[The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of the Treasure Seekers CHAPTER 6 10/16
Then we asked her her name, and she began, and when she began she went on, and on, and on, till I thought she was never going to stop.
H. O.said she had fifty names, but Dicky is very good at figures, and he says there were only eighteen.
The first were Pauline, Alexandra, Alice, and Mary was one, and Victoria, for we all heard that, and it ended up with Hildegarde Cunigonde something or other, Princess of something else. When she'd done, H.O.said, 'That's jolly good! Say it again!' and she did, but even then we couldn't remember it.
We told her our names, but she thought they were too short, so when it was Noel's turn he said he was Prince Noel Camaralzaman Ivan Constantine Charlemagne James John Edward Biggs Maximilian Bastable Prince of Lewisham, but when she asked him to say it again of course he could only get the first two names right, because he'd made it up as he went on. So the Princess said, 'You are quite old enough to know your own name.' She was very grave and serious. She told us that she was the fifth cousin of Queen Victoria.
We asked who the other cousins were, but she did not seem to understand.
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