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Updated: June 3, 2025
Duncan Lisle had not, for four years, seen his niece, and was not prepared for such startling developments of mind and person. He was proud to behold her queen of the school; queen, both in beauty and mental accomplishments. He too might be forgiven for one daring thought that soared down to matchmaking.
Of course nothing will happen. I should not permit it." I made some comment, I don't remember what. She rose from the bench. "I have been chatting about family affairs and matchmaking like a garrulous old woman, haven't I," she observed, smiling. "So silly of me. You have been charmingly kind to listen, Mr. Knowles. Forgive me, won't you.
Without me, those two charming savages, so well suited to each other, Marsa and Andras Zilah, would never have met. On what does happiness depend!" "On an invitation card engraved by Stern," laughed Jacquemin. "But you have said too much, Baroness. You must tell me the whole story. Think what an article it would make: The Baroness's Matchmaking! The romance! Quick, the romance!
And after a little Odalie would be strolling on her husband's arm in the moonlight, and would silently gaze about with long, doubting, diplomatic eyelashes and inquiring eyes when asked where was Belinda Rush, which conduct induced Mrs. Halsing's comment as to Mrs. MacLeod's proclivity toward matchmaking.
She had the matchmaking fever in her blood. Martin Hillyard remembered her glance when he had casually spoken of Harry Luttrell. Then she startled him with words which he was never to forget, and in which he chose to find a real profundity. "The right man has not come along. So Joan mistakes anything odd for something great, and thinks that to be unusual is to be strong.
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.
"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?
"Nobody need have any doubt about that," said Sancho, "for my master has a very happy knack of matchmaking; it's not many days since he forced another man to marry, who in the same way backed out of his promise to another maiden; and if it had not been for his persecutors the enchanters changing the man's proper shape into a lacquey's the said maiden would not be one this minute."
As for how a story may be told on canvas, the way in which the conception of the artist has been executed, the truth of the drawing, the fidelity of colouring on these points no questions are asked and no curiosity is expressed. Why should they? Painting they regard as one of the arts which may be learned for a trade, like matchmaking or shoemaking.
For her sweet sake, and the sake of the fragrant manliness of the stalwart and deserving knight, I straightway resolved to enter the thankless and precarious business of matchmaking, one in which I had not had one iota of experience; but as women have to ace marriage, domesticity, and mostly all the issues of life assigned them, without training, I did not give up heart.
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