Show THE BOX TUNNEL the fifteen minutes past 10 train glided from paId ington may 7 in the left compartment of it 11 certain first class car riA hewen wen conr our pas passengers mengers of these singularly pili irly enough two viere sere worth tion 1 e tie ile imly hail a mil smooth looth white dell left cute brow M t hongly marked eyebrows long ix latties laities heh eyes that lemed to change color ami gui it good goi aed delicious mouth with befth as a s white as milk A iman au could not bee tin tier none nose from tier eyes and month her own wi hex could and mould would hae have told us about it she wore an pre lendin g kraith dies drews buttoned to the throat wit anh h lozenge shaped buttons aud and a scotch rima I 1 that agreeably evaded the of color she was like a duck so tight her plain feathers fitted lier ber and there she nat mat smooth snug and delicious wit with 1 a book in her hand and a of or owr tn r snowy wrist just visible as she held it her opposite neighbor was what I 1 call a awl style man wan the more inore to his cr credit elit since lie b longed belonged to a corporation that 0 turns out ont the worst imaginable young ilo lie wa arti it 11 cavalry officer aged twenty five 1 I K he ile had a it mustache but not a ery very repulsive c one it was far from being one of hoe nuh nasal pig tails on which kolep is tike like dew lev on oil a shrub it fiort thick and black as coal ilia ills teeth had not yet ft been turned by fly tobacco tob iceo to the color of tobacco juice his ills clot cl ollien lies did lid not slick stick to or hang on oil him they hat sat on him lie hadan had an engaging smiley like the dog foghis for h la vanity which vas was inordinate was in its proper place his heart not in his face jostling mine an nid other peoples who have hai e none in a it wont word lie was what one oftener hears bears of than nicety a young gentleman lie ile in conversing in an animated per with bis coni companion ganjon a it fellow officer they talked about what la Is far better not to do women our friend clearly did not wish to ba be overheard for he cast cat ever and anon n furtive glance at hn his fair via vis a vis and hin his voice she seemed completely ali orbed in her look book and that reassured him hini at last the came camo down to it low per the tile truth must be told ami the one who got down at slough and wm wa lotto posterity bet ten to ali ace that he who was going dow n with its to hath bath and immortality would not klita either of the lulick e oppa sito upon the road D donel onel doin done now I 1 am ant norry sorry teman anian I 1 hae have hitherto praised binl should have haelett ha elent tent himself even in ili a it whisper to such speculation but nobody 11 Is wl diw e at all fill hours not even when the lie clock i ng live and tw twenty ty tal aud and yoi you are tire to consider fit liis prore hion 1 his good looka looks and the temptation ten to three after A tier slough the party was reduced to three at tit twyford one lady dropped her captain dolighan Doli gnan fell on it like a ti tiger gerund and returned it like a lamb two or three words were interchanged on oil tant occasion at heading reading the marlborough of oil our r tale title made one of the hate safo in vestments vest menta of the tile day he bought a it times a and nd a it 11 punch tinch I 1 the he latter was full of steel pen thrusts an and 1 I wood woo duts valor and beauty deigned to laugh at some atm aam humbug or other punctured by punch now laughing together thaws our bunian ice tee long lefore before swindon it WIM wl L a it talking match at fit swindon who BO so devote an as captain dolighan Doli Ioli guan gnan ho he handed them out he lie them he tough them themie he brandied brandi cd and bochl healed one and lie brandied hrand brand led and burned Kii ugar gared 41 the other on their return to tho tile carnage carriage one lady passed into the inner compartment to inspect a certain gentle maich mat seat on that side of the if line ne 14 lE ader cader had it been you or I 1 the tile beauty would won 11 have been the deserter the av average arago oue would have maid with us till at all I 1 was blue our ourselves melves included not more arely d ou r slice of bread and butter when it mim 4 froni front our liand hand revolve it ever so often alight face race downward on oil the carpet kut lilt thin this van a bit of a fop Atlo adonis nl dragoon ho io etina venus remained lit in tete a acte with him presently our captain looked out of a it window we are only a it mile from the box tunnel do yon i ou always laugh a it mile from the box tit tinell mid the lady invariably what for fory why lierni it Is a gent lemans joke oh oil I 1 dont mind fix being ally if it ioakem me laugh Do Dolf lignian gnan tunit encouraged re conuto to aliss Ilay haythorn thorn the following A lady and her tier nat mat together to ether going through the box ho tunnel there ther ewas wa was s one gentleman opposite it was mits pitch dark after the tunnel the I 1 lady a dy haid george 90 how nixie arti of you to salute mat ute going through the tunnel 1 I 1 did no such thull you why because home some alv I 1 thought ought you did 1111 here jere captain dolighan Doli gnan anan laughed and endeavored endear orad to tb lead hh