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Updated: June 5, 2025
"Are you quite sure," whispered the Pole to the matchmaker, that Madame Beavor has vingt mille livres de rentes?" "Not a sous less."
"Not at all. . . . You have such a figure, and your face is plump and fair, and all the rest of it." The matchmaker was embarrassed. Stytchkin was also embarrassed and sat down beside her.
At last the matchmaker had a better device, which was to leave the pair of us alone. When my suspicions are anyway roused it is sometimes a little the wrong side of easy to allay them. But though I knew what breed she was of, and that was a breed of thieves, I could never look in Catriona's face and disbelieve her. "I must not ask?" says she, eagerly, the same moment we were left alone.
And, as for him, I should have been in love with him myself, if I had not had my guests to attend to. Ah, society is as absorbing as a husband!" Upon the boat, Paul Jacquemin did not leave the side of the matchmaker. He followed her everywhere.
Pauline was no matchmaker, but, as she told herself, it was the sort of thing that was always happening in the family, and Geof's liking for May was as obvious as it was natural. "Do you think, Vittorio, that we can really go out on the Adriatic?" May asked. Vittorio had been at the forward oar for a day or two, and to-morrow his brother was to be dismissed and he was to return to his post.
The female hand has to be discovered in the family alliances of the Cavendishes and the Bentincks from which a tangle of intrigue may be unravelled. There was in the first instance that accomplished matchmaker, Bess Hardwick, a country squire's daughter, who was married four times, and from her sprang children and grandchildren with whom were intertwined the families of no less than five Dukes.
"I don't think I ever noticed it," he answered, with another display of mirth. "What have you discovered now, little matchmaker?" "Not much. I was only thinking.... What a pity Charles wasn't here to-night!" "Oh, you little enigma! Is it that dear Charles who is to be pitied, or who? We, for instance?"
"I have no objection, if he will let me choose the subjects for conversation," was the reply. In the evening Maude and Mr. Merry walked to the Willows and back. "Have you become a matchmaker?" Alice asked her husband. "What prompts the question?" "Maude and Mr. Merry have been thrown together very much. You approve of you would prevent their intimacy." Quincy laughed.
Realizing it is useless to argue with a woman in tears, the old matchmaker suggested to Tiburcio that we delay the answer the customary fortnight. Promising to do nothing further without consulting them, we withdrew from the jacal.
But recently the first real sorrow had been thrust into her young life since the half-forgotten mother had been taken from her. The second Mrs. Prim had decided that it was her 'duty' to see that Abigail, having finished school and college, was properly married. As a matchmaker the second Mrs. Prim was as a Texas steer in a ten cent store.
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