Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain
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page 80 of 87 (91%)
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"No-no, that won't do; you mustn't talk, and you mustn't retch and gag
that way, either--you'll wake up your poor brother." "Well, what of it, Aunt Betsy, he--" "'Sh-h! Don't make a noise, dear. You mustn't: forget that your poor brother is sick and--" "Sick, is he? Well, I wish I--" "'Sh-h-h! Will you be quiet, Luigi! Here, now, take the rest of it --don't keep me holding the dipper all night. I declare if you haven't left a good fourth of it in the bottom! Come-that's a good-- "Aunt Betsy, don't make me! I feel like I've swallowed a cemetery; I do, indeed. Do let me rest a little--just a little; I can't take any more of the devilish stuff now." "Luigi! Using such language here, and him just baptized! Do you want the roof to fall on you?" "I wish to goodness it would!" "Why, you dreadful thing! I've a good notion to--let that blanket alone; do you want your, brother to catch his death?" "Aunt Betsy, I've got to have it off, I'm being roasted alive; nobody could stand it--you couldn't yourself." "Now, then, you're sneezing again--I just expected it." |
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