wouldn't have got a fish. But he had got
fish, a big string of them, in splendid condition. He had left some with
his kind entertainers, the Richards, but had plenty remaining, which he
had left in the kitchen in care of the young woman with the
unpronounceable Scripture name. "Now," said the fisherman, "a nime is a
very important thing to a man or a woman. Why do people give their
children such awful names? Bigglethorpe is Dinish, they say, but Felix
Isidore is as Latin as can be. They called me 'fib' at school."

"'Tis the hoighth av impartance to have a good name, say Oi," added Mr.
Terry. "Moy fayther, glory be to his sowl, put a shaint's name an me,
an' I put her own mother's name, the Howly Vargin rist her, on Honoria
here. 'An', savin' all yer prisinces, there's no foiner Scripcher name
than John; how's that, Squoire?"

"It suits me well enough, grandfather," replied Carruthers. The Captain
was feeling uneasy. He didn't want Ezekiel to come out, so he asked Miss
Du Plessis how her young man was. Such a question would have either
roused Miss Carmichael to indignation or have overwhelmed her with
confusion, but Miss Du Plessis, calm and unruffled, replied: "I suppose
you mean Mr. Wilkinson, Captain Thomas. He has been very much shaken by
his wound, but is doing remarkably well."

"Fwhat's Mishter Wilkison's name, Miss Ceshile, iv it's a fair quishtyon
to ax at yeez?"

"It is Farquhar, is it not, Mr. Coristine?"

Mr. Coristine said it was, and that it was his mother's maiden name. She
was a Scotchwoman, he had heard, and a very lovely character. The
colonel had just returned from his ministrations. "Did I heah you
cohhectly, Mr. Cohistine, when I thought you said that ouah deah young
wounded friend's mothah's name was Fahquhah, suh?"

"You did, Colonel Morton."

"And of Scottish pahentage?"

"Yes."

"Do you know if any of her relatives were engaged in the Civil Wahah,
our civil wahah?"

"I believe her brother Roderic ran the blockade, and fought for the
South, where he fell, in a cavalry regiment."

"Be pleased, suh, to say that again. Rodehic Fahquhah, do you say?"

"His full name, I have seen it among Wilkinson's papers, was Roderic
Macdonald Farquhar."

"Tehesa, my deah," said the colonel, his voice and manner full of
emotion, as he turned towards his sister-in-law, "you have heard me
mention my bosom friend, Captain Fahquhah?"

"Yes, indeed, many times," replied the lady addressed.

"And ouah