9/21 Then she asked if I wasn't surprised when she called me Teunis. She had thought a good deal over it, she said, and she couldn't, couldn't like the name of Jacob, or Jake; but Teunis was a quality name. Didn't I think I'd like it if I changed my way of writing my name to J.Teunis Vandemark? I like to have you have a name to call me by that nobody else uses." "That's a very gallant speech," she said, blushing--and I vow, I didn't know what gallant meant, and was a little flustered for fear her blushes were called out by something shady. "My father's name was A.Fletcher Royall, and he was a big strong man, every inch of him. |