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Title: Wanted--A Match Maker

Author: Paul Leicester Ford

Illustrator: Howard Chandler Christy.
Decorations by Margaret Armstrong

Release Date: December 9, 2004 [EBook #14211]

Language: English

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Wanted - A Matchmaker

by
Paul Leicester Ford

[Illustration: "'Why, Swot,' cried Constance, 'nobody is going to
kill you'"]

Contents
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Contents
Illustrations
Wanted: A Match-Maker

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To

Bond and Edith Thomas

as a Record of Our Friendship

Illustrations
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"'Why, Swot,' cried Constance, 'nobody is going to kill you'"

"Miss Durant sprang out and lifted the head gently"

"Constance took the seat at the bedside"

"'I have come here--I have intruded on you, Miss Durant,' hurriedly began
the doctor"

"The two were quickly seated on the floor"

Wanted: A Match-Maker
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"You understand, Josie, that I wouldn't for a moment wish Constance to
marry without being in love, but--"

Mrs. Durant hesitated long enough to convey the inference that she was
unfeminine enough to place a value on her own words, and then, the pause
having led to a change, or, at least, modification of what had almost
found utterance, she continued, with a touch of petulance which suggested
that the general principle had in the mind of the speaker a special
application, "It is certainly a great pity that the modern girl should be
so unimpressionable!"

"I understand and sympathise with you perfectly, dear," consolingly
acceded Mrs. Ferguson. "And Constance has such advantages!"

Quite unnoting that her friend replied to her thought rather than to her
words, Mrs. Durant responded at once eagerly, yet defensively: "That is
it. No one will deny that Mur