Those Extraordinary Twins
um, Aunt Betsy Hale. The widow soon perceived that Angelo's spirits were as low as Luigi's were high, and also that he had a jaded look. Her motherly solicitude was arouse
to employ in these circumstances. He gave his brother an
he worst is
he matter worse, as a rule, because it irritated Angelo. T
f; you go right to bed after dinner, and get a
ve anything if I co
e room's yours to do what you please with! The id
sential-an essential of the very fi
is t
bo
ked puzzled, and A
our heart, h
my bro
ite understand. I supposed
t not to both a
see how it can be. I shouldn't th
ve it otherwise. I find that the teetotalers and the anti-teetotalers hire the use of
t!" said both old
ble class use the same room over the Market house, but you can take my
mproved. I'll prove it to you. If our legs tried to obey two wills, how could we ever get anywhere? I would
ain't that wonderful! A body w
rs or up, couldn't go to bed, couldn't rise, couldn't wash, couldn't dress, couldn't stand up, couldn't sit down, couldn't even cross our l
out in a week! Did you ever hea
commonplace," said the widow, with the complacent air of a person
manage it? I don't mind sa
rovided a way out of it. By a mysterious law of our being, each of us has utte
! Now ain't th
e, to the second, to the last shade of a fraction of a second, infallibly, unerringly, and in that instan
e His ways, and p
he world, the public clocks were regulated by it; and as hundreds of thousands of private clocks and watches were
ore! Blowing down the walls of Jericho with ra
itself to the meridian we are on. Luigi is in command this week. Now, if on Saturday night at a moment before midnight we could fly in an instan
ly impressed, and s
ail it lays over the P
Aunt Patsy, "but if you've a mind to say So
by would say the same. Well, now, there's another thing. Suppose one of you wan
le that we can't bear to spare a minute of it. People who have the use of their legs all the time never think of what a blessing it is, of course. It never occurs to them; it's just their natural ordinary condition, and so it does not excite them at all. But when I wake
ithout doing it! Laws, to think I've had this unspeakable blessing all my l
of both the old ladies a
ave learned somet
rigid and beautiful impartiality with which the possession of power had been distributed, between th
of a minute sooner than the other one gets all the land and grandeurs and nobilities in the
ly sleeping. The old ladies had dropped their voices to a lulling drone, to help him to steal the rest his brother wouldn
same time, but I am six
e land'
n't like my telling this. It has
were both born at the same time, how c
efore he could say a word. Last, and absolutely unassailable proof, the sutures in my skull closed six months ahead of his. Always just that six months' difference to a day. Was that accident? Nobody is going to claim that, I'm sure. It was ordained-it was law-it had its meaning, and we know what that meaning was
y almost say-and could only sit and gaze vacantly at each ot
at silent a moment or two and breathing hard with excitement, then she looked up and surveyed the strangers
sy with the emphasis of a certainty tha
world, I don't care who he is,
l," said Luigi
ladies promptly, "you can tr
ind. Never let on; treat us
, "but it won't be easy, because now th
tisfaction: "That swindle has gon
one speak of the strangers as twins, and would become harder and harder to hang on to with every recurrence of the temptation to tell it, while the torture of
es began to discuss with interest the strange things which they had been listening to. When they had
me on between Rowen
ites tolerable often, and sh
re i
's such a gadabout that a body can'
Rowen
ough. I haven't a
m and the judge are
e she ought to know. She says the judge is real fond of him when he's away; but frets when he's around and is vexed with his
um, but there ain't anyt
his living by that time. If Tom were doing that, or was even trying to do it, the judge would be a heap better
perty wasn't the way to set him to earning a fortune of his own. But wha
here, but nature was too strong for her. She drew Aunt Betsy
ll you something. In my opinion Tom Driscoll's chances
er, what do
. I wish you could 'a' been at b
on't m
e, there's a leaning-t
hich one of
in, but I think it's t
ladies parted, perfectly happy-the one in knowing something which the rest of the to
ld immediately join Mr. Hotchkiss's church. There was no time to say more, and the brief talk ended at that point. The minister was much gratified, and had dropped in for a moment now, to invite the twins to attend his Bible class at eight that even