I say, Jasper, what remarkable names your people have!" "And what pretty names, brother; there's my own, for example, Jasper; then there's Ambrose and Sylvester; then there's Culvato, which signifies Claude; then there's Piramus--that's a nice name, brother." "Then there's your wife's name, Pakomovna; then there's Ursula and Morella." "Then, brother, there's Ercilla." "Ercilla! the name of the great poet of Spain, how wonderful; then Leviathan." "The name of a ship, brother; Leviathan was named after a ship, so don't make a wonder out of her.

But there's Sanpriel and Synfye." "Ay, and Clementina and Lavinia, Camillia and Lydia, Curlanda and Orlanda; wherever did they get those names ?" "Where did my wife get her necklace, brother ?" "She knows best, Jasper.

I hope--" "Come, no hoping! She got it from her grandmother, who died at the age of a hundred and three, and sleeps in Coggeshall churchyard.

She got it from her mother, who also died very old, and who could give no other account of it than that it had been in the family time out of mind." "Whence could they have got it ?" "Why, perhaps where they got their names, brother.

A gentleman, who had travelled much, once told me that he had seen the sister of it about the neck of an Indian queen." "Some of your names, Jasper, appear to be church names; your own, for example, and Ambrose, and Sylvester; perhaps you got them from the Papists, in the times of Popery; but where did you get such a name as Piramus, a name of Grecian romance?
Then some of them appear to be Slavonian; for example, Mikailia and Pakomovna.