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Her only resource is in perfect truth: tell her so, Cecilia impress it upon her mind. Would to Heaven I had been able to convince her of this at first! Speak to her strongly, Cecilia; as you love her, impress upon her that my esteem, Beauclerc's love, the happiness of her life, depend upon her truth!" As he repeated these words, the carriage stopped at their own door.
Beauclerc's eyes took fire as he exclaimed, "Slight! hasty! this most noble, most solid work!" "Solid in your opinion," said Churchill, with a smile deferential, slightly sneering.
Beauclerc's respectful air and tone were preferred, and he now laid himself out in the respectful line, adding, as he flattered himself, something of a finer point, more polish in whatever he said, and with more weight of authority.
Beauclerc's man had brought with the note, and which were, he said, for Miss Stanley. Lady Cecilia's countenance grew radiant with joy, and she exclaimed, "Give them to me, I must have the pleasure of taking them to her myself." And she flew off with them.
It is a curious story: Granville Beauclerc's father but I don't know it perfectly, I only know that he was a very odd man, and left the general, though he was so much younger than himself, guardian to Granville, and settled that he was not to be of age, I mean not to come into possession of his large estates, till he is five-and-twenty: shockingly hard on poor Granville, and enough to make him hate Clarendon, but he does not, and that is charming, that is one reason I like him!
The tone was dry and proud, but Beauclerc's provoked imagination conceived it to be also mysterious; the scales of his mind vibrated again, but he had said he would trust trust entirely, and he would: yet he could not succeed in banishing all doubt, till an idea started into his head "That writing was Lady Cecilia's! I thought so at the first moment, and I let it go again.
Beauclerc's letter of explanation arrived, and other letters came from him from time to time, which, as they were only repetitions of hopes and fears as to Churchill's recovery, and of uncertainty as to what might be his own future fate, only increased Helen's misery; and as even their expressions of devoted attachment could not alter her own determination, while she felt how cruel her continued silence must appear, they only agitated without relieving her mind.
All Beauclerc's romance the general would have called by the German word "Schwaermerey," not fudge not humbug literally "sky-rocketing" visionary enthusiasm; and when it came to arguments, they might have turned to quarrels, but for Lady Davenant's superior influence, while Lady Cecilia's gentleness and gaiety usually succeeded in putting all serious dangerous thoughts to flight.
At tea-time, and in the course of the evening twice, Cecilia sent to beg to speak to Helen; but Lady Davenant and the general joined in requesting her not to go. The general went himself to Lady Cecilia to enforce obedience, and he reported that she had submitted with a good grace. Helen was happily engaged by Beauclerc's conversation during the rest of the evening.
Churchill's being quite out of danger of the general's expectation of Beauclerc's immediate return. "And then, my dearest Helen," said she, "all will be " "Oh! I do not know how it will be!" cried she, her tone changing suddenly; and, from the breathless hurry in which she had been running on, sinking at once to a low broken tone, and speaking very slowly.
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