Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-10-29

| Friend, whats the matter, dear
/, Miss llaythorn, open the door
open the door y
There was sound Of hurried wills
pers, the door was shut and the blind
pulled down with hostile sharpness.
If any critic falls on me for putting
lnarticulatc sounds in a dialogue as
above, answer with all the insolence
! can command at present, Hit boys
as big as yourself bigger perhaps,
such as Sophocles, Euripcdes, and Ar
istophines they began it, and learned
it Of them, sore against my will.
Miss Ilaythorn's scream lost part
Of It's effect because the engine whistled
forty housand murders at the same
moment and fictitious grief makes it
self 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 sup
posed to distinguish the perfect gentle
man.
With long face, real or fcigncd, he
held open the door, his late friends
attempted to escape on the other side,
impossible, they must pass him.
She whom he had iasuited (Latin for
kissed) deposited somewhere at his foot
look Of gentle blushn0 reproach j; the
other, whom he had not nsuted, dar-
ted red-hot daggers at him from her
eyes, and so they parted.
1t was perhaps, fortunate for Dolig-
nan that he had the grace to be friends
with Major Hoskyns of his regiment,
veteran laughed at by the youngsters,
for the Major WAS too apt to look cold
" upon billiard balls and cigars lie
had seen cannon balls and linstocks.-
lie had also, to tell the truth, swallow
ed good bit of the mess room poker,
hut with 1t some sort Of moral poker,
which made it as impossible for Major
iioskyns TO descend to an ungcntlcman
like word or action, as to brush his
own trousers below the knee.
Captain Doiiguan told this gentle
man his story III gleeiul accents; but
Major lloskyns heard him coldly, and
as coolly answered that he had known
man lose his life for the same thing,
That is nothing continued the Major,
but unfortunately he deserved to lose
it.
At tins the blood mounted to the
younger mans temples, and his senior
added 4 mean to say he is thirty five
you, lpresume, are twenty-onc"
Twenty
That is much the same thing; will
You be advised by me-
If You will advise me-
Speak to no one of this, and send
White the 81, that he may think YOU
have lost the bet
That IS hard when ! won it y
DO it for all that, sir
Let the dspelieycrs in human per
fcctihility know that this draeoon cap
able of a blush did this vir,uous action.
albeit with violent reluctance and
this was his first camper A week al
ter these events he was at ball. He
was IN that state of factious discomfort
which belongs to us amiahlc English.
He was looking, in vain, for lady
equal IN personal attractions to the
idea he had formed of George Dolignan
AS a man, when suddenly there glided
past him most delightful vision,
lady whose beauty and symmetry took
HIM 10y the cyes-anothcr look =: 1T
can't be ..'-'l es, it is y Miss iIaythorn.
mot that he knew her name , but what
an apotheosis
The duck had become pea-hen--
radiant, dazzling, she looked twice as
beautiful and almost twice as large as
before. He lost sight her.
lie found her again, She was so
lovely she made him Ill, and he, alone,
must not dance with her, speak to her.
If he had been content to begin her
acquaintance the usual way, it might
have ended in kissing, but having be
gun with kissing it must end in moth
my. 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-onc gentleman
was particularly assiduous she smiled
on his assiduity he was ugly but she
smiled on him. noignan was surpris-
cd at his success, his Ill taste, his ugli-
ness, his impertinencc. Dolignan at
last found himself injured; Who was
this man : and what right had he to
20 on so: lie had never kissed her,
| suppose, said Dolly. Dolignan
could not prove it, but he felt that some
how the rights ofpropcrty were rnvad-
ed. lie went home and dreamed of
Miss llaythorn, and hated all the ugly
succcssfll.t He spent a fortnight try
ing to find ont who this beauty was
be never could encounter her again.
at last he heard of her in this way:
lawyers clerk paid him a little visit
and commenced little action against
HIM, in the name of Miss Hawthorn,
for insulting her in a railway train.
The young gentleman was shocked;
cndeavored to soften the lawyers clerk;
that machine did not thoroughly com
prehend the meaning of the term. The
lady's name, however, was at least rc-
,caled by this untoward incident; from
her name to address was but "a short
step; and the same day our crcst-fal-
len Loro lay in wait at her door-and
many a succeeding dav without effect.
But one fine afternoon, she issued forth
quite naturally, as if she did it every
day, and walked briskly on the nearest
Parade. Dolignan did the same he
met and passed her many times on the
parade, and searched for pity in her
eyes, but found neither look, nor rec
ognition. nor any other sentiment for
all this she walked and walked, till all
the other promenaders were tired and
gone-thcn her culpiit summoned res
olution. and takinr otf his hat w;,b d.