The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1869-09-10
BIDDEFoRD, ME-, FRIDAY
Miss Haythorn-You are near me

Miss Haythorn-You are near me
very near me. indeed, Capt, Dolignan.
Dolignan-You know my name!
Miss Haythorn-I heard you mention
il. wish we were cut OF this dark
place.
Dolignan-I could be content to spend
hours here, reassuring you. my dear
lady. ..t tF.
Miss observation-disclosures!
Dolignan-Pwecp! Grave reader, do
not put your lips to the next pretty crea-
ture you meet, or you will understand
what this means.)
Miss Haythorn-Ee! Ee! ,E.
Friend-What is the matter?
Miss Haythorn-Open the door! Open
the door!
There was sound of hurried whispers,
the door was shut and the blind pulled
down with hostile sharpness.
Ifany critic falls on me for putting in
articulate sounds in dialogue rs above,
! answer with all the insolcnce can COM
mand mt present. "IIit boys as big as
YOURSELF" bigger, perhaps, such rs Sop
hocles, Euripedes and Aristophanies; (;
they began it, and learned it Of them,
sore against my will.
Miss Haythorn's scream lost most OF its
effect because the engine whistled forty
thousand murders mt the same moment;
and fictitious grief makes itself heard
when real cannot. t
Between the tunnel and Bath our young
friend had time TO ask himself whether
his conduct had been marked by that del
icate reserve which is supposed to distin-
guish the perfect gentleman.
With long face, real or feigned, he
held open the door; his late friends Mt
tempted to escape on the other side-fm-
possible! they must pass him, She whom
he had insulted U.atin for kissed) deposit
ed somewhere at his feet u look of gentle,
blushing reproach; the other whom he
had not insulted, darted red-hot daggers
ut him from her eyes and so they part
ed. .r
II was. perhaps, fortunate for Dolignan
that he had the grace TO be friend to
Major Hoskyns of his regiment. u veteran
laughed at by the youngsters, for the ma
jor was too apt to look coldly upon bill
liard-balls and cigars; he had seen can
non balls and linstocks. He had also, to
tell the truth, swallowed good bit of the
mess-room poker, which made it rs inn
possible for Major Hoskyns to descend
10 an ungentlemanlike word or action rs
to brush his own trowscrs below the knee.
Capt. Dolignan told this gentleman his
story in gleeful accents; but Major Hosk-
yns heard him coldly, and rs coldly an
swered that he had known u man to lose
his life for the some thing.
THAT is nothing" continued the Major,
.'but unfortunately he deserved to lose it.
At this, blood mounted to the younger
mans temples and his senior added, 81
mean to say he was thirty-five; you,
presume, are twenty-one"
.'Twenty-five.n
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 IS, that he may think you have
lost the bet.n
That is hard when / won it."
"Do 1t all for that, sir"
Let the disbelevers in human perfect
ibility know that this dragoon capable of
u blush did this virtuous action, albeit
with violent reluctance; and this was his
first damper. A week after these events
he was Mt ball. He was in that state of
Fictitious discomfort which belongs to us
amiable English He was locking in vain
for a lady, equal in personal attraction to
the idea nc had formed of George Dolig-
nan rs a man, when suddenly there glid-
cd past him most delightful vision! n
lady whose beauty and symmetry took him
by the eycs-another look; at can't be-"
ayes, it isw Miss Haythorn! mot that he
knew her nameD but what an apotheosis!
The duck had become u pea hcn-r;I-
dant, dazzling, she looked twice rs beau
tiful and almost twice rs large rs before.
He lost sight Of her. He 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, II might
have ended in kissing, il must end in moth
ing. As she danced, sparks of beauty fell
from her ON all around, but him-she did
not see him; il was clear she never would
see him-one gentleman was particularly
assiduous; she smiled OH his assiduity; he
was ugly, but she smiled on him. Dolig-
nan was surprised at his success, his i'll
taste, his ugliness. his impertinence.-
Dolignan mt last found himself injured;
.'who was this man?" 'and what right
had he 10 90 on so?n ale never kissed
her. suppose" said Dolly. Dolignan
could not prove il, but he felt that some-
how the rights of property were invaded.
He went home and dreamed of Miss Hay
thorn, and hated all the ugly successful.
He spent fortnight trying to find out who
his beauty was-he never could encoun-
ter her again. At last he heard Of her in
this way: A lawyers clerk paid him u
little visit and commenced little action
against him i'm the name of Miss Hay
thorn, for insulting her in u railway train.
The young gentleman was shocked; en-
,leavored 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 incidents from her name to her adj
dress was but a short step; and the same
day. our crcstfillen hero lay in wait Mt her
door-and many succeeding day, with
out effect. But one fine afternoon she is
sued forth quite naturally, rs If she did II
every day. and walked briskly on the pa
rade. Dolignan did the same, 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 and
walked. till all the other promenaders
were tired and gone-then her culprit
summoned resolution, and taking of his
hat, with voice for the first time trem-
ulous, besought permission to address her.
She stopped, blushed, and neither nc
knowledg' dnor disowned hisacquaintance.
He blushed, stammered out how ashamed
he was, how he deserved to be punished,
how he was punished. how little she knew
how unhappy he was, and concluded by
begging her not To let al the world know
the disgrace of man. who was already
mortified enough by the loss of her nc
Sh., astyal -.