Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-19

veteran laughed at by the youngsters,
for the Major was too apt to look cold
ly upon the billiard-balls and cigars;
he had seen cannon-balls and linstocks.
He had also, to tell the truth, swallowed
good bit of the mess-room pork, which
made it as impossible for Maj. Hoskyns
to descend to an ungentlemanlike work
or action as to brush his own trousers
beneath the knee.
Capt. Dolignan told this gentleman
his story in gleeful accents; but Maj.
Hoskyus heard him coldly, and as cold
ly answered that he had known q man
to lose his life for the same 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,
l presume, are twenty-onep'
"Twenty-tive."
THAT is much the same thing; you
will be advised by meP"
"H you will advise me-"
"Speak to no one of this, and send
White the three pounds, that he may
think you have lost the bet"
"That is hard, when won it,
"Do it, for all that, sir"
Let the disbelievers in human per-
fect-tribility know that this dragoon
capable of blush dId this virtuous act
ion, albeit with violent reluctance; and
this was his first damper. A week
after the 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 at
traction to the idea he had formed of
George Dolignan as man. When sud-
denly there glided past him delight
full vision! lady whose beauty and
symmetry took him by the eyes-an-
other look: "It can't be! Yes, it isr'
Miss Haythorn (not that he knew her
name) but what an apothesis!
The duck had become peahen-ra-
diant, 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 ill-and he, alone, must not
dance with her, speak to her. If he
had been content to begin her acquaint-
ance the usual way it might have ended
in 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 particu-
larly assiduous; she smiled on 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
never kissed her, l suppose" said
Dole. Dolignan could not prove it,
but he felt that somehow the rights of
property were invaded. He went home
and dreamed of Miss Haythorn, and
hated all the ugly successful. He spent
a fortnight trying to find out who his
beauty was-he never could encounter
her again. At last he heard of her in
this way: A lawyers clerk paid him a
little visit and commenced a little ac.
tion against him in the name of Miss
Haythorn, for insulting her in a railway
train.
The young gentleman was shocked;
endeavored to softea the lawyers clerk;
that machine did not thoroughly COM
prehend the meaning of the term. The
lady's name, however, was at last re-
vealed by this untoward incident; from
her name to her address was but a
short step; and the same day crest
fallen hero lay in wait at her door,
and many succeeding day without
effect. But one fine afternoon
she issued forth quito naturally, as if
she did it every day, and walked brisk
ly on the parade. 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 off his hat, with
a voice for the first time tremulous, be-
sought permission to address her. She
stopped, blushed, and neither acknowl-
edged nor disowned his acquaintance.
He blushed, stammered out how
ashamed he was, how he deserved to
be punished, how he was punished,
HC" AAeNio ohp hhON ION nt
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
are9' Emboldened by this, he begged
to know whether or not life of distant
devotion would, after
lapse of years, erase the memory of his
crime!
"She did not known
"She must now bid him adieu, as she
had some preparations TO make for
ball in the Crescent, where every
body was 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. 1 viii