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Her son is working day and night getting the house ready for her, helped indefatigably by the two Miss Twinklers." She had to wait over a fortnight for the answer, and by the time she got it those other more terrible doubts had arisen, the doubts as to the exact position occupied by the Twinklers and Mr.
He couldn't but perceive that a group of officials with grim, locked-up-looking mouths were eyeing him and the Twinklers attentively. Always zealous in the cause of virtue, America provided her wharves and landing-places with officials specially appointed to guard the purity of family life.
His hair lay on his forehead in disorder, and his tie had been put on carelessly and had wriggled up to the rim of his collar. "The Twinklers," he repeated. "The Twinklers. Do I remember, I wonder?" "There hasn't been much time to forget," said Anna-Felicitas. "It's less than two months since there were all those letters." "Letters?" echoed Mr. Sack. "Letters?"
"Do you think we look like him?" "Daughters?" "No," said Mr. Twist stiffly. "No," said the twins, with an ever greater vigour of repudiation. "You can't really think we look as much like him as all that?" "Wife and sister-in-law?" Then the Twinklers laughed. They laughed aloud, even Anna-Rose forgetting her cares for a moment.
And a lady companion, he understood, was joining the party shortly; and besides, there was the house being got ready, a permanent place of residence he gathered, in which the party would settle down, and experience had taught him that genuine illicitness was never permanent. Still, the manager himself hadn't really cared about the Twinklers since the canary came.
There would be plenty of hours, and he felt that sufficient unto the day would be the Twinklers thereof. But the part that was really making his ears red was that he had said nothing about the evening with the twins in New York.
Ridding was a friendly and amiable old man, and at any other time would have talked to him with pleasure; but he had made up his mind for the Twinklers as one makes up one's mind for a certain dish and is ravaged by strange fury if it isn't produced. Besides, hang it all, he was going to pay five dollars for his tea, and for that sum he ought to least to have it under the conditions he preferred.
Ridding's attitude was merely one of contempt, dismissing the Twinklers with a heavy gesture. Why think or trouble about a pair of chits like that? They had gone; Albert was quiet again; and wasn't that the gong for dinner? But doubts as to the private morals of the Twist entourage presently were superseded by much graver and more perturbing doubts.
It was intolerable. All the blood of all the Twinklers, Junkers from time immemorial and properly sensitive to humiliation, surged within them. They hadn't felt so naughty and so young for years. They were sure Li Koo didn't believe them about the ditch. They had a dreadful sensation of being led back to Mrs. Bilton by the ear. If only they could sack Mrs. Bilton!
Twist again, grimly. They hadn't to deal with Twinklers either. No wonder they could sit happily in the grass. So could he, if At the noise of the approaching car, with the smile of the last thing they had been saying still on their faces, the two turned their heads, and it was that man Elliott and Anna-Felicitas. "Hello," called out Mr.
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