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Updated: July 20, 2025
They fit me, you see.... I say, what's your Christian name? I hate surnames, don't you?" "George. What's yours?" "Mine's Lois." "What? How do you spell it?" She spelt it, adding 'Of course. He thought it was somehow a very romantic name. He decidedly liked the name. He was by no means sure, however, that he liked the girl.
We have a country governed by blockheads and knaves; the ties of marriage, with all its felicities, are severed and destroyed; our wives and daughters are thrown into the stews; our children are cast into the world from the breast forgotten; filial piety is extinguished; and our surnames, the only mark of distinction among families, are abolished.
Olly owns that it was none of his business, but that curiosity got the upper hand of him, so he listened, and he heard them call each other 'Thurston' and 'Marian' and when they left the library, he followed them and so, unseen, he witnessed the private marriage ceremony, at which they still answered to the names of 'Thurston' and 'Marian. He did not hear their surnames.
"No particular entry," answered Bryce, "and as to period fairly recent. The fact is, I am interested in names. I am thinking" here he used one more of his easily found inventions "of writing a book on English surnames, and am just now inspecting parish registers in the Midlands for that purpose."
Pao-yue having completed his inspection felt full of admiration, and proceeded to ascertain the names and surnames of the Fairies. One was called the Fairy of Lustful Dreams; another "the High Ruler of Propagated Passion;" the name of one was "the Golden Maiden of Perpetuated Sorrow;" of another the "Intelligent Maiden of Transmitted Hatred."
"It's only a few minutes," Madame Wang said, "since our venerable senior called that one to task, and now here he comes and refers to names and surnames!" "Your cousin Pao," ventured Lin Tai-yue, "has something good, which he has been waiting to give you." "What good thing is it?" asked Hsiang-yuen. "Do you believe what she says?" observed Pao-yue laughingly.
One may still find humble families with ancient surnames living in the same spot as lived, we find, if we consult the Heralds' Visitations, armigerous families of the same name in the sixteenth century, already ancient, and perhaps bearing, it is curious to note, the same Christian names as the family which has forgotten them bears to-day.
Well, you know, dear, he had told me what it really meant; it means Sevenoaks, only it has got down to Snooks both Snooks and Noaks, dreadfully vulgar surnames though they be, are really worn forms of Sevenoaks.
We walked rapidly on through the keen night air. I felt excited and resolute with the feeling that a new phase of existence was opening before me. Dr. Armitage at last spoke. "I hope, Isabel" it was usual in this circle to eschew surnames, and most of my friends and acquaintances called me Isabel in preference to Miss Meredith "I hope, Isabel, that you will come to our meetings.
The young man died in his youth; his father and his uncle also died; the property is divided amongst three heiresses, and now for the first time, since surnames were invented, there is no longer a Towneley of Towneley. The colonel was a man of the kindest disposition and the most gentle manners, without much confidence in himself.
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