Of course , '' added Miss Cornelia scornfully , `` it was n't one of those freak resemblances you read of in novels where two people are so much alike that they can fill each other 's places and their nearest and dearest ca n't tell between them . In those days you could tell easy enough which was George and which was Dick , if you saw them together and near at hand . Apart , or some distance away , it was n't so easy . They played lots of tricks on people and thought it great fun , the two scamps . George Moore was a little taller and a good deal fatter than Dick -- though neither of them was what you would call fat -- they were both of the lean kind . Dick had higher color than George , and his hair was a shade lighter . But their features were just alike , and they both had that queer freak of eyes -- one blue and one hazel . They were n't much alike in any other way , though . George was a real nice fellow , though he was a scalawag for mischief , and some said he had a liking for a glass even then . But everybody liked him better than Dick . He spent about a month here . Leslie never saw him ; she was only about eight or nine then and I remember now that she spent that whole winter over harbor with her grandmother West . Captain Jim was away , too -- that was the winter he was wrecked on the Magdalens . I do n't suppose either he or Leslie had ever heard about the Nova Scotia cousin looking so much like Dick . Nobody ever thought of him when Captain Jim brought Dick -- George , I should say -- home . Of course , we all thought Dick had changed considerable -- he 'd got so lumpish and fat . But we put that down to what had happened to him , and no doubt that was the reason , for , as I 've said , George was n't fat to begin with either . And there was no other way we could have guessed , for the man 's senses were clean gone . I ca n't see that it is any wonder we were all deceived . But it 's a staggering thing .
And Leslie has sacrificed the best years XXXXX her life to nursing a man who had n't any claim on her !
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