Matchmakers

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Excerpt from Matchmakers: A Comedy in One Act Mr. Courtenay discovered seated in an arm-chair, attempting to read a newspaper. While speaking, he rises, walks about impatiently, seats himself, and rises again. Mr. C. It's no use! It's got to be done - confound it! It's the most infernal bundle of complications a man ever had to deal with! See my way clear? A June-bug might as well see his way clear through a paper of pins! The more I try to straighten it out, the worse it gets. Attempt straightforward courses with a parcel of women? That's out of the question, of course. And when you've said a parcel of women, you've said a good deal, but you haven't said it all, this time. There are parcels and parcels, - and this is a most particular parcel of most particular women! Mrs. Evangeline Rodney - now, what can an ordinary man do with her? But what do I want to do with her? Hanged if I know. There it is again! I thought I knew that I wanted to marry her, when I came to stay at this confounded place, knowing I should meet her, but between concealing my feelings here, and showing them there, I don't know which is my feelings. Now, I don't know whether that's grammar - is my feelings, are my feelings - I don't know anything. If I stay here any longer, I shan't know how to spell. I'm gray already. Now, let us be reasonable. Mrs. Rodney will come in in a minute, and I must get my cue again. Proposition first: I wish to marry Mrs. Rodney. Yes, I certainly do: I do not think there is any reasonable doubt of that. Why don't I marry Mrs. Rodney? Because Mrs. Rodney won't marry me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.