They had plenty of money to spend; they made a show of it, and dressed and did things as finely as they could.

Napoleon, you know, was poor.

His father had scrimped and begged and borrowed to send his boys to school.

He could not, therefore, give them much for themselves; so the French boys, with the money to spend and the manners to show, made no end of fun of the little Corsican, who had neither money nor manners.
At once he got into trouble.

He did not like, nor did he understand, the ways of the French boys; he was alone; he was homesick; and naturally he became sulky and uncompanionable.