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Coombes ordered his visitors out of the house, and they wouldn't go, and so he said he would go himself. With his face burning and tears of excitement in his eyes, he went into the passage, and as he struggled with his overcoat his frock-coat sleeves got concertinaed up his arm and gave a brush at his silk hat, Jennie began again at the piano, and strummed him insultingly out of the house.
The little man who watched was dressed in an ill-fitting frock coat, trousers which seemed too long, since they concertinaed over his boots, and a glossy silk hat set at the back of his head. "What a funny old thing!" said Frank Merrill under his breath, and the girl smiled. The object of their amusement turned sharply as they came abreast of him.
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