THE TWINS AND TOMMY JUNIOR
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an excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter: THE TWINS GRADUATE "THE Page twins." Miss Hull, principal of Hilltop School, spoke the words with something of a caress, and the girls who filled the big ballroom, so called because it still retained its old world splendor, smiled in sympathy. Janet and Phyllis Page left their seats on the right of the platform, and went forward together to recei...
Morean excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter: THE TWINS GRADUATE "THE Page twins." Miss Hull, principal of Hilltop School, spoke the words with something of a caress, and the girls who filled the big ballroom, so called because it still retained its old world splendor, smiled in sympathy. Janet and Phyllis Page left their seats on the right of the platform, and went forward together to receive their diplomas. They closely resembled two butterflies in their white dresses. Their soft brown hair was piled high on their well-shaped little heads which they carried high on this, the most important day of their lives. A sigh, audible in the hush of the big room, told more plainly than words, the regret that the school felt to lose "The Twins." Janet received her diploma first and smiled gravely up at Miss Hull. There were reverence, devotion and a world of loyalty in that smile. Then Phyllis took hers and it was as though Janet's smile was echoed. In the three years that the Twins had been at Hilltop they had lost nothing of the remarkable likeness that had so confused their classmates. Only the discerning few could tell them apart at a moment's notice. Miss Hull returned their smile, and as she looked into the two pairs of wistful brown eyes before her, she was forced to admit to herself that she did not know which was which. She devoutly hoped that she had given them their own diplomas. It was a point of pride with the faculty of Hilltop to be able to tell the Twins apart, . and Miss Hull did not want to admit on this, their last day, that she was baffled after three years of close contact by their extraordinary likeness. The Twins, however, knew that she was completely confused, for she had handed Janet Phyllis's diploma, and Phyllis Janet's, so when they returned to their seats beside Daphne Hillis and Sally Ladd, they very quietly exchanged them. Miss Hull was in the midst of her farewell speech, but the exchange did not escape her. She stopped in the middle of a sentence, and laughed.
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