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"We're like the twinses what was growed together like mama read me 'bout," declared the younger child. Presently they began to feel uncomfortable, especially Jimmy, whose fat, round little middle was tightly compressed. "Here, unhook this thing, Billy, and le's take her off," he said. "I'm 'bout to pop open." "All right," agreed his companion.
"I lef her to clean up, an' to put de 'taters on to bile, an' to shoo de flies offen de twinses, an' I wisht you 'd look at her!" Nell Tracy, who had come down with Aunt Melvy from the big house on the hill, viewed the culprit ruefully. 'Mazin' Grace was Aunt Melvy's eighth daughter, and had been named for her mother's favorite hymn, which began "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound."
"'Cause I didn't hafto," was the snappish reply. "I bet my mama give her the finest present they is," bragged the smaller boy; "I reckon it cost 'bout a million dollars." "Mother gave her a handsome cut-glass vase," said Lina. "It looks like Doctor Sanford would've give Miss Cecilia those twinses for a wedding present," said Frances.
Miles appeared on the scene, accompanied by four little children two very pretty little girls, dressed in white, their short sleeves tied up with blue ribbons for the occasion; and two little boys a year or two older. "These be the twinses," said Mrs. Miles. "These two be Moses and Ephraim, and these two be Deborah and Anna.
'That ain't sunburn, that's the real Romany brown, an' we's twinses, only I'm the biggest, an' we's the child'n of a duke, a real, reg'lar, out-an'-out Romany duke. He gave a glance at the exposed wrist. 'As to the Romany brown, said he, 'a little soap would often make a change in the best Romany brown ducal or other.
'He knows that ever since I was a boy in jackets I have despised the man who, in a world where all is so comic, could select any particular point of the farce for his empty guffaw. But I am conquered at last. Let me introduce you, Wilderspin, to my kinsman, Henry Aylwin of Raxton Hall, alias Lord Henry Lovell of Little Egypt one of Duke Panuel's interesting twinses.
"The twinses are upstairs, sound asleep; but they'll be down by tea-time," said Mrs. Miles. "And, above all things, where are the dogs?" said Betty. "Now, missie," said the farmer, "them dogs has been very rampageous lately, and, try as we would, we couldn't tame 'em; so we have 'em fastened up in their kennels, and only lets 'em out at night. You shall come and see 'em in their kennels, missie."
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