Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1878-08-03

billiard-balls and cigars; he had seen
cannon balls and linstOcks. He had also
to tell the truth, swallowed a good deal
of the mess-rOOm poker, which made ii
as impossible for Major HOskvns to de-
scend to an ungentlemanlike work or ac-
ton as to his brush his own trousers be-
meath the knee.
Captain Dolignan told this person his
story i'm gleeful accents; but Major Hos
kyns heard him cOldly, and as cOldly
answered that he had known 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,
Il mean to say he was 35; you, pre-
sumo, are PIP
"Twenty-five."
THAT is much the same thing; you
will 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 disabelievers i'm human per-
fectibility know that this dragOOu capa-
BILE OF blush did this virtuOus action,
albeit with terrible reluctance; ard this
was his first damper. A week after the
events he was at ball He was i'm that
state of Fictitious discomfort which be-
longs to us amiable English. He was
looking in vain for lady, equal to the
idea he had formed of George DOIignan
as man, when suddenly there glided
past him a most delightful vision lady
whose beauty and symmetry took him
by the eyes-ancther look: at can't
be! Yes it s." Miss Haythorn mot that
he knew her name) but what an apothe
OSis
The duck had become pheasent-ra-
diant, dazzling. she looked twice as beau-
tiful and almost twice rs 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. If lie had been content to begin her
acquaintance 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 particularly as
siduOuS; she smiled OIL his asSiduity; he
lignai. was surprised at his success, his
i'll taste, his ugliDess, his imperlinence.
Dolignan ut last found himself injured;
who was this man? and what right had
he to go OH so? He never kissed her |
suppose" said Dole. Dolignan could
not prove it, but he felt that somewhat
the rights of priOrerty We're invaded. He
went home and dreamed of Miss Hay
thorn and hated all the ugly successful.
He spent IL fortnight trying TO find out
vino his beauty was-he never could en-
counter he again. At last he heard OF
her in this way: a lawyers clerk paid
him little visit and commenced IA little
action against him in the name of Miss
Haythorn.. for insulting her in Il railway
train.
The young gentleman was shocked; en-
deavOred TO soften the lawyers clerk;
that machine did not thoroughly COM
prehend the meaning of the term. The
lady'S name, how ever, was ut last re-
vealed by this untOward incident; from
her name to her address was but short
step; and the same day our crestfallen
hero lay in wait at her door, and many
il succeeding day. without effect. But
one fine afternoon she Issued forth quite
naturally, as if she did it every day, and
walked briskly OH the parade. DolIgnau
did the Same; met and passed her many
times on the parade, and searched for
pity lin her eyes, but found 'ither look
nor recognition, nor any other senti-
ment; for all this she walked and walked
till all tn other prOmenaders were tired
and gone. Then her culprit summoned
resolution. and, taking off his hat, with
a voice for the first time trcmulOus, be-
sought permission to address her. She
stopped, blushed, and ueither acknOwl-
edged nor dsOwned his acquaintance.
He blushed, stammered out how asham-
ed he Was, how he deserved to BE- pun
ished, how he WAS punished, how little
she knew how unhappy he was, and
concluded bv begging her not to let all
the world know the disgrace of nun
who was already mortified enough by
the loss of her acquaintance. She asked
an explanation; he told her of the ac-
ton that had been commenced i'm her
name; she gently shrugged her shoulders
and said: "How stupid they are!' En-
boldened by this, he begged to know
whether or not life OF distant unpre-
tending devotion would, after lapse of
years, erase the memory of his madness
his crime!
''Shc did not knOwp'
''She must now bid him adieu, as she
had some preparations to make for ball
in the crescent, where everybody was TO
be-" They parted, and Dolignan de-
termIned to be at the ball where every
body was to be. He was there anu at
ter some time he obtained an intrOduc
ton 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 acquain-
lance that evening. That night, for the
first time, DOlignan was in love. L will
spare the reader all lovers arts, by
which he succeeded in dining where she
dined, in dancing where she danced, i'm
Overtaking her by accident when she
rode. His devotion followed her to
church, where the dragon was rewarded
by learning there is a world where they |
neither polk nor smoke-the two capital |
of this one.
He made an acquaintance with her
uncle who liked him. and he saw at last |
with 10y that her eyes loved to dwell up
on him, when she thought he did not
observe her. 1t was three months after
the Box tunnel that Captain DOlignan
called one day upon Captain Haythor N
X. N, whom he had met twice i'm his
life, and slightly propltiated by violently
listening to cutting out expedition; he
called, and in the usual way asked per-
mission to pay his addresses to bis daugh-
ter. The worthy Captain straishtway
began doing quarterback. when sudden
Iy he was summoned from the apartment
by mysterious message. On her
his return he announced, within total
change of voice, that 1T was all right
anl Lie uicitnr m nht run alnnrSila rs