Sentence:  "I beg your pardon," said Egremont blushing; "I was reading your name. I thought I was reading it to myself. <WSD>Sybil</WSD> Gerard! What a beautiful name is <WSD>Sybil</WSD>!" "My mother's name," said Gerard; "and my grandame's name, and a name I believe that has been about our hearth as long as our race; and that's a very long time indeed," he added smiling, "for we were tall men in King John's reign, as I have heard say." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (from=Ancient Greek), (the most popular spelling variant of) '''Sibyl''' (since the 19th century.)