Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-11-26

that he had known man lose his life fol
the same thing. ''That is nothing" con.
tinued the Major. "but fortunately he de.
served to lose it,
At this the blood mounted to the younger
mans temples, and his senior added, "a
mean to say he is thirty-fve; you, [ pre-
sumo, are thirty-one..
''Twenty-fve.' -
''That is much the same thing; will you
be advised by me?''
eff you will advise me-"
@.Speak to no one of this, and send White
the e3, that he may think you have lost the
bet"
''That is hard, when I won it."
':Do it for all that, sir
Let the disbelievers in human perfectibil-
ity know that this dragoon, capable of a
blush, did this virtuous action, albeit with
violent reluctance and this was his first
damper. A week after these events, he
was at ball. He was in that state of fac
titious discomfort which belongs to us amia-
BILE English. He was looking in vain for a
lady equal in personal attractions to the idea
he had formed of George Dolgnan as man,
when suddenly there glided past him most
delightful vision a lady whose beauty and
symmetry took him by the another
look: "It can't ber' sYes it is !' Miss
Haythorn! (not that he knew her name y
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 of her. He found her again She
was so lovely, she made him i'll, and he a.
lone must not dance with her, speak to her.
Ii he had been content to begin her acquain-
tance the usual way, it nigh have ended in
kissing but having begun with kissing, 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
particularly assiduous she smiled Oh his as
siduity he was ugly, but she smiled on him.
Dolignan was surprised at his success, his.
i'll taste, his ugliness, his impertinence.-
Dolignan at last found himself injured -
"Who was this man? and what right had
he to go on SOP ''He had neYer- kissed
laer-l 2 u 80. .-----
Dolignan could not prove it, but he felt
somehow that the rights of property were
invaded. He went home and dreamed of
Miss Haythorn, and hated all the ugly sue
cessful. He spent a fortnig ght trying to find
out who this beauty was-he never could en-
counter her again. At last he heard of her
in this way: a lawyers clerk paid him lit
tie visit, and commenced a little action a.
gainst him, in the name of Miss Haythorn,
for insult her in railway train. /
The young gentleman was shocked; en-
deavored to soften the lawyers clerk that
machine did not thoroughly comprehend the
term. The lady's name, however, was at
least revealed by this untoward accident
from he name to her address was but short
step; and the same day our crest fallen hero
lay in wait at her door-and many sue
ceeding day, without effect. But one fine
afternoon she issued forth quite naturally, |
as if she did it every day, and walked brisk
ly 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 recognition,
nor any other sentiment. For all this she
walked, till all the other promenaders wore
tired and gone. Then her culprt summon
ed resolution, and, taking off his hat, with
a voice tremulous, for the first time besought
permission to address her.
She stopped, Llushed and neither acknow-
lodged nor disowned his acquaintance. He
blushed, stammered out how ashamed he
was, how he deserved to be punished, how
he uos punished, how little she knew how
unhappy he was; and concluded by begging
her not to let all the world know the disgrace
Of man who was already mortified enough
by the loss Of her acquaintance. She asked
an explanation. He told her of the action
that had been commenced in her name
She gently shrugged her shoulders, and
said, ':How stupid they arer' Embolden-
ed by this, he begged to know whether OF
not a life of distant unpretending devotion
would, after a lapse Of years, erase the me-
mory Of his madness-his crime?
''She did not know!n'
'sShe must now bid him adieu, as she had
some preparations to make for ball in the
Crescent, where everybody aoas to be-" They
parted, and Dolignan determined to be at
the ball where everybody was to be. He
was there, and after some time he obtained
an introduction to Miss Haythorn, and he
danced with her. Her manner was gracious.
With the wonderful tact of her sex, she
seemed to have commenced the acquaintance
that evening. That night, for the first time,
Dolignan was in love. [ will spare the
reader all lovers arts, by which he sue
ceeded in dining where she dined, in dane
ing where she danced, overtaking her by
accident when she rode His devotion fol-
lowed her even to church, where our dragoon
was rewarded by learning there is world
where they neither polk nor smoke-the two
capital denominations of this one