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"Your initials spell Mab," King William was telling Alexina as they sat on the step; "that means you'll be rich. Mine don't spell anything. I'm named for my grandfather up in Woodford, William Ransome. He's dead. Father's don't either -- Georges Gautier Hippolyte Leroy. His father ran away from France because he was a Girondist, and came to Louisville because it was French, and father's been to Paris, too; haven't you, father?"
The gentleman thus adjured removed his cigar and addressed his wife. "It begins to amount to garrulity. If the opposite sex produces this at ten, what are we to expect later on?"