The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-01-07
LAMBERTvILLE. MI WEDNESDAY, yANUARY)7 I, 1880.

own mind IN her favor. Now that he WAS
seated by one whom he could not possibly
have distinguished from had she been similar.
" dressed, he began TO be sensible of charms
which had escaped his attention before. In
fine' he went away from dinner party q smit-
ten man.
1t was agreed that Mrs. Harry Rankin
should not be informed of the discovery and
return of her sister until she came back from
her bridal tour, and her mother undertook to
communicate this arrangement to every per-
sou likely to correspond with her in the mean
time.
Mr.. George Rankin was frequent visitor
at Judge Mobiles house, where he was so cor
daily welcomed that he soon made bold to
propose to Miss Ella. He was frankly accept
ed by the Young lady, to tie undisgnised sat
isfaction of her parents.
After some little demur on the part of the
young lady and her mother, it was arranged
that the wedding should come off before the
return of Harry and his bride, which arranee-
ments were duly carried out. A bridal tour
was out of the question, as Mr.. Rankin could
not leave bis business during his brothers
absence. He aud his bride took furnished
house, and proceeded to establish a home
forthwith. raFI g va So saf4
| When Harry and his bride returned they
were received BY Judge Noble aud his lady at
their house. As soon as the .first rash OF
questions and answers between mother and
daughter had subsidized. George and his wife
appeared, and the latter was duly presented.
Harry's establishment at finding his brother
married to fac smile of his own wife, though
very great. was not to be compared to the
amazement of his bride. She seemed to be
confronted with her own image in mirror =
Ella, though fully prepared for the interview
was also strangely impressed with this frs,
| sight. of her sister. She seemed to see hei
own features ON another face, and to hear hei
own voice from the lips of anothor. To theil
husbands and parents the extraordinary like.
ness of the two ladies was astonishing and be
wildefing, but to the ladies themselves it wa,
magical and uncanny. II was at first hard
for either OF them to regard her double other.
wise than as an apparitlon.
marry WAS bue uFSt 70 speak. = GeOfge, Z
said he, "I knew you trusted to my tast,
more than your own, but l really did not ex
pect you to duplicate my wife ! . ~.
cit must--it must be Ella y said Eva in {
suppressed tone, such as -inyoluntaril,
adopts when overwhelmed with establishment
Where-where was she found. ? .
I When the whole story had been duly tolt
toihe newly arrived, the sisters went up /,
Eva's old room and their made such changes
in their toilet as. destroyed their previou
identity. They then presented themselves be
fore their husbands, and required them eacl
to take his own wife 10 to dinner, and make
Rankin & Brother were obliged to surren.
der at discretion and confess that they could
not recognize their own wives, -
Since then the ladies' have been careful to
dress so differently that their husbands and
the other members Of their families should be
able to distinguish them, but their wonderful
likeness still canses perplexity in their large
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