his own business.
Thumb-marking may be new to Scotland Yard, but in China it is a very ancient practice. I have seen illiterate men smear their thumbs with ink and make impressions at the foot of documents, such thumb-marks being accepted as in every way equivalent to full signatures.
There are stages of unpleasantness in the work stoppage of food and a man or woman who has refused to work once is known by a thumb-marking system in the Department's offices all over the world. Besides, who can leave the city poor? To go to Paris costs two Lions. And for insubordination there are the prisons dark and miserable out of sight below. There are prisons now for many things."
And I dislike to be master of things that are not mine. 'Be careful not to break us, say the glass and china. 'You'd better not spill ink on me, growls the carpet. 'None of your dog's-earing, thumb-marking, back-breaking tricks here! snarl the books.
She turns thoughtfully for the thumb-marking slab, and as she does so, a man enters the office. At the sight of him she asks with a note of relief, "What am I to do, sir, here?" He looks from her to us gravely, and his eye lights to curiosity at our dress. "What is the matter, madam?" he asks, in a courteous voice. She explains.
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