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The Terrible Twins

CHAPTER IX
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The Twins said nothing.

It was only when two more peaches came up on her breakfast tray that she began to suspect that they had come by the ways of warfare and not of trade.

Then, having already eaten four of them, it was a little late to inquire and protest.

Moreover, if there had been a crime, the Twins had admitted her to a full share in it by letting her eat the fruit of it.

Plainly it was once more an occasion for saying nothing.
On the next afternoon Erebus set out with the Terror to Muttle Deeping home wood early enough; but owing to the matter of a young rabbit who met them on their way, they kept the princess waiting twenty minutes.
This was, indeed, a new experience to her; but she did not complain to them of this unheard-of breach of etiquette.


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