The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Ma foi, my dear viscount, you are fated to hear music this evening; you
have only escaped from Mademoiselle Danglars' piano, to be attacked by
Haidee's guzla."

"Haidee--what an adorable name! Are there, then, really women who bear
the name of Haidee anywhere but in Byron's poems?"

"Certainly there are. Haidee is a very uncommon name in France, but is
common enough in Albania and Epirus; it is as if you said, for example,
Chastity, Modesty, Innocence,--it is a kind of baptismal name, as you
Parisians call it."

"Oh, that is charming," said Albert, "how I should like to hear my
countrywomen called Mademoiselle Goodness, Mademoiselle Silence,
Mademoiselle Christian Charity! Only think, then, if Mademoiselle
Danglars, instead of being called Claire-Marie-Eugenie, had been named
Mademoiselle Chastity-Modesty-Innocence Danglars; what a fine effect