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"I am satisfied of several things," I retorted sharply, "but before I share them with you, will you kindly tell me your name?" "My name is Ritter," he said with dignity. "I confess I fail to see what bearing " "Call it curiosity," I interrupted. "Doctor, favor me with yours." The doctor peered at me over his glasses, hesitated, and then revealed his patronym. It was Swanburger, he informed me.
The republic of adventurers did not bother with constructing nor creating. There does not remain on the Grecian land any trace of their dominion, edifices, seals, nor coins. Only a few noble families, especially in the islands, took the Catalan patronym. "Although they yet remember us confusedly, they do remember us," said Ferragut.
He drifted into the exclusive and calm current of life in the Lotus so tactfully and silently that not a ripple alarmed his fellow-seekers after rest. He ate in the Lotus and of its patronym, and was lulled into blissful peace with the other fortunate mariners.
I assumed the name, Simpson, with some reluctance, as in my true patronym, Froissart, I felt a very pardonable pride believing that I could trace a descent from the immortal author of the "Chronicles." While on the subject of names, by the bye, I may mention a singular coincidence of sound attending the names of some of my immediate predecessors. My father was a Monsieur Froissart, of Paris.
Hector France must not be confounded, as is often done by ignorant persons, with the gentleman who has elected to call himself "Anatole France", and who writes under that name. The real patronym of M. "Anatole France" is, I am informed, Monsieur Chaussepied, which interpreted into English means "Mr.
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