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Updated: June 1, 2025
MRS. CRANE. "To Lord Montfort, the head of the noble family of Vipont?" OXONIAN. "Yes; do you know any of the family, ma'am? If you could refer me to one of them, I should feel more satisfied as to " "Indeed, sir, every one must know that great family by name and repute. I know no more. So you are going to Lord Montfort's! The Marchioness, they say, is very beautiful."
So, perhaps, Darrell himself thought, for whenever Miss Vipont was named he became more taciturn, more absorbed in reflection, and sighed heavily, like a man who slowly makes up his mind to a decision, wise, but not tempting. "Darrell," said Colonel Morley, "you remember my nephew George as a boy?
You will have repaired a wrong; and, pray, will you have compromised your dignity?" Caroline had recoiled into the corner of the carriage, her mantle close down round her breast, her veil lowered; but no sheltering garb or veil could conceal her agitation. The Colonel pulled the check-string. "Nothing so natural; you are the widow of the Head of the House of Vipont.
I respect the old name; but it is not like the House of Vipont a British Institution. And if some democratical cholera, which does not care a rush for old names, carries off Lionel, what becomes of the old name then? Lionel is not Darrell's son; Lionel need not perforce take the old name. Let the young man live as Lionel Haughton, and the old name die with Guy Darrell!
I told him so, and he never denied it. But it is a comfort to think he is no loss. Old monster!" "Nay," said Lady Selina, mollified by so much sympathy, "I don't say he is no loss. Honestly speaking between ourselves I think he is a very great loss. An alliance between him and Honoria would have united all the Vipont influence.
This gallant man obtained large grants of land in that fertile island; some Mac or some O' vanished, and the House of Vipont rose. In the reign of John, the House of Vipont foreclosed its mortgages on lands thus pledged, and became possessed of a very fair property in England, as well as its fiefs in the sister isle. The House of Vipont took no part in the troublesome politics of that day.
Had her pin-money, which in itself was the revenue of an ordinary peeress, failed to satisfy her wants; had she grown tired of wearing the family diamonds, and coveted new gems from Golconda, a single word to Carr Vipont or Lady Selina would have been answered by a carte blanche on the Bank of England. But Lady Montfort had the misfortune not to be extravagant in her tastes.
The day I marry if ever that day come I settle on Lionel Haughton and his heirs five thousand a-year; and if, with gentle blood, youth, good looks, and a heart of gold, that fortune does not allow him to aspire to any girl whose hand he covets, I can double it, and still be rich enough to buy a superior companion in Honoria Vipont " MORLEY. "Don't say buy "
This De Grantmesnil declined, avowing himself vanquished as much by the courtesy as by the address of his opponent. Ralph de Vipont summed up the list of the stranger's triumphs, being hurled to the ground with such force, that the blood gushed from his nose and his mouth, and he was borne senseless from the lists.
Despite its high-sounding Norman name, the House of Vipont was no House at all for some generations after the Conquest.
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