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The literary staff included four of the Brothers Mayhew Henry, Jules, Horace, and Augustus, two of whom, Jules and Horace, became godfathers to my father's first children by his second wife. Portch, Andrews, Duncan, Skelton, Bennett, McConnell, Linton, London, and Horace Harrall.
Prothero listened with an unamiable expression. "What would you do, Prothero, if you found yourself saddled with some thousands a year?" "Godfathers don't grow in Brixton," said Prothero concisely. "Well, what am I to do, Prothero?" "Does all THIS belong to you?" "No, this is my mother's." "Godfather too?" "I've not thought.... I suppose so. Or her own." Prothero meditated.
'She will be of no use to us, said Merton. 'If ever a young woman looked fancy-free it is that girl. What did you say her name is, Logan? 'I did not say, but, though you won't believe it, her name is Miss Blossom, Miss Florry Blossom. Her godfathers and godmothers must bear the burden of her appropriate Christian name; the other, the surname, is a coincidence designed or not.
Kinship is something deeper than a sudden flare. The old men are my fairy godfathers and that is closer than forty-eleventh cousins. Why, they even gave me my lovely dress so I could come to the ball. No, Mr. Barnes, I haven't forgotten," she said, tucking her hand in the old man's arm as he came up to claim her promise. She looked over her shoulder and laughed at Jeff Bucknor.
But modern Anarchism celebrated its renascence in a totally different form: times and men had changed; the philosophic period was passed, Stirner was dead, and Proudhon near his end; Russian godfathers stood round the cradle of modern Anarchism.
Formerly there were always two godfathers and two godmothers, generally chosen from friends and relations, who were expected to watch over the religious education of the young child, and to see that he was, in due time, confirmed.
But, reader, the day will come, I hope, when a paternal government will stamp out, as seeds of national weakness, all depressing patronymics, and when godfathers and godmothers will soberly and earnestly debate the interest of the nameless one, and not rush blindfold to the christening.
The question was simple enough, but it stirred up a host of annoying recollections; but not wishing to make a confidant of her, I gently replied, as I used to do in the Foundling Hospital on Sunday morning "My godfathers and godmothers in my baptism, ma'am." "My dear sir, I am very ill," said she, after a pause, "will you feel my pulse?"
I have frustrated the bounty of my godfathers by suppressing all but the sensible Edward Conolly." There was a pause. Then Marian spoke. "Do you intend to make our our engagement known at once?" "I have considered the point; and as you are the person likely to be inconvenienced by its publication, I am bound to let you conceal it for the present, if you wish to.
"If there's anything you don't get the hang of anything that takes ye aback, so to speak, in what I'm tellin' you you just hitch on an' trust to old Dan Coffin; to old Dan, as'll do for you more than ever your godfathers an' godmothers did at your baptism. You'll pick up a full breeze as you go on. Man, the treasure's there!
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