THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. 
his intended son-in-law is of little 
consequence. He treated him better 
than he merited ; for he fondly hoped 
that his daughter, when united to 
him, would polish him into the tole¬ 
rable, if not into the agreeable. So 
lie sent for Violetta, and told her to 
fall in love with the Honourable 
Edmund Belamour, with all decent 
speed and becoming decorum. She 
was still to preserve the dignity of 
her family in the violence of her 
passion, and to inform him dutifully 
every evening, after prayers, of the 
progress of her lover’s addresses. 
This was managing the thing accord¬ 
ing to the principles of the old school. 
