Both boys had the greatest repugnance to the change, and objected still further when M.du Tillet insisted it was absolutely necessary that they should cut their hair and smear their faces and hands with dirt.
"My dear Monsieur Ernest," he said, "it would be worse than useless for you to assume that attire unless at the same time you assumed the bearing and manners appropriate to it.

In your own dress we might for a short time walk the street without observation; but if you sallied out in that blouse with your white hands and your head thrown back, and a look of disdain and disgust on your face, the first gamin who met you would cry out, 'There is an aristocrat in disguise!' "You must behave as if you were acting in a comedy.

You are representing a lad of the lower orders.

You must try to imitate his walk and manner.

Shove your hands deep in your pockets, shuffle your feet along carelessly; let your head roll about as if it were uneasy on your neck, round your shoulders, and slouch your head forward.