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He pointed to the top of the last page, or rather the last half of the cover. I read as follows: 'MARRIAGES, 1748. 'I don't know the name of Daryll, I said. 'It was your own great-grandfather's name, he returned. 'I happen to know that much. 'You knew this was here, Mr Coningham, I said. 'That is why you brought me here. 'You are right. I did know it.
His face was pale, and his eye flashing. Was it that he had roused me more effectually than he had hoped? 'Take care, take care, my boy, he said, 'or you won't live to enjoy your own. Permit me the honour of shaking hands with Sir Wilfrid Cumbermede Daryll.
I lighted my lamp at last, unlocked what had seemed to my childhood a treasury of unknown marvels, took from it the packet of yellow withered letters, and sat down again by the fire to read, in my great-grandmother's chair, the letters of Wilfrid Cumbermede Daryll for so he signed himself in all of them my great-grandfather.
Wilfrid Cumbermede was the second son of Richard and Mary Daryll of Moldwarp Hall.
In the change, however, which creeps on with new generations, there had been in the family a re-action of sentiment in favour of the more distinguished of its progenitors; and Richard Daryll, a man of fierce temper and overbearing disposition, had named his son after the cavalier.
Probably from a morbid fear lest the disgrace his father's brutality had inflicted should become known in his regiment, he dropped the surname of Daryll when he joined it; and for what precise reasons I cannot be certain his wife evidently never called herself by any other name than Cumbermede.
So you were named after your grandfather, and great-grandfather, and I don't know how many of the race besides. When the last of the Darylls died 'Then, I interrupted, 'my father was the heir. 'No; you mistake: your uncle was the elder Sir David Cumbermede Daryll, of Moldwarp Hall and The Moat, said Mr Coningham, evidently bent on making the most of my rights.
If the entry of the marriage under that date could not be proved a mere blunder, of which I could see no hope, then certainly my grandfather must be regarded as born out of wedlock, a supposition which, if correct, would account for the dropping of the Daryll. On the way home I jumped no hedges.
I had previously learned from the old lady herself the true state of the case, and, upon the death of Sir Geoffrey Daryll, had at once communicated with him which placed me in a position for urging him, as I did again and again, considerably to his irritation, to assert and prosecute his claim to the title and estates.
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