CHAPTER VI. SWIMMING IN GLORY
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar.
At breakfast in the morning the twins’ charm of manner and easy and polished bearing made speedy conquest of the family’s good graces. All constraint and formality quickly disappeared, and the friendliest feeling succeeded. Aunt Patsy called them by their Christian names almost from the beginning. She was full of the keenest curiosity about them, and showed it; they responded by talking about themselves, which pleased her greatly. It presently appeared that in their early youth they had known pov
