The Montagu griffon on the helm of John, marquess of Montagu, holds in its beak the gimel ring with which he differenced his father’s shield.

It was the love-bairn of a dead mother, brought up in the kindly Highland fashion, free of every gimel and kail-pot.

Count Gimel, of whom I shall hereafter have occasion to speak more at length, set out about this time for Carlsbad.