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No one would have more valiantly faced poverty than Elizabeth Delavie, had she alone been concerned Cavalier and Jacobite blood was in her veins, and her unselfish character had been trained by a staunch and self-devoted ene's youth ers to the bone, and live on oative her father the coht down from his natural station was more than she could endure His welfare must be secured at the cost not only of Aurelia's sweet presence, but of her happiness; and Betty durst not ask herself whattoo that she would probably be quite incapable of altering her father's deterht be, and that he was inclined to trust Lady Belamour The only chance of his refusal was that he should take alarhter from him