Matchmaking has always been traditionally supposed to be the chief end of woman.

"You're matchmaking.

So passed her life, and at last, like many a matchmaking lady, she baffled all the gossips, and left them all in laughter when her choice was made.

Driving along, his conscience stung him a little when he thought of the fable his wife had told him; but the moral of the fable had made but little impression upon him, and as an antidote to the sting he applied his conviction that matchmaking was a bad business, and that in love affairs, as well as in many diseases, the very best thing to do was to let nature take its course.

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.

I saw in all this only her desire to continue her matchmaking; and in presence of my recent bereavement this seemed to me improper, and irritated me very much.

A suspicion of matchmaking sometimes crossed Mr Hare's mind, but it faded in the knowledge that John was always at Stanton College; and to send this fair flower to his greatto his onlyfriend, was a joy, and the bitterness of temporary loss was forgotten in the sweetness of the sharing.

" "And you don't like the Jesuits any more, because they go in for matchmaking.

and he was trying his hand at matchmaking.

I have only seen him once or twice in my fields ... in the evening, usually ..." Perhaps there was just a curious note of irritability in Sir Marmaduke's voice as he spoke of this mysterious inhabitant of the quiet village of Acol; certain it is that the two matchmaking old dames seemed smitten at one and the same time with a sense of grave danger to their schemes.

He was not even invited; so you see how far they were from laying matchmaking plots, and how groundless were all your fears and reproaches!"