Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-02-27
blind pulled down with hostile sharp


inarticulate sounds i'll dialogue s
above, answer with all the insolenc
!, | can command at present: ''H
y y boys as big as YOURSELF" bigger
: perhaps, such as Sophocles. Eur
=! nides, and Aristophanes they bega
1T, and srLnarned it of them. so,
against my will.
Miss Haythorn's scream lost most
of its effect because the engine whist
led 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 to ask himself
whether his conduct had been marked
by that delicate reserve which is sup
pesed-to distinguish the perfect gen.
tkcsan.
With long face, real or beigned,
he held open the door; his late
friends attempted to escape ON the
other side-impossible! they must
pass him. She whom he had insulted
Latin for kissed) deposited some
where at his feet look of gentle,
blushing reproach; the other, whom
he had not lnsulted, darted red-hot
daggers at him from her eyes; and
SO they parted.
1t was, perhaps, fortunate for Doll
gnan that he had the grace to be a
friend to Major Hoskins of his regi-
ment, veteran laughed at by the
youngsters, for the Major was too
apt TO look coldly upon 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, VIII ich made il
as impossible for Major Hoskins to
descend to an ungentlemanlike walk
or action as to brush his own trousers
beneath the knee.
Captain Dolignan told this gentle
man his story in gleeful accents but
Major Hoskins hearl him coldly, and
as cOldiy answered that he had known
a man to lose his life for the same
thing.
That is nothing confined the
Major, "but unfortunately he deserv-
ed to lose it.
At this blood mounted to the
younger mans temples, and the senior
| added:
Il mean to say he was thirty-tive
you, L presume, are twenty-one"'
Twenty five
''If you will advise me.''
''Speak to no one of this, and send
Whit the f3, that he may think you
have lost the bet"
That is hard, when l won it.
''Do it, for all that, sir -
Let the disbelievers in human per
fectibility know that this dragoon
capable Of a blush did this virtuous
action, albeit with violent reluctance !;
and this was his first damper. A
week after the events he was at a bail.
He w"s IN that state of tactitious dis
content which belongs to us amiabe
English. He was looking in vain for
a lady equal in personal attraction to
the idea that he had formed of Geo.
DOlignan as a man, when suddenly
there glidcd past him a most delight
tul vision. n lady whose beauty and
symmetry took him by the eyes. An
other look. ut can't bel Yes, it
isl" Mis- Haythorn (not that he
knew her name) but what an apotheo.
sis!
The duck had become peahen-
radiant, 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 be-
gin her acquaintance the usual way it
might have ended in kissing it must
end in nothing. AS she danced, spa rks
uf beauty fell from her on all around
but him; it was clear she never would
see him---one gentleman was particu-
larry 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 impertlnence. Dolignan at last
found himself injured.
"'Who was this man, and what right
had he to go on so? He ne yer kissed
her, 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 Mis- Hawthorn,
and hated all tn. ugly successful.
He spent 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 law
yer's clerk paid him little visit aad
commenced little action aginst him,
in the name of Miss Haythorn for in-
sulting her in railway train.
The young gentleman was shocked :;
endeavorcd to soften the lawyer =
clerk that machine did not thorough
ly comprehe nd the meaning of the
term. The lady's name, however,
was at last revealed by this untoward
incident; from her name to her ad-
dress was but short step; and the
oaiIiC NhS oul SLcStldllcu ucEO lay III
wait at her door, and many sue
ceeeding day, without effect. But
one fine afternoon she issued forth
quite naturally, as if she did it every
day, land walked brlskly 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 prornenaders were tired and
gone. Then her culprit summoned
resolution, and, taking off his hat,
with voice for the first time tremu-
lous, besought permission. to address
her. She stopped, blushed, and
neither acknowledged nor disowned
his acquaintance. He blushed, stam-
mered out how ashamed he was, how
he deserved to be punished, how she
was punished, how little she knew
how unhappy he was, and concluded
by begging her not to let all the world
know the disgrace of man who was
already mortified enough hy tho 1osS