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She was christened Anne Lavender, so that her full name was Anne Lavender Lavender. This was an idea of Mr. Lavender's. He was very proud of his family, and it distressed him to think that when his daughter, the beautiful Miss Lavender, married, her name might be something quite ugly, like Winks.
"Whereas," he explained to Anne's Mamma, "if we call her Anne Lavender Lavender, her name, when she marries this man Winks, will be Anne Lavender Winks, and people will know at once that she is one of us."
"They will know that anyhow," said Mrs. Lavender, bending over her baby. "She is just like her old Daddy, aren't you, darling?"
Anne, being then about none, did not reply.
"She has my hair, certainly," said Mr.
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