Twinkler

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Sporting Magazine 1812

The Twinkler plan, which they expounded at much length and with a profusion of optimistic detail, was to search for and find a school in the neighbourhood for the daughters of gentlemen, and go to it for three months, or six months, or whatever time Mrs. Dellogg wanted to recover in.

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The other Twinkler, the small active one, did get up early and take herself off, but she frequently mixed up her own articles of toilet with those belonging to the ladies, and would pin up her hair, preparatory to washing her face, with their hairpins.

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Twinkler girls were like two little bits of snapped-off sunlight, or bits of white blossom blowing in and out of the hotel in their shining youth and it was impossible not to regard them indulgently.

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Twinkler sisters, and even with any luck a glimpse of their very selves.

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"You're the Twinkler girls," said the old lady abruptly.

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And into this uneasy hotbed of readiness to believe the worst, arrived the Twinkler twins, rolling their r's about.

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Why not simply have announced to the world that he was the Twinkler guardian?

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Mr. Twist did not specify who had appointed him, except to the Twinkler young ladies themselves, and to them he announced that it was no less a thing, being, or creature, than Providence.

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Twist and Twinkler party entered Miss Heap's mind in company.

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