Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1854-03-04
Miss H.--"You are near me, very neal
me, indeed, Captain Doligan."

Miss Haythorn--"l heard your lr'eh'
mention it.. wish we were out OF I'M
dark place."
Dolgan-"T could be content to spent
hours here, re-assuring you, sweet lady,"
Miss H.-"Nonseise 20
Doligan-"Pweep Grave reader, DC
not put your lips to the cheek of the mex
pretty creature you meet, or you VIII un
dersiand what this means.)
Miss H.--"Ee!''
Friend-"What is the matter %
Miss H.---"Open the door open the
door ="
There was a sound Of hurried whispers
the door was shut and the blind pulled
down with hostile sharpness.
IF any critic falls upon me for putting
narticulate sounds in dialogue as above,
answer, with all the insolence | can
command at present, "I1i, boys as big as
YOURSELF" bigger perhaps, such as Sophie
cles, Euripides, and Aris'ophanes they
began it, and learnt it OF them, sore
against my will.
Miss Haythorn's scream lost part of its
effect, because The engine whstled forty
! thousand murders at the same moment I;
and fictitious grief makes itself heard when
real cannot.
Between The tunnel and Bath our young
friend had time to ask himself whether his
conduct had been marked by that delicate
reserve which is supposed 10 distinguish
the perfect gentleman.
With long face, real or feigned, he
held open the door,-his late friends at
! tempted TO escape on the other s0e ,-im-
possible they must pass him. She whom
he had insuIted, latin for kissed, y deposited
somewhere at bis foot a look of gentle
blushing reproach; the other, whom he
| had not insulted, darted red-hot daggers at
him from her eyes, and SO they parted.
1t was, perhaps, fortunate for Doligan
that he had the grace 10 be friends with
Major Hoskyns, Of his regiment, veteran
laughed at by the youngsters, for the Major
was too apt to look coldly upon billiard
balls and cigars; he had seen cannon balls
and linstocks; he had also, TO tell the
truth, swallowed good deal of mess-room
poker, but with it some sort of moral poker
which made it as impossible for Major
Hoskyns to descend to an nngentleman
like word or action, as TO brush his own
trowsers below the knee.
Captain DolIgan told this gentleman his
story in gleefnl accents; but Major Hoskyns
heard him coldly, and as co!dly answered
that he had known man lose his life iol
the same thing ''7Bat is nothing" con-
tinued the Major, ''but unfortunately he
deserved to lose i.''
At this the blood mounted 10 the young
mans temples, and his senior added, 81
mean TO say he was thirty-hve you,
presume, are twenty-one %
"Twenty.fve."
'That is much the same thing will yol
be advised by me %
''lf you will advise me-"
s'Speak to no one OF this, and send Whit,
the f3, that he may think you have los
the bet.''
"That is hard when | won il !"
"Do it for all that, sir.'
Let the disbelievers in human perfecti
bility know that this dragoon, capable OF ;
blush, did this virtuous action, albeit will
violent reluctance, and this was his frs
damper. A week after these events, h,
was at ball, not the first, since his return
bien entendu. He was in that state Of fac
ttious discomfort which belongs to u
amiable English. He was looking, in vain
for lady, equal in personal attractions I,
the idea he had formed Of George Doligal
as man, when suddenl there glided pas
him most delightful vision lady who's
beauty and symmetry took him by tn
eyes-anoiher look, ''It can't be-" sYes
isl" Miss Haythorn (not that he knew
her name y but what an apotheosis!
The duck had become a pea-hen-ra
diant, dazzling, she looked twice as beauti
lul and almost twice as large as before
He lost sight of her. He found her again
She was so lovely, she made him ill-an
he, alone, must not dance with her. II h
had been content 10 begin her acqualntanc
the usual way, it might have ended in ks
sing; bu, having begun with kissing,
must end in nothing. AS she dancec
sparks OF beauty fell from her on all arounc
but him-she did not see him; it was clea
she never would see him-one gentlema
, was particularly assiduous she smiled o
his assiduity; he was ugly, but she smile
on him. Doligan was surprised at hi
/, success, his i'll taste, his ugliniess, his in
pertinence. Dolgan at last found himse
! injured "Who was this man z" san
, what right had he TO 60 on SO 2" "He ha
never kissed her, suppose" said Dolly
Dohgan could not prove it, but he felt thu
somehow the rights of property were inv;
) ded. He went home and dreamed of Mi:
I Haythorn, hated all the ugly successful.
S He spent fortnight trying to find ont wh
! this beauty was; he never could encounte
4 her again. AT last he heard of her. in tn
| way: a lawyers clerk paid him it'll
visit, and commenced little action again
him, in the name of Miss Haythorn, fc
E insulting her in Railway train.
! The young gentleman was shocked, er
deavored TO soften the lawyers CLERK ,hi
d machine did not thoroughly comprehen
4 the meaning ofthe term. The lady's nam
i, however, was at least revealed BY this NJ
: toward incident from her name to h'
address, was but short step; and the san
day, our crest-fallen hero lay in wait
her door--and many succeeding da
without effect. But one fine afternoon, sh
o issued forth quite naturally, as if she did
every day, and walked briskly on the nea
10 severe, crusing-we fall by blaSgeoni who thoue
the keeneH rspier might psehanee thrust at vain