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Devar, marriage-broker and adroit sycophant, ready to hand and purchasable? and there was small room for doubt that a girl's natural vanity would be fluttered into a blaze of romance by learning that her chauffeur was heir to an old and well-endowed peerage. But honor forbade, nor might he dream of winning her affections while flying false colors.
He was also a most skilful and successful Shadchan, or marriage-broker, and his extensive travels placed this famous Rabbi in an excellent position for match-making. Certainly, the marriages he effected were notoriously prosperous, and in his hands the Shadchan system did the most good and the least harm of which it is capable. Another type of short-distance traveller was the Bachur, or student.
However, Heaven has given you a second helping. A well-built wage-earner like you can look as high as a greengrocer's daughter even. 'I never wish to look upon a woman again, Elias groaned. 'Schtuss! said the great marriage-broker. 'Three days after the Fast of Atonement comes the Feast of Tabernacles.
Over the dazzling halo that surrounded the fair one, which left me the alternative of admiring silence or heedless vagrancy of speech, one cloud lowered, eclipsing all her charms and bringing down my divinity from her pedestal Irene was an heiress! The Duchess had clipped the wings of the angel with the phrase of a marriage-broker.
It did not, however, exculpate the grandame from the charge of forwardness, since if she wished to contract another marriage it could have been arranged legitimately by the Shadchan, and then the poor marriage-broker, who got little enough to do in this God-forsaken village, might have made a few Gulden out of it.
Brockton gave a look of speechless chagrin at his hostess, which she answered haughtily: "My dear Mr. Brockton, after all, I never undertook to be a marriage-broker!" Then she glanced at the chauffeur and forbore. Meantime Millicent sat in one of the square exhibition-halls. The sweet air, with the scent of hay from the farther country faintly impregnating it, blew through the quiet.
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