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Excerpt from The Vicar of Wakefield, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale
Our fécond child a girl, I intended to call after her aunt. Grize 1: but my wife. Who, during the time or her pres, 1 nancy, had een reading romances, infil'ted upon hzr being; called Oi i1ia. In lefs than another-year 11 e nail a daughter again and now I was determined that Grizel lhonld be her -na1ne but a rich relation taking a fancy to Grand god nio ther, the girl 11 as, by her directions, called Sophia; fo that We had two romantic names in the family but I l'olernnly' proteli I had no hand in it. Mofes was our nest.
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