Those Extraordinary Twins

ose of it the gifted "freak" captured everybody's admiration by sitting down at the piano and knocking out a classi

s, expressing their minds as they came. Other dogs got interested; indeed, all the dogs. It was a spirited sight to see them come leaping fences, tearing around corners, swarming out of every bystreet and alley. The noise they made was something beyond belief-or praise. They did not seem to be moved by malice but only by prejudice, the common human prejudice against lack of co

ely drive. Angelo was

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igations for the pleasant outing which had been afforded them; to which the judge bowed his thanks, and then

particularly to your brother, I was not meaning to leave you out. It was an unintentional rudene

ed. The sting of the slight had gone deep, but the apology was so prompt, and so evidently sincere, that the h

and that in a majority of cases he would not be included in an invitation if he could be left out without offense. A sensitive nature like this is necessarily subject to moods; moods which traverse the whole gamut of feeling; moods which know all the climes of emotion, from the sunny heights of joy to the black abysses of despair. At times, in his seasons of deepest depressions, Angelo almost wished that he and his brother might become segregated from each other and be separate individuals, like other men. But of course as soon as his mind clea

other men were monsters, deformities: and during three-fourths of his life their aspect had filled him with what promised to be an unconquerable aversion. But at eighteen his eye began to take note of female beauty; and little by little, undefined longings grew up in his heart, under whose s

a preparation for bodily or intellectual activities; the long violent strain of the reception had followed; and this had been followed, in turn, by the dreary sight-seeing, the judge's wearying explanations and laudations of the sights, and the stupefying clamor of the dogs. As a congruous conclusion, a fitting end, his feelings had been hurt,