Delavie

Major Delavie produced his choice Tokay, a present from an old Hungarian brother-officer, and looked happier than since Aurelia's departure.

Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

It was a thick letter, with a large red wax seal, bearing the well known arms of Belamour and Delavie, and the address was

Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

There must be some error, no young lady of the name of Delavie was there.

Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

And was that not the old crest, the Delavie butterfly, with the motto,

Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Major Delavie and his eldest daughter were sitting down to supper in the twilight, when a trampling of horses was heard in the lane a carriage was seen at the gate, and up the pathway came a slender youthful figure, in a scarlet coat, with an arm in a sling.

Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Delavie family had been an attendant of Mary of Scotland for a short time, and had received from her a recipe for preserving the complexion and texture of the skin, devised by the French Court perfumer.

Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

"She is a Delavie; and besides, no other ever shall be my wife."

Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Mr. Wayland, whose wealth far exceeded her own, had purchased one of the new houses in Hanover Square, the fashionable quarter and very much admired; but the Major regretted the gloomy dignity of the separate enclosure and walled court of Delavie

Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

"Can you tell me whether they were Delavie wills?"

Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Major Delavie never willingly missed the coming of the mail, for his foreign experiences gave him keen interest in the war between France and

Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862