Cumbermede

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.

Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864

Giles's, Mr Alderforge said that Cumbermede was a name belonging to Sir

Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864

'But why don't you tell your stories by daylight, Cumbermede?

Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864

'By the way,' said the gentleman, 'it's somewhere not far from here young Cumbermede is at school.

Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864

'Make haste and finish your story, Cumbermede, and let them go to sleep.

Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864

Cumbermede confesses to have stolen the most valuable of the swords out of the armoury -- one that's been in the family for two hundred years, and says he means to keep it. '

Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864

Cumbermede -- told us that the name of Cumbermede had at one time belonged to our family.

Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864

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.

Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864

'I find, however,' said Charley, 'that the name of Cumbermede is not mentioned in your papers more than about a hundred years back -- as far as I have yet made out.'

Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864

Cumbermede here, might desire to possess himself of a weapon which bears his initials, and belonged two hundred years ago to a baronet of the same name as himself -- a circumstance which, notwithstanding it is by no means a common name, is not _quite_ so strange as at first sight appears -- that is, if all reports are true. '

Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864