Wanted A Match Maker
Paul Leicester Ford
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Description
Paul Leicester Ford's Wanted: A Match-Maker follows Constance Durant, a young woman whose mother wishes her married, in love, but with a nudge toward suitable matches. Mrs. Durant hesitates, petulant and fond, over words she almost speaks. Illustrations catch Constance comforting a hospital boy called Swot, lifting a patient's head, and sitting at a bedside through worry and talk.
Hospital scenes test Constance's heart. A doctor, hurrying to operate, asks her to calm a poor patient who dreads the knife, though she must miss dinner in satin and lace. She follows orderlies past steady eyes and amused accents, then reassures a boy who fears his money was taken for keeps, offering her own purse as pledge. Romance grows from kindness shown under pressure, and Ford writes society comedy with warmth. A match, the novel suggests, forms where character shows, not where mothers plot.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Paul Leicester Ford |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 90 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |