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Updated: June 1, 2025
In open order with flankers thrown out the Waffs hurried through the bush, the sound of continuous rifle-fire growing louder and louder. "Button's holding out all right," declared the company-major to Wilmshurst, referring to the lieutenant left in charge of the camp. "He has MacGregor and young Vipont to back him up and twenty-five Haussas. Hullo, what's that?"
Having a fair share of such merits, in common with other great Houses, the House of Vipont was not without good qualities peculiar to itself. Even if you had no vote yourself, you might have a cousin who had a vote.
"Many years since," resumed Darrell, with reflective air, "I read Miss Edgeworth's novels; and in conversing with Miss Honoria Vipont, methinks I confer with one of Miss Edgeworth's heroines so rational, so prudent, so well-behaved so free from silly romantic notions so replete with solid information, moral philosophy and natural history so sure to regulate her watch and her heart to the precise moment, for the one to strike, and the other to throb and to marry at last a respectable steady husband, whom she will win with dignity, and would lose with decorum!
The first Vipont who emerged from the obscurity of time was a rude soldier of Gascon origin, in the reign of Henry II., one of the thousand fighting-men who sailed from Milford Haven with the stout Earl of Pembroke, on that strange expedition which ended in the conquest of Ireland.
The elder of these two gentlemen is Mr. Carr Vipont, bald, with clipped parliamentary whiskers; values himself on a likeness to Canning, but with a portlier presence; looks a large-acred man.
Ah, I know! Guy Darrell. His wife was a Vipont; and he is not here. But he has long since ceased to communicate with any of us; the only connection that ever fell away from the House of Vipont, especially in a CRISIS like the present. Singular man! For all the use he is to us, he might as well be dead! But he has a fine fortune: what will he do with it?"
Looking back through ages, it seems as if the House of Vipont were one continuous living idiosyncrasy, having in its progressive development a connected unity of thought and action, so that through all the changes of its outward form it had been moved and guided by the same single spirit, "/Le roi est mort; vive le roi!/" A Vipont dies; live the Vipont!
The old House stands firm, never was a family so united: all here, I think, that is, all worth naming, all, except Sir James, whom Montfort chooses to dislike, and George and George comes to-morrow." COLONEL MORLEY. "You forget the most eminent of all our connections, the one who could indeed strike terror into Downing Street, were his voice to be heard again!" CARR VIPONT. "Whom do you mean?
During the reign of the merry monarch the House of Vipont was a courtier, married a beauty, got the Garter again, and, for the first time, became the fashion. Fashion began to be a power. In the reign of James II. the House of Vipont again contrived to be a minor, who came of age just in time to take the oaths of fealty to William and Mary.
But we can arrange that; for if Darrell will but join the government, and go to the Lords, Sir Josiah Snodge, who has a great deal of voice and a great deal of jealousy, will join too head the Vipont interest in the Commons and speak to the country speak every night and all night, too, if required.
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