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Gerald gravely declared that Jenkins had gone to sleep and dreamt it . Affairs had been going on in a cross-grained sort of manner all day . The school , taking it as a whole , had been inattentive ; Mr. Pye had been severe ; the second master had caned a whole desk , and threatened another , and double lessons had been set the upper boys for the following morning . Altogether , when the gentlemen were released at five o'clock , they were not in the sweetest of tempers , and entered upon a wordy war in the cloisters . `` What possessed you to take and tear up that paper you were surreptitiously scribbling at , when Pye ordered you to go up and hand it in ? '' demanded Gaunt , of George Brittle . `` It was that which put him out with us all .