'"Is matchmaking at all in your line?"
Hugo Peterby asked the question with a certain amount of personal interest.
"I don't specialize in it," said Clovis; "it's all right while you're doing it, but the after-effects are sometimes so disconcerting - the mute reproachful looks of the people you've aided and abetted in matrimonial experiments. It's as bad as selling a man a horse with half a dozen latent vices and watching him discover them piecemeal in the course of the hunting season..."'
from The Forbidden Buzzards, a piece in Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki
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