Family Pride; Or, Purified by SufferingHolmes, Mary Jane
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Family Pride; Or, Purified by Suffering
Holmes, Mary Jane
American fiction; Dime novels
"Rose Mary! Thunder!" Father Cameron exclaimed. "Call her a marygold, or
a sunflower, just as much. Don't go to being fools by giving a child a
heathenish name. Give us your opinion, Katy."
"I have known from the first," Katy replied, "and I am sure you will
agree with me. Tis such a beautiful name of a sweet young girl, and
there was a great secret about her, too--Genevra, baby will be called,"
and Katy looked straight into the fire, wholly unconscious of the effect
that name had produced upon two of her auditors, Wilford and his mother.
They did not faint, like Marian, but Wilford's face was white as marble,
and his eyes turned quickly to his mother, who, in her first shock,
started so violently as to throw down from the stand a costly vase,
which was broken in many pieces. This occasioned a little diversion, and
by the time the flowers and fragments were gathered up, Wilford's lips
were not quite as livid, but he dared not trust his voice yet, and
listened while his sisters gave their opinion of the name. Bell deciding
for it at once, and Juno hesitating until she had heard from a higher
power than Katy. One there was in that family council who seized upon it
eagerly. Jamie had been brought into the parlor in his wheel-chair, and
sat leaning his cheek upon his hand when the name was spoken. Then, with
a sudden lighting up of his face, he exclaimed, "Genevra! I've heard it
before. Where was it, grandma? Didn't you talk of it once with--"
"Hush-h, Jamie. Don't interrupt us now," Wilford said, in a voice so
much sterner than he was wont to use when addressing the little boy,
that Jamie shrank back abashed and frightened; while Mrs. Cameron, still
with her back to Katy, asked, what had put that fanciful name into her
mind? Where had she heard it?
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