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Lily was not looking at him; it seemed as if she was glad not to give up the roll of blankets, even for a minute. "He's perfectly lovely. He's a reg'lar rascal! The doctor said he was a wonderful child. I'm going to have him christened Ernest Augustus; I want a swell name. But I'll call him Jacky."
The husbands died before the wives, being less able to cope with virtue; and a street in Clark of smaller houses into which their widows gravitated had been christened by the stationmaster a more worldly man because of his three miles off and all the trains Lamentation Lane. In this village Mrs. Twist had lived since her marriage, full of dignity and honour.
They reached the chimney, as Bart christened it, just about the same time as Joses, who stared as he caught sight of the saturated clothes. "What! been in after the fish?" he said with a chuckle. "I got mine, master, without being wet." "We've had a narrow escape from drowning, Joses," said the Doctor, hoarsely. "That's bad, master, that's bad," cried Joses.
"For the convenience of my friends, I was christened Charles," said he. I stared at him in amazement. He was grown a deal stouter, but my eye was caught and held by the blue coat and buff waistcoat he wore. They were frayed and stained and shabby, yet they seemed all of a piece with some new grandeur come upon the man. "Is all the world turning virtuous? Is the millennium arrived?" I cried.
The king tried to have patience, but he succeeded very badly. It was more than he deserved, therefore, when, at last, the queen gave him a daughter as lovely a little princess as ever cried. Won't I, Just? The day drew near when the infant must be christened. The king wrote all the invitations with his own hand. Of course somebody was forgotten.
"You have found the entry of a second Haygarthian marriage?" "I have. The C. of Matthew's letters is the Caroline Mary here indicated, the daughter and heiress of Matthew Haygarth doubtless christened Caroline after her gracious majesty the consort of George II., and Mary after the Molly whose picture was found in the tulip-leaf bureau.
In the first place I had to look in a biographical dictionary to find out whether his baptismal name was Franklin, or Francis, or simply Frank, for I think children are sometimes christened with this abbreviated name. But it is too much in the style of Cowper's unpleasant acquaintance: "The man who hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back How he esteems your merit."
One of the men had the name "Boat Memory" bestowed upon him, because he had been taken at the place where the boat was stolen. The other was christened "York Minster," after a remarkable mountain, bearing a fancied resemblance to the famed cathedral of York, near which he was captured.
When she was christened for of course she had to be christened before we were married Father Olmedo said she must have a Christian name, and christened her Caterina; but for all that her name is Amenche, and we mean to stick to it. "But come along; she has been an hour alone in this strange place, already, and must begin to think that I have run away from her."
Time, which so rapidly destroys the proud monuments of empires, seems in this desert to spare those of friendship, as if to perpetuate my regrets to the last hour of my existence. "Scarcely was her cottage finished, when Madame de la Tour was delivered of a girl. I had been the godfather of Margaret's child, who was christened by the name of Paul.
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