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Wychecombe Lieutenant Wychecombe, I mean the young officer from Virginia he who was so desperately wounded in whose recovery we all took so deep an interest " "Well what of him, child? you surely do not mean to put him on a level with Mr. Rotherham, in the way of religious consolation and, as for anything else, there is no consanguinity between the Wychecombes of Virginia and my family.
Although the elder branch of the family, legitimately speaking, was reduced to the helpless old man who was now stretched upon his death-bed, his own had been extensive; and it well might be that some cadet of the Wychecombes of Wychecombe-Regis, had strayed into the colonies and left descendants.
A fortieth cousin, or the king, take this estate before yourself, though you are directly descended from all the old Wychecombes of the times of the Plantagenets!" "Such is the common law, Sir Gervaise. Were I Sir Wycherly's half-brother, or a son by a second wife of our common father, I could not take from him, although that common father had earned the estate by his own hands, or services."
I knew it must be so!" exclaimed Sir Wycherly, in triumph; "and all this time you have been joking with me!" "Not so fast, brother of mine not so fast. I should be of the whole blood, as respected our father, and all the Wychecombes that have gone before him; but of the half-blood, as respected you.
"I never could understand these niceties of the law," said Sir Wycherly, sighing; "but I suppose they are all right. There are so many Wychecombes scattered about England, that I should think some one among them all might be my heir!" "Every man of them bears a bar in his arms, or is of the half-blood."
To go back beyond the time of King James I.: Twice did the elder lines of the Wychecombes fail, between the reign of King Richard II. and King Henry VII., when Sir Michael succeeded. Now, in each of these cases, the law disposed of the succession; the youngest branches of the family, in both instances, getting the estate.
Should he get a ship, and do as handsome things in her, as he has done already, His Majesty would probably knight him; and then we should have two Sir Wycherly Wychecombes!" "I hope not I hope not!" exclaimed the baronet; "I think there must be a law against that.
Sir Reginald advanced a step, and when the admiral had satisfied himself, he also took the two seals and compared them. As all the known branches of the Wychecombes of Wychecombe, bore the same arms, viz., griffins for Wychecombe, with three battering-rams quartered, for Wycherly, he saw, at once, that the young man habitually carried about his person, this proof of a common origin.
He may be a filius nullius of the Wychecombes of Wychecombe-Regis, Herts, but has no connection with those of Wychecombe-Hall, Devonshire." "There there the cliff! the cliff!" added Mildred, unable, for the moment, to be more explicit.
Your mother would never acquaint you with what I feel it a duty to put plainly before your judgment; and, therefore, I expect you to listen as becomes a dutiful and affectionate child. You can secure either of these young Wychecombes, and either of them would be a good match for a poor, disgraced, sailing-master's daughter."
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