But a baronet never can escape from his baptismal: it cannot lie _perdu_; it cannot shrink into an initial, it stands forth glaringly in the light of day; christen him Ebenezer, and he is Sir Ebenezer in full, with all its perilous consequences if he ever succumb to those temptations to which even baronets are exposed.

But, my friends, it is not only the effect that the sound of a name has upon others which is to be thoughtfully considered: the effect that his name produces on the man himself is perhaps still more important.

Some names stimulate and encourage the owner; others deject and paralyze him: I am a melancholy instance of that truth.

Peter has been for many generations, as you are aware, the baptismal to which the eldest-born of our family has been devoted.

On the altar of that name I have been sacrificed.