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"You really would be tempted to become a match-maker?" "Yes," replied the other, "if by any means I could further the present scheme." "Lady Rosamond is indeed amiable and loveable, and worthy of a true and noble husband, while Lieutenant Trevelyan is in every sense a gentleman worthy the fairest and best.
Stanhope might then, indeed, deserve to be called the match-maker general. The seventh of her nieces this. But look, there's Mrs. Delacour leading Miss Portman off into the trictrac cabinet, with a face full of business her hand in hers Lord, I did not know they were on that footing! I wonder what's going forward.
'How old is he? said Lady Cumnor, with a faint suspicion of motives in her mind. 'About twenty-seven, I think. Ah! I see what is in your ladyship's head. No! no! he's too young for that. You must look out for some middle-aged man, if you want to get poor Clare married; Preston won't do. 'I'm not a match-maker, as you might know. I never did it for my own daughters.
"Moderation!" retorted the self-reliant wife "moderation towards a weak-minded, unscrupulous fortune-hunter and match-maker a despiser of those genuine graces which adorn the female mind and make woman what she should be. Don't talk thus to me, William, else I shall feel that you would abet Matilda in what she has undertaken, and what she may evidently accomplish." "God forbid," said Mr.
In fact, I should think old friendship and a kind heart might make you prefer to sit by me. Say that they do, Mrs. Walker." "They do," answered Emily. "But your reason, John?" "That little creature is a match-maker. Why must she needs give me the golden head?" "Oh, she did? Perhaps it was because she thought you would expect it." "Expect it! I expect it?
"I am no match-maker, as you well know," said Lady Russell, "being much too well aware of the uncertainty of all human events and calculations. I only mean that if Mr Elliot should some time hence pay his addresses to you, and if you should be disposed to accept him, I think there would be every possibility of your being happy together.
However well Washington thought of "the honorable state," he was no match-maker, and when asked to give advice to the widow of Jack Custis, replied, "I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman, who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly because I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain, when she has obtained it.
The one was Synesius of course; that most incoherent and most benevolent of busybodies chose to betray me behind my back:-but I will not trouble you with that part of my story. The real wonder is that the other episcopal match-maker was Augustine of Hippo himself! 'Anything to bribe a convert, said Hypatia contemptuously. 'I assure you, no.
She had thought the matter all out and decided that the minister could converse with the teacher to the better advantage of the whole table if he sat across from her. Mrs. Tanner was a born match-maker. This she felt was an opportunity not to be despised, even if it sometime robbed the Ridge School of a desirable teacher.
Moreover, I expect to get you to join us. Don't laugh. I mean it. There is good work to be done. Canada needs philanthropic Christians as well as England. "You will scarcely credit me when I say that I have become a match-maker not one of those `little' ones, in whose welfare you are so much interested, but a real one. My deep design is upon your partner, Natty Grove.
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