compin lon to laugh but it wa was s not to bedone be doia the t rain entered the tunnel 1 ah ahl dolighan Doli gnan what whitt it the matter nil it I 1 am botik to her tier side sidell pray do not be ile I 1 am atu WM neit you aliex nil am it H YOU tire near me tile very near car nie tile explain Iol ignall dol holik ag you know my mime I 1 alla al l if il I 1 l I heard your f friend ment mention ion it I 1 wish a e were out of this dark place dalig I 1 could iw ile couten teil to upend pend honorm liere here ren you sweet lady aik aliha ll 11 n w L bolig im ap pp grave render do GO not conr lio lit to the chawk if f tile next firs pretty twit creators you inter or you will I 1 understand what tills nil re friend abat Is i tile matter 1111 II Open the boort open the dohrl there wa 4 st bound sound of barric d whispers tile door was abut and the blind down w m ith batile sharp if illy critic falls on we for putting inai hounds in ILI the dialogue tae n above I 1 answer with all tile Insole insolence noe I 1 can coin ii iid at preveat cat lilt boya boys HI big as your nt n t biggar herbat per hapa btuch afta sophocles 1 they began it and I 1 learned it of them dinst my will s miss of f tit V murders at the 0 rt same m C moment and grief makes ilcia beard when wh real cannot cs between the be tunnel t and bat bath our friend M had time to ak ask himself whether his conduct had been marked by t that hat dell arve reserve is to distin adyln aguish g shabe the perfect gentleman Keut leman with ith ft it long face real or feigned ho he held open opeil the door bi his late ate friends at ten the other sidel el tin 1 poss hie they mum pass hain she whom he had lisul insulted itin for kissed deposited somewhere at tit his bill feet a look of gentle blushing reproach the other whom ho he had not insulted darted red hot daggers at him froin from her lier eye eyes anil tin so they parted it was perhaps n well ell for dolighan Doli gnan that he lie had ad the tile grace to he be friends with major hoskyns of his bix regiment a veteran laughed at by the young for the ma jor its too apt to look coldly upon billiard balls and cigars he lie had bad seen cannon I 1 balan 1 l 1 jim and tin stocks lie had also to ull tell the art truth i th swallowed weI a good bit of the poker which made it us as ampo ablo for major hoskyns to descend end to an tin word or action as to brush his ills own trousers below the knee captain Do lignau told this gentleman his ills story in gleeful accent ament but major lie 1109 cyns heard him coldly and as wt coldly answered that lie had known a man mail to lose his life for the same thing tiling that Is nothing continued the major but bately he lie deserved to lose it at this the blood mounted to the young er mans mails tem plem and ills his benlor benior added lidded 1 I mean to say be waa thirty ne five you I 1 are twenty one t twenty fhe 11 that Is 1 much the same thins thing you will bo be advised by me if you will advise me speak to no one of this tills and send white the three pounds that he may think you have lost tot to t the bet 11 1 that is hard when I 1 won if it do it for all that sir 11 let the disbelievers in human ability 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 these events he was wits at a ball not the tile first since his ills return remember lie ile was hi in that state of file factitious discontent which belongs to us I 1 eng ng lish lie ile was looking in vain for a it lady equal in personal attraction to the idea he lie had fird formed of george dolighan Doli gnan as ws a man when suddenly there glided past him a most delightful giblon a lady whose beauty and symmetry took him by the eyes another look it cant be yen yes it Is miss Ilay thorn not that lie knew her tier name but what an apotheosis the duck luck had become a pen pea lien radl ant dazzling she looked twice as fill ful and almost almot twice as large as before lie ile lost loft sight night of her lier lie ile found her I 1 1 er nein I 1 she wa wait so loie lovely lyshe she made him hini ill and he alone must not dance with her tier speak to her tier if he lie had been content to legin begin in the usual way it might have ended in kissing but having halving begun with kissing it must end in nothing ai f ehe she danced sparks spark of beauty fell from he her roo oa all arounds hut him shedid not see bilm it was clear mile never dever would see him bim on out gentleman was particularly assiduous u ona she smiled on his assiduity helas ugly but she smiled on oil him film dolighan Doli gnan was sur praed at sit his lits his ill taste his ugliness his lit impertinence dolighan Doli gnan glian at last fast found himself injured who was this man and what right had bad he lie to go on sot so lie ile had bad never kissed her tier I 1 suppose said dolly dolighan Doli gnan could coul I 1 not prove it but ho he felt that somehow the rights righta of property were invaded lie went home and dreamed of miss ilay thorn them batul all the ugly successful he lie spent a it fortnight trying to find out who this beauty was he be never could encounter he her again ragain at baht he heard of her inthis in this way A lawyers clerk paid him a litt little visit and commenced a little action again him in the name of miss Ilay thorn