It is the same with all our great names.

There are Colonna, Orsini, Caetani all over the country--there are even many families bearing the name of the Medici, who are extinct.

You know it as well as I, or you should know it, for I believe your mother was my father's cousin.

Has it not struck you that this same Giovanni Saracinesca herein mentioned, is simply some low-born namesake of mine ?" Donna Tullia had grown very pale, and she leaned upon the table as though she were faint.

The others listened breathlessly.
"I do not believe it," said Madame Mayer, in a low and broken voice.
"Now I will tell you what I will do," continued Giovanni.