The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-07-27

! Dolignan (moving TO her sidc)-Pray do not
be alarmed; am near you
Miss Haythorn--You are near mc-very
near me, indeed, Captain DoIignan.
Dolignan-You know my name?
Miss Haythom-I heard you mention it. |
wish we were out OF this dark place,
Dolignan-1 could be content 10 spend hours
here, reassurng you, my dear lady.
Miss Haythorn-No
gnan-Pweep! Grave reader, do not
put your lips TO the next pretty creature you
meet, or you will understand what this mcans')
Miss Haythorn-Ee! Ee!
Frend-What is the matter?
Miss Haythorn-Opcn the door! open the
door,
There was IA sound of hurried whispers, the
door was shut and the blind pulled down with
hostile sharpness.
If any critic falls on me for putting inarticu-
late sounds in u dialogue AS above, answer
with all the insoencc | can command at pres
emit "Hit boys as big as YOURSELF bigger;
perhaps. such AS Sophocles, Eurpidcs, and
lAristophanes they began 1t, and learned IL
of them, sore against my will
Miss HaythOrn's scream lost most OF its ef-
feet because the engine whlstled forty thous-
and murders at the same moment: and flctl-
tious 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 re-
serve which is supposed to distinguish the per-
feet gentleman.
With long face, real or feigned, he held
open the door; his late friends attempted to es-
cape on the other side-impossibc! they must
pass him. She whom he had insultcd Iain
for kissed deposited somewhere at his feet
look of gentle, blushing reproach; the other,
whom he'd not nsul,ed darted red-hot daggcrs
at him from her eyes; and so they parted.
| 1t was, perhaps, fortunate for DOlignan that
he had the grace to be a friend to Major Hos
Ikyns of his regiment, veteran laughed ut by
the Youngsters, for the Major was too apt to look
coldly upon billiardballs and cigars; he had
seen cannon balls and linstocks, He had also,
to tell the truth swallowed good bit OF the
mess room poker, which made ii as impossible
for Major Iloskyns to descend to an ungcntle-
manike work of action as to brush his own
trousers beneath the knee.
Captain Doignan told this gentleman his
story in glccful accents; but Major Iloskyns
heard him coldly, and as coldly answered that
The had know Il 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 30; you, presume, are 81 ~
"Twcnty-tive.'
"Tha IS much the same thing; you will be
advised hy me-"
"lf 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 perfectbility
know that this dragon, capable of blush,
did this virtuous action, albeit with violent re.
luctance; 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 amlabc English. He was look.
ing in vain for lady, equal in personal at
traction to the idea he had formed of George
DOlignan AS u man, when suddenly there Gid
ed past him Il most delightful vision u lady
. whose beauty and symmetry took him by The
eyes-anothcr look at can't be- Yes 1t iss'
, Miss lIaythorn mot that he knew her name)
!, but what an apotheosis!
- The duck had become II peahen--radiant
dazzling she looked twice rs beautiful and
, almost twice as large rs before lie lost sight
- of her. He found her again She was sc
-, 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 thu
:, usual way it might have ended in kissing; il
" must end in nothing. As she danced sparks
. of beauty fell on all around but him-she dc
not see him II was clear she never would SEE
I, him--one gentleman was particularly assidu
= Gus; she smiled on his assiduity he was ugly
d, but she smiled on him. Dolignan was sur
prised at his success, his i'll taste, his impcrti
I, ncnce Dolgnan at last found himself in
= jured; "who was this man. and what RICH
had he to 90 on so? He never kissed her,
suppose" said Dole. Dolignan could no
y prove IT. but he felt somehow the rights o
property were invaded. lie went home ant
y, dreamed of Miss lIaythorn, and hated al
, the ugly successful He spent n fortnight try
! ing to find out who his beauty was-he nevel
. could encounter her again. AT last he heard %
her in this way: A lawyers clerk paid him ,
= little visit and commenced little action
= against HIM in the name of Miss Haythorn
for insulting her IN railway train.
4 The young gentleman was shocked; endeav
4 ored to soften the lawyers clerk that machln,
did not thoroughly comprehend the meanns
of the term. The .lsdy's name, however, was
: at last revealed by this untoward incident
=. from her name to her address was but shor
8 step; and the same day our crestfallen here
# lay in wait at her door, and many succeed
# ing day, without effect But one fine after
G noon she issued forth quite naturally, as II slit
J. did it every day and walked briskly on the pa
e radc Dolgnan did the same met and passed
/. her many times on the parade, and searched
c for pity in her eyes, but found neither look no
It recognition, nor any other sentiment; Tor al
this she walked aid walked, till all the othe
e promcnaderS were tired and gone. Then TIL,
!. lculprit summoned resolution and, taking OF
d his hat with a voice for the first time tremu
e lous, besought permission to address hel
4 She stopped, bushcd, and neither acknowl
If edged nor disOwned ms acquaintance. IL
bushed, stammcred out how ashamed he was
V how he deserved to be punished, how little sh
e knew how unhappy he was, and concluded b
{. begging her not to let all the world know til
If disgrace of IA man who was already morthe
n enough by the loss of her acquaintance. Sh
e asked an explanation: he told her of the actio
il that had been commenced in her name; sh
d gently shrugged her shoulders and said: "HoN
" stupid they arer Emboldened by this, II