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As I remember your telling me, she was engaged to you the whole last half of her senior year." "True, but " Crellin insisted, with an eye-twinkle of appreciation of the point, "that was fifteen years ago, as well as a love-match. We just couldn't help it. That far, I agree. She had planned unheard-of achievements, while I saw nothing else than the deanship of the College of Agriculture.
"I believe that it is the greatest humbug out, and that it rarely occurs between the ages of sixteen and sixty." "Father's and mother's was a love-match," says Bobby, gravely. "Did not Aunt Williams tell us that they used always to sit hand-in-hand before they were married?" A shout of laughter at our parents' expense greets this piece of information.
The great Mademoiselle had just attempted to show her independence: tired of not being married, with a curse on the greatness which kept her astrand, she had made up her mind to a love-match. "Guess it in four, guess it in ten, guess it in a hundred," wrote Madame de Sevigne to Madame de Coulanges: "you are not near it; well, then, you must be told.
This second marriage, however, was a real love-match, and Mumtaz was her husband's inseparable companion on all his journeys and military expeditions. Shah Jahan, like his father, allowed his wife a large share in the responsibilities of government. Like Nur Mahal, she was famed as much for her charity as for her beauty.
'Did not you marry for love, grandmother? 'No, Lesbia. Lord Maulevrier and I got on very well together, but ours was no love-match. 'Does nobody in our rank ever marry for love? are all marriages a mere exchange and barter? 'No, there are love-matches now and then, which often turn out badly. But, my darling, I am not asking you to marry for rank or for money.
Her eyes looked at him once and left him deliberately but not as if they didn't care. It must have been a love-match in the beginning then her eyes seemed so infirm. "You'll read a little?" "Yes." "Home," he said. He seemed queerly satisfied to say the word, queerly moved as if even after so much reality had been lived through together, he couldn't quite believe that it was reality.
Smith did not at first favor the idea of his daughter Abigail marrying John Adams. He said lawyers were men who got bad folks out of trouble and good folks in. But Abigail said that this lawyer was different; and as Mr. Smith saw it was a love-match, and such things being difficult to combat successfully, he decided he would do the next best thing give the young couple his blessing.
Millingen, with whom she formed a love-match, and whom she abuses and then to her second husband, Kibrizli, ambassador in 1848 to the court of England, upon whom she attempted to palm off an heir by the ruse practiced by our own revered Mrs. Cunningham.
Strange to say, in the world Lord Montfort's marriage was called a love-match; he had married a portionless girl, daughter to one of his poorest and obscurest cousins, against the uniform policy of the House of Vipont, which did all it could for poor cousins except marrying them to its chief. But Lady Montfort's conduct in these trying circumstances was admirable and rare.
Cyril had understood or rather Mrs. Cyril, that it was a love-match on both sides, but on Mrs. Thrall's side it was business. He did not even speak of settlements the English are so romantic when they are romantic! but Mr. Thrall saw to all that, and the young people were married after a very short courtship.
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