Connecticut western news., 1881-06-01

seen cannOn-ballS and llnStOCkS. He had also, to tell the truth, swallowed good deal of the mess-room poker, which made it impossible for Major Hoskyns to descend to an ungentlemanlike work or action as to brush his own trowsers beneath the knee.
 Captain Dolignan told this gentleman his story in gleeful accents, but Major Hoskyns heard him coldly and as coldly answered that he had known 6 man to loose his life for the same thing.
 "That is nothing," continued the ma jor, "but unfortunately he deserved to lose it"
 At this, blood mounted to the young CT mans temples and his senior added, 1T mean to say he was thirty-fve; you, I presume, are twenty-one."
 "Twenty-five."
 "That is much the same thing; you will be advised by me-
 elf you will advise me-"
 "Speak to no one of this and send White the 93 that he may think you nave lOSG the pet.
 "That is hard, when won it"
 "Do it, for all that, sir.''
 Let the disbelievers in human per- fectibility know that this dragoon capa- ble of blush did this virtuous action, albeit with violent reluctance :; and this was his first damper. A week after the event he was at 8 ball. Suddenly there glided past him most delightful vision: A klady whose beauty and symmetry took him by the eyes-another look. "It can't be! Yes, it isl" Miss Hay thorn (not that he knew her name D but what an apotheosis
 The duck had become 8 pea-hen- 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 begin her acquaintance in 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 assiduous; she smiled on his assiduity; he was ugly, but she smiled on him. Dolignan was surprised ut his success, his ill taste, his ugliness, his imperti- popoa EWbo xuoo fhiS mon on1 xubot right had he to go on so? He never kissed her, I suppose" said Dolle. Dolignan could not prove it, but he felt that somehow the rights of property were invaded. He went home and dreamed of Miss Haythorn, and hated all the ugly successful. He spent 8 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 lawyers clerk paid him little visit and commenced little action against him in the name of Miss Hay thorn for insulting her in railway train.
 The young gentleman was shocked; endeavored to soften the lawyers clerk; that machine did not thoroughly con- prehend the meaning of the term. The lady's name, however, was at last re- vealed by this untoward incident; from her name to her address was but short step, and the same day our crest-fallen hero lay in wait at her door, and many succeeding day, without effect.
 But one fine afternoon she issued forth quite naturally, as she did every day, and walked briskly 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 the other promenaders were tired and gone. Then her culprit summoned resolution, and, taking off his hat, with voice for the first time tremulous, besought permission to ad- dress her. She stopped, blushed, and neither acknowledged nor disowned his acquaintance. He blushed, stammered out how ashamed he was, how he de- served to be punished, how he was pun ished, how little she knew how unhappy he was, and concluded by begging her not to let all the world know the dis grace of man who was already morti- fled enough by the loss of her acquaint. ance. She asked no explanation. He told her of the action that had beer commenced in her name. She gently shrugged her shoulders and said: "Hov stupid they are p Emboldened by this he begged to know whether or not life of distant unpretending devotion would after lapse of years erase the memory of his madness-h1s crime!
 "She did not know P
 "She must now bid adieu, as she hat some preparations to make for ball il the Crescent, where everybody was t, be-" They parted, and Dolignan de termined to be at the ball where every body was to be. He was there, an,
 after some time he obtained an intro