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Updated: May 5, 2025
Then she gave them each a brand-new copy-book and a brand-new soroban. A soroban is a counting-machine. It is a frame with wires stretched across it and beads hung on the wires. The Twins felt very proud to have sorobans and copy-books. "Now trot along," the Mother said. The Twins knew the way. They marched down the street, feeling more grown up than they ever had felt in all their lives.
So nearly perfect was this letter that it caused her to refer to me, in a later communication to Miss Caroline, as "your dry-and-dusty counting-machine of a lawyer, who doubtless considers the multiplication table as a cycle of sonnets." That, after I had merely determined to meet her palpable needs and had signed myself her obedient servant! But I had convinced her.
In this prosaic twentieth century the Land of Romance still beckons to eager eyes and gallant hearts. The rutted money-grabber may deny till he is a nerve-racked counting-machine, but youth, even to the end of time, will laugh to scorn his pessimism and venture with elastic heel where danger and mystery offer their dubious hazards.
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