The Kanzas news., 1858-10-30

or you Will understand what this means. /
Miss Haythorn-"Eel Eel Oh!''
Friend-e.What's the matter, dear?"
Miss Haythorn-"Open the door! open
the doorl''
There was sound of hurried whispers,
the door was shut, and the blind pulled
down with hostile sharpness.
If any critic falls on me for putting in.
articulate sounds in a dialogue as above, ]
answer, with all the insolence can com.
mand at present, "Hit boys as big as your;
SELF bigger, perhaps. such as Sophocles,
Euripides, and Aristophanes; they began it,
and learned of them, sore against my
will.
Miss Hay scream lost part of its
effect, because the engine whistled forty
thousand murders at the same moment; 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 to distinguish
the perfect gentleman.
With long face, real or feigned, he held
open the door-his late friends attempted
to escape on the other side-impossible |!
they must pass him. She whom he had
insulted (Latin for kissed) deposited some
where at his foot look of gentle, blushing
reproacb; the other, whom he had not in
suited, darted red-hot daggers at him from
her eyes; and so they parted.
1t was perhaps fortunate for Dolignan
that be had the grace to be friends with
Major Hoskyns>of his regiment. veteran
laughed at by youngsters, for che Major was
too apt to look coldly upon billiard balls
and cigars; he had also, to tell the truth,
swallowed a good bit of the mess-room po-
ker, but with it some sort of moral poker,
which made it as impossible for Major Hos
kyns to descend to an ungentleman-li like
word or action, as to brush his own trou-
sers below the knee.
Captain Dolignan told this gentleman his
story in gleeful accents: but Major Hoskins
heard him coldly, and as coldly answered
that he had known man to lose his life
for the same thing. "Thats nothing" :"
continued the Major, ''but unfortunately be
deserved to lose it,
At this the blood mounted TO the young
er mans temples, and his senior added, Il
mean to say he is thirty five; you presume,
are thirty one
Twenty
'.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."
s'That is hard, when won it.''
''Do it for all that. SIR
Let the disbelievers in human perfecti-
bility 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 fictitious
discomfort which belongs to US amiable
English. He was looking in vain for lady
equal in personal attractions to the idea he
had formed of George Dolignan as man.
when suddenly there glided past him most
delightful vision! lady whose beauty and
symmetry took him by the eyes. Another
look: cit can't be % Eyes it isI'' Miss
Haythorn! (not that he knew her name;
but what an apothesisD
The duck had become a-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
alone must not dance with her, speak to
ber. If he had been content to begin her
acquaintance the usual way, it might 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 was particularly assiduous; she
smiled on his assiduity; he was ugly, but
she smiled on him. Dolignan was surpris-
ed 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 so?'' He had
never kissed her, / suppose" said Dolly.
Dolignan could not prove it, hut he felt
somehow that the rights of property were
eyaded. He went home and dreamed of
Miss Haythorn, and hated all the ugly sue
cessful. He spent fortnight trying to find
out who this beauty was-he never could
encounter her again. AT last he heard of
her in this way: A lawyers clerk paid him
little visit, and commenced a little action
against him, in the name of Miss Haythorn,
for insulting her in a ,ailway 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 at last revealed by this un-
toward accident; from her name 10 her ad
dress was but short step; and the same
day our crest-fallen hero lay in wait at her
door-and many succeeding day, without
effect But one fine afternoon she issued
forth quite naturally, as if she did it every
day, and walked briskly on the nearest pa
rade. Dolignan did the same; he met and
passed her many times on the parade. and
searched for pity in her eyes, bat found
neither look, nor recognition, nor any other
sentiment For all this, she walked and
walked, till all The other promenaders were
t;rad and c.,tia H..