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must pass him. She whom he had insulted
Latin for kissed deposited somewhere at
his feet look of gentle. blushing reproach !;
the other. whom he had not insulted. darted
red-hot daggers at him from her eyes and
so they parted.
1t was, perhaps, fortunate for Doligan that
he had the grace 10 be friend to Major Hos
kyns of his regiment, a veteran laughed at
by the Youngsters, for the Major was too
apt to look coldly upon billiard balls and
cigars be had seen cannon balls and lin
stocks He had, also. to tell the truth.
swallowed a good bit Of mess-room poker,
which made It as impossible for major Hos
kyns to descend TO an ungentlemanlike word
or action as TO brush his own trowsers be-
meath the knee.
Captain Doligan told this gentleman his
story in gleeful accents but Major Hoskyns
heard him coldly, and as coldly answered
that he had known a man TO lose his life for
the same thing.
That is nothing" continued the Major,
but, unfortunately, he deserved 10 lose it"
At this, blood mounted to the Younger
mans temples, and his senior added
IL mean TO say he was thirty five; YOU
presume. are t~enty-one.
Twenty FIVE"
"Tha, is much the same thing. You will
be advised BY me p
If YOU will advise me-"
Speak TO no one of this, and send White
the -, that he may think YOU have los, the
bet"
That is hard, when won it."
do il. for all that. sir"
-
" know that this dragoon capable Of blush
did this ,irtuous action. albeit with violent
reluctance. and this was his frs, damper. 4
week after the event he was at ball. He
was in that state of fictitious discomfort
which belongs TO US amiable English. lie
was looking IN vain for lady equal in per
sonal attraction TO the idea be had formed
of George Doligan as 4 man. when suddenly
there glidcd past him most delightful Wis
ion lady whose beauty and s,mmetr, took
him BY the ewes another look 1T can't
be Yes it is :" Miss Hawthorn mot that
he knew her namel. but wha, an apo,hesis
The duck had become pea a-hen-radlant.
dazzling she looked tNIc. a. beautiful and
almost twice a. large as before. lie LOST
sight of her. lie found her again. She
was so lovely, she made him ill-and he
alone. must not dance with her. speak to
her. II he had been content TO begin her
acquaintance the usual way, It might have
ended in kissing II must end in nothing
A. she danced, sparks o. beauty fell from
her on all around. but him-she did not see
him, II was clear she never would see him
one gentleman Was particularly assiduous :;
she smiled on his assiduity he was ugly,
but she always smiled on him. Doligan
was surprised at his success, his i'll taste,
his ugliness. his impertinence. Doligan at
first found himself injured. Who was this
man. and what right had he to go on so ?
lie never kissed her suppose" said Dollie.
Doligan could not prove it, but he felt that
the rights Of property we're invaded. He
went home and dreamed OF Miss Hay,horn,
and hated all the ugly successful. He spent
a fortnight, irving 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 little VISIT and
commenced an action against him in the
name Of Miss Haythorn, for insulting her in
a railway train.
The Young gentleman was shocked en-
deavored TO soften the LAWYERS clerk that
machine did not thoroughly comprehend the
meaning of that term. The lady's name,
however, was at las, revealed BY this unto
ward incident from her name to her address
was but short step; and the same day our
crest-tallen hero lay in wait at her door, and
many succeeding day, without effect. But
one fine afternoon she issued forth quite
naturally, as if she did it every day, and
walked briskly on the parade. Doligan 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 prone
naders were tired and gone. Then her cul-
prit summoned resolution. and taking off
his hat, with voice for the first time ,remu-
lous besought permission to address her.
She stopped, blushed, and neither acknowl-
edged nor disowned his acquaintance He
blushed. stammered out how much ashamed
he was, how he deserved to be punished,
how little she knew how unhappy he was,
and concluded by begging her not to let all
the world know the disgrace of q 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 COM
menced in her name she gently shrugged
her shoulders and said:
"How stupid they are!"
Emboldened by this, he begged to know
whether or not life of distant unpretend-
ing devotion would, after lapse Of years,
erase the memory Of his madness-his
crime
81 do not know! l must now bid you
adieu, as have some preparations to make
for ball. in the Crescent, where everybody
is to be-
They parted, and Doligan determined to
be at the ball, where everybody was to be-
He was there, and after some time 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,
Doligan was in love. will spare the read
er all lovers arts, by which he succeeded
in dining where she dined, in dancing where
she danced, in Oyertaking her BY accident
when she rode. His devotion followed her
to church, where the dragoon was rewarded
by learning there is world where they nei-
ther polk nor smoke-the two capital 3bom-
nations Of this one.
He made an acquaintance with her uncle,
uAeu uiui, anu lac saw at last, Win JOY, tuat
her eye loved to dwell on him when she
thought he did not observe her. 1t was
three months after the Box Tunnel that Cap
tain Doligan called one day upon Captain
Haythorn, r. n, whom he had met twice
in his life. and slightly propitiated by vio-
lently listening to cutting out expedition.
He called, and in the usual way asked per
mission to pay his addresses to his daughter.
The worthy Captain straightway began doing
the quarter deck, when suddenly he was
summoned from the apartment by myste-
rious message. On his return he announced,
with total change Of voice, that, at was
all right, and his visitor might run along
side as soon as he chose" My reader has
devined the truth. This nautical command
er, terrible 70 the foe, was IN complete and