Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 320: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“Percy says that 1 could not talk plainly when I first came to theny—” “T remember,” interposed Mrs. Earlescourt, with a smile, “you had a nurse—poor Nannie! she was very faithful, but she would persist in ‘baby talk’ with you, and thus you acquired the very bad habit of dropping all your r’s, Changing your t's to d’s, and otherwise mutilating the English language.” “He says,’ the young girl continued, ‘that when he asked my naimneT told them ‘Hazel.’ ‘Hazel what?’ he inquired, and I said ‘Witch Hazel.’ ” Tears started to Mrs. Earlescourt's eyes at this. “Witch Hazel,” she repeated, tremulously, “that was always your father’s pet name for you. Your full name is Florence Hazeltine Graham, but he always liked the first half of the middle name and added the ‘witeh’ toit, for you were a veritable witch, as mischievous as &@ yonng monkey, though as bright aud merry a little fairy, as ever brought sunshine into a happy home. “Well, that name has always clung to me;” Hazel resumed, ‘‘it pleased Percy imimensely, and he im- mediately adopted it. But, of course, that did not satisfy my rescuers, and they tried to make me give my surname, but all they could get from me was Gay, which, since you say I wasin the habit of dropping my r’s must have been a contraction of the first part of Graham as I tried to speak it and failed.” “T doubt if any one ever tried to teach you your full nama,” said her mother, thoughtfnily, “for I never realized until afterward the importauce of teaching a child its full name, so that in the event of its being lost. it could thus be identifled. But Hazel, did you save the clothing that you wore when you were rescued 7” ; “Yes, indeed, and I have it here in my CR SHe