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She was a born matchmaker, and Kathleen's indifference to matrimonial opportunities was a constant source of vexation to her. "Never saw two people look so ideally suited to each other," she snapped. Kathleen started as if stung. "And I'm told mutual aversion is often a good beginning for a romance. I never saw you discourteous before, Kathleen; you simply ignored Captain Miller until dessert."
There was not a marriageable young girl who was not a little in love with him, and their mothers envied the luck of the Tzigana. "It is astonishing how jealous the mammas are," said the Baroness, gayly. "They will make me pay dearly for having been the matchmaker; but I am proud of it, very proud. Zilah has good taste, that is all.
As they rose to go in, up came the moon. A broad, benevolent, encouraging face, the face of a matchmaker. Craig put his arm round Margaret. She trembled and thrilled. "Do you know what that moon's saying?" asked he. In his voice was that exquisite tone that enabled him to make even commonplaces lift great audiences to their feet to cheer him wildly. She lifted soft, shining eyes to his.
That afternoon, when Captain Eri returned from the fishing grounds, he found Captain Jerry waiting for him at the shanty. The humiliated matchmaker sent Josiah up to the grocery store on an errand, and then dragged his friend inside and shut the door. Captain Eri looked at the woe-begone face with some concern. "What ails you, Jerry?" he demanded. "Have you have you spoken to Mrs.
I cannot recall that we ever planned ahead of proving up on the claim. We measured life by proving-up time. Only the dirt farmers planned ahead. And Ma Wagor who was an inveterate matchmaker. I can see her now, driving across the plains, holding her head as high as that of the spotted pony she drove a pony which, though blind as a bat, held its head in the air like a giraffe.
Suddenly, while we were proceeding along the causeway by the side of the rivulet, he turned to us, and said, as he nodded towards the sportively coursing water: "Look at the matchmaker!" The ex-soldier hoisted his bleached eyebrows, and gazed around him for a moment in bewilderment. Then he whispered: "The fool!"
"Well," said Lucy, and she pretended to sigh, "there may be something in it. But not for Evelyn." A moment later. "Listen," she said, "just to make me out wrong, and win my good money you wouldn't " "My word," I said, "you are suspicious. But I thought you were a born matchmaker. I thought you'd be pleased if you got Evelyn and me married!" "It wouldn't do at all," she said. "Why not?"
If I had his sharpness, and he my slow common sense, there would be two men fit for this world's uses which neither of us appears to be, as the case stands. I had rashly said too much about Jim and his attractions. Mabel is a born manager and matchmaker can't endure to see an eligible man uncaught. She has put the girls up to this game: 'cheering feminine society, indeed!
Stytchkin got up and walked about the room in excitement. "I don't want a young wife," said he. "I am a middle-aged man, and I want someone who . . . as it might be like you . . . staid and settled and a figure something like yours. . . ." "Goodness knows what you are saying . . ." giggled the matchmaker, hiding her crimson face in her kerchief. "There is no need to be long thinking about it.
And from that he went on to discourse on the great advantages of an early marriage. He was not the man, nor was he speaking to a mother who was the woman, ever to become a vulgar and coarse-minded matchmaker; at the same time, he liked to see Matthew and Mercy sent out on a message together, leaving it to nature and to grace to do the rest.
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