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He had intended a restrained and disciplined simplicity, a Puritan unpretentiousness, with those sweet maidens, the Twinkler twins, flitting like modest doves in and out among its tea-tables; but one small thing had been added to another small thing at their suggestion, each small thing taken separately apparently not mattering at all and here it was almost he hoped it was only his imagination winking at him.
Mr. Twist came with them. "Mother," he said, "these are the Twinkler girls. Their name's Twinkler. They "
Nobody can help being unsuitable, and we're fearfully sorry. But on the other hand we're inflexible. Yours affectionately, ANNA-ROSE and ANNA-FELICITAS TWINKLER With a beating heart she cautiously pushed the letter across the table under cover of the breakfast débris to Anna-Felicitas, who read it with a beating heart and cautiously pushed it back.
"But we shouldn't like it at all if we thought you were practising being useful on us," said Anna-Rose "It's wholly foreign to our natures to enjoy being the objects of anybody's philanthropy." "Now I just wonder where you get all your long words from," said Mr. Twist soothingly; and Anna-Rose laughed, and there was only one dimple in the Twinkler family and Anna-Rose had got it.
It had been arranged between Aunt Alice and the matron that the unfortunate nationality of her nieces should not be mentioned. "They have a von, you know, poor things such a very labelling thing to have. But Twinkler without it might quite well be English. Who can possibly tell? Nothing, however, availed against the damning evidence of the rolled r's.
And it was through this rapprochement, in the icy warmth of which the German ladies expanded like bulky flowers and grew at least ten years younger, the ten years they shed being their most respectable ones, that the ship became aware of the nationality of the Misses Twinkler.
Twist had feared to tread, and within twenty-four hours had persuaded Anna-Felicitas to think she was in love. New footing indeed. There hadn't been an old footing yet. And who was this Elliott? And how was Mr. Twist going to be able to find out if he were a proper person to be allowed to pay his addresses to one so precious as a Twinkler twin?
And into this uneasy hotbed of readiness to believe the worst, arrived the Twinkler twins, rolling their r's about.
Anna-Felicitas stood, tablets in hand, looking helplessly from one Wangelbecker to the other. The situation was beyond her. "But " she began; then stopped. "Shall I bring you tea or coffee?" she ended by asking again. "Well now this is amusing," said Mr. Wangelbecker, sitting down comfortably and leaning his elbows on the table. "Isn't it, Güstchen. To see a von Twinkler playing at waiting on us."
Twist, who was too busy now for any extra expeditions, to choose and buy chintzes, and it was finally shattered when the various middle-aged ladies who responded to Mr. Twist's cry for help in the advertising columns of the Acapulco and Los Angeles press one and all demanded as salary more than the whole Twinkler capital.
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