Tristram

Tristram
variant of Tristan.

But of all names in the universe he had the most unconquerable aversion for Tristram;he had the lowest and most contemptible opinion of it of any thing in the world,thinking it could possibly produce nothing in rerum natura, but what was extremely mean and pitiful: - - - In a word, to behold such a one, in his old age, ill-fitted for troubles, ten times in a day suffering sorrow;ten times in a day calling the child of his prayers Tristram! Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven.


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