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There was little gayety in the life at Brynbella, or at Bath, and the society that Mrs. Piozzi now saw was made up chiefly of new and for the most part uninteresting acquaintances. The old Streatham set, with a few exceptions, were dead, and of the few that remained none retained their former relations with its mistress.
Piozzi built the house for me, he said; my own old chateau, Bachygraig by name, tho' very curious, was wholly uninhabitable; and we called the Italian villa he set up as mine in the Vale of Cluid, North Wales, Brynbella, or the beautiful brow, making the name half Welsh and half Italian, as we were." Here they lived, with occasional visits to other places, during the remainder of Piozzi's life.
But after a while they removed to Wales, where, on an old family estate belonging to Mrs. Piozzi, they built a house, and christened the place with the queer Welsh-Italian compound name of Brynbella. "Mr.
Thither I hasted, heard how the possessors of Brynbella, lived and thrived, but 'Who set the twigs will he remember Who is in haste to sell the timber? "Well, no matter! One day before I left it there was talk how Love had always Interest annexed to it. 'Nay, then, said I, 'what is my love for Salusbury? 'Oh! replied Shephard, 'there is Interest there. Mrs.
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