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And should you want a name to call me, Pretty Pierre will do, though my godfathers and godmothers did different for me before they went to Heaven. And nothing said he irreverently, father." Here the priest looked up and answered: "Yes, yes, I know him well an evil man, and yet he has suffered too . . . Well, well, my daughter?" "At that he took his pistol from his pocket and handed it.
That peak bears his name to this day, and probably he deserves the honor quite as much as any human molecule who godfathers a mountain. James Pursley, of Bardstown, Ky., was a greater explorer than Pike; but Pursley gives Pike much credit which Pike blushingly declines. The two men were exceptionally well-bred pioneers. In 1820 Colonel Long named a peak in memory of his explorations.
In honour of it the baby, Princess Irene, whose godfathers were the officers and men of her father's regiment, received her name. This year Hanover ceased to be an independent state, and became annexed to Prussia. Dr. Norman Macleod has a bright little picture of an evening at Balmoral in 1866.
I was sitting under the huge mantel-piece of an old-fashioned kitchen fire-place, when pistol-shots, the howling of dogs, and the shrill notes of the bagpipe announced the approach of the fiancés. Soon Père and Mère Maurice, Germain, and little Marie, followed by Jacques and his wife, the nearest relations of the bride and groom, and their godfathers and godmothers, entered the court-yard.
And in the result, their godfathers, maintaining that they had been baptized, and that they were free on this account as well as by the general tenour of the law of England, dared those who had taken possession of them to send them out of the kingdom. The planters, merchants, and others, being thus circumstanced, knew not what to do.
Back to dinner to Sir William Batten's; and then, after a walk in the fine gardens, we went to Mrs. Browne's, where Sir W. Pen and I were godfathers, and Mrs. Jordan and Shipman godmothers to her boy. And there, before and after the christening; we were with the woman above in her chamber; but whether we carried ourselves well or ill, I know not; but I was directed by young Mrs. Batten.
I have ever held it to be a proof of the suspiciousness of our natures and unworthy. You must allow me to call you Valerie at once, and I must entreat of you to call me Sempronia. Your name is delightful, fit for a first-class heroine. My real baptismal name is one that I have abjured, and if my godfathers and godmothers did give it to me, I throw it back to them with contempt.
If you were going to take a false name, Wigan, and your godfathers had not called you Murray, only James, what would you do? As likely as not you would take the name of some place with which you were familiar. In itself the idea was not convincing, but it brought me to your hotel at Folkestone, and then I was certain.
Few persons well acquainted with France can have failed to observe how fond the lower orders, indeed all classes, are of giving high-sounding names to their children; and it is sometimes truly amusing to notice the strange upset of associations which in consequence jar the auricular nerve, and illustrate the singularly exalted notions of the godfathers and godmothers. "Gustave Adolphe!"
I knotted the money in the handkerchief, and gave it to Hop Sing. "For the baby, from its godfathers." "But what name?" said the judge. There was a running fire of "Erebus," "Nox," "Plutus," "Terra Cotta," "Antaeus," &c. Finally the question was referred to our host. "Why not keep his own name?" he said quietly, "Wan Lee." And he did.
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