Folks came and worshipped the baby , as people have bowed before the kingship of the new-born since long before the Wise Men of the East knelt in homage to the Royal Babe of the Bethlehem manger . Leslie , slowly finding herself amid the new conditions of her life , hovered over it , like a beautiful , golden-crowned Madonna . Miss Cornelia nursed it as knackily as could any mother in Israel . Captain Jim held the small creature in his big brown hands and gazed tenderly at it , with eyes that saw the children who had never been born to him . `` What are you going to call him ? '' asked Miss Cornelia . `` Anne has settled his name , '' answered Gilbert . `` James Matthew -- after the two finest gentlemen I 've ever known -- not even saving your presence , '' said Anne with a saucy glance at Gilbert . Gilbert smiled . `` I never knew Matthew very well ; he was so shy we boys could n't get acquainted with him -- but I quite agree with you that Captain Jim is one of the rarest and finest souls God ever clothed in clay . He is so delighted over the fact that we have given his name to our small lad . It seems he has no other namesake . '' `` Well , James Matthew is a name that will wear well and not fade in the washing , '' said Miss Cornelia . `` I 'm glad you did n't load him down with some highfalutin , romantic name that he 'd be ashamed of when he gets to be a grandfather . Mrs. William Drew at the Glen has called her baby Bertie Shakespeare . Quite a combination , is n't it ? And I 'm glad you have n't had much trouble picking on a name . Some folks have an awful time . When the Stanley Flaggs ' first boy was born there was so much rivalry as to who the child should be named for that the poor little soul had to go for two years without a name . Then a brother came along and there it was -- ` Big Baby ' and ` Little Baby . '
Finally they called Big Baby Peter and Little Baby Isaac , XXXXX the two grandfathers , and had them both christened together .
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