'We'll bloody soon slosh 'em over.' 'Slosh' was a very suitable word; very descriptive of the manner in which the work was done.

The cornices of the staircase ceilings were enriched with plaster ornaments.

These ceilings were supposed to have been washed off, but as the men who were put to do that work had not been allowed sufficient time to do it properly, the crevices of the ornaments were still filled up with old whitewash, and by the time Harlow and Easton had 'sloshed' a lot more whitewash on to them they were mere formless unsightly lumps of plaster.

The 'hands' who did the 'washing off' were not to blame.

They had been hunted away from the work before it was half done.
While Harlow and Easton were distempering these ceiling, Philpot and the other hands were proceeding with the painting in different parts of the inside of the house, and Owen, assisted by Bert, was getting on with the work in the drawing-room, striking chalk lines and measuring and setting out the different panels.
There were no 'political' arguments that day at dinner-time, to the disappointment of Crass, who was still waiting for an opportunity to produce the Obscurer cutting.