On the Wings of Love

TALES OF HUMAN FRAILTY, GREED AND OBSESSION AND, OCCASIONALLY, LOVE "The eldest son of a great family, a youth of eighteen, has, we hear, lately eloped to Scotland, with his mother's maid" - Leeds Intelligencer, 7 May 1765 "A young lady eloped with a French dancing-master. She is said to have no less than £70,000 in her own possession" - Derby Mercury, 14 February 1777 "The young lady rose from the bed and escaped out of a window. An officer is supposed to have been waiting for her in