succession-that

Updated: May 22, 2025

The loss of my dear boy pressed not only on my heart as a father, but injured my individual interests in a very considerable degree; for as there was now no direct heir to the estate, and Lady Lyndon was of a weak health, and supposed to be quite unlikely to leave a family, the next in succession-that detestable family of Tiptoff began to exert themselves in a hundred ways to annoy me, and were at the head of the party of enemies who were raising reports to my discredit.

William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon