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He was baptized Cumbermede from the desire to keep in memory the name of a celebrated ancestor, the owner, in fact, of the disputed sword itself alluded to in the letters, who had been more mindful of the supposed rights of his king than the next king was of the privations undergone for his sake, for Moldwarp Hall at least was never recovered from the Roundhead branch of the family into whose possession it had drifted.
I saw the face of neither until they approached the table and sat down. Great was my surprise to discover that the man was the same I had met in the wood on my way to Moldwarp Hall, and that the girl was Clara a good deal grown in fact, looking almost a woman. From after facts, the meeting became less marvellous in my eyes than it then appeared.
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.
'You know more than I do not know what you mean. 'I do know more than you think I know. I will tell you under what circumstances I came to such knowledge. She stood motionless. 'One evening, I went on, 'after leaving Moldwarp Hall with Charles Osborne, I returned to the library to fetch a book. As I entered the room where it lay, I heard voices in the armoury.
Then, indeed, I found I had reason to regard with respect the dream which had brought me thither. Right under the 1748 of the parchment, stood on the vellum cover 1747. Then followed the usual blank, and then came an entry corresponding word for word with the other entry of my great-grandfather and mother's marriage. In all probability Moldwarp Hall was mine!
As I walked home to dinner, she and Miss Brotherton passed me in the carriage, on their way, as I learned afterwards, to fetch the Osborne ladies from the rectory, some ten miles off. I did not return to Moldwarp Hall, but helped Styles in the lumber-room, which before night we had almost emptied.
'You'll see hundreds of them if you look out of the window, said her father. 'Oh! but I don't mean that, she returned. 'It's nothing to look at them like that. I mean from the top of them to look down, you know. 'Like from the flying buttress at Moldwarp Hall, Clara? I said. The moment I began to speak, they began to stare.
'If you saw their house in Cheshire! But blessings be on the place! it's the safety-valve for Moldwarp Hall. The natural Manchester passion for novelty and luxury finds a vent there, otherwise they could not keep their hands off it; and what was best would be sure to go first. Corchester House ought to be secured to the family by Act of Parliament. 'Have you been to Corchester, then?
'We have been in the way of calling it the park, though why I never could tell. I confess it does look like a bit of Sir Giles's that had wandered beyond the gates. 'There is some old story or other about it, I believe. The possessors of the Moldwarp estate have, from time immemorial, regarded it as properly theirs. I know that. 'I am much obliged to them, certainly.
A legal feud had for some time existed between the Ahab of Moldwarp Hall and the Naboth of the Moat, the descendant of an ancient yeoman family of good blood, and indeed related to the Darylls themselves, of the name of Woodruffe. Sir Richard had cast covetous eyes upon the field surrounding Stephen's comparatively humble abode, which had at one time formed a part of the Moldwarp property.
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