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The Wrong Twin

CHAPTER IV
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The high bridge was perhaps the detail that distinguished it from most good noses.

It seemed to begin to be a nose almost from the base of the brow.
In a world of all Whipple noses this family would have been remarked for its beauty.

In one of less than Whipple noses--with other less claimant designs widely popularized--it might be said that the Whipple face would be noted rather for distinction than beauty.
In oblique profile the Wilbur twin could glance across the fronts in turn of Harvey D.Whipple, of Gideon Whipple, his father; of Sharon Whipple, his uncle; and of Juliana Whipple, sole offspring of Sharon.
The noses were alike.

One had but to look at Miss Juliana to know that in simple justice this should have been otherwise.

She might have kept a Whipple nose--Whipple in all essentials--without too pressing an insistence upon bulk.


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