Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-02-02
Between the tunnel and Bath our young

friend had time 10 ask himself whether his
conduct had been marked BY that delicate
reserve which is supposed to distinguish the
perfect gentleman.
With long face, real or feigned, he held
open The door-his laie friend attempted to
escape on the other side de-impossibe! they
must pass him. She whom he had insulted
(Latin for kissedD deposited somewhere at
his foot look ofgen.le blushing reproach !;
the other, whom he had not insuIled darled
redho, daggers at him from her eyes, and
so they parted.
1t was perhaps, fortunate for Dolignan
tha. he had the grace TO be friends with
NJ jor I1oskyns, Of his reg inent, veteran
laughed a. by the youngsters, fo' the Major
was TOO apt 10 look coldly upon billiard
balls aud cigars he had seen cannon balls
and lins.ocks ; he had also, TO tell the truth,
swallow we'd good bit Of The mess-room po-
ker, which made it as impossible for Major
Hoskyns to descend to an ungentleman- like
word or action, as 10 brush his own trow-
sers below the knee.
Captain Dolignan told this gentleman his
story in gleeful accents; bu. MAJOR Hos
kyns heard him codly, and as coldly an
swered that he had known a man lose his
life for the same thing; 'IHat is nothing, y
continued the Major, "bul unfortunately be
deserved to lose it,"
AT this the blood mounted to the young
mans temples, and his senior added, ~
mean to say he was thirty y-fve, you, pre-
sumo, ere twenty-onen'
"Twenty -five.n
"Thas is much the same thing will y ou
be advised by me?''
"lf you will advise me-"
"Speak TO no one of this, and send White
The sc, that he may think you have LOST the
bet.n
THAT 10 hard when won it -
"Do i, for all that, sir'
Let The dI,believers iE human perfec ,ibil-
lty know that this dragoon, capable Of a
blush, did this viriuous action, albeit with
violent reluctance, and this was his first
damper. A week ai.er these events, he
was al ball, no, the first, since his return.
Fictitious discomfort which belongs TO US
smiable Fog iish. He wss lnokingz :, vein,
for a lady, equal in personal .slraclions to
the idea be had formed Of George Doignan
as man, when suddenly there giJed past
him most delightful vision lady whose
beauty and symmetry took him by the
eyes-anolher look 81. can't be n'-"Yes,
il is!'' Miss Haylhorn no, that he knew
her name !! but what an epolheosis!
The duck had become ea-hen-radisn,,
dazzlng, she looked twice as beautiful and
almost twice as large as before. He los,
sigh, Of her. He found her again. She
was so lovely she made him ill-and he, a.
lone, must not dance with her, speak to her
If he had been content to begin her ac-
quain'ance in The usual wsy il might have
ended in kissing; but having begun with kiss
ing it must end in nothing. As she danced
sparks of beauty fell from her on all around
but him-she did not see him; it was clear
she never would see him-one gentleman
was particularly assduous she smiled on
his assiduity !; he was ugly, but she smiled
on him. Dollgnan was surprised at his
success, her i'll taste, his uglness, his i'm
per,nence. Dolignan at last found him
self injured: "Who was this man - sand
wba, IIghl had he to 60 on so - 'Ie had
never kissed her, suppose" said Dolly
Dolignan could not prove it, but he felt
that somehow the rights of property were
invaded. He went home and dreamed Of
Miss Haythorn, hated ell the ugly sue
cessful.* He spent fortnight, trying 10
find out who This beauty was.-he never
could encounter her again. Al last he heard
Of her, in this way; lawyers clerk paid him
LILLE visit, and commenced a little aclisn
against him in the name Of Miss Haylhorn
for insulting her in Railroad train.
The young gentleman was shocked, en-
deavored to soften the lawyers clerk that
machine did not thoroughly comprehend
the meaning of The term. The lady's name
however, was al least revealed by the out
ward incident; from her name TO her i'd
dress, was but a short step; and the same
ay, our crest-fallen hero lay in wait at her
door-and succeeding day without effect.
Blu. one fine afternoon, she issued forth
quite naturally, as if she did it every day,
and walked briskly on the nearest Parade.
Dolgnan did the same, he met and passed
her many times on the Parade, and search
ed for pity in her eyes, bu, found neither
look, nor recognition, nor any other senli-
ment; for all this she walked and walked,
till all the other promenades were tired and
gone,-lhen her culprt summoned resolu-
lion, and taking off his hat, with a voice
.remulous for the first time, besought per-
mission TO address her. She stopped,
blushcd, and neither acknowledged nor dis
owned his acquaintance. He blushed, stam-
mered out how ashamed he was, how he
deserved to be punished, he acas punished,
how little she knew how unhappy he was
and concluding by begging her not 10 lie.
*When our successful rival is ugly the blow is
douby severe, crushng-we fall by bludgeon
we who thought the kcenest raper might per
chance thrust at us in vain