Word: twin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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What is the result of this twin policy of commercial and political isolation? We are without a friend among the powers and are regarded as an international poser...
...appeared in the Monthly for a long time. While the plot in a certain way is unreal, it is treated with unusual richness of imagination. The style is vivid and sensuous. It is pity that the author's analysis is not equal to his imagination. He brings together twin brothers, who see in each other no resemblance. They address each other as "child" and "old man" respectively. The Abbe of Cisley hates them with the most undying hatred because they were the illegitimate sons of his wife and his brother; yet the moment they succumb to his diabolical cruelty...
...Girofle-Girofla" is full of fun and has a most ingenious plot capitally worked out. Don Bolero d'Alcarazas and his wife Aurore have twin daughters, Cirofle and Girofla, who are so remarkably alike that the only means of distinguishing them is by their clothes. One wears blue and the other pink. Aurore has contrived to appease two enemies by arranging a double marriage - Marasquin to marry Girofle and Mourzouk Girofla. Marasquin arrives attired for the bridal, and is informed that Mourzouk, owing to a toothache, is unable to come, and that the wedding must be postponed. But Marasquin insists...