Sentence:  Perhaps to console herself for the bad luck she had already suffered, in a back corner of South Sherbrooke Township - or perhaps to make up, ahead of time, for a lack of motherly feelings - she gave the girls the fanciest names she could think of: <WSD>Opal</WSD> Violet, Dawn Rose, and Bonnie Hope. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (from=English) from the precious stone, invented in the nineteenth century.