The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-01-30


Box Tunnel" said the lady.
"fnvariabiy."
"What for!'
"Wly, heml it is a gentleman's joke"
Captain Dolignan then recounted TO
Miss HaythOrn the following:
"A lady and her husband sat together
going through the Box Tunnei-there was
one gentleman opposite; twas pitch dark
after the tunnel the lady said, George,
how absurd Of you to salute me going
through the tunnel 4 did no such thing.
You didn'tn No. whyH Because
somehow | thought you did!"
Here Captain Dolignan laughed and en-
deavored to lead his companion to laugh,
but it was not to be done. The train Ell
tered the tunnel.
Miss Haythorn-Ah!
Dolignan-What is the matter?
Miss Haythorn-I am frightened.
Dolignan (moving to her side)-Pray
do not he alarmed; [ am near you.
Miss Haythorn-Youa are near me-yery
near me, indeed, Captain Dolignan.
Dolignan-You know my name!
Miss Haythorn-I heard you mention
it. [ wish we were out Of this dark
place.
Dolignan-I could be content 10 spend
hours here, reassuring you, my dear lady.
Miss Haythorn-Nonsense!
Dolignan-Pweep 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!
Friend-What Is the inattcr2
fdiss Haythorn-Open the door! Open
the door.
There was a sound Of hurried whispers,
the door was shut, and the blind pulled
down with hostile sharpness.
II any critic falls on me for putting IN
articulate sounds in dialogue as above,
/ answer with all the insolence l can COM
mand at present: "Hit boys as big as
YOURSELF bigger, perhaps, such as Sopho-
cles. Euripides, and Aristophanes; they
began it, and | learned il Of them, sore
against my viii.
Miss Haythorn's scream lost most 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 10 ask himself whether
his conduct had been marked By that d,I-
icato reserve which is supposed to distin-
guish the perfect gentleman.
With a long face, real or feigned, he
held open the door; his late friends at
tempted to escape on the other side-im-
possible! they must pass him. She whom
he had insulted 0.atin for kisscd) depoSi-
ted somewhere at his feet look OF gentle,
blushing reproach; the other, whom he
had not insu4ted. darted r2d-hOt daggcrs
at him from her eyes; and so they parted.
Ie-r'-.-, r---i-s,>a -i.asflp,. e. = !. = -4+;----
that he had the grace TO be frlend to
Major Hocllins of his regiment, a veteran
laughed at by the youngsters, for the Ma
ior was too apt to look coldiy upon bill
liard-bal S and cigars; lie had seen can
non alls and linstocks. He had also, to
tell the truth, swallowed good deaf Of
the mess-room poker, which made it as
impossible for Major Hoskyns to descend
to an ungentlemanlike walk or acton as
to brush his own trousers beneath the
knee.
Captain Dolignan told this gentleman
his story in gleefuI accents; but Major
HoskynS heard him coldly, and as coldly
answered that he had known a man to
lose his life for the same ching.
THAT is nothing, continued the Major,
'but unfortunately he deserved to lose it,
At this blood mounted TO the younger
mans temples, and the senior added:
Il mean 20 say he was thirty five; you,
| presume, are twenty-0ac.N
"Twenty-fiv
"If you Will advise me-"
"Speak to no one Of this, and send
Whit the G3, that he may think you have
lost the bet"
THAT is hard, when | won IT,"
"Do it, for all that, sir"
Let the disbelicvers 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. 4 week after the events he
was at a ball. He was in that state OF
factitious discoQtent which belongs to us
amiablc English. He was looking in vain
for lady equal in personal traction to
| the idea he had 70 med Of George DOliG-
nan as a man, when suddenly there glidcd
| past him most delightful vision. a lady
| whose beauty and symmet,y Y took him by
the eyes Another look. lit can't be
| Yes, ii isl" Miss Haythorn mot that lie
knew her name) but what an apotheosiS!
The duck had become a pcahen-radi-
/ ant, dazzling. she looked twice as beauti-
1 ful and almost twice as large as before.
/ He lost sight Of her. He found her again.
! She was 50 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 it might
! have ended in kissing; it must end in
nothing. IS she danced, sparks Of beauty
| fell from her on all around but him; it
was clear she never would see him-one
gentleman was particularly assiduous;
She smiled on his assiduity; he was usl y,
/ but she smiled ON him. Dolignan was
/ surprised at his success, his i'll taste, his
/ ugiiness, his impertinence. Dolignan at
/ last found himself injured.
"Who was this man, and what right
| had he to go on so2 He never kissed her,
suppose" said Dole.
| Dol gnan could not prove ii, but he felt
that somehow the rights of property we're
/ invaded He went home aud dreamed OF
Miss Haythorn, and hated all the ugly
successful. He spent fortnight trying
20 fad 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 {
| little action against him, In the name o.
Miss Haythorn for Insulting her in a rail
way train.
The young gentleman was shocked; en-
( deavored TO soften the lawyers clerk
! that machine did not thoroughly compre
bend tho meaning Of the term. The lady
name, however, was at last revealed b,
this untowaTd incident: from her namt
TO her address was bat short step; ans
the same day our crestfailen hero lay il
wait al her door, and many o succeeding
day. without effect. But one fine after
noon she issued forth quite naturally, a
If she did II every day, and walked brisk
II on the parade. Doiignan did the same
met and passed her many times on tn
parade, and searched for pity in her eyes
but found neither look nor recognition