I took you for gentlemen.
I was mistaken.

Go." And so saying, he waved them to their seats with imperious disdain.
They went, looking sheepish, and ashamed.

Eric, deeply vexed, kept twisting and untwisting a bit of paper, without raising his eyes, and even Barker thoroughly repented his short-sighted treachery; the rest were silent and miserable.
At twelve o'clock two boys lingered in the room to speak to Mr.Gordon; they were Eric Williams and Edwin Russell, but they were full of very different feelings.
Eric stepped to the desk first.

Mr.Gordon looked up.
"You! Williams, I wonder that you have the audacity to speak to me.
Go--I have nothing to say to you!" "But, sir, I want to tell you that--" "Your guilt is only too clear, Williams.

You will hear more of this.