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`` How strange that I had not noticed this before . I feel disposed to put on my best coat instead of this one . '' Then he tried to scoff these thoughts away and when they would not leave him , he called himself a simpleton , scolded himself for his fastidious taste , and resolved to start as he was . It was two o'clock when he called out to his step-mother : `` Mother ! '' -LRB- this was a delicate piece of flattery -RRB- ; `` I am going to see how the man I saved from drowning yesterday is getting on . '' `` Oh , all right , Frank , '' answered Mrs. Mathers , pleased to hear him calling her `` mother . '' The young man stepped out into the open air with a decided gait .