| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 27 |
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of this garden,' said Harlow with a grin, `you know, the cesspool, what the drains of the 'ouse runs into; praps they called it after that.' `Talking about the drains,' said old Jack Linden when the laughter produced by this elegant joke had ceased. `Talking about the drains, I wonder what they're going to do about them; the 'ouse ain't fit to live in as they are now, and as for that bloody cesspool it ought to be done away with.' `So it is going to be,' replied Crass. `There's going to be a new set of drains altogether, carried right out to the road and connected with the main.' Crass really knew no more about what was going to be done in this matter than did Linden, but he felt certain that this course would be adopted. He never missed an opportunity of enhancing his own prestige with the men by insinuating that he was in the confidence of the firm. |
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