, 1884-03-11


he knee.
Capt. Dolignan told this gentleman his
tory in gleeful accents; but Maj. Hoskyns
heard him coldly, and as coldly nswere
hat he had known a man to lose his life for
the same thing.
That nothing" continued the major;
1but, unfortunately, he deserved to lose it"
At this blood MOUNTED TO the young mans
emples, and his senior added;
II mean 20 say he was IS; you, 1 presume,
are 21l'
~That is much the same thing. WI you
be advised by meT'
"If you win advise me-"
Speak To no one OF this, and send White
The e3lfAut he may think you have lost the
bet"
THAT is hard, when l won it"
SDo 1t, for all that, sir"
Let the disbelievers in human perfect
bility know that this dragon, capable OF
| blush, did this virtuuus action, albeit
with a violent reluctance; and this was his
Inst damper.
A week aftor these events he was at a ball.
He was in a state Of Fictitious discomfort
which belongs to us amiable English. He
was looking in vain for a lady equal in per-
onal attraction to the idea he had formed OF
Dolignan as a man, when suddenly there
ylided past him a most delightful vision, a
lady whose beauty and symmetry took him by
it Isl" Miss Haythornl mot that he knew
her name) but what an apotheosisi
The duel had become a peahen-radiant,
dazzling, she looked twice US beautiful and
almost twice as large as before. He lost
sight Of her. Hp loved her again. She was
70 lovely she made him ill-and he alone
must not dance with her, speak to her. II he
1ad been content to commence her acquaint-
ince in the usual way it might ave ended
in kissing; iU must end with nothing. As she
danced sparks of beauty fell from her on all
around but im-on gentleman was par
ticularly ~nssiduous; she smiled on his ASST
duty; he was ugly but she smiled on him.
Dolignan was surprised at his success, his
ll-taste. his ugliness, his impertinence. Dolig-
nan at last found himself injured. "Who was
this man and what right had he to go on sol
He never kissed her l suppose" said Dole.
Dolignan could not prove it, but he felt that
somehow the rights Of property were invalid.
de went home and dreamed Of Miss Hay
horn, and hated all the ugly successful.
He spent a 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 a visit and commenced a
little action against him in the name OF Miss
Haythorn for insulting her in a railway
train.
The young gentleman was shocked; en-
ieavoring to soften the lawyers clerk; that
machine did not thoroughly comprehend the
meaning Of that term. TIL lady's name,
however, was at last revealed by this awk-
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was but a short step, and the same day our
:restfallen hero lay in wait at her door, and
many a succeeding day without effect. But
me fine afternoon she issued forth naturally,
IS II she did it every day, and walking briskly
IN the parade. Dolignan did the same, met
and passed her many times on the parade
aud searched for pity in her eyes, but found
neither look nor recognition, nor any other
ointment; for all this she walked and walked,
ill all the other promena ders were retired
and ~gone-then her culprit summoned res6-
luton, and, talking of his hat, with a voice
tor the first time ~tremulous, besought per-
mission to address her.
She stopped, blushed, and neither acknowl-
dged nor disowned his acquaintance. He
blushed, stammered out how ashamed he
was, how he deserved to be punished, how he
was punished, how little she knew how un-
happy he was, and concluded by begging her
not to let all the world know the disgrace of
4 man h wa already mortified by ths loss
Of her acquaintance. She asked an explaua-
ton. He told of the action that had been
commenced in her name. She gently
shrugged her shoulders, and said: allow
stupid they arel" Emboldened by this, he
begged to know whether or not a life OF dis
tant, unprecedented devotion would, after a
lapse Of years, erase the memory Of his mad.
ness-his crimel
"She did not kncwI She must now bid
him adieu, as shs had some preparations to
make for a ball in the Crescent, where every
body was to be-"
They parted, and Dolignan determined to
be at the ball, where everybody was to be.
He was there, and after some time he OBJ
tanned 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 ac-
quaintance that evening. That night, for
the first time. Dolignan was in love. / will
spare the reader all the lovers arts, by
which he succeeded in dining where she
dined, in dancing where she danced, in over
taking her by accident when she rode. Hs
devotion followed her to church, where ths
dragon was rewarded by learning there is "a
world where they neither polk nor smoke
the two capital denominations of this one.
He made an acquaintance with her uncle,
who liked him, and he saw at last with joy
that her eye loved to dwell upon him, when
she thought he did not observe her. 1t was
three months after the box tunnel that
Capt Dolignan called one day upon
Capt Haythorn, r. N, whom he had
met twice in his life, and slightly
propitiated by violently listening to a
c~utting-out expedition; he called and in the
usual way asked permission to pay his AL
dresses to his daughter. Tn worthy captain
straightway began doing quarter deck, when
suddenly he was summoned from the apart
ments by a mysterious message. On his re-
turn he announced, with a total change OF
voice. that at was all right. and his visitor
might run alongside as soon as he chose"
My reader has OWNED the truth; this nau-
teal commander, terrible to the foe, was in
complete and happy subsection to his daugh-
ter, our heroine.
As he was taking leave, Dolignan saw his
divinity glide into the drawing-room, He
followed her, observed a sweet Consciousness
deepen into coHfusiou-she tried to laugh,
and cried instead, and then she smiled again;
when he kissed her hand at the door it was
George" and Marian" instead Of Captain"
this and miss" the other.
A reasonable time after this for my tale is
merciful, and skips formalities and torturing
delays), these two were very happy. They
were once more upon the railroad going to
enjoy the honeymoon all by themselves
Marian D~olignnn was dressed Just as before
--duck-like and delicious, all bright except
her clothes; but George sat beside her this
time, instead Of opposite, and she drank him
In gently from her long eyelashea-
1Mhrian,' said George, married people
SHOULD tell each othor all. VIII you ever for
give me IL 1 own TO you no
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