74 THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. 
was always well fed, well housed, and 
well clothed. He generally appeared 
cheerful, because he had two all- 
sufficient reasons for continual laugh¬ 
ter—good teeth and want of thought. 
And this dolt actually came courting 
the fairy-formed, Hebe-cheeked Vio¬ 
letta— my own god-daughter ! 
“ Yes, Mr. Honeycomb, he came 
regularly a-wooing in his father’s 
heavy coach and six. The bumpkin 
alighted with a whole parterre of 
Flowers in his coat as a nosegay. 
There, at least, he was accessible to 
my anger. T withered them the mo¬ 
ment he stepped out of his carriage. 
“ What Sir Eustace thought of 
