Year: 1869

sand murders at the same moment; and ficti-
tious grief makes itself heard when real can
not


Between the tunnel and Bath our Young
friend had time to ask himself whether his
conduct had been marked by that delicate re-
serve which is supposed to distinguish the
perfect gentleman.


With long face, real or feigncd, he held
open the door; his late friends attempted to
escape on the other side-impossible they
must pass HIM She whom he had nsulted
0atin for kisse(D deposited somewhere at his
feet q 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 Dolignan that
he had the grace to be friend to Major
Hoskyns of his regiment, veteran laughed
at BY the Youngsters, for the major was too
apt to look coldly upon blliard-balls and
cigars :; he had seen cannon bal ps and linstocks.
He had also, to tell the truth, swallowed a
good bit of the mess room poker, which made
it as impossible for Major Hoskyns too de-
scend to an ungentlemanlike word or action as
to brush his own trowsers below the knee.


Captain Dolignan told this gentleman his
story in gleeful accents; but Major Hoskyns
heard him codly, and as coldy 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 to lose it."


At this, blood mounted to the younger
mans temples and his senior added, II mean
to say he was thrty-five; You, ! presume,
are tWenty-oner' Y


''TWenty y-tiye.'


''That is much the same thing: will YOU be
advised by me?"


''If you will advise me-


"Speal1 to no one of this, and send White
the t3 that he may think YOU have lost the
bet -


THAT is hard when won it,


''Do it all for that, SIR


Let the disbelievers in human pertrctibilty
know that this dragoon capable of a blush did
this virtuous action, albeit with violent reluc-
tance; and this was his first damper A week
after these events, he was at Il ball. lie was
in that state of Fictitious discomfort which be-
longs to us amable English He was look
ing in vain for q lady, equal in personal at
traction to the idea he had formed Of George
Dolignan as man, when suddenly there Gid
ed past him a most delightful vision a lady
whose beauty and symmetry took him by the
eyes-another look; at can't bc.'' YES. it
isl" Miss Haythom (not that he knew her
llilllc j bul Wlstl IN lpOlnCOSlS


The duck had become pea hen-radiant,
dazzling, she looked twice as beautiful and
almost twice as large As before He 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 If he
had been content to begin her acquaintance
the usual way, it might have ended in kiss
ing it must end in nothing. As she danced
sparks OF beauty fell from her on all around,
but hlm-shc did not see him; it was clear
she never would see him-one gentleman
was particularly assiduous; She smiled on his
assldulty; he was ugly but she smiled on
him. Doignan was surprised at his success,
his Ill taste, his ugliness, his impertinence.
Dolignan at last found himself injured ':who
was this man?" land what right had he to 20
on SOP ''Ie never kissed her suppose"
said Dolly. Dolignan could not prove it, but
he felt that somehow the rights of property
We're invaded. He went home and dreamed
of Miss Haythorn, and hated all the ugly sue
cesstul He spent fortnight trying to find
counter her again At last he he.rd Of her
tie visit and commenced a little action against
him in the name Of Miss IIaythorn, for insult
ing her in "A railway train


The young gentleman was shocked; en-
deayored to soften the lawyers clerk that
machine did not thoroughly comprehend the
meaning Of the term. The ladvs name, how
ever, was at last revealed by this moward
incident; from her name to her address was
but a short step and the same day, our crest
fallen hero lay in wait at her door-and many
Il succeeding day without effect But one
fine afternoon she issued forth quite natural
ly, as if she did it 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 all the other promenaderS
We're tired and gOne-then her culprit sum
moned resolution, and taking Oft his hat, with
voice tremulous for the first time, besought
permission to address her She stopped,
blushcd, and neither acknowledged nor dis
owned his acquaintance. He blushed, STAN
mered out how ashamed he was, how he de-
served to be punished how he 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 Il man, who
was already mortified enough by the loss of
her acquaintance. She asked an eXplana-
ton; he told her of the action that had been
commenced in her name; she gently shrug-
ged her shoulders and said ''IIow stupid
they are" Emboldened by this he begged
to know whether or not u lite of distant I'M
pretending devotion would, after a lapse of
years, erase the memory Of his madncss-his
crime!


''She did not known


''She must now bid him alieu, rs she had
some preparations to make for II ball in the
Crescent, where everybody 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 obtained an in
PRODUCTION to Miss IIaythorn, and he danced
with her. Her manner was gracious. With
the wonderful tact'of her sex, she seemed to
have commenced the acquaintance that even
ing. That night, for the first time, Dolignan
was in love. ! will spare the reader all u
lovers arts, by which he succeeded in dining
where she dncd, in dancing where she dane
ed. in overtaking her by accident when she
rode. His devotion followed her even to
church, where the dragoon was rewarded BY
learning there is world where they neither
polk nor smoke--thc two capital abomina-
tions of this one.


He made an acquaintance with her uncle,
who liked him, and he saw, at last with iov
that her eye loved to dwell upon him, when
she thought he did not observe her.


It was three months after the Box Tunnel
that Capt Dolgnan called one day upon Capt
Haythorn, r. N, whom he had met twice in
his life, and slightly propitiated by violently