.

UNCLE, NEPHEW, AND ANOTHER.
The Honourable Everard Romfrey came of a race of fighting earls, toughest of men, whose high, stout, Western castle had weathered our cyclone periods of history without changeing hands more than once, and then but for a short year or two, as if to teach the original possessors the wisdom of inclining to the stronger side.

They had a queen's chamber in it, and a king's; and they stood well up against the charge of having dealt darkly with the king.

He died among them--how has not been told.
We will not discuss the conjectures here.

A savour of North Sea foam and ballad pirates hangs about the early chronicles of the family.
Indications of an ancestry that had lived between the wave and the cloud were discernible in their notions of right and wrong.