`` People who squint ca n't eat any more than people who do n't squint , can they ? '' We could not see any connection between Peter 's two questions . `` What has squinting got to do with twins ? '' asked Dan . `` Why , twins are just people that squint , are n't they ? '' said Peter . We thought he was trying to be funny , until we found out that he was quite in earnest . Then we laughed until Peter got sulky . `` I do n't care , '' he said . `` How 's a fellow to know ? Tommy and Adam Cowan , over at Markdale , are twins ; and they 're both cross-eyed . So I s ` posed that was what being twins meant . It 's all very fine for you fellows to laugh . I never went to school half as much as you did ; and you was brought up in Toronto , too . If you 'd worked out ever since you was seven , and just got to school in the winter , there 'd be lots of things you would n't know , either . '' `` Never mind , Peter , '' said Cecily . `` You know lots of things they do n't . '' But Peter was not to be conciliated , and took himself off in high dudgeon . To be laughed at before Felicity -- to be laughed at BY Felicity -- was something he could not endure . Let Cecily and the Story Girl cackle all they wanted to , and let those stuck-up Toronto boys grin like chessy-cats ; but when Felicity laughed at him the iron entered into Peter 's soul .
If the Story Girl laughed at Peter the mills of the gods ground out his revenge for him XXXXX mid-afternoon .
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