She wore all the jewelry that could be crowded on one small woman , and a very strong odor of perfume attended her . `` I am Mrs. DonNELL ... Mrs. H. B. DonNELL , '' announced this vision , `` and I have come in to see you about something Clarice Almira told me when she came home to dinner today . It annoyed me EXCESSIVELY . '' `` I 'm sorry , '' faltered Anne , vainly trying to recollect any incident of the morning connected with the Donnell children . `` Clarice Almira told me that you pronounced our name DONnell . Now , Miss Shirley , the correct pronunciation of our name is DonNELL ... accent on the last syllable . I hope you 'll remember this in future . '' `` I 'll try to , '' gasped Anne , choking back a wild desire to laugh . `` I know by experience that it 's very unpleasant to have one 's name SPELLED wrong and I suppose it must be even worse to have it pronounced wrong . '' `` Certainly it is . And Clarice Almira also informed me that you call my son Jacob . '' `` He told me his name was Jacob , '' protested Anne . `` I might well have expected that , '' said Mrs. H. B. Donnell , in a tone which implied that gratitude in children was not to be looked for in this degenerate age . `` That boy has such plebeian tastes , Miss Shirley . When he was born I wanted to call him St. Clair ... it sounds SO aristocratic , does n't it ? But his father insisted he should be called Jacob after his uncle . I yielded , because Uncle Jacob was a rich old bachelor . And what do you think , Miss Shirley ? When our innocent boy was five years old Uncle Jacob actually went and got married and now he has three boys of his own . Did you ever hear of such ingratitude ?
The moment the invitation to the wedding ... for he had the impertinence XXXXX send us an invitation , Miss Shirley ... came to the house I said , ` No more Jacobs for me , thank you . '
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