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But what, even then, could she have done? Nothing but get away from him as fast as she could. As it was, it was a long time before his agitation subsided, and his heart beat with its common force and frequency. Dr. Butts was not a male gossip nor a matchmaking go-between.
After the evening repast was over we retired to the gallery, and Uncle Lance reopened the matchmaking by inquiring of Don Alejandro if his nephew proposed taking his bride to the Mission. The Don was all attention. Fortunately, anticipating that the question might arise, he had discussed that very feature with his nephew.
"I charge myself with all that," interrupted the Marquise. "What a mania you have for marrying people!" "Women who do not make love, cousin, always have a mania for matchmaking." "But seriously, you will give me a few days for reflection?" "To reflect about what? Have you not always told me you intended marrying and have been only waiting the chance?
What I meant was that he isn't lazy." "He seems to be very fond of coming to see you," said Prudence, by way of encouragement. "Ah!" said the captain, "and " He stopped abruptly as the girl faced round. "And?" she prompted. "And the crow's-nest," concluded the captain, somewhat lamely. There was no longer room for doubt. Scarce two months ashore and he was trying his hand at matchmaking.
"Miss Grosvenor has invited Mr Ernest and me to tea, and to go without a representative of Mrs Grundy, I believe, is not correct in the social life of Noonoon." Eweword laughed; but his face fell, and his reply showed him less obtuse than he appeared on the surface, seeing he was the first and only person to see through my matchmaking tactics.
This little visit had been an important one to Miss Panney; it had enabled her to understand Dora's character much better than she had understood it before; and she perceived that in this case of matchmaking she must not only do a great deal of the work herself, but she must do it without Dora's knowing anything about it. She liked this, for she was not much given to consulting with people.
'You know, without my saying it, that I love Cytherea as dearly as ever.... I think she loves me too, does she really? There was in Owen enough of that worldly policy on the subject of matchmaking which naturally resides in the breasts of parents and guardians, to give him a certain caution in replying, and, younger as he was by five years than Edward, it had an odd effect.
They had merely served to increase the unhappy number which vainly swarmed about her, and to make Bernie himself the target of her satire. Popularity had not spoiled the girl, however; her attitude toward marriage was very sensible beneath the surface, and Bernie's anxious efforts at matchmaking, instead of relieving their financial distress, merely served to keep him in the antique business.
I believe a deputation will wait upon us some morning, requesting in the interests of matchmaking that we will please to get married as soon as possible.... How near we were to doing it forty years ago, only you were so independent! I thought you would have come back and was much surprised that you didn't.
The remainder of the day was spent with my old friends in a social visit, and as we delved into the musty past, the old man's love of the land and his matchmaking instincts constantly cropped out. "Tom," said he, in answer to a remark of mine, "I was an awful fool to think my experience could be of any use to you boys.
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