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Updated: June 14, 2025
"You know perfectly well that I am not a match-maker, nor anything like it. And it wouldn't please me at all to have anybody say so of me or to think of me in that way." She was quite sincere in all this. Truesdale, however, held the opposite view, and, considering all the circumstances, liked his aunt none the less.
The old man he viewed in the light of a vile match-maker; his own actions and behaviour were contemptible; and that he had ever deserted Felicia he now judged to be sinful and abominable. His heart was sore wounded at parting from Dorina; but with a violent effort he tore himself free from the sweet bonds. He hastened away to Naples, to Sorrento.
The match-maker had a difficulty with me; perhaps, like some ladies, I showed myself too eager for union at any price; but certainly the first who was picked out to be my bedfellow declined the honour without thanks. He was an old, heavy, slow-spoken man, I think from Yankeeland, looked me all over with great timidity, and then began to excuse himself in broken phrases.
Sir We had decided that it was time for his daughter to marry, so he sent for a match-maker and commissioned her to find a suitable husband. Old Dschang heard this, and was pleased. He prepared food and drink, entertained the match-maker, and told her to recommend him as a husband. But the old match-maker went off scolding. The next day he invited her to dinner again and gave her money.
In the early part of 1806 Napoleon might flatter himself with his brilliant success as a match-maker. Yet, after all, he was less concerned with the affairs of Hymen than with those of Mars and Mercury. He longed to be at Paris for the settlement of finances; and he burned to hear of the expulsion of the Bourbons from Naples.
"I didn't understand that remark of Mr. Bayne's as to the poverty of Mr. Royston's widow," the old lady submitted. Gladys, the match-maker, laughed delightedly. "I did!" she cried triumphantly. As she went out of the room, she encountered Lillian in the hall, summoned to sign and acknowledge the papers.
Moreover, it isn't about that that I have to speak." Mrs. Stannard's bonny face showed instant disappointment. "There's there's another matter," said Bob, with trouble in his tones. "I so hoped " faltered that arch match-maker. "So did I, Mrs. Stannard," said downright Bob, "but not with charges hanging over my head. First I've got to meet the enemy."
"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.
"You do not know that among Valerie's other accomplishments she is the greatest little match-maker in existence. She marries off all her friends as fast oh! you cannot think how fast." "I hope, I mean to say I think," he corrected himself, not without some little confusion, "that she is not quite so bad as you make her out. She has not yet made any match for herself, I believe. No, no.
Fisher look them out, turn and turn about, upon a Sunday, in her carriage, and the others walked with the two superintendents persons carefully selected for their good principles and good conduct. Mrs. Fisher, too, was a little bit of a match-maker; and if she had a weakness, it was her fondness for settling her young ladies.
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