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I knew there must be thousands in this very point more true-hearted than I: nay, such still might some be, whose names I went over with myself: but I had no heart for more experiments.
Her face was wan, and pain-engraven. She had once been beautiful and hopeful, but she had long since lost both hope and beauty. They stood together, these two, waiting for an audience with the Sovereign of the Foreign Land. An old grey-haired man came to them and asked their names. "I am Success," said Success, advancing a step forward, and smiling at him, and pointing to her laurel-wreath.
He did not realize that his intellectual awakening, gradual as it seemed to him, was really extraordinarily rapid, a matter of only two or three weeks after birth. To him, with no frame of reference, it was a time of mystery that was not recognized as mystery. At first there was only Warmth and Hunger, for which he had no names but which he recognized by their presence or absence.
'What are you quacking about? and so on. The Never bird became irritated; they have very short tempers. 'You dunderheaded little jay, she screamed, 'why don't you do as I tell you? Peter felt that she was calling him names, and at a venture he retorted hotly: 'So are you! Then rather curiously they both snapped out the same remark: 'Shut up! 'Shut up!
What does it matter how many names if the person is one? 'Ah! But it is not names only, ma'am. Look at what you were like last night, and what I see you now! 'Shapes are only dresses, Curdie, and dresses are only names. That which is inside is the same all the time. 'But then how can all the shapes speak the truth?
'Buttermore! ejaculated Fenellan: 'Groseman Buttermore! Mrs. Victor's Father Confessor is the Rev. Septimus Barmby. Groseman Buttermore Septimus Barmby. Is there anything in names?
For example, between 1640 and 1660, such names as O'Neill, Sexton, Gibbons, Lynch, Keeney, Kelly, and Hogan appear on the Town records of Hartford, and one of the first schoolmasters who taught the children of the Puritans in New Haven was an Irishman named William Collins, who, in the year 1640, came there with a number of Irish refugees from Barbados Island.
The Declaration thus published did not bear the names of the members, for as yet it had not been signed by them. It was authenticated, like other papers of the Congress, by the signatures of the President and Secretary. And on the SECOND DAY OF AUGUST following, "the Declaration, being engrossed and compared at the table, was signed by the members."
So they built an alphabet of forms after the pattern of things in the heavens. But when we come to the names of these forms or letters we come at once into touch with the life of the people.
The names of places are singularly inviting; the contour of coasts and rivers is enthralling to the eye; and to hit, in a map, upon some place you have heard of before makes history a new possession. But we thumbed our charts on these evenings with the blankest unconcern. We cared not a fraction for this place or that.