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Updated: July 22, 2025
"I doubt whether it was a love-match exactly." "What in Heaven or earth do you mean?" said Percival, staring. "What else could it be?" But before Vivian could make any response, young Fane entered the room with the air of one who has had good news. "Mr. Colquhoun asks me to tell you that he has just had a letter from Mr. Brian Luttrell, sir. He is to meet Mr. and Mrs.
'Tis an honest love-match, that I swear!" Thereupon my Lady Betty laughed. "Those who see Sir John Oxon's face now," she said, "do not behold a pretty thing. And my lady sees it at every turn. She can go nowhere but she finds him at her elbow glaring." "He would play some evil trick on her for revenge, I vow," said another lady.
"No; she leads the life of a perfect recluse with her child, during her husband's absence, at his villa somewhere in the south near Marseilles, where the department forwards her letters." "Yet she is said to be a magnificent woman," remarked the Count. "Wonderful!" cried Beauchamp. "A magnificent woman and a recluse!" "Oh! but it was a love-match of the most devoted species, you must remember."
Next they had it that the bride was fearfully ugly, infirm, or at least hunchback, perhaps idiotic, or, at all events, of frightful temper. By no means. She had come down; and everybody was amazed at her noble, quiet beauty. She had conversed with them, and charmed everybody. Was it really a love-match, as people called it at Sauveterre? Perhaps so.
It was a love-match, without reservations or inquiries, the rapport and wish of two equal beings, kindred in youth, sympathy, and career, earnest to dwell together and absorbed in the worship of each other.
I am not going to forget this promise, or to neglect its performance; and in order to be true to my word, I am bound to make myself acquainted with the circumstances of her married life, and the character of her husband." "Cannot you be satisfied with knowing that she is happy?" "I have seen her, Sir David, and am by no means assured of her happiness." "And yet it was a love-match on both sides.
And whereas she made no reply, I railed at her, saying: "And yet you gave her the linen, and half the matters for her house-gear as a Christmas gift, as though they were known for a bride and groom to all the town. As old as you are and as wise, can you take pleasure in a love-match and even speed it forward as you have done, and yet purpose in your soul to hinder it at last?
That he should thus have sought to make a love-match of it between the two peoples, and tried to win their inclination towards a union instead of simply transferring them, like so many sheep, by a marriage, or testament, or private treaty, is thoroughly characteristic of what is best in the man. Nor was this all.
Do you think it was a real love-match, his marriage with Miss Halliday? No arriere pensee no looking out for the main chance at the bottom of his romantic attachment, eh, Di?" "No, papa. I am sure there was never truer love than his. I saw him under most trying circumstances, and I can pledge myself for the truth of his devotion." "I am very glad to hear it.
Mahng was only following the usual practice of his kind, and if his first wife had not been shot it is likely that they would have separated before they had gone very far south. And yet it does not follow that the marriage was not a love-match. If you had seen them at their housekeeping I think you would have pronounced him a very good husband and father.
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