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"Now, I don't know how it is," said Mr. Merry, "but you all look half-dressed, and in a state of slovenliness, somehow. I can't understand how it is that my boys cannot manage to look like gentlemen. Now, whatever is it so scrappy and untidy about you all?"
"We are to dress again, sir, presently," said a boy; "before the prize-giving!"