in these early years the smaller brother was often sickly and several times had to be hospitalized ( anemia , asthma , lung congestion , heart-valve flutter , sprained bones ) and in these interims the demon brother did not seem to miss the smaller brother but basked in the full attention of their parents and grew yet taller and stronger and soon it could scarcely be claimed that the brothers were twins-even `` fraternal '' twins-for observers would react with baffled smiles twins ?