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When Draxy Miller's father was a boy, he read a novel in which the heroine was a Polish girl, named Darachsa. The name stamped itself indelibly upon his imagination; and when, at the age of thirty-five, he took his first-born daughter in his arms, his first words were -- "I want her called Darachsa."
"What! " exclaimed the doctor, turning sharply round, and looking out above his spectacles; "what heathen kind of a name is that?"