tor fort in hulling hutting her in A railway train the young gentleman was shocked and endeavored to soften the lawyers clerk that tha ma machine chino did not t thoroughly comprehend the meaning of the term the ladys name however was at least revealed by this untoward incident from her name to her address waa was but a it short step and the tile same day our crestfallen hero lay in wait at tit her tier door and many a succeeding day without effect hut but one fine flue afternoon she issued forth illy it as if she did it every day and walked briskly ou on the nearest parade dolighan Doli gnan did alie same ho met and pissed passed lier tier many times ou on the parade nod searched for pity in her eyes but found neither look nor recognition nor any tiny other for all this aha she walked and walked till all the other promenades aders re were tired and gone then her culprit summoned resolution and taking off on his ills hat with ath a it alco tremulous 11 for the first time tinie brought permission tc I jul address dress her tier she stopped blushed and neither acknowledged Ld nor disowned his lit 4 acquaint ance iii lie blushed blui hed stammered out how ashamed he was how low lie deserved to be punished pill I 1 how he lie was punished how bov little she know liow how unhappy ho he was and concluded by begging her tier not to let all till the tile world know the of it man mail who was already mortified enough by the loss toss of her a acquaintance bhe she asked an explanation he be told her the action had lind been commenced corn in her name nanie slie she gently shrugged rugged bh her shoulders boulders 4 and bald sald how flow stupid they arel emboldened by t this he lie beed b aged to knonz whether or not a it life of distant INt atit unan tegid ing devotion devot lou would after it lapse of years erm the memory of hi bit maddess ma duess hla 1113 crime she did not knowl khe she must mut now hid bid him udica as she had home some to make for a ball in ili the crescent Cren cent where everybody to be they parted and dolighan Doll Doli gnan determined to be at tit the tile lall ball where aver overt body wa was s to ile he lie westhem was and aft after ersome some time he lie obtained nil an liitt to miss hay ilay thorn and he ile danced with her her ifer mauder mander waa graci onH with the tile wonderful tau tact of her tier MIX x tho deemed N ep ined to have con the acquaintance that evening that night for the cirit time dolighan Doli gnan wm ill km love I 1 will spare the reader all a loverro love rrt arax by which he lie succeeded in din ing mihele she dined in dancing where sho danced ti in tit overtaking her by accident when she rode rig devotion followed even to cb church whre here our dragoon was rewarded by learning there isn world where they neither polk nor kethe two capital abominations of this one IN H made matle acquaintance with her uncle wb liked him anil and saw at IP last st with joy that her eye loed loved to dwell upon him when she thought he lie did not observe her it was three months after the box tun nel del that captain dolighan Doll Doli gnan one upon captain Ilay haythorn thorn IL N whom he lie had met twice in ili his ills life and slightly pro vitiated ted by violently listening to it cutting out expedition he ile called and in the usual way ked bermi permission alon to pay ills addresses to his daughter tho the worthy captain began doing quarter deck when suddenly he be was summoned from the apartment by a mysterious pressage ires sage on his return he announced with a total c change hange of voice that it was all right and his visitor might run alonz alongside sIde aa as soon a aa s he chose 11 my r reader der haa has divined the truth tills nautical commander terrible to the foe was in complete and happy so subjugation li to hh ills daughter our ber heroine olne As he waa taking leave dolighan noli Doli gnan saw bis bix divinity glide into the drawing room ho ile followed her observed a sweet con 1 M lou t nem which encouraged linn him that consciousness deepened into confusion bhe she I 1 tnt cad and then tried trie d to langli gaughf she he cried blie site smiled again and when he be kissed her tier I 1 hand at lit the door it was get Uc agell and marian instead of 0 f Ch fittAn tula this and mw A theother A AL ret mabl time after thu this addal and dpn corolla tan tle jac ly x liappa were werts once tiare upon the ra railroad going to enjoy their honeymoon all by marian dolighan Doli gnan was dressed just justa justas tu s before and delicious all bright except her tier clothes but george kat at her tier this time instead ol 01 opposite and ibe drank bim him in gently from under her long eye lambes Mn marian rian said george married people p opalp should tell each other all will you ever v er forgive me if I 1 own to yon noll no yes yes well then you the box tunnel this was the tile first allusion he lie had ventured to it 1 I nm arn as bained to hay say 1 I had hat bet three pounds to ten pounds with white I 1 would kiss kim one of you two ladies 11 and george pathetic externally chuckled within 1 I know that george I 1 overheard you was the demure reply oh you overheard rn anil and did you not hear bear me whisper to my companion I 1 made a bet with her 11 Yo You mado |