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Llansillen, Llansillen; know it; know everybody ten miles round. Respectable people all very; most respectable people come up from Wales continually. Some of our best blood from Wales, as a great personage observed lately to me, Thick, thick! not thicker blood than the Welsh. His late Majesty, a-propos, was pleased to say to me once "
He had, however, since the dean's death, been paid in full, and had been able to retire to his native village, which happened to be near Llansillen, and most grateful he was; and as soon as he perceived that he was recognised, his gratitude became better able to express itself.
Cockburn said that her ladyship had not been at home when he set out; that his master had ordered him to travel all night, to get to Llansillen as fast as possible, and to make no delay in delivering the letter to Miss Stanley. To set out instantly, to be in town at her house to meet Lady Davenant, was, of course, Helen's immediate determination.
"I know it," said Helen. "Despondency is not penitence," continued Esther: "reverie is not reparation." She felt as desirous as ever to make Helen happy at Llansillen, but she was provoked to find it impossible to do so.
Helen would have been glad to have been considered merely as a parcel in the coach. During the whole journey, she took no notice of any thing till they came within a few miles of Llansillen; then, endeavouring to sympathise with her companions, she looked out of the carriage window at the prospect which they admired.
If her child should be born alive, and if it should be a boy! It became a heart-beating suspense as the time approached, and every day the news might be expected. The post came in but three times a week at Llansillen, and every post day Miss Clarendon repeated her prophecy to her aunt, "You will see, ma'am, the child will be born in good time, and alive.
Her soul was sunk within, nothing farther to hope; there, was a dead calm, and the stillness and loneliness of Llansillen made that calm almost awful. The life of great excitation which she had led previous to her illness, rendered her more sensible of the change, of the total want of stimulus.
But, however charming, Llansillen had not for Helen the chief charm of early, fond, old associations with a happy home.
She inveighed against the stupid safety, convenience, luxury, and expedition of travelling now-a-days all over England, even in Wales, "so that one might sleep the whole way from Hyde Park corner to Llansillen gate," said she, "and have no unconscionably long nap either.
"No, I am not," replied Cecilia, and she coloured; her very pale cheek flushed; but she explained not at all, she left that subject, and spoke of the friends Helen had left at Llansillen then suddenly of her mother's return her hopes her fears and then, without going on to the natural idea of seeing her mother, and of how soon they should see her, began to talk of Beauclerc of Mr.
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