Louvaine

"Louvaine," Tom Rookwood was saying, next door, "I met Mr Tom Winter this afternoon, and he asked me if you had gone to the Low Countries to take service under the Archduke.

It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Leo Rodd is in love with Louvaine and how many thousand thousand times have I wished that I were Louvaine.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

‘I was in love with Louvaine, I couldn’t help myself, it was something that happened to us both and there it was.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

Louvaine thrust through them, throwing herself half kneeling on the sand at his feet.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

Louvaine seemed not over-anxious to pursue the matter, however.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

Mr Cecil, half hidden behind a cypress and hardly less sorrowfully dark in trappings of full Juanese mourning bought for the occasion and really too amusingly chic for words, scribbled away in his sketch book with ostentatious surreptitiousness and confided to Louvaine that probably this was the best turn La Lane had ever done to anyone in her life …

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

‘It was Louvaine I was going to meet — not Vanda Lane.’

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

‘Louvaine — though she was her cousin — had no idea of it.’

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

And to prevent this, to prevent Louvaine from having him, she would end it all, would smash up the partnership, expose ‘Louvaine Barker’, face disgrace and ruin, sacrifice it all.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

Leo Rodd, Helen Rodd, Louvaine — they had their faults no doubt, but they were people, real people with hearts and minds to think and feel.

Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955