i suspect 'mellamphy' is a corruption of 'maliphant' (as mumpsey-mompesson or huffam-hougham). no clear significance beyond author showing his hand in events occurring by all accounts arbitrarily
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arbitrarily? 'at hazard', specifically. 'Hazard' being the proper name of a dice game, borrowed from French(!), about which the young protagonist, preoccupied with names, asks, to be told: "Mean? Why, should it mean anything? 'Tis only a name and names don't mean nought."
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i suspect the central(?) mystery is underdetermined by the novels evidentiary content; one then hopes that some principle of symmetry will pin it down (but dont forget the 'hidden sixth[s]'!), and in practice this devolves into paranoid reading with no end of shifting patterns
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oh, maliphant=malenfant, i knew this but forgot. so its not just making a meaningless coincidence happen, its another 'clue' (object of vague significance planted to encourage apophenia)
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