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-"I want him called John after you, or if not that I'd rather. ." "But the eldest son is always called Percy, dear." "I don't ask to call him Hiram, after my father--" "But the eldest son is always called Percy, dear." "But I hate the name Percy. I like Richard or Ronald, Or Peter like your brother, or Ian or Noel or Donald--" "But the eldest is always called Percy, dear."
So the Vicar christened him Percy; and Lady Jean Gave to the child and me the empty place In hr heart. Poor Lady, it was as if she had seen The world destroyed--the extinction of her race, Her country, her class, her name--and now she saw Them live again. And I would hear her say: "No.