[Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThose Extraordinary Twins CHAPTER II 8/12
Neither of us eats anything at the other's table, but just simply works--works.
Thus, you see there are four hands to feed Angelo, and the same four to feed me.
Each of us eats two meals." The old lady was dazed with admiration, and kept saying, "It is perfectly wonderful, perfectly wonderful" and the boy Joe licked his chops enviously, but said nothing--at least aloud. "Yes," continued Luigi, "our construction may have its disadvantages--in fact, HAS--but it also has its compensations of one sort and another. Take travel, for instance.
Travel is enormously expensive, in all countries; we have been obliged to do a vast deal of it--come, Angelo, don't put any more sugar in your tea, I'm just over one indigestion and don't want another right away--been obliged to do a deal of it, as I was saying.
Well, we always travel as one person, since we occupy but one seat; so we save half the fare." "How romantic!" interjected Rowena, with effusion. "Yes, my dear young lady, and how practical too, and economical. In Europe, beds in the hotels are not charged with the board, but separately--another saving, for we stood to our rights and paid for the one bed only.
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