How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
[Judge Driscoll] scoffed at [the twins] as adventurers, mountebanks, side-show riffraff, dime-museum freaks; he assailed their showy titles with measureless derision; he said they were back-alley barbers disguised as nobilities, peanut-peddlers masquerading as gentlemen, organ-grinders bereft of their brother monkey. (17.2)
Funny how the twins' exoticism so easily gets turned against them when earlier in the novel their exotic past is exactly what made people in Dawson's Landing go gaga.
Quote #8
In St. Louis, next morning, [Tom] read this brief telegram in the papers—dated at Dawson's Landing: Judge Driscoll, an old and respected citizen, was assassinated here about midnight by a profligate Italian nobleman or barber on account of a quarrel growing out of the recent election. The assassin will probably be lynched. (19.16)
It looks like the town's love affair with the Italian twin wonders is officially over. How do you think the twins' foreign status works against them after they're accused of murder?